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Loading... Night Fisherby R. Kikuo Johnson
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 The Hawaiian setting is traditionally portrayed as exotic and beautiful; by emphasizing elements that evoke those memories, Johnson undercuts that stereotype with his story. Lacking in plot, Night Fisher feels more like a rumination than a story, but Johnson’s dynamic artwork holds your interest. Even in black and white, the pencils capture the lush vegetation of Hawaii, along with the blight of increasing construction.  Johnson's debut is not only remarkably assured but astonishingly fresh, one that refuses to trade in the usual hoary high-school clichés.  It is a first novel by a talented young author, with all the limitations, and all the strengths, that one would expect from such a thing. With his accomplished traditional drawing skills, his easy brushwork, his ability to frame and block a story, his subtle but high-flown ambitions, and his way with character “actors,” Johnson could someday be as well-known among casual readers as, say, Craig Thompson, or as masterful a High Artist as, say, Jaime Hernandez, or even — and this would be fortuitous indeed — both at the same time. Miss this one, and you're needlessly depriving yourself of a sublime and arresting reading experience. Night Fisher is a debut of stunning power, delivered with more than a dash of real authority. Every moment depicted, no matter how seemingly inconsequential, is imbued with its own weight and reality, its own raw beauty and ugly truth. The story begins effortlessly, it unfolds with precision and concision, and the ending is devastating in its simplicity, in its implications, and in its seeming inevitable nature.
"With the end of high school just around the corner, his best friend, Shane, has grown distant. Rumors abound. Loren suspects that Shane has left him behind for a new group of friends. Their friendship is put to the test when they get mixed up in a petty crime. Johnson has a naturalistic ease in exploring these relationships, which sets this drama apart. This graphic novel debut is at once an unsentimental portrait of that most awkward period between adolescence and young adulthood and that rarest of things -- a mature depiction of immature lives. His lush-yet-unsentimental-depiction of Maui creates an immersive, visceral sense of place." -- page 4 of Cover. No library descriptions found. |
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