Something at the Window is Scratching

    (Slave Labor, 1999)
™ and ©1999 Roman Dirge

Roman Dirge is perhaps best known for his character Lenore, a cute little dead girl whose adventures have appeared in various magazines and mini-comics, as well as a regular-format comic. His artwork is simple but whimsical, but might also be described as bizarre or even grotesque. His stories and poems combine a child’s sense of wonder and capricious imagination with the dark humor present in such stories as Tim Burton’s A Nightmare Before Christmas. The stories presented here are told in the tradition of nursery rhymes and fairy tales, but only a Mother Goose in a sanitarium could think of stories as disturbing, despite their amusing nature, as “The Dance of the Bedbugs,” or “The Bunny Came Back.”

This over-sized softcover book includes a forward by Jhonen Vasquez (Johnny the Homicidal Maniac, Squee!), who praises Dirge’s childlike imagination, even while asserting that “children are criminally insane and must be destroyed.”
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