The graphic novel’s name is Asterios Polyp and the main character’s name is Asterios Polyp. The author is David Mazzucchelli who is a really famous cartoonist and illustrator. This is his first graphic novel and major work. He uses many different drawing skills to describe people. In the story, Asterios is very famous and popular architect but in his 50th birthday, a storm destroys his apartment. Accidentally, he loses everything that he made. The only thing he has is cash so he goes to New York to live a new life. When I read this graphic novel, many scenes are visually very impressive to me.
Asterios Polyp is an architect-artist that creates and realizes new places and beauty using points, lines, and planes. He has a fancy career that wins an award many times, but his architectural drawings are never realized in real society. At the beginning of the chapter, there is a drawing of sixteen apples in different styles to show his artistic character. The drawing is a still life of apples but it shows simply realism drawing, surreal drawing, black and white, a drying apple, and a fragmented apple, etc. The word “apple” is only one but each different style of the drawing shows different meanings.
The color of this novel is very impressive. It is not colorful and fancy. In this novel, color is in moderation, and the only colors that Mazzucchelli uses are red, yellow, and blue which represent Asterios's feelings and mind. When Asterios first meets Hana, the blue and red line connect to each other and fill out only two people. This represents that they destined to meet. Also, when Asterios and Hana get in trouble, the line and color show how they cannot connect to each other. Hana’s side is filled out with red lines and it seems like a pretty detailed line drawing but Asterios's side is only a simple blue line drawing. It is the same space but it looks really different to each side.
This graphic novel is completely different from a typical comic book. The graphic novel drawing is not an ornament of the story, it has same power of storytelling. The normal comic book shows one panel for one plot and drawing but this novel shows over one page a description of a character’s thoughts and feelings and detail of those feelings by drawing. Visually it is very impressive and has interesting color, structure, and drawings.
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