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(...) comics are currently better at the sociology of the intimate gesture than literary fiction is. Literary fiction, obsessed on the one hand with defending itself against the popularity of cinema, is too preoccupied with story. On the other hand, in competing with poetry, it is occasionally dazzled by abstraction and cerebral firepower. Between the two once lay the novel of manners, in which we found Henry James perfectly depicting the way an American ingénue wore a gown or entertained a suitor. You read this kind of social observation only infrequently today. But Chris Ware is great at drawing it. So is Chester Brown, for example, in his bittersweet graphic novel ''I Never Liked You.''
Artists in Europe and Asia have also capitalized on the ascent of the graphic novel, in the process supplying their own notions of the form. And so we have, for example, ''Epileptic,'' by David B. (the pseudonym of Pierre-François Beauchard, who lives in Montreuil, France) ...
Aihe: David B. (Luettu 5328 kertaa)