The Wild Party Wakana Yamazaki Moominmamma wakes up one morning

Moominmamma wakes up one morning to find a flying saucer has crash-landed in her cabbage patch

Leah Hayes (Not Funny Ha-Ha)

They possess a sublime understanding of how to layer textures in a way that deftly evoke the feeling of something just hidden behind a veil of reality

There's none of the heavy-handed guiding message that underpins so many children's picture books

The dish brings diners in droves

The Wild Party Wakana Yamazaki Moominmamma wakes up one morningBy Joseph Moncure March, illustrated by Art Spiegelman. Published by Pantheon. Softcover, 120 pages, B&W, 1999. Art Spiegelman's sinister and witty black and white drawings give charged new life to Joseph Moncure March's The Wild Party, a lost classic from 1928. The inventive and varied page designs offer perfect counterpoint to the staccato tempo of this hard boiled jazz age tragedy told in syncopated rhyming couplets. "Spiegelman's drawings are like