'Garlandia' Is A Trippy, Visionary, Not Quite Sublime Graphic Novel
The big new collaboration between Lorenzo Mattotti and Jerry Kramsky is visually gorgeous, lush and virtuosic — but its story of a peaceful fantasy world threatened by a crisis feels generic.
Here's a weird fact about American comics: When writers and artists collaborate, the writer's name usually comes first on the book cover. And yet the medium is defined by pictures; highbrow types even call it "sequential art." A poorly drawn comic will almost always fail, no matter how good the story. But powerful illustrations can often sweep up and overwhelm a comic's weak story, resulting in a
