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New School (2013)

by Dash Shaw(Favorite Author)

3.32 of 5 Votes: 2

ISBN

1606996444 (ISBN13: 9781606996447)

languge

English

genre

Graphic Novels & Comics

publisher

Fantagraphics Books

review 1: I'm going to have to think about this book for awhile. And reread it. It's certainly a unique approach to comics storytelling, and I'm sure there are things I did not get the first time around. Most prominent, and possibly most challenging to reading, is Shaw's use of color and background patterns throughout the book. Again, I have to go back through and read his coloring to better understand it.
review 2: Dash Shaw -- officially the Handsomest Comics Artist in the World and writer of one of my favorite doorstops, "Bottomless Belly Button" -- may have lost me on this one. On the surface, "New School" is about a young man whose parents send him on a mission to the amusement park Clockworld (located on the mysterious island of X and run by a potential madman) ... moreto retrieve his brother, who went there to work a couple years ago and never returned. But why do the young protagonist and his parents speak a language that's an odd mix of Olde English and Martin from the Simpsons? Are the Xians, pacifists with conservative values, the heroes or the villains? What the heck is going on?! I'm sure I could develop some theories if I gave it time (something either for or against capitalism, something about the power of language, something about history vs. progress), but I just wasn't into it enough to care. less

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