The characters are drawn with varying degrees of realism and different cartoony characteristics, making them seem almost like different species (and sometimes they are). Kerascoët have thought carefully about the most effective ways to help Vehlmann tease and discomfit the reader. When the bizarre conclusion begins to unspool, events blaze across the page in an ecstatic riot of line and color.īook Reviews 'Lulu Anew' Is No Lifetime Movie But the artists' energy heightens as Charlie descends, while the story gets tighter and stranger. Kerascoët (actually the married couple Marie Pommepuy and Sébastien Cosset) do let some opportunities go by early on - a huge underground city, the explorers' first big discovery, lacks brio. The art is also straightforwardly beautiful, making for a delightful visual experience even when young Charlie and her comrades are edging their way through dark caverns. Vehlmann follows throughlines unpredictably, and Kerascoët's style - reminiscent, as reviewers of Beautiful Darkness noted, of Tove Jansson's Moomin books - brings an unsettling sweetness to scenes of horror.
Monstrous life forms dwell there, and something in the cave air makes the explorers slowly lose their minds.
It turns out there's plenty going on underground. But what she finds as she and the team descend is wholly unexpected in both content and tone.
Charlie is innocent, earnest and resourceful - pretty much the standard-issue Spunky Girl of a zillion stories. True, there are familiar rudiments here: Charlie, a teenager on a quest for her missing brother, joins a ragtag group of explorers on a journey to (well, toward) the center of the earth. It's not actually a story about Hell, nor is it a fantasy - or, not exactly. Like its predecessor, Satania seems to burst forth from an innocent, morally chaotic imagination. In 2014 this French team summoned the creepies with Beautiful Darkness, a ghoulishly comic tale in which tiny people lived on the decaying corpse of a small girl left in the woods. Halloween is a time for surprises, which makes this a great time for the release of a new book by Fabien Vehlmann and Kerascoët. Your purchase helps support NPR programming. Close overlay Buy Featured Book Title Satania Author Fabien Vehlmann and Kerascoet
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