5/23/2023 0 Comments Snow White by Matt Phelan![]() ![]() ![]() These updated details, along with Phelan’s gray-wash/sepia treatment, bring out the resident darkness of the story: an insinuating ticker-tape machine stands in for the magic mirror, seven street kids for seven dwarfs, a police detective for a prince, Macy’s Christmas window display for a glass coffin. Having a strange power to unsettle the wits of ordinary people, the stepmother orders a stage hand to murder the girl. At Father’s death-under ominous circumstances-Snow returns home from boarding school to receive a bountiful inheritance, which her stepmother longs to get her hands on. When her mother died, her father was bewitched (not just in the figurative sense) by a Broadway phenomenon, star of the Zeigfield Follies. ![]() Samantha White, nicknamed Snow, is the beloved daughter of a respected Wall Street financier. Snow White: a Graphic Novel by Matt Phelan. In this fairy-tale retelling, Snow White is updated to the late 1920s, with the stock-market crash and the early days of the Great Depression shaping the narrative. ![]()
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