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Personal author: Linda Medley Publisher: Fantagraphics Books Publication Year: 2006 Pages: 457 ISBN: 1-56097-747-7, $29.95
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© 2008 The H.W. Wilson Company® |
Title: Castle Waiting
All of Medley's previously self-published comics are collected here in
one volume
for the first time. The titular castle was the home of Sleeping
Beauty,
whose story is retold from the viewpoint of the flibbertigibbet ladies
in
waiting. After the flighty princess awakens with the kiss of a
handsome but
not too bright prince, the castle becomes a sanctuary for various
misfits,
from the now-elderly ladies in waiting to the cook with her simple
son,
Simon, to the taciturn blacksmith, to the crane man Rackham, to the
fun-loving bearded nun, Peaceful (who is not). The very pregnant Lady
Jain,
bearing bruises and cuts from an abusive noble husband, finds her way
to the
castle and can finally relax. Readers will find references to many
fairy
tales, folk tales, and nursery rhymes in Medley's book, and her clean,
clear
black-and-white art reflects the works of classic illustrators such as
Arthur Rackham. This Fantagraphics edition is designed to look like
one of
those wonderful hardcover volumes of fairy tales, complete with a
bookplate
designed into the endpapers, a ribbon bookmark, and the standard book
size.
Readers from older elementary age on through adults will find delights
in
the story.