When you leave the book somewhere but you think you know where, and then you don't bother to go get it for a month because you're pretty much ok with not knowing what happens...it's time to let it go.
Tale of Sand is the graphic novel adaptation of a screenplay by Muppet-creator, Jim Henson. It's mostly billed as an homage to the late, great visionary and it shows the mark of Henson's dreamy and surrealist conceits.The strongest thing about the graphic novel is the artistry brought by Ramón Pérez...
I first decided to buy Tale of Sand out of instinct, having read a couple of news about it being published and taking a brief look at it at my usual comics store. Later I heard it won the Eisner Award, but still I kept postponing it until now. It became my first read of 2013, and an odd start at tha...
A rather sophomoric script by the late Jim Henson brought to life by clean, interesting graphics with good use of space, frame, and color. Fragments of Henson's typed and amended text appear in some sequences, to good effect. Fun for an afternoon; not a work for the ages.
Another graphic novel I was too dumb to understand--le sigh.
1. Aw, Jim Henson! 2. Main Dude (Mac) reminded me of Jack Kerouac 3. Colors are wonderfully saturated.
1. Aw, Jim Henson! 2. Main Dude (Mac) reminded me of Jack Kerouac 3. Colors are wonderfully saturated.
Harking back to Jim Henson's early day as an avant-garde, experimental filmmaker, Tale of Sand contains a lot of interesting and, yes, I'll say it, whimsical ideas. Set in the desert, containing little-to-no dialogue and depending on a series of random and bizarre incidents, it almost has a Henson-m...
First off, the art is beautiful. At times, it can be a little sequentially confusing, but never to the detriment of the story. The colors are brilliant and, as befits this story, somewhat surreal.The tale itself follows our protagonist as he is sent from a Western town out into the desert with almos...
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