BASED ON TWO GRAPHIC NOVELS BY BRIAN WOOD, THE CRAMP TWINS IS THE STORY OF WAYNE AND LUCIEN CRAMP, 10-YEAR-OLD TWINS WHO ARE NOT AT ALL ALIKE. AND THAT’S NOT JUST BECAUSE WAYNE HAS A BIG, OVAL PURPLISH-GRAY HEAD AND LUCIEN A SMALL, ROUND PINK ONE. IT GOES MUCH DEEPER, NO DOUBT ALL THE WAY BACK TO THE WOMB.

IN PRACTICALLY EVERYTHING THEY DO, THE CRAMP TWINS ARE POLAR OPPOSITES. NOT SURPRISINGLY, EACH DREAMS OF THE SWEET ECSTASY OF A WORLD WITHOUT THE OTHER. FOR WAYNE IT WOULD BE A WORLD IN WHICH EVERYTHNG WAS HIS AND HIS ALONE. FOR LUCIEN IT WOULD BE A WORLD IN WHICH HE WAS LEFT ALONE.

SINCE THEY ARE STUCK WITH EACH OTHER, THEIR LIVES ARE A NEVER-ENDING GUERILLA WAR-MUCH OF WHICH TAKES PLACE BELOW THE RADAR OF THEIR WELL-MEANING, BUT ESSENTIALLY OBLIVIOUS PARENTS.