Ambiguous Innocence: The Fairies are all fairly blase about each other's gruesome deaths, it's clear they have no way to conceptualize what's happening.Ambiguous Gender: Plim's pronouns are not revealed.They quickly descend into Lord of the Flies-esque anarchy and violence. A group of tiny people makes a home out of the corpse of a little girl who died in the woods, but as the girl's corpse deteriorates, so does the fairy society. Just like the title says, it’s a Beautiful Darkness.A French Fairytale/ Horror comic book co-authored by Fabien Vehlmann & Kerascoët, which contrasts beautiful, bright watercolors with horrific imagery and brutal death. However it will most certainly stir readers’ mind, seeing how darkness underlies something beautiful and seemingly innocent. However, to fully understand the story written by Fabien Vehlmann and Marie Pommepuy (and what it means) can be quite a task.
Blending fairy tale and realistic world in watercolor, Kerascoët has successfully created gorgeous illustrations that will capture readers’ eyes. What Aurora and members of the colony show often seem like innocence and naivety but as things go on, it often lead to something fatal and gruesome, either to themselves or to others.ĭigging the beautiful artworks in this graphic novel might be easy. However, the events that follow are even more gruesome. Knowing the actuality of their old “world” is literally shocking. They used to live in a peaceful world until it suddenly disintegrated and forced them to go out. The story in Beautiful Darkness focuses on Aurora, a young girl who finds herself in charge of leading her “strayed” colony of small people (fairies maybe?) to survive in the woods. With Beautiful Darkness, comic writer Fabien Vehlmann and artist couple Kerascoët (Marie Pommepuy and Sébastien Cosset) successfully portray a disturbing grotesque side of humanity in a dazzling anti-fairy tale graphic novel. What you’ll find in this book is something horrifying that might haunt you and stir your consciousness. You will not find any sort of adorable, beautiful story in this marvelous graphic novel. Don’t let the cute characters and soft watercolor style fool you.
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