No, these are not comics, as one might think by looking at the name of the author – an artist who became famous in this genre. This is a book, the plot of which is based on the engravings of Gustave Doré and tells about a fantastic story that supposedly happened to … Dore himself.
This is perhaps the most unusual book for teenagers that we have ever held in our hands. The author, an iconic German comic artist, did not draw a single picture for this book. Taking the famous engravings by Gustave Dore – illustrations for “Furious Roland”, “Don Quixote”, “Gargantua”, “Paradise Lost” – Merce composed a new story about … Dore himself. A 12-year-old future artist finds himself in a world of nightmares – among terrible monsters, stupid giants, beautiful and dangerous maidens. Having met Death and Madness face to face, having been at the bottom of the sea and on the Moon, he goes through a real initiation. At the end of the book, the hero will wake up, and the reader may find his way through the realm of mysterious fantasies … which are sometimes so lifelike.
ZANGAVAR, 96 с.