This little dark comic from Icecreamlandia (remember them?) is titled Their Condolences because apparently the bearded man on the cover has just died. The inside is all these strange characters, from the 1800s saying something in light of the poor guy’s death. I get that eerie spooky feeling reading them even though they are pretty silly too. It feels like there are little clues in what they say that help me figure out who this guy is and how these people are related to him. The cover has a nice die-cut and the inside pencil illustrations are quite beautiful. They are drawn using lots of swift diagonal lines to shade the figures giving them an almost blurry sort of look adding to the whole mysterious theme. I like it. Get yours here.

© Julia Rothman 2007