‘Sense of place’ in Comic Book Form – Asterios Polyp by David Mazzucchelli
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The thing that always impressed me about David Mazzucchelli back when he was doing the regular comic book stuff, was his sense of place. No other artist came near him in this. He gave you all the details that make one street different from every other street.
The atmospheric qualities that make an exterior different from an interior:
And each room different from every other room. I’m just going with what I can round up on the internet, but handily, here’s a picture in which he manages to get the whole room into the frame except only for the ceiling.
I was pleased to see this interest is still with him in his new work, the masterly Asterios Polyp, particularly in the way this set piece undergoes a number of variations and transformations through the book.
Just about everything else that needs to be said about this much lauded masterpiece has been said elsewhere. (There are 7,208 words of annotations for after you’ve read the book)
-Eddie Campbell
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