Lenore: Noogies

Lenore #1

by Roman Dirge

A collection of the first four issues of the popular Lenore comic book series. Lenore: Noogies is a romp into the dark, surreal world of a little dead girl. Featuring stories about limbless cannibals, clock monsters, cursed vampire dolls, taxidermied friends and obssesed would be lover and more fuzzy animal mutilations than should be legal. Lenore is one of the funniest, darkest comic books on the marketplace today.

Genres: Comics, Graphic Novels, Horror, Humor, Fiction, Fantasy, Graphic Novels Comics

108 pages

First published January 1, 1999

About the author

Roman Dirge (born on April 29, 1972) is an artist and magician, and the creator of the Lenore comic-book series; he currently lives in Los Angeles, California.

Told by his art teachers that he would never make it as an artist due to his crude style, he quit art and became a full-time magician. After a few years, his passion for art overtook him and he created the comic about Lenore, the Cute Little Dead Girl for Xenophobe magazine. The comic strips were later seen by Dan Vado, president of Slave Labor

Reviews

[Paula Mota · Rating 5 out of 5]

4,5*
Porque há duas ou três histórias que não percebi.

Impossível não gostar desta morta tão querida, cujos ganchos são caveiras e que já vai no 46º gatinho. Humor a atirar para o doentio.

[Abdollah zarei · Rating 5 out of 5]

ترسناک خنده دار و پر از کنایه های جذاب. تصویرگری کودکانه ولی سیاه و خنده‌دار با دیالوگهای متلک‌وار. خیلی جدی بود کار و هربار که لنور دست‌گلی به آب میداد و یا اشتباهی مرتکب می‌شد در واقع عملی کاملا صادقانه رو انجام میداد. لنور دو رو نیست. حقه باز نیست. لنور صریح و شفافه. بی غل و غش

[Karla Torres · Rating 5 out of 5]

"De todas las niñas muertas de la literatura, Lenore es mi favorita"
- Neil Gaiman.

No soy de leer comics, pero éste me encanta, yo conocí a Lenore por los vídeos en youtube, sin saber de la existencia del comic. Tiempo después de ver una y otra vez los vídeos, me puse a investigar acerca del origen de lenore, ya que sólo sabía que este personaje está inspirado en un poema de Edgar Allan Poe. (En realidad, mucho del comic en general está inspirado en personajes o lugares de Edgar Allan Poe) Hay un capítulo del "Cuervo", y la historia tiene lugar en un pueblo llamado "Nevermore".

El cómic, tiene un sentido del humor bastante...negro, vaya. Lenore es una niñita tierna, que hace cosas sin malicia (no tanta), pero todas ellas terminan en algo fatídico para quienes la rodean. (animalitos, especialmente)

Dirge utiliza temas comunes, canciones,juegos y rimas infantiles de forma macabra. Además, incluye capítulos acerca de anécdotas acerca de su vida, me hacen reír muchísimo. Todas las ilustraciones y diálogos y demás de éste libro-comic, son creación de Dirge. Te amo Dirge.

Los vídeos son una serie de capítulos de la pequeña niña muerta, Lenore, y sus macabras (y divertidas) aventuras.

Si te gustan los vídeos, te va a encantar el comic. Ya que por lo menos yo, quería ver (o leer) más aventuras de Lenore cuando terminé de ver todos los capítulos. Y al leer este comic descubrí que los vídeos no son más que una pequeñísima parte de todas las aventuras.

Aquí adjunto los capítulos :)
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list...


Por alguna razón, el año pasado, en lugar de comprar éste primer libro, compré el segundo JEJE.
Todos los libros tienen unas ilustraciones fantásticas, los personajes extraños y retorcidos, las historias macabras, el humor negro, incluso tienen una sección llamada "Tatuajes molones que quedan cojones" Si algún día (que no creo) me tatúo, sería todas las lenores tatuajes que hay en los libros.

El caso es que por fin ya tengo los 4 y decidí leer hoy el primero. AMO A LENORE. Y A DIRGE.

[Tere Garza · Rating 5 out of 5]

Having read "the Book thief" I needed something to change my mood. I had tried a very sad story and I was loocking for a funny one. Lenore was the best option to accomplish that! I couldn't help laughing out loud reading the insane, weird and hilarious stories throughout the book.

The only aspect to consider is that I do enjoy black humor when it is well used, but it may bother certain people due to some cruel situations in the comic.

[Corinne · Rating 1 out of 5]

I've got a problem with killing animals - even in graphic novels.

[Alexa · Rating 5 out of 5]

I've been a fan of Lenore for almost 10 years, which is why I was insanely happy when I got these as a gift for my birthday this year.

To be honest, the comic doesn't capture the awesomeness that is Lenore is all her graphic, gory, crazy detail. Like her singsong voice chanting "Broken, broken, broken" and Ragamuffin's sibilant sounds. But... it's Lenore! How can I not give it five stars?

These are dark humor, slightly crazy short comics. If you want to read them may I suggest watching the animated shorts first? Here's a link: http://www.kouznetsov.ru/misc/lenore/

[Sooraya Evans · Rating 3 out of 5]

Twisted and very disturbing.
But cute :)

[Rafaela Cardoso · Rating 5 out of 5]

So cute

[Victoria · Rating 2 out of 5]

The books is very well-illustrated, but not so well-written. Of course it's a comic book and the author isn't a writer, but lack of meaning is too obvious in this book. It was supposed to be a dark illustrated book of stories full of black humor, but although I normally love this kind of stuff, I mostly didn't get the jokes in this one. There were some pretty decent stories, but most of it seemed kind of pointless to me apart from being beautifully illustrated.

[Maria Mhemnoch · Rating 3 out of 5]

Me ha salido la actualización de uno de mis contactos y he visto que no lo tenía puesto (seguramente tenga más comics e historietas de este estilo sin marcar) y lo tengo por aquí por casa. La puntuación es un poco a boleo, porque recuerdo que me resulto muy divertido, pero ni me acuerdo de que iba, excepto por algunas escenas. Si lo releo editaré esto.

[Alatea · Rating 3 out of 5]

I have a sick humor...

[Brittany · Rating 3 out of 5]

Cute. Dark. Quirky.

That is the best way to describe the tale of the Cute Little Dead Girl, Lenore. This was originally a comic so it is a compilation of various short comic strips from the start of this series, that have been reimagined in color. It was enjoyable, with a dark and twisted sense of humor.

[Matti Karjalainen · Rating 1 out of 5]

Roman Dirgen "Lenore: Noogies" (SLG, 1999) on mustan huumorin kyllästämä goottisarjakuva kuolleesta kummitustytöstä. Albumi ei jaksanut huvittaa kuin satunnaisesti, ja silloinkin ihan hymähdyksen tasolla. Jatkaako lukemista?

Ei milloinkaan.

[Chad Jordahl · Rating 4 out of 5]

Odd and adorably creepy collection of comic strips, good for a few lol moments.

[Stefanie · Rating 3 out of 5]

Too gory and creepy for my taste, but a few of them were entertaining. It was a nice reminder of the friend who gifted them to me, if nothing else.

[Kaelee · Rating 4 out of 5]

I enjoyed it! It was cute and gruesome and I chuckled pretty often at the dry delivery of dark humour. Would actually recommend lol

[William O’Pomegranate · Rating 4 out of 5]

Sometimes a book is more than a book. Sometimes it becomes a time machine, and you can use it to travel back to a different time in your life. This is what Noogies did for me. I saw myself again as an edgy preteen. It was fun to be reminded of that time in my life again. Back when salad had fingers.

I do not recommend this to anyone who wasn't or isn't currently an edgy preteen. I don't think there's anything here for you lot.

[Luz · Rating 2 out of 5]

My sister gifted me this for Christmas. It has some fun, morbid short comics, most of which revolve around Lenore. It was a quick read. High school me probably would've loved this, but I still found most of it enjoyable. It had too much comic animal death though, which was a bit off putting to me.

[Camilla · Rating 4 out of 5]

What a strange, but utterly atmospheric graphic novel! Perfect to read in October. I absolutely loved the art-style and found it so fitting for the season we're in. It was dark, humorous and weird, but I really enjoyed it! Lenore is quite a special character...

[#ReadAllTheBooks · Rating 5 out of 5]

When I first heard of Lenore, it'd been from a friend of mine. He kept telling me how funny the comic books were & when I asked them what it was about, he told me "dead little girls!" Since he didn't have any comics on hand & this was when the internet wasn't as extensive as it was now, I didn't see how it could be as entertaining as he claimed it was. Years later, I've read all of the comics & I just can't get enough!

Lenore, named after the Poe character, is a little dead girl with a demented outlook on life. Along for the ride is the vampire turned stuffed animal Ragamuffin as well as Lenore's stalker/would-be boyfriend Mr Gosh. There's no long & drawn out sagas or plot developments- much of the storyline is just individual one-shots full of random humor.

There's no good way to describe the comics other than morbidly funny. There's a lot of readers who may look at the descriptions & think in the same terms that I first did, but I really recommend that they give the series a chance. Half of the fun of the series is that it refuses to take itself seriously, so it's really hard to get offended by Lenore. The goth audience is more than likely going to love this series, but I also recommend it to anyone who loves a good indie comic!

[Sam · Rating 5 out of 5]

I love Lenore and Roman Dirge for creating her and bringing her to 'life'. This is the first volume of Lenore and has the first four issues that have been painstakingly recreated and coloured by Roman Dirge himself. Even in these early days Lenore is superbly funny and adorable and here we find her discovering Ragamuffin, get our first look at Mr Gosh and find that Lenore is not so good at babysitting. We also have the added bonus, which is continued in later volumes, of Dirge's childhood stories and some guest artwork and Lenore stories at the end of the volume. You just cannot help but love that cute little dead girl!

[Tara · Rating 3 out of 5]

I used to LOVE Lenore the Little Dead Girl, but either the humour didn't age as well as I had hoped or I don't find the same things as funny? I enjoyed some, but the rest fell flat and I'm a bit sad because I remember finding the whole thing hilarious when I was.. .. ... significantly younger. I'm becoming an old. Oh, the horror!

The first four comics introduces you to Lenore, Ragamuffin the Vampire (now doll), Mr. Gosh, and Taxidermy.

[Mel · Rating 3 out of 5]

I've not read Lenore before. I'm not really a huge fan of "gothic" comics or comics that are comedy strips rather than proper stories. But I found the first volumes for sale very cheaply at the local oxfam and thought I'd try them. They were quite cute and I'm looking forward to reading the next one but I'm not going to rush out and buy any more, unless I find more bargains.

[Kaavya · Rating 2 out of 5]

I really love goth art, and creepy dead girls killing this. This was adorable and at the same time creepy. It wasn't consistent throughout though. Would be a 3 star for me if it weren't for the weird rape mention in the book which made me super uncomfortable.

[Astri · Rating 3 out of 5]

Oh Lenore, I wuvs you!
I first read the Lenore series in middle school, and have recently gone back to read it through again. I love this series as much now as I did then.

[LibraryDanielle · Rating 5 out of 5]

Omfg so hilarious and twisted

[Carol · Rating 4 out of 5]

Jajaja, una niña muerta. XD No todas las historias son fabulosas, pero sí que son divertidas. Me cayó bien Lenore.

[Rachels_booknook_ · Rating 1 out of 5]

This is basically a budget salad fingers with decent artwork. The writing is lazy :(

[Randall Sobien · Rating 5 out of 5]

It's Lenore... a cute little dead goth girl. Has great humor along with some cynicism.

[Valorie Dalton · Rating 5 out of 5]

I like cute and disturbing. They don't call me Morbid Romantic for nothing, right? Which is why dead and macabre little Lenore is just up my ally. I admit that I have never been much into comic books, and I have always tried to avoid the Hot Topic brand of dark and spooky. Yet there is something charming about a book that features a dead girl with skulls in her hair, cradling a dead cat. I thought to myself... hey, this just may be good. So I felt very fortunate to get my hands on the hardbacked Noogies color edition. This was my first experience with Lenore, so big fans of the series please forgive me for my fandom ignorance. Within the book are a number of chapters that contain various short length comic stories featuring Lenore, Mr. Gosh, a poor cat named Mr. Puffy who sends himself flying from a window, and a host of creepy and unsettling creatures that you sometimes both pity and also feel utterly revolted by. Roman Dirge is clearly a very disturbed man who may need a lot of help. And what a wonderful thing he is. I thoroughly enjoyed pulling up the covers, turning on a dim light, and reading through this volume. By it's nature, even with the appreciation of the art, this book reads very fast. I liked to skim and take in the disturbing images, my favorite Mr. Gosh, who reminded me of the villain in Nightbreed with his bag head. I will have to say that The Return of Mr. Gosh was my favorite of the comics. I just loved his initial crawl out of the ground scene... it was cute, okay? I am a sucker for love, after all. Love never dies, or so the moral of the story is. If a moral was ever intended. It was a wonderful read. For anyone who likes horror, who likes the disturbing, who doesn't mind a bit of light humored baby murder and animal slaughter. There is a little bit of ghoul in all of us. I absolutely look forward to collecting the rest of these hardbacked color editions to add to the collection. I think Lenore is simply too adorable, and I love her even more that she can make me go, "ugh" from time to time. After all, who wants a world of rainbows and cupcakes? Well, okay... me. I would love a world of rainbows and cupcakes. Yet I can't imagine this without there also being a few coffins and skulls.