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...then there are graphic novels...
...last few years, graphic novels have become the acceptably trendy cousin of comic books. The film version of Daniel Clowes’ nastily funny suburban epic “Ghost World” charmed the beautiful people and was nominated for an Academy Award in 2000. Graphic novels have gradually eked out their own section in every Barnes and Noble, a corner that is filled to bursting with intrigued readers of every...
Last year, so-hip-it-hurts literary journal “McSweeney’s Quarterly Concern” (with Dave Eggers as editor) published an “all-comics issue” featuring graphic novel artists. The contents included contributors as diverse as bawdy comic legend R. Crumb, the understated Canadian Seth, and existentialist horror artists Charles Burns and Adrian Tomine. Chris Ware, fresh from the impressive critical success with “Jimmy Corrigan, Smartest Kid on Earth,” served as editor...
Schematic diagrams in “Jimmy Corrigan” present ideas that might otherwise be too complex to appear in graphic form, such as characters’ internal monologues or a tangled family tree. Entire panels are often devoid of dialogue, an unusual technique that reflects the isolation of urban life...
...Graphic Black and White Moving away from today's bright colors, some designers went graphic. London-based Alice Temperley showed black florals on white while New York City favorites Proenza Schouler and Carolina Herrera were influenced by the Viennese Secessionist art movement. Or so they...