Summary
Flat black shapes delineating hair, clothes, and shadows turn each page into an abstract mosaic that propels the narrative; fabrics are drawn with rigid grids and stripes interrupted only by dead-on angles and arcs conveying wrinkles and gesture. The 94 canvases here (the artist has painted some 450) have been worked wet into wet, the lighter color of the half-dollar-size moons blurring into black or midnight-blue grounds, sometimes surrounded by attenuated halos or fractured by crooked tree branches.
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Jaime Harnandez
'The Education of Hopey Glass'fantagmphics.com128 pp., $19.99Comic DeliveryAnyone who's followed the tribulations and triumphs of on-'n'-off lovers Margarita Luisa Chascarrillo (Maggie) and Esperanza Leticia Glass (Hopey ) over the past few decades knows...See the full content of this document
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