Chosen for Book Riot's 2018 challenge: "a comic written or illustrated by a person of color". Gorgeous art with a story that started 4.5 stars.
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Chosen for Book Riot's 2018 challenge: "a comic written or illustrated by a person of color". Gorgeous art with a story that started slightly off-kilter and ended quite breathlessly.
Merged review:
4.5 stars.
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Chosen for Book Riot's 2018 challenge: "a comic written or illustrated by a person of color". Gorgeous art with a story that started slightly off-kilter and ended quite breathlessly....more
But just like the paint retains Dalí’s melting clocks and bleak red-cliff landscapes or the frenetic mix of batshittery that is Bosch’s three-panel op
But just like the paint retains Dalí’s melting clocks and bleak red-cliff landscapes or the frenetic mix of batshittery that is Bosch’s three-panel opus, it also keeps feelings, a pervasive mood. Nothing is so beautiful and depressing as tumbling into a Van Gogh, because the colors are searing and the sun is ambrosial, and everything around you is convinced of its abject failure, every painting is a desperate bid for relevance and the bitter knowledge of likely disappointment.
Lane does a lot of emotional eating after the Van Goghs.
wow, really going for the knees there. ouch. the concept of falling through paintings into a world that contains both the imagery and the emotional depth of the artist is? amazing? great? and somehow kind of reminiscent of super mario 64.
Finished reading the book, but I think the projects contained herein will take me the rest of 2018 to complete. I'll add photos as I finish the[image]
Finished reading the book, but I think the projects contained herein will take me the rest of 2018 to complete. I'll add photos as I finish them. :)...more
The art in this is so stunningly beautiful, I could stare at it for hours. I don't even need a translation - but the story is amazing too! Da Xia has The art in this is so stunningly beautiful, I could stare at it for hours. I don't even need a translation - but the story is amazing too! Da Xia has created something spectacular here.
The genius behind Allie Brosh's art and stories is that while they are intensely personal (I don't know any people who spent such a long time in a dinThe genius behind Allie Brosh's art and stories is that while they are intensely personal (I don't know any people who spent such a long time in a dinosaur costume as she did), they still evoke a sense of camaraderie between the her and the reader. We laugh at the bizarre stories and love them fiercely because the concepts she throws at us are ones that we can all relate to....more
Now, I'm a terrible artist. I leave all that to Eric. I picked this up because John Howe is a legendary figure in fantasy art and I wanted to get intoNow, I'm a terrible artist. I leave all that to Eric. I picked this up because John Howe is a legendary figure in fantasy art and I wanted to get into his head a little. Also, I wanted to look at the pretty pictures. I got what I wanted. ;)...more