But reading the outset, I was shocked by a big problem: the quality of the drawings is very irregular. They are sometimes good, sometimes average, sometimes poor, downright ugly. However, this irregularity prevented me from really immerse myself in my reading, while giving me the feeling of having before me a sloppy job. Quite honestly, I've seen blog young designers cared much it (free and only financed by advertising).
Then comes the story that made me think of a novel by Anna Gavalda, but to the US. Everything is like sugar coated and marshmallow. We see New York artists very cool and open to the world, a band of misfits buddies who all live together and love all much much, sculptor wounded by life making a pact with death, a story of impossible love, family dramas, washed down by floods of tears. The result is a mixture all at once silly, morbid and not very interesting, especially as the hero is not consistent in addition to being incredibly annoying (a type psycho, narcissistic and depressed ... what happiness .. .).
Of course, the questions are intriguing: Is a work worth sacrificing his life? Can you really produce an interesting work without loving the long, slow work it requires? etc. I was very curious to have the answers of an artist who has the bottle, but it's heavy, and everything sounds wrong.
On the part of an author of comics that has firmly packed fifties, I expected to have a job that offered me a perspective on life that is richer and lucid hair, much like what I had discovered by reading "far area" of Jiro Taniguchi - a mature author, too. But I have seen anything like it in this book.
I place two stars because the narration is not bad, especially because Uncle Harry is an interesting character (a sort of double of George Carlin, a lot less fun). Too bad he did not further worked.
If I had read some reviews varied instead of a unanimous ovation, I would have saved 25 Euros (which is not nothing for me).
