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This Week’s Article: PG Tips No. 33
Posted: December 26, 2010
Several recent graphic novels literally let us see the inside of another person’s head by harnessing the flexibility of their illustrative styles, their special effects budgets limited only by the author’s imagination, and through the harmonies and dissonances between texts and images.
In the lastest installment of my on-going PG Tips series, I take a look at X’ed Out, the lastest graphic novel release by Charles Burns (famed for his teen-plague masterpiece Blackhole); French-comics master Joann Sfar reimagines the children’s classic The Little Prince; the logic of dreams, and dreams within dreams, suffuses Sleepyheads by Flemish illustrator and stand-up comedian Randall C.; and British cartoonist Brick reappropriates the slur Depresso in one angry man’s struggle through and triumph over depression. Read the full article here…
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