Asterios Polyp

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On top of Mazzucchelli's tight reign over his colour spectrum, there is ample evidence that he maintains the same level of control over his linework and design. en la tipografía, las formas de representar a los personajes, toda la cantidad de detalles (por ejemplo del mobiliario). This is of course terribly difficult to describe, and is a superb argument for the supremacy of the graphic novel form in this book.

The narrative comes back to earth for a profoundly satisfying climax, but you’ll want to keep turning pages—all the way back to the beginning, for another read.

Le vignette sono separate – in sostanza disaccoppiate – anziché sostenersi a vicenda adiacenti l’una all’altra come nella consueta struttura a griglia.

But what I loved the most is that this graphic novel has a living and breathing soul, a true soul that you can see much better in the second part. Não sou nem eu que digo isso, Scott McCloud grande teorico dessa mídia, compartilha das mesmas palavras sobre o quadrinho. The story itself is full and rich, the characters multifaceted and real, and everything is augmented and reified by frequent digressions, both visual and described, on perception, human behavior, physics, philosophy, mythology, spirituality, metaphysics, and on and on. En el fondo es una historia de amor: chico pierde a chica y no es hasta que la pierde que se da cuenta de hasta qué punto ella era importante para él y hasta qué punto él la anuló como persona hasta que ella no tuvo más remedio que dejarlo. The narrative comes back to earth for a profoundly satisfying climax, but you'll want to keep turning pages--all the way back to the beginning, for another read.

Asterios Polyp will cause comic-book buffs to swoon, sure, but the narrative -- after a fire, an arrogant architect slowly begins to rebuild his own life -- makes it much more than a pretty picture book. This fan of the novel is an ever bigger fan of the magic that happens in comics, and only in comics, when text and art work together to create something wholly, wonderfully new. There is so much more to say about this dense, gorgeous, intricate book, but I've run out of space and steam.