The tragical comedy or comical tragedy of Mr. Punch :
[Book]
a romance /
written by Neil Gaiman ; illustrated & designed by Dave McKean.
1st pbk. ed.
New York :
Vertigo/DC Comics,
1995.
96 unnumbered pages :
chiefly color illustrations ;
30 cm
"In his grandfather's failing seaside arcade, a young boy encounters a mysterious Punch and Judy man with a dark past, and a woman who makes her living playing a mermaid. As their lives intertwine and their stories unfold, the boy is forced to confront family secrets, strange puppets and a nightmarish world of violence and betrayal, in a dark fable of childhood innocence and adult pain."--Page 4 of cover.