David Smith, sculptor superhero

It must be said quon waiting to see him LOEUVRE the McCloud Sieur brilliant theoretician of the ninth art, also dubbed by some "lAristote comics." Since his trilogy on how dappréhender the ninth art, the last volume still goes back to 2007, he navait not published comics. Dailleurs, we can not say that his biography is very meaty, Scott McCloud preferring sinvestir in different activities, such as speaker, advocate comics authors, writer

"The Sculptor" then. Gros pad 500 pages cleverly mixing lintime the fantastic dune near perfect fluidity, where American author puts into practice with gusto his theories on art invisible. The six steps are followed, to the idea of ​​appearance. The idea, or to use the metaphor of McCloud, the "apple seed," that is what irrepressible and megalomaniac desire to own the artist to leave an "eternal" trace, produce LOEUVRE absolute, the one that will change the course of humanity. An original rereading of the Faustian myth that sees the young David Smith with dun supernatural gift, that sculpt absolutely nimporte what material nimporte what volume with incredible dexterity, in exchange dune certain death within two hundred days. Problem: meanwhile, the artist met Meg, a young bipolar girl he falls madly in love. Sensuit for David a host of questions, dautant the promised punishment to emerge this graphic novel of a frenzied romanticism and despair inevitably ends with a reputation hénaurme cry of love in the face of the world - at least that of New York because this is part of history - symbolism of a somewhat demonstrative but generous on the bottom.

For the rest, layout, framing and scenario are perfectly calibrated to a transposition to the screen, one would almost dailleurs impression that this comic was designed for. Similarly, the characters are well drawn psychologically.