Andy Warner is a trainee at the center for animation Studies who emailed me out of the blue to look at his comics, as well as I’m thankful he did. He’s got a lot online, however the newest are these:
The guy who developed Beirut is a non-fiction exploration of middle Eastern politics with the story of the murder of Rafik Hariri, former prime priest of Lebanon as well as building mega-mogul, as well as the presentations that followed.
Warner resided in Beirut in 2005 as well as 2011, so he’s got some personal background on the subject as well as understands what it ought to look like. As somebody who only vaguely about Lebanon from what I recall hearing on the news in the 80s, this story was eye-opening. It ranks with the very best graphic journalism. (There are likewise notes as well as a bibliography at the end, for those who want to discover more.)
Warner’s thickly black style grounds his work as well as provides it weight as well as portent. His willingness to show settings as well as details well fits a comic discussing something about a location as well as its history to unfamiliar readers. He likewise often (and reassuringly) draws himself as pop-eyed, as shown here, to demonstrate the shock as well as dismay he felt, being tangentially caught up in these events. We don’t understand what happened, exactly, as well as he doesn’t offer answers, just insightful questions.
On a extremely different note are the couple of tales collected in print as two Stories, both checking out the nature of sorrow as well as loss. “Squirrel” is a memory of a short-term pet rodent, nursed back to health, while “A Ghost” seems to be two young boys playing together once again after one moved away. Both of these tales are noteworthy much more of what they don’t say. There’s a great deal of space in them for the reader’s interpretation, like a photo delineated by unfavorable space, the absence of what’s really shown.
All are offered for purchase as minicomics also. Not in print (but it ought to be), is Warner’s story of breaking his drawing arm, as well as exactly how he coped with the months that followed. He struggles to discover to ended up being ambidextrous as well as concerns over exactly how much he’ll still have when the cast comes off.
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