Beautiful Darkness

The need to Reiterate the recommended audience is because I have seen a Mirriad of complaints alike " This isn't kid appropriate how did it end in my kids hands" "I dunno I'm not their parent" It's not a issue of getting carried away by the cute fairy like art ,In their defense there is no a single indication of ' Recomended for teens/ Mature audience ' in the cover. Albeit to know this is not a children's book you only need to see 8 pages Into. The main allure of Beautiful Darkness is the cute and simple character drawings Infront of detailed Forest Backgrounds. The Forest goes through all the Seasons and we later Switch to a Cottage during Winter. The Story is the happenings of a Community of little people( Who's) Let's see if they let the photo of the pages Stay

Got here quickly in great quality.Looks beautiful.Can't wait to read it

A wonderful book in the utmost meaning of the word: wonder-filled - the darkness of the subject matter is offset with cutesy characters and a colourful world. Fairy-children are buried alive, poisoned, eaten, wounded by beaks, and mysteriously disappear in the most horrifically casual ways; yet the world retains a sense of optimistic wonder. The cruelty of nature is reflected in its just-is way. It's not malicious: it just is. The printing is a charming halftone with a decent wedge of ninety-something pages which feels neither exhausting nor brief. A superb set of interwoven narrative threads as it takes us through a journey of survival.

Love this book. The cover is almost David Lynchian - a familiar looking kid-safe fairy tale image with the jarring element of a corpse's hand. Even more disturbing when you dig into the book and find out who owns that hand, and how the characters you encounter (including the main character, Aurora, pictured on the cover) aren't the sweet little darlings you'd imagine they would be. This is probably one of the darkest graphic novels I've read in a long time, no mean feat for something that at first glance looks like it should belong on your children's bookshelf rather than yours (and I'd urge parents to stash this one away from their kids, unless they want to deal with the nightmares for weeks afterwards). No spoilers but the ending will have you shouting "YAY!" and "Oh my gawddddd that's vicious" at the same time. Do not miss this, it's fantastic! Full review on daddyafterdark.blogspot.com

This was a perfect mix of cuteness juxtaposed with horror! I found it wonderful and rather unsettling! The artwork is lovely, the little people simply drawn and the humans and woodland scenes more detailed. I’m glad Aurora gets revenge and I loved the ending, I wish there was a second book to find out what happens to her. I do wish that the human girl’s death had been explained but maybe that was deliberate as the little people didn’t care at all so why should we?

This graphic novel presents itself as a child's fairytale book, lavishly illustrated. It is a mix of The Borrowers, Gulliver's Travels, Alice in Wonderland, Wizard of Oz and darkly, Lord of the Flies. Aurora is a princess and in love with her prince Hector. They and others reside around the body of a dead girl in the woods. As the body decomposes, as does the forest idyll and the relationships of all the little ones who live with Aurora. There is a decomposing poison in society and human failings decompose happy societies. The illustrations and the dark story are very much at odds with each other and this creates an unsettling experience for the reader. It is beautiful indeed and dark.

oh my goodness this was a rather dark book but I did enjoy the read, warning this book is definitely not for children as you may expect from the front and back covers. The ending was a much deserved twist and if your into cute things and macabre things joining hands you may enjoy this graphic novel!

This is a fantastical, disturbing comic story which reminded me a lot of Raymond Brigg's "When The Wind Blows", simply for the emotional punch it delivers. This book will really stay in your head for a good long time after reading it. A classic graphic novel as soon as it was published.

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Beautiful Darkness begins with a bunch of adorable fairy-like creatures crawling out of the corpse of a young girl, which is lying on a forest floor. We don’t know what happened to the girl – murder? Freak accident? Heart attack? – but it doesn’t matter, because the girl’s corpse is just part the setting; the story belongs to the fairies, who are woefully unprepared for surviving in the material world. Most of the little fairies don’t seem to have much personality or emotional depth, to the point that they seem indifferent to each other’s deaths (and those deaths happen frequently). In most books that would be a flaw, but in Beautiful Darkness it seems intentional. My interpretation – and this is only my interpretation, the book would easily support other readings – the fairies are the characters from the stories the dead girl made up to tell herself, somehow able to escape into the real world upon the girl’s death. A few of the characters were major protagonists or villains, and those characters have more personality; in particular, the main character, Aurora, goes through amazing development and changes as the story goes on. Most of the other fairies were just simple background characters, and act like it. beautiful_pg28(About that name, “Aurora”: Early in the book, we see that the dead girl had a notebook with “Aurora” handwritten on the cover; I interpret this as meaning that this was the book the girl wrote stories about Aurora in, but I’ve seen other people suggest that the girl’s name was Aurora, and that the fairy Aurora is named that because represents the girls idealized self-image. Another possibility is that Aurora the fairy just named herself after the notebook.) This book is brutal, ambiguous, incredibly original, and stuck with me a long time after reading it. The artwork is excellent; Kerascoet (a pen name for a married pair of cartoonists, Marie Pommepuy and Sebastien Cosset) switches between a loose, airy cartoon style for the fairy-like creatures and impressive fully-painted realism for the big humans. (I’d find that sort of fully-painted realism heavy-handed and oppressive for a full comic, but here – used in brief passages interspersed throughout the book – it’s very effective at making the humans seem alien and often a bit threatening, and also quite beautiful to look at).

But mostly disturbing. A gruesome tale about human behavior and transformation.

J'ai rarement lu une BD de cette qualité, c'est quelque chose d'incroyable. On nage dans le malsain et le candide sans jamais voir la transition, le dessin a l'aquarelle de l'auteur est parfait pour cela. Je recommande

Gute Qualität der Verarbeitung