David Böhm

The Silence of the Hippo

Trans. Michał Słomka
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Milczenie Hipopotama
Sztuka Komiksu Europy Środkowej – CENTRALA, 2021, 64 pp
9788363892722
Language: Polish
Goodreads rating
73.2% (Rated by 29 users)

The imagination of the Black Continent unmercifully breaks down our European preconception of what a folktale is supposed to look like.

Comics

Poetic, somewhat absurd and in some places dark – such are the short folktales of this book. Most of them come out of traditional African folklore though, in the rendition of children storytellers, with a rather distinctive flavor.

The texts arrived into the hands of the Czech artist David Böhm, in the suitcase of his sister Terezie as a stack of student essays from a small Central African school. The imagination of the Black Continent unmercifully breaks down our European preconception of what a folktale is supposed to look like.

Somewhat shocking to children, it is a singularly refreshing comic strip for adults.

Milczenie Hipopotama
Sztuka Komiksu Europy Środkowej – CENTRALA, 2021, 64 pp
9788363892722
Language: Polish
Goodreads rating
73.2% (Rated by 29 users)