Inspired by the dark imagination of Edward Gorey Envious Siblings is a twisted and hauntingly
funny debut. Comics artist Landis Blair interweaves absurdist horror and humor into brief
rhyming vignettes at once transgressive and hilarious. In Blair’s surreal universe a lost
child watches as bewhiskered monsters gobble up her fellow train passengers a band of kids
merrily plays a gut-churning game with playground toys and two sisters grinning madly tear
each other apart. These charmingly perverse creations take ordinary settings - a living room a
subway car a playground - and spin them in a nightmarish direction. Envious Siblings heralds a
brilliant new cartooning talent and will captivate readers who have thrilled to the lurid
fantasies of Roald Dahl Quentin Blake Charles Addams Shel Silverstein and Tim Burton.
