Later his feet hurt; his supposed vaunting of the functional is seen to be foolishly subordinate to form, disrupting his pet theory that in the finest design the two are one and the same. In effetti il romanzo è una satira perfettamente elaborata di un certo tipo di pensiero: dialettico, lineare, polarizzante, sistematizzante, architettonico, acutamente estraniato ed incorporeo. It's the presentation-- the use of narrative symbolism, color and visual metaphor--that truly sets the book apart.

Es un hombre cínico, egocéntrico, esnob, práctico y materialista que no da importancia a lo que tiene. Asterios Polyp grew out of a story idea that would have filled the entire fourth issue of Rubber Blanket.What Mazzucchelli accomplishes, though, with remarkable clarity and a jazzy pop-culture eye, and which the written word has a tougher time with, is portraying silence, moments between something said and something to come—even thought itself.

Each panel is a moment in the story that when connected to other panels becomes part of a scene or sequence that is rich in storytelling and fertile with ideas, inquiry, and themes.

One's experience of Asterios Polyp will no doubt be more enriched by a working knowledge of architectural history, familiarity with Greek mythology and Homeric tradition, and a smackerel of understanding of postmodern sculpture—but Mazzucchelli's conveyance of story through his visual sense means that even those with Asterios-sized gaps in their education can still get in there and have some deeper sense of what's going on. In books like Jimmy Corrigan -- and the just released ASTERIOS POLYP by David Mazzucchelli, it happens on every. The narrative comes back to earth for a profoundly satisfying climax, but you'll want to keep turning pages - all the way back to the beginning, for another read. Asterios Polyp is a thoroughly designed experience, with every element from script to story to illustration to panel design to colouration to control of whitespace adding voice to the chorus of this performance. The blurbs also say it's "difficult," but the time shifts won't be a problem if you're semi-accustomed to Faulkner and Chris Ware -- handled really fluidly and elegantly here, with the various temporal threads color-coded (eg, yellow pages indicate a dream sequence) the way Faulkner originally wanted for The Sound and the Fury.

The book has sold over 40,000 copies since its publication in July 2009; it is now in its sixth printing. Não sou nem eu que digo isso, Scott McCloud grande teorico dessa mídia, compartilha das mesmas palavras sobre o quadrinho.Touching: in fact, it successfully revealed the presence of my heartstrings -- sentimental loon I am not, but I definitely felt something pull in the vicinity of my chest region toward the end. This is of course terribly difficult to describe, and is a superb argument for the supremacy of the graphic novel form in this book. Il layout del libro è cangiante, proteiforme, flessibile, incessantemente gradevole, mai soffocante. Con esta novela gráfica he quedado fascinada sobre todo en el aspecto formal: el dibujo, el cambio en los colores para caracterizar a los personajes o para indicar el tiempo. Molte delle sue pagine hanno una composizione aperta: vignette e figure fluttuano libere nell’ampia pagina bianca, quasi respirassero più profondamente.