Tag: comic
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If the world came together, and in one breath everyone spoke, this is what you’d hear
“One Line” written and illustrated by Ray Fawkes is a truly unique human experimental comic. This is the type you want to think about and hold in your hand, and try to read differently, going back and forth between the pages, testing out how far the comic medium can be stretched. I hadn’t known what…
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What if magic was a curse that twisted your body into monstrous shapes?
Wynd Book One: Flight of the Prince by James Tynion IV is an odd fantasy comic mixing cute and dark. In fact, it gets very gloom despite its rounded colourful drawings. The stakes are very high in this teen book and people die a lot. So be warned, this might not be for the younger…
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Deeply bonded and tearing each other apart a passionate biography of the Bronte sisters
Brontë, by Manuela Santoni in a biographical graphic novel of the Bronte siblings. The elegant lines on the cover immediately drew me in, and I just had to read the title to know this was a comic I had to read. What is the story about? This is a dark comic, gothic and melancholic and…
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Brushstrokes of Folkloric Ancient China
The Hunt Is On by Nie Jun is a Chinese comic book modernising some traditional folktales into one big story. The illustrations are charmingly ancient looking, the colours are in those warm reds we associate with Chinese opera and the story is not as simple as might first be thought. While this is only a…
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