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Loading... Drawn & Quarterly Showcase: Book Two (Bk. 2)by Chris Oliveros
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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. The second installment of Drawn & Quarterly Showcase is a fairly ordinary affair - none of three pieces within rise to any heights of artistic distinction, but the contributions by Pentti Otsamo and Erik De Graaf are at least entertaining, if quite slight. Jeffrey Brown's story is as dull as everything else that I have read by him - how it is that his mediocre comics continue to be published is completely beyond me. All-in-all, Drawn & Quarterly Showcase: Book 2 is a mediocre exercise in "Drawn & Quarterly house style" without being a complete write-off. ( ) no reviews | add a review
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Drawn & Quarterly Showcase - edited by Chris Oliveros - returns featuring two more of the brightest new talents working in graphic novels today. This edition focuses on new stories by two cartoonists from opposite ends of the globe: Chicago's Jeffrey Brown and from the other side of the Atlantic, Pentti Otsamo of Finland. Brown's story is a tense-murder-mystery: a co-worker at a factory has dreams about dogs attacking a girl two nights in a row. The next day he unloads a truck and finds dirty clothing in the trailer,clothing that looks like a young girls'. As it happens, a young girl was abducted and murdered the night before, and the truck had picked up the load in that area the same day. Brown deftly paces the story, drawn in his expressive line, never quite revealing more than we need to know. Pentti Otsamo writes about a boy's move to a new town and of the nastiness of the local kids who do their best to shun the new arrival. Otsamo's moody and atmospheric drawing style is perfectly suited to the subject of the story. His artwork is reminiscent of some of the best D+Q cartoonists, with the warm colors of Seth and the sensitive, yet expressive linework of Chester Brown. No library descriptions found. |
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