Hugs and Misses

Hugs and Misses features elegant tableaux of lovelorn ladies, immoderate gentlemen, cupidinous courting rituals, and amorous overtures most improper, all in the delicate style of Victorian shadow art. Book includes 30 full-color postcards.Here are 30 exquisite postcards from Wilhelm Staehle’s Silhouette Masterpiece Theater (silhouettemasterpiecetheater.com). Each panel in the popular weekly web comic features a painstakingly detailed etching carved from a beautiful painting; the results are gorgeous and very funny. Hugs and Misses is a terrific Valentine’s Day gift, full of lovelorn ladies, roguish gentlemen, renegade Cupids, and indecent proposals.