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LOUIS - Red Letter Day OUT NOVEMBER 2011! Louis and his companion FC are two inhabitants of a simple hamlet. Louis hungers for adventure and this tale follows his attempts to live his dreams. Designed to frighten and amuse children of all ages, this scary-cute story will make you laugh and cry. The multiple Eisner and Ignatz award nominee Louis - Red Letter Day has had a makeover and is now back in print, in an entirely redrawn and repainted edition with beautiful hand-painted artwork, packaged in an attractive hardback. A standalone story complete with a making of section. Full Colour | Hardback | Sewn binding | 80 pages It’s brilliant... it’s funny, it’s weird... Kids are going to LOVE it! A delightful all-ages tale of Louis' quest for adventure, Red Letter Day is the sort of comic book that draws you into its world. It's a distinctive work, fully envisioned and not in the least imitative, and has the potential of becoming a children's classic. A deliberate blend of delightful and disturbing DISTRIBUTION: LIBRARIES:
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LOUIS - Night Salad Highly Commended for the 2011 Scottish Children's Book Awards Eisner Award nominee: Best Coloring! Leeds Graphic Novel Awards Shortlist! YALSA 2011 Great Graphic Novels for Teens Longlist! Published in October 2010 THE NEW GRAPHIC NOVEL BY METAPHROG Highly acclaimed metaphrog return with a brand new stand-alone graphic novel: the moving tale of Louis’ quest for a cure to save his friend FC. A simple story of friendship, heart-warming and genuinely transporting. Beautiful hand-painted artwork packaged in an attractive hardback. First book funded by Creative Scotland 
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Reviews of LOUIS - NIGHT SALAD That Louis’s concerns are universal and his adventures a reflection of modern world make his tales like contemporary fables. Metaphrog manage to bridge the gap between innocence and experience with real insight, making Night Salad something that can stand alongside Kafka’s short stories — deceptively simple tales that manage to pierce directly to the heart of the human condition. Sandra and John have crafted their best Louis book yet, an utterly gorgeous, colourful, touching fantasy for all ages, with fabulous artwork and colouring and an engaging emotional hook... it’s one of those books that makes you happy just to hold it in your hand ... in fact it’s going right into my Best of the Year list. A dream-quest theme persists throughout this colorful book, which brings to mind many classic, if somewhat less unsettling, adventures: Harold and the Purple Crayon and Where the Wild Things Are. Established fans will delight in this volume; like Louis, new readers will enter the story perplexed but exit with joy. A sweet, sad fable, beautifully rendered by the Glasgow-based duo of John Chalmers and Sandra Marrs...the story they tell, a gentle fantasy, has an easy tone and a deceptive depth that will appeal to both adults and children. These days we're bombarded with animations or graphic novels that claim to amuse kids while offering a metanarrative to please adults. But few actually fulfil these promises as effectively as this Scottish duo's hand-painted book. In the tradition of Little Nemo, Scotland-based creative team John Chalmers and Sandra Marrs of Metaphrog have brought forward a fanciful adventure story. Louis, the little hero from numerous previous Metaphrog titles, returns in a new stand-alone story perfect for young readers and the young at heart. Desperately searching a cure for his sick friend and automated pet FC, Louis embarks on a dreamy journey that is both real and fantastic: glass trees, impossible cliffs, cities beneath the desert, and a library which holds all knowledge in the world await him in the pages of Night Salad. Did you ever have a really strange dream as a kid? Do you remember being bewildered and intrigued, waking up in a fog of vibrant colors and delightful absurdity? Did you like that dream? Then Louis Night Salad is for you. |
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LOUIS - Dreams Never Die OUT OF PRINT Graphic novel + animation by metaphrog + music by hey and múm on enhanced cd (2 tracks + animation) or blue vinyl 7" (2 tracks) When Louis and FC decide to visit Aunt Alison, little do they realise what dangers lurk in Hamlet's labyrinthine pathways.The odious Fly Catchers are never far behind and a genuine adventure story unfolds. An exploration of our modern lives; a voyage of discovery. Full Colour | Paperback | 44 pages
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Quite a while ago, metaphrog from Glasgow were very much into designing their first Louis metaphrog have produced three books by the most adorable character... An indispensable bedside book, to plunge into as in a dream. metaphrog's deep story will have readers contemplating its images and events long after they've reached the final page. |
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LOUIS - The Clown's Last Words Published by metaphrog in 2002 Back in Hamlet, where the Quidnuncs are up to no good as usual, Louis finds himself working with fruit. Everyone is looking forward to the Fun Day Out, but something sinister is definitely going on. Cheese, clowns and crazy carrots for all ages! |
Metaphrog has crafted something unique, uncompromising, and greater than the sum of its parts. If only more comics were so genuinely transporting. metaphrog have produced three books about the most adorable character. Louis, we love you. |
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LOUIS - Lying to Clive Published by metaphrog in 2001
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Luminescent and haunting illustrations add to the surreal feel of a magical modernist mystery with implicit 1984-style warning which repays repeated readings. An insinuating, multi-levelled fable for our disconnected age. |
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LOUIS - Red Letter Day OUT OF PRINT Eisner Award Nominee: Best Graphic Album New Eisner Award Nominee: Best Title for a Younger Audience Ignatz Award Nominee: Best New Talent Published by metaphrog in 2000 |
A delightful all-ages tale of Louis' quest for adventure, Red Letter Day is the sort of comic book that draws you into its world. It's a distinctive work, fully envisioned and not in the least imitative, and has the potential of becoming a children's classic. With squibs for eyes and delicately inked circles for nose and mouth, Louis' reduced features magically express a life spent daydreaming, writing letters to possibly fictional aunts and reading signs that say 'you look like a potato'. Infused with shadowless light and written in precisely elusive balloons, Louis - Red Letter Day is a seriously spaced enigma from Metaphrog aka Glaswegian cult artists John Chalmers and Sandra Marrs. Like nothing else around. |
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