5/29/2023 0 Comments The witches graphic novel![]() ![]() ![]() They’ll even scare a few more timid adults. The grandmother has told the boy of the peculiarities that mark out a witch, and it’s inevitable that he’s going to run into them.Īs seen on the sample pages, Pénélope Bagieu is no stranger to exaggeration in the cause of scaring children, and her witches are constantly sinister, whether posing as human or shedding their disguises in private. Having introduced that idea Dahl really runs with it. This is followed by an escalating series of scare stories culminating in the information that all witches hate children with a passion. ![]() The strangeness begins early with the boy’s grandmother comforting him inappropriately shortly after the death of his parents by telling a story of a witch transporting a young girl into a painting, where she lives out her life. ![]() Dahl was a far from sentimental man, and his stories often concern an isolated child, in this case a never named orphan boy subjected to cruelties, both physical and emotional. Considering the imagination behind the children’s stories of Roald Dahl, it’s surprising how few have been adapted for graphic novels, and The Witches goes a long way to showing why they should be. ![]()
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