Right from the start, it was very clear to me why Marie Pommepuy & Fabien Vehlmann named their story Beautiful Darkness. That's exactly what it is, a beautifully illustrated story with an extremely ...

Rival critics have compared Fabien Vehlmann and Kerascoet's Beautiful Darkness favorably to other works in a "high-concept pitch" format – "it's Tove Jansson meets Joseph Conrad", sort of thing. I ...

Author Fabien Velhmann is a French comics writer well known for his paradoxical deep-yet-whimsical works. Here he tells the story of Aurora, a princess who is pretty, well-mannered, and intelligent.

Imagine all the aspects which make up your personality; the good or bad or greedy or adventurous versions of your inner self. Now picture these one-dimensional versions of you as teeny tiny people.

When “Beautiful Darkness” opens, we are in a seemingly enchanted forest populated by fairies, dolls, princes, ballerinas, woodland creatures and sprites who could all have come straight out of a ...