Contemporary Graphic Literature
Asetrios Polyp Noticed it was told from point of view of dead twin, shown as silhouette in some panels which is an interesting use of chracter and design. Also, e ach character is drawn in their own style -middle aged main character who is brilliant but has never actually done anything -fine art comics -one page is a fixed space, space is sectioned off into panels and character moves throughout panels -wierd names (Lotta Latte -way characters are drawn reflects their headspace, when asterios has fling with his student -at one point asterios says “you can uses line or form” panel of him with a woman, he’s drawn with line and she’s drawn with just form -speech bubble where character is wishy-washy, bubble is a cube with different answers on each side Bone very iconic characters art style remnids me of the peanuts especially around eyes, very round shapes expressive faces and speech bubbles box office poison introduces every characters dotted l