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3.98 AVERAGE
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Deep Dark Fears showcases the irrational, sweet, scary fears of every day people through cartoons. The endearing art makes this somewhat macabre subject palatable and will undoubtedly bring about some great conversation.
One of my irrational childhood fears: the standing fan in my room will come to life while I'm asleep and shred my face.
One of my totally rational but maybe a bit silly adult fears: ever since seeing Lethal Weapon 2, I can't drive behind a truck or car with something tied to the roof in case they slam on their brakes, causing the surfboard, canoe, or ladder to come loose, shoot backwards and through my windshield, and take off my head.
This was a fun dark book that proves that everyone has wacky fears at some point in their lives, and so it's OK for you to have gone through a phase where you have to wear your car keys on one of those plastic things around your wrist while sleeping, so that if you're ever attacked by a killer in the middle of the night, and if you can escape and get to your car, you can totally get in and drive away instead of being one of those people who get killed in the parking lot.
Just sayin'.
I found the art appealingly friendly and child-like, which worked for me because I found this book more reassuring than creepy, and because a lot of the warped fears illustrated came from childhood misunderstandings (or straight-up children being misled by adults who should be reported). Fran Krause communicates a lot with these simple, quirky three-or-four panel drawings, without going too far into gruesomeness and not being twee, either.
One of my totally rational but maybe a bit silly adult fears: ever since seeing Lethal Weapon 2, I can't drive behind a truck or car with something tied to the roof in case they slam on their brakes, causing the surfboard, canoe, or ladder to come loose, shoot backwards and through my windshield, and take off my head.
This was a fun dark book that proves that everyone has wacky fears at some point in their lives, and so it's OK for you to have gone through a phase where you have to wear your car keys on one of those plastic things around your wrist while sleeping, so that if you're ever attacked by a killer in the middle of the night, and if you can escape and get to your car, you can totally get in and drive away instead of being one of those people who get killed in the parking lot.
Just sayin'.
I found the art appealingly friendly and child-like, which worked for me because I found this book more reassuring than creepy, and because a lot of the warped fears illustrated came from childhood misunderstandings (or straight-up children being misled by adults who should be reported). Fran Krause communicates a lot with these simple, quirky three-or-four panel drawings, without going too far into gruesomeness and not being twee, either.
Fran Krause's readers of his previous comics sent in stories of their fears and anxieties of 'it could happen', like monsters under the bed or slipping on ice incurring a horrible injury. Many worried readers seem to wonder if they were dead and didn't know it in a variety of ways. A surprising number of fears began with a parent's hideous description of what something the person saw as a child and didn't understand what it was or what it meant - fathers tended to tell a 'fact' as a tease or joke, mothers seemed to create an exaggeration of a danger intended to frighten a toddler away from something genuinely dangerous. Krause illustrates the readers' confessed fears by drawing comical and cute vignettes - sometimes a single graphic panel, sometimes several - which hilariously highlight the fear !
Excerpt from the cover blurb:
"Animator, illustrator, and cartoonist Fran Krause brings these fears to life in vividly illustrated comics based on real fears submitted by readers (plus a few of his own). These "deep dark fears" run the gamut from unlikely but plausible to completely ridiculous, highlighting both our deeply human similarities and our peculiar uniquenesses."
I enjoyed this short graphical book so much I bought a copy after reading my library's copy! Krause included a section in the back thanking the people who submitted their fears. Some of them signed themselves anonymous for good reasons! In any case, the book is terrific fun. I especially liked the anxieties around pets that stare at you while you are using the toilet....a familiar one to me. Sort of. Don't judge me.
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Excerpt from the cover blurb:
"Animator, illustrator, and cartoonist Fran Krause brings these fears to life in vividly illustrated comics based on real fears submitted by readers (plus a few of his own). These "deep dark fears" run the gamut from unlikely but plausible to completely ridiculous, highlighting both our deeply human similarities and our peculiar uniquenesses."
I enjoyed this short graphical book so much I bought a copy after reading my library's copy! Krause included a section in the back thanking the people who submitted their fears. Some of them signed themselves anonymous for good reasons! In any case, the book is terrific fun. I especially liked the anxieties around pets that stare at you while you are using the toilet....a familiar one to me. Sort of. Don't judge me.
:D
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A book full of cute, short webcomics about irrational fears, some of the author's and some that people sent in. I think a lot of us can probably relate to at least a few of these often very silly fears, but what really got to me was how many fears were based on something the person was told as a child. Like probably half the fears in here are 'when I was a kid my parents told me [thing] because they didn't want to explain what was actually happening and as a result I was terrified for years' and that's just absolutely awful.
I mean some of them, like this one, are still kind of funny:
Like yeah maybe you should stop for a second and actually think about what you're saying to this young female child, but sexual repression is the name of the game in Christianity so I wouldn't expect a priest to try to actually explain immaculate conception and how it differs from regular conception to a child anyway.
But then you've got stuff like this:
WHY WOULD YOU SAY THAT??? TO A CHILD??? WHY????? Like i know the answer is 'because you want them to stop wetting the bed' but - radical idea here - scaring them is probably not going to bring about the outcome that you want here. And there were just so many in this same vein. Parents, stop scarring your children for life!
It was overall a very interesting collection though and I'm definitely going to check out the second one to see how it compares.
I mean some of them, like this one, are still kind of funny:
Like yeah maybe you should stop for a second and actually think about what you're saying to this young female child, but sexual repression is the name of the game in Christianity so I wouldn't expect a priest to try to actually explain immaculate conception and how it differs from regular conception to a child anyway.
But then you've got stuff like this:
WHY WOULD YOU SAY THAT??? TO A CHILD??? WHY????? Like i know the answer is 'because you want them to stop wetting the bed' but - radical idea here - scaring them is probably not going to bring about the outcome that you want here. And there were just so many in this same vein. Parents, stop scarring your children for life!
It was overall a very interesting collection though and I'm definitely going to check out the second one to see how it compares.
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