“Rarely have I seen an artist whose cross-hatched phantasms are more evocative or more disturbing. Landis Blair weaves a world of dark discontents that is as disquieting as it is addictive.”
“It’s like if Edward Gorey stopped playing nice.”
“Good grief, Landis; this is a bit gruesome.”
artist of From Hell
“The Envious Siblings gave me the fantods, in the nicest possible way.”
author of The Time Traveler’s Wife
A sample nursery rhyme from The Envious Siblings, as narrated by Chi Savage.
A sample nursery rhyme from The Envious Siblings, as narrated by mortician and author Caitlin Doughty.
Inspired by the dark imagination of Edward Gorey, Envious Siblings is a twisted and hauntingly funny debut. Comics artist Landis Blair interweaves absurdist horror and humor into brief, rhyming vignettes at once transgressive and hilarious. These charmingly perverse creations take ordinary settings—a living room, a subway car, a playground—and spin them in a nightmarish direction.
Envious Siblings heralds a brilliant new cartooning talent, and will captivate readers who have thrilled to the lurid fantasies of Roald Dahl, Quentin Blake, Charles Addams, Shel Silverstein, and Tim Burton.
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“Landis’s work is a fusion of Grand Guignol horror and delicately-layered poignancy that can’t be found elsewhere. He is a singular morbid talent.”