Mark Tatulli renders this pantomime strip in pen-and-ink style, giving the artwork a dark, spidery feel to match the strip's dark humour. LI explores the twisted realm of a kid's imagination at once bizarre, creepy, and fun. Now, in this collection edited especially for kids, LI is available to his most dedicated fans. LI features a curious young boy whose daydreams embark from reality destined for the dark chasm where wit and sarcasm collide. Centred around an odd, ghostly-pale child named LI , and his creepy coterie of friends, including a giant squid named Ishmael and a scythe-carrying grim reaper. It's slightly dark and terribly funny. LI , the main character, a young boy with an imagination that has no limit, explores everything kid. From bumps in the night to things hiding under the bed, readers get an inside look at different shades of humour but always come out the other end unscathed and laughing.
Drawn in the age-old style of pantomime strips, LI offers a decidedly new and edgy twist to the wordless comic format. That's right, LI is so crafty it doesn't need word balloons, dialogue boxes, or clever captions. Mark Tatulli's cartoon also employs a unique drawing style influenced by cartooning greats Gahan Wilson, Charles Addams, and 19th-century satirist A. J. Volck. In describing his strip, Tatulli explains he was eager "to bring something truly different to the comics pages . something to appeal to all ages, drawn in pictures only and to tell a story without text, while updating the pantomime concept with a modern audience in mind." The result is a mind-bendingly humorous and astute journey into the darkly detailed world of young LI .