Tuesday, December 4, 2007

Mister I by Lewis Trondheim



  • Hardcover: 32 pages
  • Publisher: Nantier Beall Minoustchine Publishing; English Ed edition (January 2007)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1561634867
  • ISBN-13: 978-1561634866
  • List Price: $13. 95
  • I finished this book on Dec. 4
See that guy? He's Mister I. And...he's kind of a dick. Really. He's all about trying to steal food. Pies from windows, apples of trees, that kind of thing.
I'm not going to talk about this book much because it's something you really need to see to believe, but here's what I can tell you: Each page is a block of 60 postage stamp size pictures of Mister I's antics. He is usually trying to steal food and mostly ends up dead at the end (a la Kenny from South Park) Some of them are super funny. Some are sad and most are just really fucked up. Here's an example of a page:
So, yeah. If this were a cartoon it would be Don Hertzfeldt's Rejected. What? Please show another movie, bee? No problem my lovelies. I live to serve. P.S. if you think this cartoon is funny, you should probably find this book and read the hell out of it (also, no words! hello, visual literacy!)

1 comment:

Carl V. Anderson said...

Those cartoons are great. Wonder why they were rejected? I'm going to have to track down that book as well, it looks like something I would enjoy. I'm a sad little man, ain't I?