676 apparizioni di Killoffer

676 Apparitions of Killoffer: Scaring Yourself, Loathing Yourself, Loving Yourself, Killing Yourself I haven't really made a secret of the fact that I take comic art, like all art , pretty seriously. This doesn't mean getting all pretentious and whatnot, but it does mean that I don't just look for

It's difficult for me to describe this book as I have no reference points. Killoffer is pushing the form of comics in this mostly-wordless work -- not as an exercise or experimentation but because the sequence and narrative he has created necessitates it. Each enormous page is a grotesque depiction

Killoffer mette se stesso al centro di un fumetto su degrado personale e completa autodistruzione, tra moltiplicarsi di ossessioni e crescendo di violenza e scabrosità. Non ci sono rigide vignette, i disegni si presentano in un flusso dinamico in cui l'azione si svolge su più livelli sfruttando appi Leggi tutto

So fucking good, starts slow but starts to really ramp up once Killoffer stops putting text in his pages. Disgusting good fun.

Dirty dishes abandoned in a Paris sink. A squat hard-lined Escher universe of body fluids and dark instincts. The horror of multiplicity, six hundred and seventy-six apparitions all reduced to the self.

disturbing and brilliantly drawn wordless essay on the male id.The central character split into multiple clones which, finding safety in numbers, feel free to drink rape and murder until Killoffer kills them all horribly with rat poison.

Visually and formally, this is awesome: it has a great, bold black-and-white art style, and it makes amazing use of open panels, its art flowing freely and wildly across the pages. Thematically, it's really interesting: a surreal pseudo-autobiographical exploration of the author's basest impulses an Leggi tutto

One of the best comics I've ever experienced. I was a little worried when I had to trudge through the early pages with challenging to read cursive hand lettering and excessive prose length. But once I pushed passed the prose section, Six Hundred and Seventy Six Apparitions of Killoffer becomes a tru Leggi tutto