Join today and start reading your favorite books for Free!
Rate this book!
Write a review?
Roman Muradov's postmodern Modernist comics have been one of the few entirely new pleasures I've encountered in artcomics over the past few years: his combination of highbrow midcentury illustration, Cubist-era abstraction, and Joycean language play are so exactly the kinds of comics I'd want to make if I had a tenth of his graphic brio, that I can't help feeling a little unsettled by them, as if I'd come across a notebook where a stranger had been making sketches from my dreams.2016's Jacob Bla...
Hard to follow at times and heavy handed but simply beautiful! The characters are very similarly drawn so very hard to follow or access in the first read, but after reading the glossary and bio it came together for me in the second. I've never read anything like this before and had trouble separating fact from fiction but that was part of the fun.
Roman’s usuall absurd creativity is churning at all cylinders. Of course we will all complain about how dark the print is and how difficult it is to completely make out the narrative because of it. But who cares. Any work from this man is a gift.
I have no idea what I just read.
Very beautiful noir-stiled story.
This is probably brilliant, but even if it isn't the art is beautifully captivating. And the author profile really had me fooled, too!
Wonderful and original. Full of artistic richness and intrigue. I don't think I've read anything as interestingly created (thumb and ink) with the exception of Peter Kuper's spray painted creations.Uncivilized Books.