The Creeps mixes a little bit of dark humor, a lot of outright uncanny fears, and a fascinating art style in this collection of comics.
Yours truly is pretty sure it's actually impossible to know every single comic artist working on the Internet these days. Sure, you might follow one or two, but there are just a lot of them out there. So, when Ten Speed Press sent me Fran Krause's The Creeps, I was not really surprised to find that Krause runs a website, Deep Dark Fears, where people submit their fears and he turns them into comic strips.
With that in mind, though, The Creeps takes on a new layer of, well, creepiness. These aren't just stories that Krause spins up. He even lists credits at the end of the book! (Most of them are simply listed as coming from "anonymous," though.) His work is simply to bring them to life in illustrated form. He doesn't adhere to a single form, however. There are single-panel, two-panel, and four-panel stories. The last is most common, but Krause carefully drops in different formats to break the fatigue up. …show more content…
Sometimes it's slightly hard to follow where the next piece of text is, especially in "My Attic Room," where Krause gets a little too clever with where he places the narration, but like the differing numbers of panels, they do help break up just reading comic after
Yours truly is pretty sure it's actually impossible to know every single comic artist working on the Internet these days. Sure, you might follow one or two, but there are just a lot of them out there. So, when Ten Speed Press sent me Fran Krause's The Creeps, I was not really surprised to find that Krause runs a website, Deep Dark Fears, where people submit their fears and he turns them into comic strips.
With that in mind, though, The Creeps takes on a new layer of, well, creepiness. These aren't just stories that Krause spins up. He even lists credits at the end of the book! (Most of them are simply listed as coming from "anonymous," though.) His work is simply to bring them to life in illustrated form. He doesn't adhere to a single form, however. There are single-panel, two-panel, and four-panel stories. The last is most common, but Krause carefully drops in different formats to break the fatigue up. …show more content…
Sometimes it's slightly hard to follow where the next piece of text is, especially in "My Attic Room," where Krause gets a little too clever with where he places the narration, but like the differing numbers of panels, they do help break up just reading comic after