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...ballad, you also read "Blood Song" as much for the way it tells the story as for the story itself. With a traditional ballad you may notice the rhyme scheme or alliteration. Here you marvel at Drooker's skill as an artist. Reminiscent of Masereel's woodcuts, Drooker uses scratchboard, where you carve out the lines rather than draw them in. Over this he adds layers of slate-gray watercolor for tone and depth. Then, amidst this near-monochrome world, at sparingly particular moments, he adds a zap of color: a bird, a butterfly, or blood. It's a transcendent...
...creates his black-and-white images with scratchboard, literally carving out the surface to reveal the color underneath. Besides being a nice metaphor for a dream comic, it gives the lines a rough, lithographic look. Max also likes to mix it up, at one point switching to a smoother, cartoony brush style when D finds himself dreaming within the extended dream. He also plays with layouts, altering the size and shape of the panels enough to keep things interesting but always readable...
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