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, each 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 line between characters eyes when they make eye-contact

stamp edge boarder

blood on the moon

-lots of texture, inkwork simple page layouts

lots of landscape

some washes

past panel is a full page in color, completely different from rest of comic