Tag: Italian comics
Review: ‘Garlandia’ is a fully-formed and frantic fantasyland
On one hand, Garlandia has all the charm and intimacy of the characters from which it pulls obvious influence, the Moomins — the book is dedicated to them, alongside Moebius and Fred — but...
Review: Manuele Fior’s ‘Blackbird Days’ examines the mechanics of transformation
Blackbird Days, an anthology of shorter work by Italian graphic novelist Manuele Fior, gathers stories from the past decade, but this is no casual gathering of independent creations. Fior’s themes stretch richly through the...
Review: ‘The Interview’ examines the nature of meaning
I write a lot about contemporary art, and one of the areas that I find so many people get hung-up about is meaning. That is, the specific meaning of a specific piece of art,...
Review: ‘5,000 Kilometers Per Second’ untangles relationships with elegance
In 2010 Grand Prize winner at the Angoulême Comics Festival in France and the Lucca Comics Festival in Italy 5,000 Km Per Second, Italian cartoonist Manuele Fior utilizes his strong watercolor skills to offer not the whole...
