I Think a lot of people would enjoy The Goblin Companion and have never read a word of it.
That's because the artwork of Brian Froud is in the style of sketchery, is so clever and inventive that it's easy to overlook the presence of text on the page.
That's a shame, really, because former Monty Python funnyman Terry Jones did a cracking good job at writing words to accompany Froud's sketches. He begins by insulting Froud's character