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The Tragical Comedy or Comical Tragedy of Mr. Punch

By Dave McKean, Neil Gaiman

(16)

| Paperback | 9780575053182

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What I like best about Gaiman's works is that only one world just doesn't seem enough to contain his stories, and, more than limiting them into the boundaries of the Fantasy or of the Real, he lets them wander from one realm to the other, and so eventually the two planes get so close they could as w ... (continue)

What I like best about Gaiman's works is that only one world just doesn't seem enough to contain his stories, and, more than limiting them into the boundaries of the Fantasy or of the Real, he lets them wander from one realm to the other, and so eventually the two planes get so close they could as well be just one, named the Fanreal, where mermaids are just blond girls in costumes and wigs, save re-appearing later, briefly, in the time of a quick glance far at sea, wave their hands and then flicker away in just one blink. Mr. Punch is no different: the "fantasy" story, the one of the mischievous puppet (which, IMO, looks and behaves somehow like Anansi's wicked twin) and the "real" story, the one of the main character and his family, are intertwined and they get more and more tangled with each other while the plot unravels, until they almost melt eventually, in whirlwind of wickedness, blood, and mistery. Above all this, tower the themes of Memory, of Childhood and of the darkness that can lie in both of them, and of Past of course, "fractional and colourless, like a night landscape during a storm, appearing and vanishing as lighting strikes into the sky".
As for Dave McKean, I'm really into his style, maybe because he BUILDS his panels more than just drawing them, it's so real and vivid it's almost disturbing...and that's just the way you expect and want it to be. I could actually hear the voices of the characters, and smell the salt in the seawater, while reading the story.

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