Long-Buried Secrets, Scampering Dreams And A Cat That Talks: 'Eartha'
In Cathy Malkasian's gorgeous, melancholic graphic novel, a woman travels to a distant city to learn why its residents have stopped dreaming.
Cathy Malkasian creates fantastic worlds out of her proprietary blend of melancholy and dream-logic, and peoples them with characters who are all too dully, achingly human. Her landscapes and cityscapes, rendered in gorgeous colored pencils, can seem as chilly and remote as her facial expressions seem warm and intimate.
In graphic novels like , about books, a gentle absurdism asserts itself so quietly that story elements like talking goats and heads that glow come off like prosaic details.
