This wordless tale comes from an attractive looking short story collection that happens to be out of print right now (sadly). Overall, and not with only this particular volume, Thomas Ott's work straddles the line between "comics as entertainment" and "comics as art". From the few releases I've read, I definitely rank him up there with Art Spiegelman and Will Eisner as one of the very few true journeymen of the craft. By letting the art tell the story, his work is accessible to readers of all ages and languages and succeeds in ways that multitudes of words cannot.
from CINEMA PANOPTICUM by THOMAS OTT, 2005
"Comics are popularly defined as a combination of words and pictures, but words are no more necessary to the comics than sound is to cinema. Swiss cartoonist Ott employs neither dialogue nor captions in his stories; words appear rarely, usually as chapter titles or signs in the background." - from the review by Publishers Weekly
*
No comments:
Post a Comment