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Humorous and light-hearted with tinges of dark fears that gives you goose-bumps. Krause does a great job illustrating these diverse fears to create a homogenous collection in a beautiful book.
Deep Dark Fears is a collection of comics about fear. People send their deepest, darkest fears to Krause on social media and he draws them in comic form. But they're not common fears, like heights or spiders or drowning. They're fears like being afraid you're always screaming but everyone pretends it's normal, or that after you die you become an extra in someone else's dream. Some are much scarier , though, but because of Krause's soft and colorful drawing style the pages are never gory or too terrible, but disturbing and sometimes just very, very weird. I've followed Krause for a long time on Tumblr and was always fascinated by the weird things people fear. In a way, it is comforting to know that a lot of people have these odd fears and that I'm not alone in this.
dark
funny
lighthearted
fast-paced
Very cute, somewhat creepy book with nice illustrations! A quick read of 101 fears that range from extremely relatable everyday fears to crazy irrational (but fun to see illustrated). Would recommend!
Frank Krause wants to know what you're afraid of and the weirder it is the better. This collection of by turns hilarious and horrifying fears he dreamed up on his own and received from his avid fan base is a macabre delight. If, like me, you have some really insane seeming fears (yeah I occasionally think about stockpiling food in the attic for the impending zombie apocalypse what of it!?) this book will do wonders for your insecurities. It turns out, at least according to Krause, that everyone is afraid of crazy, stupid, elaborately confusing, nonsensical stuff.
What makes this a bit more than just a collection of quirkly drawn vignettes is that for every hilarious fear (I too have occasionally wondered if you can see your breath when its cold does that mean people can see my farts) there's one that's downright eerie. Birthmark's signifying how you died in a past life, the fear of falling through the ice and being dragged under, worry that your life is really a dream the real you is trapped in...I've thought about all those things or at least variations on them.
Krause has tapped into something really visceral here. On the one hand these really are the fears of people without all that much to worry about in "real life." On the other this is a pretty deep examination of the strange, frightening but oddly beautiful places our minds can take us when we let them.
Krause's drawings are a perfect match for this kind of subject. His cartoons are colorful but a bit muddied and bland looking. He doesn't go overboard on the details. The various monsters and gory situations his subjects find themselves in come off as just cartoony enough to keep from totally freaking out the reader.
This is a super quick really fun little book that just might leave you a tad nervous when you're finished.
What makes this a bit more than just a collection of quirkly drawn vignettes is that for every hilarious fear (I too have occasionally wondered if you can see your breath when its cold does that mean people can see my farts) there's one that's downright eerie. Birthmark's signifying how you died in a past life, the fear of falling through the ice and being dragged under, worry that your life is really a dream the real you is trapped in...I've thought about all those things or at least variations on them.
Krause has tapped into something really visceral here. On the one hand these really are the fears of people without all that much to worry about in "real life." On the other this is a pretty deep examination of the strange, frightening but oddly beautiful places our minds can take us when we let them.
Krause's drawings are a perfect match for this kind of subject. His cartoons are colorful but a bit muddied and bland looking. He doesn't go overboard on the details. The various monsters and gory situations his subjects find themselves in come off as just cartoony enough to keep from totally freaking out the reader.
This is a super quick really fun little book that just might leave you a tad nervous when you're finished.
Brilliant and creepily spot-on. Read in one sitting
Fran Krause's Deep Dark Fears is an adult graphic novel. The majority of the content is gleaned from submissions received by the author on his website although a few are from his wife and himself. As the title suggests, this is a collection of fears harbored by people and then put into a comic format. (The illustrations are really great by the way.) And while these are legitimate fears that people have they're not all totally scary. Some of them are so out there that they're humorous...although to the person who submitted it I guess it's not funny at all. From the content, it seems that the majority of people developed these fears/phobias when they were still children from adult family members who told them horrifying things. Note to adults: Please think about what you're telling your kids because you never know what they'll hold onto and how they'll twist it in their minds.
I really enjoyed Fran Krause's Deep Dark Fears, a comic of fears illustrated. That might make it sound like a scary, nerve-wracking sort of reading experience but it's really not. The fears in themselves are often silly, make no sense, over-the-top but at the same time some of them were so spot-on for me. There's one that's about the fear of knives that hit me straight through, a fear of sharp objects isn't necessarily unreasonable but it's the apprehension until the 'element of danger' is dealt with, basically putting it away out of sight. I don't often laugh while reading since I don't tend to choose books that are funny and while some of these fears I actually do have, the way they are illustrated just really makes them sillier somehow, hence the fun. Also it's a sort of feeling of laughing at oneself, which can be nice from to time - not to always take oneself so seriously. I love Krause's art style, it really works with each story or fear, as well as being really adorable in itself. Watercolor art combined with bold yet bendy lines is my favorite kind so I was immediately quite in liking of Krause both as a story-teller and as a comic artist. Definitely recommend this one of if you're in the mood for something fun, snappy, and might possibly be either really relatable and fun for it or discover new fears (just kidding. Or am I?).
Fear is the devil, maybe. I’ve heard it says “Fear not” in the Bible 365 times. Whether or not that is true, I know fear crushes us.
So, then, a book of fears. Face them. Drive them out.
When you read this book and take a look at some of the crazy fears people have, you may laugh your way through fears of your own.
It’s a new year.
So, then, a book of fears. Face them. Drive them out.
When you read this book and take a look at some of the crazy fears people have, you may laugh your way through fears of your own.
It’s a new year.