Ursula
Fabio Moon, , trans. from the Portuguese by the authors and Joan and Guilherme Pinto. . AiT/PlanetLar, $9.95 (72pp) ISBN 978-1-932051-22-3
Brazilian cartoonists (and twin brothers) Moon and Ba originally self-published this odd little fairy tale—literally—about love. Young Prince Miro adores a girl named Ursula. Years later, his father (the king) tells him to go out and find a bride, so Miro tracks Ursula down. But Ursula, it turns out, is a fairy, and fairies explode when they fall in love. Which she does, and the two promptly find themselves inside the wintry landscape of Ursula's subconscious with a magic bird and facing a dragon representing Ursula's heart. And then things get
Reviewed on: 09/06/2004
Genre: Fiction