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- Artists
- Sala, Richard
 - Manufacturer
- Fantagraphics Books
- Edition Details
| Year: | 1997 | | Class: | Comic | | Status: | Official | | Size: | 7 X 10 |
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Part noir, part horror and part comedy, this labyrinthian tale of intrigue and murder follows a writer ensnared in a complex plot involving a mysterious outsider artist. A roller-coaster ride of darkly pure comic suspense.
Format: Softcover
Pages: 200
Dimensions: 7" x 10"
Colors: black & white
Year: 1997
Publisher Fantagraphics
A genre-defining masterpiece of graphic noir comes back into print. In The Chuckling Whatsit, Sala weaves the gothic cartooning traditions of Edward Gorey and Charles Addams with a densely constructed, melodramatic murder mystery involving astrology, ghouls, academia and outsider art. Part noir, part horror and part comedy, this labyrinthian tale of intrigue follows an unemployed writer named Broom who becomes unwittingly ensnared in a complex plot involving mysterious outsider artist Emile Jarnac, the shadowy machinations of the Ghoul Appreciation Society Headquarters (GASH), and the enigmatic Mr. Ixnay. Sala's deadpan delivery makes this ingeniously layered narrative a roller-coaster ride of darkly pure comic suspense. Sala's drawing style, while most often compared to Edward Gorey, also reveals the influence of everything from Hollywood monster movies and Dick Tracy to German expressionism and Grimm's fairy tales. - Fantagraphics Books
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