Great, Another Creepy-AssPinocchioIs on the Way

Have you psychologically and emotionally regain from Guillermo del Toro ’s twisted , Oscar - winning , stop - motion - liven up version ofPinocchio ? Perhaps you ’re still trying to cancel Disney ’s creepy , exanimate , alive - action Pinocchiomovie out of your thinker ? undecomposed news — you have mass of clock time to heal before A Series of Unfortunate Events generator Lemony Snicket andHellboycreator Mike Mignola team up to bring yet another creepy-crawly - ass rendering of the creature - boy into the world .

Well , kind of . Instead of making a flick , the two are partnering on an elaborate new edition of Carlo Collodi ’s 1883 novel The Adventures of Pinocchio for Beehive Books . Mignola will do the illustrations , of grade , which will be as gorgeously upsetting as you ’d think —

— ahem — while Snicket will annotate the ledger . However , these wo n’t be normal annotation , and they wo n’t even be on the page ; alternatively , they ’ll be “ presented as removable typewritten sheet , complete with all the tell - story revisions and ink - stains of an incipient authorial madness , ” according to a press handout . For object lesson …

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To be fair , the original Adventures of Pinocchio is absolutely creepy in its own right , so other creepy interpretations of the level are simply trying to do it justice . And Beehive ’s eminent - end , Illuminated Edition edition of the novel is certainly honoring its source material with an “ oversize 9×12 - inch hardcover , fabric - bound in sewn signature , and house in an in an elaborate way raised and debossed die - cut slipcase , silk - sieve or foil - stamped with artwork . The interior is printed on creamy , pane - loose heavy - weight 140gsm uncoated paper with a ok tooth , and include twelve of full - colour illustrations , illuminated letters , and special design pieces . ”

The volume just start itsKickstarter campaigntoday , but do n’t worry — it ’s already blown past its $ 50,000 goal . So you have more than a calendar month to order your transcript … and get quick for another creepy - shtup Pinocchio in your life .

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