by Brian Froud, Ari Berk
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Anyone who brings home this book will be in big trouble. Renowned artist Brian Froud and scholar Ari Berk have conducted a thorough investigation into the goblin realm. (For the uninformed, goblins, a subspecies of faery, are those maleficent creatures that cause all manner of havoc in the human realm.) The fruit of their labor, however, turned out to be a rotten apple: the book is infected with goblins.
Now, thanks largely to Froud and Berk's continuing carelessness, the noxious, viscid, and largely nonsensical volume has been unleashed on an unsuspecting public. Among its pages are reproductions of the ancient, odoriferous Codex Goblinensis; a glossary of common goblins and their markings; and a gazetteer of goblin photographs taken with the arcane Goblin Camera. Those fearing an infestation can refer to the section detailing how to determine if you've "got goblins" and, if so, what you can do about it. (There is nothing you can do about it.)
Combining the folkloric approach of Faeries with the utter wackiness of Lady Cottington, this is the team's most visually rich and outrageous opus yet.
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0 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
 not as good as his other stuff, 2008-09-12
this is a fun book. it kind of reminds me of the spiderwick chronicles a bit in that it's a collection of goblin data, not so much from a mythological perspective, but from a fantastical perspective. unlike other works by froud, the goblins have play a more vocal role. it brings a sense of fun to the book... but at the same time it looses a bit of what the previous books like faeries or the cottington series had. it's more jeuvenile than mythological, but the message gets across and it keeps it fun.
it wasn't as good as the other stuff, but was still pretty great.
1 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
 Finally something different, 2007-08-06
Another amazing Froud book. I love this one because its very funny and it shows a darker side of the Fae. Its not the typical pretty faery book. The pictures are (as always) really great. Another Froudian must have.
1 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
Goblins! , 2007-06-08
This is a great book, exactly what I was looking for! The illustrations and the commentary are wonderful.. and it fits in perfectly with my fairy collection.
8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:
Gobs of fun, 2006-07-01
At first reading, it's more of what Froud has done so well, so often. His delicate, dangerous caricatures take on little eldritch lives of their own. His palette tends to the gray, brown, and olive, with delicate pen strokes for outlines and emphasis. A little story goes with each, and larger story ties them all together.
There's a larger story still, outside of the story here. Glimpses of that create the spell that lifts the hairs at the nape of your neck - knowing that something is going horribly awry, but never knowing quite what. The basic idea is clever enough idea. The book as a whole, though, is a brilliant vehicle for that idea. It suffers from a few small flaws, but only a few and only small. I recommend this to anyone who loves the faerie (and not just the fey or fairy), or who loves fantasy art.
//wiredweird
0 of 0 people found the following review helpful:
kind of funny, 2005-07-08
The art in this book is truly great - true froud goodnes. The comic turn the bok tries to take is amusing, but bungling through some truly annoying long drawn out stories makes them far too dry and english for my tastes.
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