Mister i

(NBM, 2006)
™ and © NBM Publishing

Remember those flip books where there were minimal changes from page to page, but when you flipped through them quickly the characters would appear to run, jump, or ride a bike? In this collection of strips, each page is divided up into dozens of tiny square panels, on which Mister I—a hotdog-shaped character—engages in some simple activity that routinely results in his grisly death. Mister I tries to get a pie from a window, or climb a tree, or go fishing, but they all end up in virtually the same way 60 panels later.

Perhaps better comparisons for these Lewis Trondheim strips in an oversized, hardbound format are the old Warner Brothers coyote and roadrunner cartoons, in which Wile E. Coyote met his fate again and again, without ever catching his prey. These episodes are a lot bloodier, but the dark humor is the same.

— Andy Richardson

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