How I Killed a Bear is a modest tri-fold pamphlet with an image of a bear that unfolds to reveal a delightful text-based vignette. It begins with a pail of berries. The protagonist discovers a bear approaching, leaves the berries, and flees. Instead of ending there with the two parties left unscathed, the story proceeds to recount the protagonist’s victorious, and surprising, murder of the bear in a bitter twist of cheer and cruelty.