num_pages: 128
description: Winner of 2013 Comic Book Finlandia prize the debut work of Finnish siblings Jaako and Lauri Ahonen combines a dark story with glimmers of hope and friendship with beautifully painted illustrations and the mostly-wordless charm of a Chaplin film.Disney meets Kafka in this beautiful intense original tale! The story of a very small and very scared little bird who lives a lonely isolated life in a great big house with his infirm mother. He's never been outside the house curious but terrified of the world outside and he will never leave if his mother has a say about it.
language: English
title: Jaybird
publisher: Dark Horse Books