Dear Creature [Hardcover]

Deep beneath the waves, a creature named Grue defies his nature, no longer wanting to eat lusty beachgoers, no matter how their hormones call to him. Grue discovers love after finding Shakespeare's plays in cola bottles. When his first attempt at companionship in the world above ends . . . poorly, Grue searches for the person who cast the plays into the sea. What he finds is love in the arms of Giulietta-but with his wicked past catching up to him, Grue must decide if becoming a new man means ignoring the monster he was.


Rising from a brine of drive-in pulp and gentle poetry, award winner Jonathan Case's brand-new hardcover edition of his debut graphic novelDear Creatureis the love story you never imagined!

Praise for a previous edition ofDear Creature:
Marvelously entertaining . . . A funny, bizarre, unexpected pleasure that gives a creature from the depths heart and soul. -Kirkus Reviews
Exuberantly weird . . . Startlingly assured for a debut effort. -Publishers Weekly
Dear Creature is sure to be one of the quirkiest and most surprising love stories you will ever read. -Gene Yang“This exuberantly weird comic novel succeeds in fusing ’50s monster movies and the works of William Shakespeare … The script also generates a surprising amount of pathos for the lovers’ doomed passion. Startlingly assured for a debut effort.”

—Publishers Weekly

“… A beautiful anomaly … marvelously entertaining and a weird side-door entry into both Shakespeare and graphic literature… A funny, bizarre, unexpected pleasure that gives a creature from the depths heart and soul.”

—Kirkus Reviews

“Dear Creature hits each mark it aims for, and makes the reader hungry for more.”
—Examiner