This one caught my eye on the New Books display at the downtown
library, and I decided to give it a chance. Artist Fran Krause collected
a wide variety of different people’s personal “fears”, then illustrated
them in comics/graphic-novel format. Each “fear” gets either a
single-panel cartoon or a short comic strip to graphically represent how
that fear would play out. Some of the “fears” are merely
thought=provoking, or simply ironic. Others, however, earn the book its
title, and are extremely creepy or even grotesque, made even more so by
the ordinariness and simplicity of the cartoon art style. In many ways, I
would recommend this volume to anyone who is a fan of Gahan Wilson’s
surreal cartoons, or Charles Addams’ single-panel newspaper and magazine
cartoons (the artist best known as the creator of the macabre Addams
Family). Perhaps, the closest artist in style and tone is Edward Gorey
and his Gashlycrumb Tinies, which imagines 26 different horrible deaths,
one per letter of the alphabet.
[If you enjoy this, you may also wish to try
The World of Edward Gorey, by Edward Gorey, or
I Paint What I See, by Gahan Wilson.]
[ publisher’s official
The Creeps web page ] | [ official
Fran Krause Tumblr feed ]
Recommended by
Scott C.
Bennett Martin Public Library
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