The Mysteries - BokDraken

Inbunden, 72 sidor

På English

Publicerades 2023 av Andrews McMeel Publishing.

ISBN:: 978-1-5248-8494-9
OCLC-nummer:: 1370220678

From Bill Watterson, bestselling creator of the beloved comic strip Calvin and Hobbes, and John Kascht, one of America’s most renowned caricaturists, comes a mysterious and beautifully illustrated fable about what lies beyond human understanding.

In a fable for grown-ups by cartoonist Bill Watterson, a long-ago kingdom is afflicted with unexplainable calamities. Hoping to end the torment, the king dispatches his knights to discover the source of the mysterious events. Years later, a single battered knight returns.

For the book's illustrations, Watterson and caricaturist John Kascht worked together for several years in unusually close collaboration. Both artists abandoned their past ways of working, inventing images together that neither could anticipate—a mysterious process in its own right.

From Bill Watterson, bestselling creator of the beloved comic strip Calvin and Hobbes, and John Kascht, one of America’s most renowned caricaturists, comes a mysterious and beautifully illustrated fable about what lies beyond human understanding.

In a fable for grown-ups by cartoonist Bill Watterson, a long-ago kingdom is afflicted with unexplainable calamities. Hoping to end the torment, the king dispatches his knights to discover the source of the mysterious events. Years later, a single battered knight returns.

For the book's illustrations, Watterson and caricaturist John Kascht worked together for several years in unusually close collaboration. Both artists abandoned their past ways of working, inventing images together that neither could anticipate—a mysterious process in its own right.

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"Sometimes I think the surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that none of it has tried to contact us."

Now, Mysteries is a really well-done little comic fable. You'll read it in 10 minutes, 20 if you really want to get lost in the illustrations, and think about it for a while after that. But it's hard to pretend that one of the reasons you'll think about it isn't that this is the first new work by Bill Watterson (one or two guest spots on other comic strips excepted) in almost 30 years, so it has some big shoes to fill. And what we get is... a story that's not entirely a comfortable read. OK, it's not the sort of story to make you question everything you've ever known, but it's not curl-up-in-front-of-the-fireplace-with-a-stuffed-tiger comfortable.

But then again, that's not all Calvin & Hobbes was either. …

"Sometimes I think the surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that none of it has tried to contact us."

Now, Mysteries is a really well-done little comic fable. You'll read it in 10 minutes, 20 if you really want to get lost in the illustrations, and think about it for a while after that. But it's hard to pretend that one of the reasons you'll think about it isn't that this is the first new work by Bill Watterson (one or two guest spots on other comic strips excepted) in almost 30 years, so it has some big shoes to fill. And what we get is... a story that's not entirely a comfortable read. OK, it's not the sort of story to make you question everything you've ever known, but it's not curl-up-in-front-of-the-fireplace-with-a-stuffed-tiger comfortable.

But then again, that's not all Calvin & Hobbes was either. I've seen some reviews here that complain of this being nihilistic, pessimistic or misanthropic. I'm not sure it is. Yes, it's a story about the insignificance of man and our attempts to understand and fix everything. But... it's still the same old woods behind the house. And while the book leaves it unsaid, I choose to think the missing story here is

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28 augusti 2024