Louis (comics)

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date=2000 - present
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"Louis" is a graphic novel series created by metaphrog, the Franco-Scottish duo Sandra Marrs and John Chalmers.

eries overview

Louis is an unasumming worker who lives in Hamlet with his companion FC (short for Formulaic Companion), his pet mechanical bird. He spends his days filling bottles with air, making fruit, and writing to imaginary aunts. His neighbours Clean and Jerk often try to get him into trouble.

In "The Guardian", Julie Burchill has said of Louis that he is the "most adorable character", while "The Comics Journal" wrote: "Louis himself is cut from the same cloth as Charlie Brown and Jimmy Corrigan".

"i-D" described Louis - Red Letter Day thus: "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."

Publication history

*"Louis - Red Letter Day" (2000) ISBN 0953493253

*"Louis - Lying to Clive" (2001) ISBN 095349327X

*"Louis - The Clown's Last Words" (2002) ISBN 0953493296

*"Louis - Dreams Never Die" (2004) ISBN 0954598407

Awards and recognition

Louis is a multiple Eisner Award and Ignatz Award nominee.

References

* Burchill, Julie (August 23, 2003). "Weekend: THE GRAPHIC TRUTH". "The Guardian ", Guardian Weekend Pages, Pg. 5.
* Kodwo Eshun, "i-D" (December, 2000), "Lil' Louis".
* Ian Brill, "The Comics Journal" (June-July, 2005), #268, "Louis and the technicolor Orwellian nightmare".

External links

* [http://www.metaphrog.com/ Official metaphrog site]
* [http://metaphrog.blogspot.com/ metaphrog blog] .