Until, that is, the end of the book, when the sad music of the book’s song of love and loss comes to a beautiful elegiac end and I needed a break. I kept going back and forth in the book, admiring his work.
I’ve never read a book like Fior’s, with it’s extraordinary approach to exactness.
I think we sometimes make allowances for comic books, for the limitations in the way comic books carry a narrative visually. In fact, the art is to me the most astonishing aspect of it. 5,000 km per Second is an extraordinary book – succeeding on all levels: as story, as a set of characterizations and as a graphic narrative. I can’t believe I never heard of Manuele Fior before. Fior, Manuele (2016), 5,000 km per second, Fantagraphics
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