Mr. Punch: 20th Anniversary Edition SDCC 2026 Straight Talkin' from Howard Chaykin

Straight Talkin' from Howard Chaykin

Their orphaned children—and others ripped from the homes of the defeated—were shuttled from Church-run "home" to "home" and fed a steady diet of torture and disinformation by a totalitarian state bent on making them "productive" citizens

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Mr. Punch: 20th Anniversary Edition SDCC 2026 Straight Talkin' from Howard ChaykinFrom the publisher: In his grandmother'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. Neil Gaiman and Dave McKean's elegiac