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Hmm, do bankers and doctors and automobile mechanics feel the panic of passing time and the need to make a name for themselves in the way artists do? Geez, reading this back-to-back with Seconds and alongside Hausfrau, I'm starting to get a little down. Existential crisis much? I'm clearly not doing enough with my life. So, Scott McCloud can explain comics like nobody's business. I was excited to read his fictional work here and wasn't surprised that The Sculptor also deals with the process of c
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Hmm... I know a lot of people really loved this one, but I felt kind of like... I saw this when it was called Garden State?
The art is beautiful, and I enjoyed reading it, but it felt a little... melodramatic. Honestly, since so many people I know loved this one, I've kind of been overanalyzing it, like "is it supposed to be a satire of a manic pixie dream girl? Is it supposed to be a parody?" but I don't... think it is?
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The art is beautiful, and I enjoyed reading it, but it felt a little... melodramatic. Honestly, since so many people I know loved this one, I've kind of been overanalyzing it, like "is it supposed to be a satire of a manic pixie dream girl? Is it supposed to be a parody?" but I don't... think it is?
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Everyday,
I think about dying.
About disease, starvation,
violence, terrorism, war,
the end of the world.
It helps
keep my mind off things.
--"Survivor," by Roger McGough
The poem and the book aren't really related, it's just a coincidence that last night I read a graphic novel about a guy who makes a deal with death which gives him only 200 days left to live (thus, he thinks about death a lot), and this morning I read that poem, and it kind of resonated with me as I was starting this review.
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Holy wow. Someone on Twitter recommended this to me and I am SO GLAD they mentioned it. I devoured this graphic novel, it played like a movie in my head, and there were moments that I just had to pause and stare at the art or the panels because they were so beautiful or poignant.
It has narrative problems, but also I had a hard time getting past the ugliness of the central character's art. Part of the point, I understand, but since I actually had to look at it, too much.
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Wow, wow, wow! What an amazing book. The premise of the story is incredible. How do want to be remembered? Is fame worth trading your life?
Dec 16, 2015
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I liked this book's messages of death and living, but . . . I am sort of tired of romances with manic-depressive pixie dream girl characters (Ramona Flowers from Bryan Lee O'Malley's Scott Pilgrim series), even if they are done well. That being said, this is a worthwhile read.
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Interview with the author:
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The more I think about this book, the more I dislike it. On the surface it seems magical and beautiful but what's the ultimate message? Choose between art and life - manic pixie girl will help you figure it out. I'm so sick of that old chestnut.
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