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3.7 AVERAGE
3.7 AVERAGE
Picked up this book at the library and then flipped through while waiting in line for the car wash (it was a looooong line). Super cute!! Each story is retold by a different artist. Lots of old favorites and a couple new ones. I have never heard of Give Me The Shudders, but I really enjoyed it (because no one dies at the end).
This is a fun anthology for anyone curious in reading different adaptions of fairy tales. Whether or not I enjoyed a tale depended on if I liked the artwork; the style of the text was generally similar from piece to piece. Graham Annable and Luke Pearson's contributions were wonderful!
I honestly felt mixed about this compilation - some works were good, but others I despised.
I tended to enjoy stories from authors I was already familiar with - Emily Carroll's "The 12 Dancing Princesses," Gigi D.C.'s "Little Red Riding Hood," Luke Pearson's "The Boy Who Drew Cats" and Raina Telgemeier's "Rapunzel" were my favorites. Other stories I was disinterested in, or straight up hated - some of the artwork and writing were so lazy that I couldn't believe they were approved for publishing.
Some of the stories were straight retellings of the fairy tale, and others put their own twist on the story. I think the compilation is a good concept, but so much of the work bored me that I wouldn't recommend it as a whole.
I tended to enjoy stories from authors I was already familiar with - Emily Carroll's "The 12 Dancing Princesses," Gigi D.C.'s "Little Red Riding Hood," Luke Pearson's "The Boy Who Drew Cats" and Raina Telgemeier's "Rapunzel" were my favorites. Other stories I was disinterested in, or straight up hated - some of the artwork and writing were so lazy that I couldn't believe they were approved for publishing.
Some of the stories were straight retellings of the fairy tale, and others put their own twist on the story. I think the compilation is a good concept, but so much of the work bored me that I wouldn't recommend it as a whole.
Haha, yes, I am on a role, here is number 5 of my big haul for King's Day! Free day, lots of books, ready to read! Well, OK, the day is over now and I am going to bed, probably will be reading a children's book I got waiting for me. Back to this book. This was a fun book full of several of my favourite illustrators drawing fairy tale comics. Some very well knowns, Snow White or Rapunzel, but also a couple I didn't know or vaguely remembered, like the porridge and the pot story. I loved seeing each illustrator make the fairy tale their own and I looked forward to each one and see who the illustrator was. Favourites stories? Emily Carroll, Raina Telgemeier, Jaime Hernandez, David Mazzucchelli. Recommended!!
A fun assortment of fairy tales, some I had never heard of. All of the artwork was really fun and cute.
I love fairy tales, so I thought this would be right up my alley. Unfortunately, the art wasn't to my taste at all, and I found the whole thing rather disappointing.
I don't wade into the waters of comics often (indeed, the extent of comics in my childhood was Calvin & Hobbes and Sherman's Lagoon) but I ate these up as if I was Goldilocks and starving. Some of the tales were all-familiar to me because they were the fairy tales we all grew up with. Others I wasn't aware of and I love coming head to head with fairy tales I've never encountered. Like the editor Chris Duffy, I was compelled to read as many fairy tales as I could stomach in a couple of months for work once upon a time, and man, I wish I could've beheld this book during those months! While this book was belated for me (where where you when I needed you?), I enjoyed it all the same. I like the cartoonists' riffs on the beloved fairy tales we all grew up with. I like the sardonic sense of humor. I like the whimsy. I like that everyone took some creative liberties with their craft. If you don't forage into comics often or think you don't like them, this book could open up the floodgates for you. I can't think of any exceptions for not liking this book. There's something in it for everyone.