![]() ![]() For exaple, it uses color and, to a certain extent, character design like a Dash Shaw webcomic or MOME contribution it mixes imagery with external narrating text like Chris Ware, only with several orders of magnitude more room to breathe on the page, like Ware filmed in slow motion. But hey, fine, I can fake it, I can certainly locate Asterios Polyp within the tradition of alternative comics. For example, cartoonist David Mazzucchelli has a long history of making art comics in Europe, and I've flipped through a few in the store or off my buddy Josiah's shelf, but the only Mazzucchelli comics I've read from start to finish prior to this book are Batman Year One, Daredevil: Born Again, and that little comic with the spilled jar of ink he did for The Comics Journal Special Edition: Cartoonists on Cartooning. Frankly I think I just feel out of my depth. It's after the jump.Īn extraordinarily easy book to read, Asterios Polyp is, I'm finding, a nearly equally extraordinarily difficult book to talk about. ![]() ![]() Now that it's finally coming out officially, I figured I'd repost the review here (in part to apologize for being an absentee savage these past few months). Even though David Mazzucchelli's long-awaited graphic novel Asterios Polyp doesn't come out until tomorrow, I some how ended up with a review copy months and months ago-I wanna say 2008, for pete's sake-so I reviewed the thing on my blog back in March. ![]()
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