Pat Boon #[nn]

Published by L'Association in 2001, this Pat Boon album titled "Happy End" announces itself with a wonderfully unsettling cover: a small, striped-shirted child stands trustingly before a gnarled, monstrous tree whose hollow forms a wide, toothy maw — blissfully unaware of the menace looming above. The stark orange-and-black palette and Windblown's expressive linework give the scene a darkly playful fairy-tale tension that feels both charming and just a little sinister.