Poison Flowers & Pandemonium

Just a couple of months before his tragic passing in March 2020 cartooning master of the macabre Richard Sala completed his final book or actually his final four books. Poison Flowers and Pandemonium collects all four of these original graphic novellas in one beautiful hardcover worthy of Salas legacy. First up in Poison Flowers is House of the Blue Dwarf a 125-page thriller featuring master criminal the Bloody Cardinal who leaves a wake of mayhem and madness everywhere he goes. Monsters Illustrated is a fun 64-page monster movie riff that showcases Salas visual imagination. A young woman in a dusty bookstore reads a strange bestiary the book within a book showcases a series of Salas gorgeous watercolor and ink drawings. But when she gets to the end she finds the bookseller drives a hard bargain. Cave Girls Of The Lost World is a campy 60-page romp about a team of young women whose plane crashes in a land forgotten by time and rife with dinosaurs carnivorous plants and apemen but these intelligent brave and resourceful women are ready to rumble! Rounding out the book is The Amazing Adventures of Fantomina Fantomella a 45-page graphic novella of violence and non-stop action. Priest and his mob thought Fantomina was dead. So how is it that shes come back with a vengeance? Poison Flowers & Pandemonium is a perfect showcase of Salas gorgeous watercolor artwork and his love of B-movie horror silent film-era archetypes and femmes fatale. Full-color illustrations throughout.