#10: The Barefoot Serpent
Storytellers: Scott Morse
Publisher: Top Shelf
Year Of Publication: 2003
Page Count (can be approximate or in # of issues format): 128 pages
Storytellers: Scott Morse
Publisher: Top Shelf
Year Of Publication: 2003
Page Count (can be approximate or in # of issues format): 128 pages
WHAT I LEARNED ABOUT WRITING / STORYTELLING:
This showed me
a different way to look at a comic. The main comic narrative is in the middle
of this book, relating the story of a young girl and her family visiting Hawaii
to forget about the tragic event that has befallen them. This story is in black and white with grey
tones. Bookending this story is a brief biography of filmmaker Akira Kurosawa. These pages are lush, vibrant paintings with
text. Despite these two very different stories, told in very different manners,
Morse manages to weave them together to produce a book that is elevated by the
threads binding the two narratives.
WHAT I LEARNED
ABOUT ART / STORYTELLING:
Using a sublime
approach to the dialogue with animation-style art, one can make serious and
tragic experiences within a comic narrative resonate long after the end of the
book. This is something that Morse does
in many of his works and that juxtaposition
of a “weighty” scene with the “fun” style that Morse uses really makes
these scenes more emotional, in my opinion.
RECOMMENDATION: A
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