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Stigmate (1999)

by Lorenzo Mattotti(Favorite Author)

3.63 of 5 Votes: 1

ISBN

8806151320 (ISBN13: 9788806151324)

languge

English

genre

Fantasy

publisher

Einaudi

review 1: Beautiful, visceral illustrations, but ultimately it felt like it didn't go anywhere. I mean, I wouldn't have minded at least a hint of why in the world this guy got stigmata, and there were so many chances for more plot. But if you look at it more as a conceptual work of art than a story, I suppose it's much more successful. Still worth a look, though, some really haunting panels. (Not for the squeamish: most of these involve cascades of stigmata blood.)
review 2: Mattotti is a pretty amazing artist. This story was much better than the other thing I've read by him. Such passionate, terror-filled, strangely sweet illustrations! Such excellent representations of the darkness brewing inside the big drunken lout with the titular stigmata, and his struggle against ... morethe darkness of the outside world. But it's not perfect, narratively, I suppose. Perhaps some of it's in translation, but I think he works a little bit indirectly and obtusely with story (just a little bit!), and it makes it less than perfect for me. But still, Mattotti's illustration style and the stories he evokes with it feel like they are something much older and more robust than the graphic novel, and that's super cool. less

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