Jar of Fools: A Picture Story
Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780571236978 (0571236979)
Publish date: 2008
Publisher: Faber and Faber
Pages no: 142
Edition language: English
Category:
Novels,
Literature,
American,
Anthologies,
Collections,
Americana,
Sequential Art,
Graphic Novels,
Comics,
Graphic Novels Comics,
Bande Dessinée
Series: Jar of Fools (#1)
Graphic novel. On rereading it, I find that I admire it a lot. The accumulation of heartbreak is not melodramatic, just adds up to melancholy. I thought Lutes' crisp, meticulous graphic style might be too concrete for such a ruminative story, but in fact, he fluidly blends in thoughts and dreams, an...
The artistic influences of Jason Lutes' "picture novel," Jar of Fools, are fairly easy to spot. The drawing style is European, with the clean lines of Herge of Tintin fame, while the storyline is contemporary Americana of such short story writers as Raymond Carver. But Lutes is good enough, and his ...
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