Kylooe

Kylooe #1-3

by Little Thunder, Montana Kane (Translator)

Have you ever dreamed of escaping—to return to the warm and carefree moments of childhood?

A typical teenager finds growing up is rough. One day she cuts class to buy the new album from her favorite band and sees a strange, mysterious, yet familiar creature on the cover—it is Kylooe, her old friend! He’s back, he’s real, and he’ll do anything to protect her. Then, an awkward girl makes an impression on a popular teen and they begin to connect beyond their peer statuses. And, in a world where expressing emotion is forbidden, a group reflects on the decisions that changed their lives forever.

Step into the intimate, touching, and emotional dreamworld of Kylooe! Hong Kong artist Little Thunder brings imagination to life with beauty, joy, and wonder through surreal art and sensual colors in this collection of three stories.

Available in English for the first time!Collects the full trilogy of Kylooe!

Genres: Graphic Novels, Fantasy, Comics, Dystopia, Short Stories

384 pages, Paperback

Published March 25, 2025

About the author

門小雷，漫畫家，生於香港。

中五畢業後，成為全職漫畫家。2006年出版個人畫集《彩虹》，漫畫集《666》、《Boom！邊走邊愛》及《裡裡外外》。及後在《Milk Magazine》連載專欄《宇宙不安學會》，同期編繪《KYLOOE》三部曲，印有法文版、中文版及意大利文版本，憑《KYLOOE 1 - Downhearted Dragonfly》榮獲第四屆國際漫畫賞銅獎。

2012年首次舉辦個人展《告白》，自資出版繪本《夜記》，除了畫畫之外，門小雷亦喜愛跳舞。

門小雷說過：「I draw love letters, not comics.」繪畫只是一種工具，她畫的是愛、恨、寂寞與一切情感。

Reviews

[Larakaa · Rating 4 out of 5]

Wonderfully weird and dreamingly melancholy

[crowsden · Rating 4 out of 5]

This dark horse omnibus collects all three short stories under the themes of imagination and daydreams.

The first two stories were really great. Maybe not the most original stuff out there, but beautifully drawn and told stories about heartbreak, jealousy, family, and the way imagination can make or break them. The third story one is so out of left feild comparatively - it's kind of jarring. Probably my least favorite of the three but not bad overall.

[Gabriel A · Rating 2 out of 5]

I mean
I dont know.
the art is lovely though

[Steph · Rating 3 out of 5]

The whole idea is very interesting, and the artwork itself is absolutely wonderful - all dreamy and wild. But after following one character for a short while, we suddenly jumped to another characters, and then another. There was no follow-up or closure to those stories at all, and I’m one who always wants to know what happened next. So that’s not my favorite part.
My library only had this first collection in the series, so I won’t be able to continue reading it unless I find it somewhere online, for free. Bummer!

3.5 stars.

[Dan P · Rating 1 out of 5]

This is so annoying! Such a skilled artist drawing page after page of super dull material. There's some ok ideas at the core of the stories in this collection, but zero sense of what to do with them. The art IS stunning. But I would much rather look at a sketchbook or gallery show from Little Thunder than muddle through another comic

[Patricia Q · Rating 4 out of 5]

The artwork is amazing.

[libraire.incandescente · Rating 3 out of 5]

J'ai rien compris mais j'ai aimé.

Les dessins sont magnifiques et les couleurs aussi. Trois nouvelles en un livre qui laissent sur sa faim.

[Maddisen · Rating 2 out of 5]

Kylooe has a beautiful art style, and I like how it tells 3 stories in the progression of, I'd say, 100 years. It's cool.

Finished 7:38am

[lammy · Rating 4 out of 5]

i loved it for what it is. surreal, beautiful, and very chiikawa-esque, basically what kylooe is. the third story made me so emotional especially coming from a breakup

[. · Rating 2 out of 5]

Did not finish p.30

[Jenn Malzone · Rating 3 out of 5]

There were a lot of great parts, but I didn’t find a through line or feel that any of the stories had resolved.

[Doug Mason · Rating 3 out of 5]

Interesting, just not my thing.

[Ellie · Rating 2 out of 5]

2.5

[Tim Rooney · Rating 4 out of 5]

This is a surreal and moving collection of stories by Hong Kong artist Little Thunder that were released independently over a number of years ago but collected here in English for the first time. These loosely connected tales read like a dream. They're full of abstract and surreal imagery, touching on feelings of loneliness, isolation, freedom and emotion, and growing up. Your mind will grapple for a way to reach concrete conclusions from these hazy fantasies but it is best to simply allow them to flow through you and accept that maybe you're not meant to "get it" all at once. I suspect I will be thinking about these stories for a while.