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Gloriana (2012)

by Kevin Huizenga(Favorite Author)

3.38 of 5 Votes: 3

ISBN

1770460616 (ISBN13: 9781770460614)

languge

English

genre

Graphic Novels & Comics

publisher

Drawn and Quarterly

review 1: Hit or miss, but Huizenga excels at the quiet comics that so perfectly capture life itself. One comic chronicles something as simple as Glenn Ganges taking in groceries with his pregnant wife and feeling the inevitability of their forthcoming child. "My wife has a little baby in there," Ganges says, watching his wife unpack groceries, flashing forward to beautifully quotidian moments of future fatherhood as his wife grumpily unpacks the groceries because he's just standing there making her do all the work. There's a chunk later in the book that describes why the moon looks red/bigger than it actually is that made my eyes gloss over a bit as Huizenga crafts these wordy, cluttered diagrams that would have been fine were they a bit more restrained. But that's nitpicking, over... moreall this is a sweet and soulful little book.
review 2: I really like the Ganges series that Huizenga did for Fantagraphics. This earlier stuff doesn't really do it for me. There are little sparkles and dots of the artistry that I like in his more recent work, but it's too rough around the edges at this point and the book feels very lightweight. Also the tiny format does the art no favors and you go through the pages so quickly that it reinforces that sense of lightweightness. However, his art at times is very evocative of certain places and moods, and he's gotten better since. less

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