Timothy Decker
Autor de Run Far, Run Fast
Obras de Timothy Decker
Etiquetado
Conocimiento común
- Fecha de nacimiento
- 1974-10-07
- Género
- male
- Nacionalidad
- USA
- Ocupaciones
- graphic novelist
Miembros
Reseñas
Listas
Premios
Estadísticas
- Obras
- 5
- Miembros
- 131
- Popularidad
- #154,467
- Valoración
- 4.0
- Reseñas
- 26
- ISBNs
- 6
Firstly it reads as a children's book, but its the story of a young girl attempting to escape the plague. Not that you can't deal with dark, serious topics in children's books, but it felt jarring.
Secondly, it _looks_ like a comic, but the panel order is very uncoventional. Typically there will be writing & a related illustration on the left-hand side. Then on the right there will be many panels depicting what was described (perhaps filling in the details too), although not necessarily in a linear way (in places its more aspect-to-aspect, to use McCloudian terminology). From a comics structure point of view, this is an interesting approach. I suspect that Timothy Decker would not identify this as a work of comics (but may well be wrong), but I would say that it does have many of comics distinctive characteristics.
Thirdly, it kinda feels a bit short and, despite the serious subject, a little inconsequential. It feels like all the illustrations - lovely pencil drawings, very evocative in places, and the most successful thing here, to my eyes - took so much time that there was little left to develop the story into something satisfying.
A curiosity, then, but an interesting and beautiful one.
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