March

The art in this work is absolutely beautiful. It utilizes a lot of delicate painting (with what looks like copic markers?), while also being able to create movement with more aggressive line work and ink strokes. This comic also has a habit of breaking the frame. One of note that I really liked was when Lewis was going into why he had so many chickens in his office. The page went from perfectly straight boxes, to organic strokes and linework. It didn't just jump to it either. It had one transition panel that was 3/4 straight lines, and 1/4 the organic strokes. This made it feel very natural, while still standing out, and displaying to the viewer that they are going into a flashback. Another really interesting choice that works really well is the use of varying typefaces. When he is quoting his mother, the text is in cursive, and then the next panel has the normal (what appears to be handwritten) font, but then switches again to a really bold style of text. A lot of really good and aesthetic choices, that also help to differentiate whats going on.

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