About this item
You may think you know the tale: a happy young couple, one hundred and one Dalmatians, and the woman determined to turn them into a perfectly spotted fur coat.But who is that monster, that scene-stealer, that evil thing? Who is the woman behind it all? Before the car crash, before the dognapping, before furs became her only true love, there was another story. This is the story of Cruella De Vil -- in her own words.Even the cruelest villains have best friends, true loves, and daring dreams. After all, nothing is as simple as black and white.In this first graphic novel adaptation of the New York Times best-selling Villains series, Arielle Jovellanos brings Serena Valentino's darkly captivating world to life with beautiful and haunting illustrations in a stunning new visual format.
About the Author
Serena Valentino is best known for weaving tales that combine mythos and guile with her work on the comic book series GloomCookie and Nightmares & Fairy Tales previously published with SLG Publishing. Nightmares & Fairy Tales has earned her critical acclaim in both the comic and horror domain, where she is known for her unique style of storytelling, bringing her readers into exquisitely frightening worlds filled with terror, beauty and extraordinary female protagonists. Her future creatror-owned graphic novel ventures will be self published through her press, Fearsome Library Publishing.Among her other projects, Serena has written two young adult novels published by Candlewick: How to be a Zombie and How to be a Werewolf, and a series of novels for Disney Press entitled Fairest of All: A Tale of the Wicked Queen, and The Beast Within: A Tale of Belle's Prince, and Poor Unfortunate Soul: A Tale of The Sea Witch.
