In homage to the boy that inspired the font, Otto is a children’s book for adults, complete with illustrations by Hannah Robinson, whose charming and joyful cartoon dogs for The New Yorker initially caught my eye. Otto the book is hardback, bound with orange-red library linen, and printed by Grammlich in Baden-Württemberg (a stone’s throw from the Black Forest that inspired the Grimm tales). Otto is an Aesopian Bildungsroman about a boy and his, um, as I mentioned before, it’s a complicated relationship with a fox, designed and written by Sam.
Here’s the movie trailer voice-over:
Otto was a perfectly lovely child… although there was the slight thing of his temper. After Otto hit his mother in the eye with a fork, his family had to start wearing helmets at the dinner table, and his father couldn’t help but issue a small prayer. “Dear universe,” he whispered, “please send us something to calm this boy down.” Enter Ronnie.
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