From Fantagraphics’ Flickr photostream, comes this excitingly baffling cover for a graphic novel by Hans Rickheit.
The madness continues on the endpapers and the hardcover itself:
But there’s a meticulousness to the drawing that gives me hope it’s more than just weirdness for weirdness’ sakes:
It’s available at Amazon and there’s more information, including an interview with the author, at the book’s Fantagraphics page.
From the back cover:
Set in a fictional 19th Century New England town, The Squirrel Machine initially details the relationship and maturation of Edmund and William Torpor. But the two brothers quickly elicit the scorn and recrimination of an unamused public when they reveal their musical creations built from strange technologies and scavenged animal carcasses. Driven to seek a concealment for their aberrant vocation, they make a startling discovery. Perhaps they will divine the mystery of the squirrel machine.
The Squirrel Machine is the legendary obscurantist cartoonist Hans Rickheit’s most ambitious graphic novel to date. Exquisitely rendered, strange, and hauntingly beautiful, this evocative and enigmatic book will ensure the inquisitive reader a spleenful of cerebral serenity that will require vast quantities of mediocrity to banish from memory.
I have a new life goal, and it is to be a ‘legendary obscurantist’.
