Sing a Song of Sixpence

by Lilli Carré

Nursery Rhyme Comics, features fifty classic nursery rhymes illustrated in comics form by fifty of today’s preeminent cartoonists and illustrators.

Tor.com will be hosting one nursery rhyme a day.

Each rhyme is one to three pages long, and simply paneled and lettered to ensure that the experience is completely accessible for the youngest of readers.

Today: “Sing a Song of Sixpence” by Lilli Carre, author of Lagoon and illustrator of Hans Christian Andersen’s The Fir-Tree.

2 pages, ebook

First published October 9, 2011

About the author

Lilli Carré is an artist and illustrator currently living in Chicago. She primarily works in the forms of experimental animation, comics, and print. Her animated films have shown in festivals throughout the US and abroad, including the Sundance Film Festival, and she is the co-founder of the Eyeworks Festival of Experimental Animation. Her books of comics are The Lagoon, Nine Ways to Disappear, Tales of Woodsman Pete, and a new collection of stories, Heads or Tails. Her work has appeared in The Believer Magazine, the New Yorker, The New York Times, Best American Comics and Best American Nonrequired Reading.

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Reviews

[karen · Rating 3 out of 5]

WELCOME TO DECEMBER PROJECT!

this explanation/intro will be posted before each day’s short story. scroll down to get to the story-review.

this is the SIXTH year of me doing a short story advent calendar as my december project. for those of you new to me or this endeavor, here’s the skinny: every day in december, i will be reading a short story that is 1) available free somewhere on internet, and 2) listed on goodreads as its own discrete entity. there will be links provided for those of you who like to read (or listen to) short stories for free, and also for those of you who have wildly overestimated how many books you can read in a year and are freaking out about not meeting your 2020 reading-challenge goals. i have been gathering links all year when tasty little tales have popped into my feed, but i will also accept additional suggestions, as long as they meet my aforementioned 1), 2) standards.

GR has deleted the pages for several of the stories i've read in previous years without warning, leaving me with a bunch of missing reviews and broken links, which makes me feel shitty. i have tried to restore the ones i could, but my to-do list is already a ball of nightmares, so that's still a work-in-progress. however, because i don't have a lot of time to waste, i'm not going to bother writing much in the way of reviews for these, in case GR decides to scrap 'em again.

i am doing my best.
merry merry.

DECEMBER 7: SING A SONG OF SIXPENCE - LILLI CARRÉ



two days ago, i read Babycakes for this project, and entreated y'all thusly:

five pages of sequential art n' narrative. you have time for this.

and so but maybe some of you STILL felt you had far too much to do to because HOLIDAYS, so here i am again, saying WHAT ABOUT THIS, THOUGH?

this one is THREE PANELS OF ART and the only words are a nursery rhyme YOU ALREADY KNOW and the whole thing is BRIGHT YELLOW.

YOU HAVE TIME FOR THIS!

i didn't mean to choose a story that feels like a cheat, but goodreads was down for most of the day (LGM) and i had to get a quickie posted (LGM) and i promise to do a long 'un tomorrow to make up for it (LGM).

read it for free here

THE STORIES:

DECEMBER 1: NIGHT STAND - DANIEL WOODRELL
DECEMBER 2: MR. DEATH - ALIX HARROW
DECEMBER 3: THE FRUIT OF MY WOMAN - HAN KANG
DECEMBER 4: THE TINDER BOX - KATE ELLIOTT
DECEMBER 5: BABYCAKES - NEIL GAIMAN
DECEMBER 6: HIS MIDDLE NAME WAS NOT JESUS - NOVIOLET BULAWYO
DECEMBER 8: DARK TIDE - MARK LAWRENCE
DECEMBER 9: DARKER TIDE - MARK LAWRENCE
DECEMBER 10: BREAK - MISHELL BAKER
DECEMBER 11: A RUMOR OF ANGELS - DALE BAILEY
DECEMBER 12: THE ENGLISHMAN - DOUGLAS STUART
DECEMBER 13: IT CAME FROM CRUDEN FARM - MAX BARRY
DECEMBER 14: NO MOON AND FLAT CALM - ELIZABETH BEAR
DECEMBER 15: A STUDY IN SHADOWS - BENJAMIN PERCY
DECEMBER 16: ART APPRECIATION - FIONA MCFARLANE
DECEMBER 17: THE SOUND OF FOOTSTEPS - SILVIA MORENO-GARCIA
DECEMBER 18: WE HAVEN'T GOT THERE YET - HARRY TURTLEDOVE
DECEMBER 19: THE DUNE - STEPHEN KING
DECEMBER 20: THE WORTHINGTON - EMILY CARROLL
DECEMBER 21: SUNBLEACHED - NATHAN BALLINGRUD
DECEMBER 22: BLOOD DAUGHTER - MATTHEW LYONS
DECEMBER 23: THE LINE - AMOR TOWLES
DECEMBER 24: PIGEONS - NIBEDITA SEN
DECEMBER 25: WHAT WE HAVE LEARNED, WHAT WE WILL FORGET, WHAT WE WILL NOT BE ABLE TO FORGET - EUGENE LIM
DECEMBER 26: ONE/ZERO - KATHLEEN ANN GOONAN
DECEMBER 27: MATINEE - ROBERT COOVER
DECEMBER 28: ACCESS - ANDY WEIR
DECEMBER 29: UNNECESSARY THINGS - TATYANA TOLSTAYA
DECEMBER 30: HOOK - DANIELLE MCLAUGHLIN
DECEMBER 31: HE'S VERY WELL READ - CATHERINE LACEY

previous years' advent calendars (what's left of 'em):

2016
2017
2018
2019
2020

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[Rose · Rating 5 out of 5]

My favorite nursery rhyme growing up! I was weird. The characters are funny and the vibrant yellow really makes it stand out. Love it.

[Jason Pierce · Rating 3 out of 5]

Counting this as a book is totally cheating, but if it's good enough for karen, then it's good enough for me. Read it here if you need to. I'm sure you already know it because it's nothing more than the old Mother Goose rhyme of the same name with pictures.

The best part about this was that it reminded me of the Three Stooges short Sing a Song of Six Pants which I watch at least a couple of times a year along with three other shorts I've seen a million times since I was a kid. A cousin and I have a ton of running jokes from those which have been running for over 30 years now, and it's always nice to think of those.

"Do you dye?"
"Oh, that's his natural expression."

"You mean henna color at all?"

"Teddy Hoosevelt!"

"She wants you to make me a pair of pants to match."

Etc.

[Shene · Rating 5 out of 5]

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