Issue Description

Baby-sitting! Visually-impaired mice! Soylent Green the limbless cannibal! Take a dark, surreal trip with Lenore, the cute little dead girl, into a world filled with vampire teddy bears, possessed stuffed animals, love-obsessed glove puppets and cuddly ickle kittens!

Lenore in Babysitting- Lenore watches Baby Edward with disastrous results.The Grandiose Adventures of "Timmy" the Happy Friendly Seeing Impaired Mouse- The story of Timmy and his untimely but predictable death.Lenore in Tic Tok the Monster from the Clock- The Monster from the Clock leaves his home in search of dinner. That dinner looks a lot like Mr. Fish, but luckily Lenore is around, but lucky for who?Lenore- Lenore meets new friendsSolient Green- The story of poor Soilent Green the cannibal with no arms or legs.It's Magic- Lenore helps a magician with his lastest trick, The Box of Death.Lenore in Hairball- One of Lenore's lost hairs returns to her.Lenore's Scientific "Don't Even Question it" Facts- Lenore shows the top 4 sadistic children's toys.Childhood Memories- Roman Dirge remembers his childhood.The Itsy Bitsy Spider- The poem Itsy Bitsy Spider, with Lenore playing the part of the rain and the sun.Hospital Hijinks- Essay about how a hospital visit lead the birth of Corn Boy.

Lenore (1998)

Publisher

SLG Publishing

Volume Description

 The comic tells of the unlife  and adventures of the titular character and her similarly odd (if not odder) friends. The story takes place in a small town called Nevermore (taking its name from another of Poe's work: The Raven) and the surrounding wilderness where Lenore's mansion and a nearby graveyard is situated.

The primary focus of the graphic novel is dark humor, with many of the stories having twist endings. Common themes are the reinvention of children's songs, games, and nursery rhymes to something more macabre, and subverting all sorts of pop culture icons and cultural figures in to topics of dark comedy. In one story, for instance, Lenore accidentally kills the Easter Bunny.

While Lenore's actions often result in the death or injury to those around her, and in various forms of chaos, she is not a malicious character, and often thinks she is doing good. Although in recent issues, the character had shown a change in personality.

The comic also featured various onetime side stories (One of these stories, Samurai Sloth, is set to star in his own series) and occasionally guest strips from other artists (with Jhonen Vasquez being the most frequent). A recurring comic strip called "Things Involving Me" tells about the author's life and experience in an exaggerated, semi-autobiographical manner.
 

SLG Trade Collections
This series was originally collected into trade paperbacks.  These paperbacks mostly stayed true to the black and white original printing presentation.  Although some of them have some pages in color.
Lenore: Noogies Lenore: Wedgies Lenore: Cooties 
Recolored Titan Hardcovers In 2009 Lenore was re-released in hardcover format, with full color to the interiors.
Lenore: Noogies Lenore: Wedgies Lenore: Cooties 
Uncollected issues:
Currently only issue #13 remains uncollected.

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