Percy Gloom

Original, debut graphic novel from a director of big- and little-screen animated gems. Malkasian deftly uses her pencil to create thick, expressive characters moving through the twilight of a shadowy Orwellian world. Lazy-eyed Percy Gloom, who occupies an unreal world of secret societies, benevolent families and bureaucratic security, fights to overcome the loss of his wife, then reaches enlightenment.