An aesthetic hijacking of the highest order, emulating atmosphere to demonstrate how arbitrary its rules really are. An incredibly neat book that showcases the collapse of its world — and invites you to join in.
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Really enjoyed Maunder by Ivo Puiupo (published by kuš!). Puiupo’s cartooning is wonderful, gorgeously realizing the author’s musing on the limits of the tangible and concrete against the expanses of the emotional and internal. Just a really lovely bit of comics.
Keum Suk Gendry-Kim’s Grass (translated by Janet Hong) is a tremendous, harrowing read. Gendry-Kim’s stark, inky cartooning beautifully articulates a lifetime of pain and the distinction between empathizing and reveling, always underscoring the very real toll of the misery shown.
Good Lord, Zegas by Michel Fiffe is such a profoundly cool bit of maximalist naturalism. Fiffe renders the intimacies of everyday life with an electric wonderment without once reducing it to trite cliché, and his grasp on form is—as ever—unimpeachable. A gorgeous bit of comics.