We've been enchanted with Lilli's work for a long time. Her first book is an expertly details, haunting, lyrical graphic novel.
A family is seduced by the song of the Creature from the Black Lagoon, and how each member reacts to the Creature's siren call in The Lagoon is the crux of the story.
Lilli experimented with nib pens and brushes while drawing this black-and-white graphic novel, giving the art a different feel from her previous, Eisner-and-Harvey-Award-nominated story, The Tale of Woodsman Pete.
Lagoon was influenced by the films Creature from the Black Lagoon and Night of the Hunter, but reads more like the gothic family narratives of Flannery O'Connor. Rhythms - taps, the ticking of a metronome - are punctuated by silences that pace this "sound"-driven story.
Older teen and adult readers are invited to imagine the enigmatic Creature's haunting, ever-shifting tune as it reverberates through weedy waters, eventually escaping the lagoon to creep into windows at night.
Also, check out the cards that Lilli did for Loaded Blanks.
