Cornwell, Chris – Spunj Baahb

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Spunj Baahb

OK, granted, it’s often bad to judge a book by its cover, but if you can look at that beautiful thing up there and not want to have this immediately, there’s not a whole lot I can say to talk you into it. This is the mostly silent tale of a… creature that looks more than a little bit like a famous cartoon character, seen on every piece of merchandise imaginable over the last five years or so. This creature is riding another underwater beast, but when the riding beast trips, throwing Spunj Baahb off, it sets off a sequence of events with creatures higher and higher up the food chain systematically asserting their will. As always, it’s dangerous for me to venture too far into interpreting exactly what’s happening in these wordless books, but it’s a gorgeous, thoroughly haunting experience, with more than a few of the panels lodged in my brain. This was $4 or $5 at SPACE, find it, buy it, love it, and show it to your young child, niece or nephew if you want this opinion of a popular cartoon character forever altered.