He does an excellent job of establishing a sense of place and space, using what he refers to in Understanding Comics as “aspect-to-aspect” panel transitions, using color and hatching to manipulate atmosphere and tone. In The Sculptor, McCloud harnesses the techniques, tics and tricks he examined in those books and applies them over the course of 500 pages. The graphic novel is the first work of longform narrative fiction from the cartoonist in ten years and represents a return to praxis from a creator best known for his educational comic trilogy: Understanding Comics, Reinventing Comics and Making Comics.īecause of these three books - taught in high schools and colleges, lauded by high-profile writers and artists, and garnering McCloud countless speaking engagements - the man is widely regarded as a guru by aficionados in the medium. The Sculptor, like Frank Miller’s Holy Terror, Neal Adam’s Batman: Odyssey, and Masamune Shirow’s Ghost in the Shell Volume 2: Man-Machine Interface, is a comic that exists because its author is too well-regarded to be said “No” to.
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