Summary
Comics are the new canvas. Their panels offer artists a clean slate for sharpening their illustrations and then segmenting them so they achieve maximum flow for readers' eyes. They offer the stasis of a painting and the pacing of a movie. Most important, comics are bursting with creativity. Comics illustrators can cast the net so widely they often land in wildly different universes.
Take a pair of eye-catchers likely stocking the same shelves yet existing worlds apart - a graphic novelization of author Paulo Coelho's acclaimed novel "The Alchemist" and the first issue of renowned illustrator Charles Burns' new series "X'ed Out." The former is a beautiful retelling of an inspirational quest, the latter a bleak mixture of surreal nightmare and existential crisis.See the full content of this document
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Beauty and the Bleak in Comics
"The Alchemist" likely will prove more popular, given that the book that inspired it is an international best-seller hailed as a modern classic. It tells the tale of Santiago, an Andalusian shepherd b...
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