My buddy Paul Caggegi (he of The Process Diary and the online graphic novel Pandeia) has created a really neat short story. Called Great Googly Moogly, the short lives in an interesting twilight zone between children’s book and comic. It reads like a beloved children’s book, even while it uses a comic book format to tell the story.
Just above the world below
Stood thirteen houses in a row
So begins the tale, and don’t you just love that labyrinth beneath the streets? The art in this story is a real step up for Paul.
Caggegi tells the tale of an aging monster who’s losing his edge, losing his ability to scare people. What is a self-respecting monster to do? And when he meets a young girl who think’s he’s “cute”, where does he go from there?
Great Googly Moogly is a story about who we are at any age, and any stage. The story will be appearing in the Illopond anthology (Paul’s second entry in the series) later this fall, but will also be available before that release as an ebook through The Illustrated Section.
