By This Shall You Know Him - Jesse Jacobs

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Auteur(s) : Jesse Jacobs

Editeur : Koyama Press

Langue : Anglais

Parution : 01/05/2012

Format : Moyen, de 350g à 1kg

Nombre de pages : 80

Expédition : 274

Dimensions : 27.4 x 21.5 x 1.5

ISBN : 9780986873980

Résumé :

A cosmic and comic retelling of the origin of everything.

Biographie:

An art comics creation myth, cosmic, disturbing, and beautifully rendered in ice-blue and contrasting purples, with a style that welds the lovely to the grotesque...By This Shall You Know Him is (further) proof that fantasy in comics need not be hollow, generic, or ingratiating. It can be troubling instead. An inspired comic! - Author and academic, Charles Hatfield (Alternative Comics, and Hand of Fire: The Comics Art of Jack Kirby University Press of Mississippi, 2005 and 2012) I went in expecting a psychedelic vision quest, and I came out having experienced a stunning new creation myth. Intricate, upsetting, and fun. - Jeremy Tinder, Boing Boing Though it's mostly populated by balls of slime, ancient spaghetti-tentacled beasts, and, emotionally bruised cosmic titans, it remains believable and resonant, working through fundamental human tendencies and flaws. A perfect application of color to boot. - Nate Powell, Boing Boing It was the cosmic, geometrical, swirly, floaty art that initially drew me towards this comic, but it was the story and that drew me in...This is an absolutely unforgettable comic, an instant classic in my book. - Battle Hymns A key difference between [Jack] Kirby and [Jesse] Jacobs is that Jacobs is willing to make his techno-gods into actual gods--they create the Earth and populate it with animals and humans, just as most of the gods of myth and religion did. Kirby was working in a context of commercial comic books aimed at children. He wasn't in a position to supplant established religions with his own mythology--it might have caused controversy, And controversy might keep the Red Ryder BB gun manufacturer from buying ads in Thor or The Fantastic Four. Jacobs is free to explore religious ideas more directly than Kirby. He can posit Genesis as an art school crit, and no one will be too bothered. -Robert Boyd, The Great God Pan is Dead The Book of Genesis re-imagined as an art proje