Perhaps they will divine the mystery of the squirrel machine. Insect Horror Comics drawn by Squirrel Machines Hans Rickheit, story scripted by Paul Slade from David Attenboroughs bizarre insect breeding story. Driven to seek a concealment for their aberrant activities, they make a startling discovery. But the two brothers quickly elicit the scorn and recrimination of an unamused public when they reveal their musical creations built from strange technologies and scavenged animal carcasses. Perhaps they will divine the mystery of the squirrel machine. Set in a fictional 19th Century New England town, the narrative initially details the relationship and maturation of Edmund and William Torpor. Lovers of art comics know Hans Rickheit from his smashing graphic novel The Squirrel Machine (2008), but Rickheit has, for over a decade, been producing his own self-published comics reaching into the deepest cupboards of the back-mind and culling these strange artifacts. Meticulous, strange, and hauntingly beautiful, this enigmatic work will ensure the inquisitive reader a spleenful of cerebral serenity that will take exposure to vast quantities of mediocrity to dispel.

The story, such as it is, involves two brothers who pursue weird experiments with technology and organic objects. It's also the longest and most ambitious graphic novel by legendary obscurantist cartoonist Hans Rickheit, 200 pages of exquisitely rendered pictorial narrative. Hans Rickheits The Squirrel Machine seems to lean in that direction, but as strange as it is, its interesting and seemingly substantial enough to make examination worthwhile, even if a final summation will probably come up lacking. THE SOFTCOVER PRINTING OF HANS RICKHEIT'S HIT PREMIERE GRAPHIC NOVEL What is The Squirrel Machine? o An immutably strange and haunting narrative that transcends known logics and presumptive dream-barriers o A distillation of subconscious beauty and inspired madness o A dangerous object for the incautious o A revelation for the undernourished crypto-seeker o The virgin caress of unconsummated apocalypse o The unspeakable thing that you always knew.

The Squirrel Machine by Hans Rickheit