Asterios Polyp

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Much like he did with Year One over 20 years ago, Mazzucchelli has once again raised the bar for his entire artform.

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Every panel is littered with quirky objects and celestial forms, while the layout of the pages themselves never fail to amaze. It is filled with philosophical musings and discussions, which are sure to leave the reader pondering. But in the earlier essay you say “ Asterios is perhaps the most self-conscious manifestation so far of the notion […] that comics are currently experiencing a kind of delayed modernism. As metadiscourse, Asterios Polyp as bold and sophisticated as anything in comics, but its success ultimately might have to be gauged elsewhere and on more uncertain terms. Ma così non avviene, e Hana prende il largo una volta che comprende che la corazza-carapace di Asterios non è penetrabile, e neppure scalfibile.

My point is that the “paying disproportionate attention” is the mechanism by which the binary is perpetuated in the book…it’s a binary in the sense of two things that can be separated from each other (only separate things can be treated disproportionately). Unlike many of Sienkiewicz's more well known works, the story isn't about superheroes but instead revolves around a criminal psychologist and his investigation into a serial killer who only targets women. However, I believe it was the emotional strain of the characters that played a significant role in the choice of colors, not their gender socialization.

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Innanzitutto ‘Asterios Polyp’ è la tollerante storia di un essere umano non priva di una salutare diffidenza verso gli assolutismi formali.With its artistic visuals and philosophical musings, it has been praised for its complex and layered narrative structure. Za svaki element postoji razlog i mesto, a analizirati svakog pojedinačno desetostruko nas nagrađuje. By accepting all cookies, you agree to our use of cookies to deliver and maintain our services and site, improve the quality of Reddit, personalize Reddit content and advertising, and measure the effectiveness of advertising. I see Mazzucchelli’s aspiration precisely as the “performative enactment of the ways in which comics defies the binary between literary fiction and visual art” that Caroline solicits from progressive comics.

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Asterios’ ex-wife, her name literally means “ Flower Sunshine” being a combination of the Japanese word hana meaning “flower” and the German word Sonnenschein meaning “sunshine. I also want to clear up something in your summarization of my argument, here: “Caroline rather cavalierly accuses Mazzucchelli and his critics of missing the point by perpetuating this pernicious binary, while [italics mine] bluntly claiming that the book “pays disproportionate attention to one side of the binary, the “visual. I mean, the coutersuggestion would be that your affection for Mazzucchelli’s work in general, and the dazzling achievement of the art in particular, makes you want to believe he’s in control of the story and its tropes in a way that I think is not justified by the actual comic.Your analysis, Noah, seems willfully reductive, as if you refuse to grant any emotional verisimilitude to the comic. Reducing Asterios Polyp’s thematic core to a set of trite literary clichés, as several of the present pundits have done, is symptomatic of how vigorously said false binary animates comics criticism—like so many important works of art, Asterios Polyp’s originality lies exactly in how it presents these common tropes in highly sophisticated comics form. Clichés are not kosher amongst the more intellectual critics, especially not those still mired in the modernist tradition, but there’s a reason so many artists continue to use them.