![]() ![]() This being a fable, it holds a particularly English flavor. ![]() ![]() Dave becomes an unwilling outlet for all the chaotic impulses otherwise repressed on Here. Confined to his house and vilified by the media, Dave tries to relax and keep sketching, but the beard grows. Besides drawing these sketches, framed nicely by window panes that mirror the effect of panels, Dave perpetually listens to the Bangles’ 1988 hit “The Eternal Flame.” It’s a cozy and unchanging world, until it isn’t anymore.ĭave’s single chin hair begins to grow…and grow and grow and grow. So Dave, hairless save a single chin follicle he can’t eradicate, faces the street and spends his days sketching what he sees from his window: passersby, a street lamp, well-trimmed shrubbery, a cat. Dave, our hero, lives in a house that would have an ocean view if the citizens of Here prized such a thing, but they view the sea as part of There - the borderlands of chaos and mess. The narrative takes place on the island of Here, a surpassingly neat land with a place for everything where everything falls in its place. Published last year in the UK where writer/artist Stephen Collins (not to be confused with the Seventh Heaven actor) draws a regular strip for The Guardian, The Gigantic Beard That Was Evil is a borderline fable about the forces of disorder. ![]()
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