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The Crackle Of The Frost (2002)

by Lorenzo Mattotti(Favorite Author)

3.46 of 5 Votes: 3

ISBN

160699543X (ISBN13: 9781606995433)

languge

English

genre

Graphic Novels & Comics

publisher

Fantagraphics

review 1: The illustrations are great- bold, spooky, surreal. The overarching story was not for me- it's about an overly navel-gazey dude trying to unearth his fears about becoming a father. Let's just put it this way: if the following sentence gives you a bit of a rash, then you should probably just skip the text and look at the illustrations: "How was I supposed to orient myself during my trip toward the frontiers of fear? The only compass I had on me was Alice's letter, with all of its silences." You get what I'm saying? I think you do.
review 2: Mattotti! You are such an amazing artist! It is not quite comic book style! It is more like museum-worthy painted "art"! But it in a comic book! It's all too much! It's overwhelming! It's beautiful! And the story here doesn't... more suck either. It's a story of love and madness, somehow realistic and fantastical at once. I believe the book jacket said that Zentner was a psychologist and drew from that to write his tale, and if so, it shows. It is an accurate depiction of the madness of love, commitment, and yearning for freedom and adventure, of mortality, ultimately, that is familiar to even the sanest among us. Real good stuff, people. Mattotti (and Zentner as writer!) forever. less

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