"Bizarre Romance" is a compilation of thirteen quirky stories written and illustrated by wife and husband team, Audrey Niffenegger and Eddie Campbell."Girl on the Roof" is a poignant letter written to a lost loved one. It is a prose story by Niffenegger with minimal artwork. This is in direct contrast to the beautiful panels drawn by Campbell in "Backwards in Seville". This reader enjoyed the "Secret Life with Cats" where a volunteer at the Happy Cat Home, a no kill shelter, had a life changing

Bizarre Romance includes thirteen stories that were written and illustrated by Audrey Niffenegger and her husband, Eddie Campbell. Comics aren’t really something that I’m always drawn to, but these are not your typical short stories, or your typical comics. They’re unpredictably odd, perhaps a bit on the eccentric side, and there are some that leave you thinking. And there is some incredible comic artwork. Topics range from suspicion, to cats, fairies, aging, the topic of comics, and art, love,

I couldn't really get into this one. About half illustrated stories and half written short-stories, there were fairly hit and miss for me.

Most of these pieces originated as text-only stories by Niffenegger* and were later adapted into comics by Campbell. By the time they got married, they had been collaborating long-distance for a while. Some of the stories incorporate fairies, monsters, ghosts and other worlds. A young woman on her way to a holiday party travels via a mirror to another land where she is queen; a hapless bar fly trades one fairy mistress for another; Arthur Conan Doyle’s father sketches fairies in an asylum; a mid...

Bizarre Romance, the creation of mad scientist wife/husband tag team Audrey Niffenegger and Eddie Campbell is a quirky collection of short stories, told mostly in illustrated form. But note: this this is the good kind of quirky—quirky the same way a capybara is quirky, quirky like the perplexingly changing rules of the alleged Olympic sport of curling. Quirky like that new doctor at the Princeton-Plainsboro Teaching Hospital, Dr. Gregory House. Yes, he will insult your choice of shoe ware, hairs...

Well, it was bizarre.Having read a few other of Niffenegger's books, I already knew I wasn't much of a fan of her style of bizarre. But having been a longtime fan of Eddie Campbell, I thought I'd give this a go because of his art. Unfortunately, this anthology didn't make full use of his art, including several text-only pieces.And Campbell decided to use a collage method that sporadically featured photos of real things pasted into his linework. I found it very jarring when, say, a big colorful s...

I had no idea that that Eddie Campbell and Audrey Niffenegger were married. Heck, I wasn't even familiar with Niffenegger’s name, though of course I’ve heard of The Time Traveller's Wife. Bizarre Romance is a collection of collaborations between them. Some are straight up comics, others are illustrated short stories. Most have appeared elsewhere, often as prose stories by Niffenegger, though a couple are brand new to this collection.Subject-wise, it's a mixed bag. There's fiction, memoir, an ess...

Bizarre Romance—the title perfectly describes the stories inside. The cover art is a simple drawing of two creatures embracing—a feline creature and an avian creature. Oh, this ain’t The Way We Were or Sleepless in Seattle or Wuthering Heights (although it could be). This is romance in the broader sense of the word. It is lovely and poignant and warm (and cold) and scary. It was thrilling to see the combined work of a couple who had their own bizarre romance across the globe put together into a

Every single story in this anthology is amazing. These 150+ pages took me on a roller coaster of emotions and left me thoroughly satisfied. I want to thank NetGalley and the publisher for giving me an ARC of this book.

This volume is an odd mixture of short stories (text), graphic stories, and illustrated stories. The texts already existed and were illustrated and reworked in a collaboration between Niffenegger and her partner Eddie Campbell.The result is uncomfortably uneven. My favourite piece was text-only, The Composite Boyfriend, a series of contradictory yet illuminating statements: "He made beautiful photographs. He was writing a novel about a man with eidetic memory. He had terrific hair. He was going

I received the book for free through Goodreads Giveaways. Even though I won this ARC I'm thinking about buying it! I loved the stories and artwork! Unfortunately my copy did not come fully illustrated like the book is advertised, so I have to get the finished copy! I only knew the author, Audrey Niffenegger, from her book The Time Traveler's wife. Which I'm ashamed to say I did not read, but watched the film instead. After reading Bizarre Romance I simply must have more of her books! Her writing...

If you like quirky short stories presented in a graphic novel you will love this book!If not, do not be put off - the stories are thought provoking.I found the illustrations went well with the context, others may not.I really enjoyed Audrey’s The Time Travellers Wife & Her Fearful Symmetry.Easily read within a day.

I borrowed this book from the library, but I think it's one worth owning. A marvelous collection!Favorite Passages:The room was enormous. He could see the ceiling but not the walls. There were a great many things in the room, too many for him to make sense of at first. When he looked carefully, he could see piles of things. Each thing was spherical, illuminated - each one was in motion. He drew near one pile and looked into a sphere. Some children were building a snowman. There were in a city. A...

via my blog: https://bookstalkerblog.wordpress.com/While this isn’t my usual pick, the moment I saw it was by Niffenegger, I had to request it. Wonderful illustrations accompany uniquely strange stories. The Composite Boyfriend is decent but something I think my younger readers would like. I enjoyed the tale of aging in Backwards in Seville, it is moving and heavier than the rest. There is something endearing about the drawing of Helene with scarlet lips, and lipstick smudges on the glass. Diggi...

Colleen says:This book is a short story/graphic novel combo. Author Niffenegger and artist Campbell are married in real life and teamed up for this unusual book. If you've been wanting to read a graphic novel this may be a good start. The stories are sweetly bizarre and much easier to read than Niffenegger's novels.

I especially liked "The Church of the Funnies".

Years ago, I read and fell madly in love with Audrey Niffenegger's clever and heart-string-yanking sorta-scifi romance, The Time Traveler's Wife. That was before I found out how weird she apparently is; the word-of-mouth rumors that her further writings were very strange naturally made me all the more interested in her. I've gotten to enjoy her visual art, but this volume, Bizarre Romance, is the first additional thing of hers I've read.This collection, created with her new husband, seminal comi...

Love the bizarre stories, as always. I didn’t love the art.