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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. In Blair’s surreal universe, a lost child watches as bewhiskered monsters gobble up her fellow train passengers; a band of kids merrily plays a gut- churning game with playground toys; and two sisters, grinning madly, tear each other apart. These charmingly perverse creations take ordinary settings— a living room, a subway car, a playground— and spin them in a nightmarish direction.

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Good grief, Landis, this is a bit gruesome. -- Eddie Campbell, artist of From Hell The Envious Siblings gave me the fantods, in the nicest possible way -- Audrey Niffenegger, author of The Time Traveler's Wife and Bizarre Romance Rarely have I seen an artist whose crosshatched phantasms are more evocative or more disturbing. Landis Blair weaves a world of dark discontents that is as disquieting as it is addictive. -- Emil Ferris, author of My Favorite Thing Is Monsters Landis Blair'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. -- Caitlin Doughty, best-selling author of Smoke Gets in Your Eyes and From Here to Eternity

Landis Blair'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. -- Caitlin Doughty

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Landis Blair illustrated the prize-winning graphic novel The Hunting Accident and the New York Times bestseller From Here to Eternity, and has published illustrations in the New York Times, Chicago magazine, and Medium. He lives in Chicago, Illinois.

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