5/26/2023 0 Comments Exit wounds by rutu modan![]() The dialog is quick, the story clear, the narrator Giuliano’s reflective notes the distinctive difference between an existential hope and a despairing nihilism. The drawings, green, often olive drab wash panels, convey bleak settings and desperate tones. What is politically correct is what gets you through a day and a night, a falling spiral that soon shortens days and nights to hours then minutes in a manipulated clock, and peace is an expedient agreement easily broken. The brutality and violence inherent in the state where social law suddenly fails is drawn close up. The frictions within their trio mirror those in the country at large. The boys have only vague notions of what the war is about. Three young men band together to survive on the margins of the country, doing petty crime. ![]() “Notes for a War Story,” a first person narrative by Gipi, is set in a nebulous country where villages exist one day and disappear the next. Graphic Paintings Beginning with the Letter A ![]()
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