![]() I had planed to review another book from Top Shelf but couldn't get a hold of it. I ended up putting this review off until the last minute I hope to come back to these three books. His color pallet creates a depth to the page without overwhelming the narrative flow. But the simple but elegant line work he used in Cages occasionally peaks trough. It is closer to mix media and collage work he did for covers for comic books and CDs. The McKean's artwork in all three is unreal. They are much closer to Bandes Dessinées format. At 48 to 96 pages, all three are relatively short for bound American collection but long for stapled comic books. I think of it as part of trilogy falling in between Violent Cases and The Tragical Comedy or Comical Tragedy of Mr. I came across it latter in decade back before I started smoking when I was still visiting comic book stores weekly. ![]() Signal To Noise came out in the early nineties. The story does throw the reader into the division of between the intended and received work of of art. Appropriately Signal To Noise is short on resolution. ![]() ![]() The narrative shifts between him and the lives of the midevil villagers of his script he is writing for and audience of one. Signal To Noise follows the middle-aged film director as he discovers and deals with late stage cancer while working on a script about the 999AD apocalypse that wasn't. David McKean & Neil Gaiman's Signal To Noise ![]()
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