It is a long work in comics that truly makes good use of a high page count. This is one of those rare books that can safely be called an instant classic. All the while, everything is held together cohesively with the consistent use of ball point pen rendered art on a background of notebook paper–that and one of the most compelling voices to grace the page.Īs I say, in my video review, it is a hard thing to do in a graphic novel where a cartoonist creates something truly fresh that has the reader seeing things in a whole new way: Ferris steadily modulates the narrative having the reader swim to the deep end and read passages suitable for a prose novel all the way to deceptively simple comic strip sequences. The alternating formats that Ferris uses are the hallmark to this most innovative work. This is a tale that intertwines the tumult of the 1930s and 1960s and ends up casting a mirror to our own very troubled era.
Many of the pages in the book have become iconic, particularly the monster magazine portraits.
This is a genuine must-read resonating with aficionados and the general public alike.
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