Worry Doll

author: Matt Coyle
name: Wayne
average rating: 4.33
book published:
rating: 4
read at: 2016/08/28
date added: 2016/08/28
shelves: graphic-novels
review:
'Worry Doll' by Matt Coyle is worrisome indeed. Not because it's not any good, but because the content is quietly unnerving.

Presented as a child's picture book, with the text on one page followed by a full page illustration, I can tell you this is no child's fable. A group of strange looking dolls witnesses a brutal murder scene. They are then left on their own in the world to meet up with strange and terrifying people.

It's a creepy black and white world with brilliant photo-realistic drawings by Matt Coyle. The text at times seems disjointed with what is happening, almost as if the narrator is trying to create distance from memory. The dolls are rather creepy in the context of the story, but it's hard to tell if they are the perpetrators or the victims. I'll leave that for you to figure out. There is a foreword by Shaun Tan (The Lost Thing) that praised the brilliance of the precise art. The art almost seems like woodcut, but apparently is pen and ink drawing. There is a great unease to be found in this strange tale.

I received a review copy of this graphic novel from Dover Publications and NetGalley in exchange for an honest review. Thank you for allowing me to review this graphic novel.


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