Friday, March 16, 2012

The professor's daughter illustrated by Emmanuel Guibert ; story by Joann Sfar ; translated by Alexis Siegel.

Graphic novel featuring the tumultuous courtship of a pair of Victorian lovers, one of whom happens to be an ancient Egyptian pharaoh. Lillian, daughter of an eminent Egyptologist, and the mummified Imhotep IV turn more than a few heads when they venture out in public, and their affair is complicated when she accidentally poisons two police officers. After turning herself in, she is thrown in jail and tried for murder. When Imhotep is caught trying to rescue her, he, too, must face a judge and jury. Both Lillian's and Imhotep's fathers attempt to save their children and set things right. Imhotep's father takes an extreme approach, abducting Queen Victoria and tossing her into the Thames.

This graphic novel was a real hoot, I loved when Imhotep talked to his father in egyptian hieroglyphics.