Later in the book, after extracting some revenge, he puts a new band together with the misfits who roam through the intervening pages. In the violent opening, Noah (nicknamed "The Baron of My Backside") narrowly escapes the massacre of his bandmates by rival musicians. In Sfar's expressive art, bright splotches of color overflow his wildly looping drawing.
Reflected its drowsy, lugubrious North African setting, this tale is darker, edged with a tragic, Eastern European jocularity, a mix of the fantastic and cruel.
, Sfar showed a knack for slightly tweaked and jokey mystical fables, a talent he updates with a harsher edge in this first volume of a new series about a band of itinerant Klezmer musicians.
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