Beautiful Darkness

Pretty Darkness

● A work highly praised by Katsuhiro Otomo, the animation genius behind "destruction-themed" works. ● "The Borrowers" beneath decaying bodies. ● Absurdity reminiscent of "Alice in Wonderland." ● Winner of the Eisner Award and Harvey Award. ● Sanctity and darkness, fantasy and malice. ● Welcome to this unsettling yet extraordinarily brilliant anti-fairy tale world. 👀 Editor's Picks 👑 How "Beautiful Darkness" Was Born — A Dystopian Fairy Tale for Everyone Marie Pommepuy (wife of the Sébastien couple, the book's illustrators): "The desire to draw and the desire to tell fairy tales to children in different ways were the initial inspirations for this story. When I was a child, I couldn't appreciate comics. I found those stories too silly, too happy-go-lucky. For example, how would Smurfs survive in nature? Sébastien and I wanted fictional characters to face reality from a certain angle. At the time, we had an initial idea: to build a world that flowed downwards..." 🩰 The brighter the colors, the darker its core. Undoubtedly, many readers are drawn in by the charming fairy tale style of Marie and Sébastien's work, only to discover upon opening it that it's a sugar-coated bullet. In an interview, the couple said: "You can only get through 'Beautiful Darkness' if you can bear the disgust for its characters." In this fantasy world, gradually decaying bodies seem to be the only strong, existing reality; the fairy tale creatures who try to survive but then die one after another, in turn, make the motionless, decaying things appear so abstract and absurd. 🏹 From almost transparent innocence to ineffable absurdity, rediscovering the purity that fairy tales should possess. The heroine of the story is named Aurora, and this is a sacred, cruel, and wonderful adventure centered around her. She has people she wants to rely on, wants a sense of existence, wants to do her best to fulfill some "missions," and wants to understand this world — just like a child, she unhesitatingly accepts what she sees and hears, becomes a witness to all things, and grows through the constantly accumulating reality. "Beautiful Darkness" is beautiful because its colors are precisely the landscapes we, in our innocence, have personally witnessed, and it is dark because it is only fragments that we, no longer innocent, can see. Try to accept this illogical and absurd story like a child, and rediscover the curiosity and emotion of opening a fairy tale book for the first time. 👻 Synopsis One day, the elegant Princess Aurora, immersed in a happy time, discovers that her home has begun to drip damp, viscous liquid. About to be submerged by the unknown liquid, she and her companions living under the same roof flee their former sanctuary. Subsequently, these cute-looking, diverse little creatures, in order to survive, love or kill each other, wandering aimlessly in a forest where living conditions change rapidly, and then die one after another... 🩸 Celebrity Recommendations Sanctity and darkness, fantasy and malice, Slowly decaying from the bottom of a miniature forest. A masterpiece that transcends the categories of American, Japanese, and French comics. — Katsuhiro Otomo Osamu Tezuka meets the Moomins — cruelty and betrayal occasionally appearing beneath a gorgeous watercolor style. — BuzzFeed 🌿 Awards 2015 Eisner Award "Best International Album" 2015 Harvey Award "Best American Edition of Foreign Material"

2021-04-01

中国纺织出版社

the new wave

96

9787518082124