{"product_id":"9781603092265","title":"The Troll King","description":"\"Vivid as a fever dream... sweaty, uncanny, and intuitive rather than logical.\" -- Publishers Weekly\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"The magical biology of The Troll King reads like a psychedelic Hans Christian Andersen, blended with the neo-traditional storytelling of Miyazaki and just a touch of black metal. These are hairy fairy tales for the Burning Man generation.\" -- Jason Leivian, owner of Floating World Comics and comics editor of Arthur magazine\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"[The Troll King] throbs with a sort of primal, allusive, pre-verbal power... uncannily beautiful yet defiantly unpretty.\" -- Glen Weldon, NPR\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"A delightfully mental book, popping with color, and staged with a peculiar but compelling visual rhythm ... In The Troll King I found the perfect marriage of the foreign and exotic with the familiar and universal.\" -- Jason Michelitch, Comics Alliance\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"A beautifully colorful and mostly silent tale that presents trolls - and the other weird creatures of the forest - as aliens within their own tradition rather than grotesque reactions to the norms of humans. Cryptic in the jolliest possible sense of the word.\" -- John Mitchell, Worcester Magazine\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"The most weird, original and moving piece of comic art I've read this year.\" -- Christian Kerr, The Crack\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"One of the happiest surprises of the year, an exploration of queerness and monstrosity that gives a method to the illustrative madness of contemporary artcomix.\" -- Sean T. Collins, Robot 6\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA dwarf falls into a river and is taken to a place beyond space and time. A carrot takes a bath and finds itself transforming. Two reclusive mountain men rejoice when their wish for children is granted, but their sons make a terrible discovery. And throughout all these tales, the spirit of the forest walks on . . . Welcome to the surreal world of The Troll King, by Swedish visionary Kolbeinn Karlsson. It's a fantastic journey into the wilderness lurking right outside your town, brought to you by comics' cuddliest Viking.","brand":"Idea \u0026 Design Works, LLC","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47176186888432,"sku":"9781603092265","price":4.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781603092265_p0.jpg?v=1763826323","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781603092265","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}