Wednesday, August 5, 2020

Frogcatchers

Frogcatchers
by Jeff Lemire  112 pp.

This strange and dark graphic novel will leave you with more questions than answers. It opens with a boy catching frogs underneath a bridge before changing to a bewildering story of a man who finds himself trapped in an empty hotel. He meets the boy who claims the hotel is the Frog King's Castle and they have to find a way to escape. They end up walking on what seems to be an endless pier/boardwalk/bridge until they arrive at their location. The man is obviously ill. Is it a hallucination, a trip to the afterlife, or something else entirely? Intriguing.

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