Timothy Decker
Auteur van Run Far, Run Fast
Werken van Timothy Decker
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Algemene kennis
- Geboortedatum
- 1974-10-07
- Geslacht
- male
- Nationaliteit
- USA
- Beroepen
- graphic novelist
Leden
Besprekingen
Lijsten
Prijzen
Statistieken
- Werken
- 5
- Leden
- 130
- Populariteit
- #155,342
- Waardering
- 4.0
- Besprekingen
- 26
- ISBNs
- 6
Firstly it reads as a children's book, but its the story of a young girl attempting to escape the plague. Not that you can't deal with dark, serious topics in children's books, but it felt jarring.
Secondly, it _looks_ like a comic, but the panel order is very uncoventional. Typically there will be writing & a related illustration on the left-hand side. Then on the right there will be many panels depicting what was described (perhaps filling in the details too), although not necessarily in a linear way (in places its more aspect-to-aspect, to use McCloudian terminology). From a comics structure point of view, this is an interesting approach. I suspect that Timothy Decker would not identify this as a work of comics (but may well be wrong), but I would say that it does have many of comics distinctive characteristics.
Thirdly, it kinda feels a bit short and, despite the serious subject, a little inconsequential. It feels like all the illustrations - lovely pencil drawings, very evocative in places, and the most successful thing here, to my eyes - took so much time that there was little left to develop the story into something satisfying.
A curiosity, then, but an interesting and beautiful one.
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