I am no expert on how the digital medium has evolved, but from the looks of it, Phelan used traditional watercolours in order to create his illustrations. …set in the 1920s and 30s (It starts off in 1918 kind of)! The art was not spectacular, but it had a very dream-like quality to it, and it was perfect for the story which Phelan was retelling. This was a very good retelling of the original fairytale… KILL.” In a moody, cinematic new telling of a beloved fairy tale, extraordinary graphic novelist Matt Phelan captures the essence of classic film noir on the page-and draws a striking distinction between good and evil. Enter a cast of familiar characters: a young girl, Samantha White, returning after being sent away by her cruel stepmother, the Queen of the Follies, years earlier her father, the King of Wall Street, who survives the stock market crash only to suffer a strange and sudden death seven street urchins, brave protectors for a girl as pure as snow and a mysterious stock ticker that holds the stepmother in its thrall, churning out ticker tape imprinted with the wicked words “Another. The dazzling lights cast shadows that grow ever darker as the glitzy prosperity of the Roaring Twenties screeches to a halt. E-copy of the book kindly provided through NetGalley, in exchange for an honest review.
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