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Darling Cheri: A BLAB! Storybook
A stunning and sensuous storybook about love.
Darling Cheri is the sensually illustrated story of a young career woman who awakens one morning to not only the light of an early dawn but also to the realization that love has left her current relationship. Immediately she begins penning a brisk farewell note to her soundly sleeping boyfriend before pursuing the love that has since left.
Celebrated throughout Europe for his captivating illustrations of fashionable and scantily clad females, Walter Minus' colorful work has appeared in Cosmopolitan, Marie-Claire, Elle, The New Yorker, Maximal and L'Entreprise , and in countless advertising campaigns including Chanel, Coca-Cola, AirFrance, Nissan, Mercedes, Renault and Kodak. This is his first American book. This is the third BLAB! storybook, a series of graphic novels showcasing artists from Monte Beauchamp's annual BLAB! anthology, presented in a faux-children's book format, though this volume is aimed at older readers.
Darling Cheri is the sensually illustrated story of a young career woman who awakens one morning to not only the light of an early dawn but also to the realization that love has left her current relationship. Immediately she begins penning a brisk farewell note to her soundly sleeping boyfriend before pursuing the love that has since left.
Celebrated throughout Europe for his captivating illustrations of fashionable and scantily clad females, Walter Minus' colorful work has appeared in Cosmopolitan, Marie-Claire, Elle, The New Yorker, Maximal and L'Entreprise , and in countless advertising campaigns including Chanel, Coca-Cola, AirFrance, Nissan, Mercedes, Renault and Kodak. This is his first American book. This is the third BLAB! storybook, a series of graphic novels showcasing artists from Monte Beauchamp's annual BLAB! anthology, presented in a faux-children's book format, though this volume is aimed at older readers.
- GenresGraphic Novels
32 pages, Hardcover
First published December 15, 2005
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November 30, 2023
A BRIEF BUT BOISTEROUS PREPOSITIONAL ROMANCE:
This is an even quicker read than a stapled comic book- an impatient type of person will read it in under 5 minutes, BUT: This tale of MODERN MENDACITY is charming, funny and very realistic while shamelessly setting itself apart with seductively sensational art!
The other type of sequential narrative reader, who watches others hurry through life, will take in all the details of every page while making sure to not miss anything by giving the art their full attention knowing that they'll soon start over and read the words without pausing while simply scanning the scenes.
Whichever type you are, go through it a second (or third) time the other way!
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*\/*THE SERIES IN GENERAL*\/*
What perverso-juvenile/stereo-erotic procurative process does "Balustrade of Blabulon" use to enlist the creators?
I've enjoyed, in a primitive sense, my first four tastes of "The Beauchef Montebank's" snazzy-spined, square-shaped series of picto-repugnant, swine-eyed eubaloo-stew.
My Multiplying Story-Blabulist:
Alphabetical Ballad of Carnality
Darling Cheri
The Magic Bottle
Struwwelpeter and Other Disturbing Tales for Human Beings
This is an even quicker read than a stapled comic book- an impatient type of person will read it in under 5 minutes, BUT: This tale of MODERN MENDACITY is charming, funny and very realistic while shamelessly setting itself apart with seductively sensational art!
The other type of sequential narrative reader, who watches others hurry through life, will take in all the details of every page while making sure to not miss anything by giving the art their full attention knowing that they'll soon start over and read the words without pausing while simply scanning the scenes.
Whichever type you are, go through it a second (or third) time the other way!
__________________
*\/*THE SERIES IN GENERAL*\/*
What perverso-juvenile/stereo-erotic procurative process does "Balustrade of Blabulon" use to enlist the creators?
I've enjoyed, in a primitive sense, my first four tastes of "The Beauchef Montebank's" snazzy-spined, square-shaped series of picto-repugnant, swine-eyed eubaloo-stew.
My Multiplying Story-Blabulist:
Alphabetical Ballad of Carnality
Darling Cheri
The Magic Bottle
Struwwelpeter and Other Disturbing Tales for Human Beings
March 5, 2011
I found this sneakily hidden out of place on a back shelf in my library, and read it in a few minutes.
Yeah, uh... not sure of the point, here. The sexy illustrations are well done, but have absolutely no connection to the sparse narrative, which is a fairly straightforward Dear John letter.
This doesn't fit the bill of a graphic novel. I'd say it's more of a picture book for horny people. I gave it two stars because, hey, naked ladies (and the illustrations really are evocative and well done). But there isn't really much more going for this.
Yeah, uh... not sure of the point, here. The sexy illustrations are well done, but have absolutely no connection to the sparse narrative, which is a fairly straightforward Dear John letter.
This doesn't fit the bill of a graphic novel. I'd say it's more of a picture book for horny people. I gave it two stars because, hey, naked ladies (and the illustrations really are evocative and well done). But there isn't really much more going for this.
January 7, 2011
Not a lot of inspiration here beyond the pretty pictures. Of some interest was the fact that I understood the narrator to be the other character in the couple until the very last lines. But now, reading the blurb for the book, I see that it spells out who the narrator is. It's probably best read without knowing this tidbit, as the author may have intended that revelation to be a surprise(?). Unknown.
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