Beautiful Darkness Archives

 By Christine Marie Vinciquarra Right from the start, it was very clear to me why Marie Pommepuy & Fabien Vehlmann named their story Beautiful Darkness That's exactly what it is, a beautifully illustrated story with an extremely dark plot What starts out like a typical fairytale, quickly turns into a twisted one After much thought,[...]

By Ed Saul Rival critics have compared Fabien Vehlmann and Kerascoet's Beautiful Darkness favorably to other works in a "high-concept pitch" format – "it's Tove Jansson meets Joseph Conrad", sort of thing I read those reviews immediately after my first reading of the book, and I have to say that wasn't my first impression at all. True,[...]