This strip offers a fresh outlook and appeals to everyone . . . LIO is a comic strip that's edgy, funny, visually stunning, and truly different." --<I>Daily Cartoonist</i><P>With a feature film in the works from producer David Kirschner (<I>Child's Play, An American Tail</i>), LIO deftly melds the macabre with its brand of dark humor.<P>Having been distinguished by <I>Variety</i> as "a fast riser," Mark Tatulli's morbidly mirthful pantomime comic strip, LIO, is humorously astute and just slightly askew in its perception of the world.<P>Centered around an odd, ghostly-pale child named LIO, and his creepy coterie of friends, including a giant squid named Ishmael and a scythe-carrying grim reaper, LIO; is influenced by cartooning greats Gahan Wilson, Charles Addams, and 19th-century satirist A. J. Volck.