Popdose catchup-- The Werewolves of Montpellier
This is a couple of week's old but I forgot to post it here. Over at Popdose, I wrote a bit about Jason's The Werewolves of Montpellier:
Jason never lets you get close to his characters. In this book, like in most his other books, he never easily lets you into the story. He draws every panel from practically the same viewpoint. Once he establishes a scene, he rarely shifts to give you another view of the room characters are in or follows a character as they walk out of a panel. He never moves any closer or farther away from his characters. Sven and all of the other characters remain visually constant to us, never changing. They never get closer or move away. Jason keeps his images very 2-dimensional and has no use for any kind of dramatic depth to his drawings. Add in the fact that all of Jason’s characters are animal-like men and women- cats, dogs and birds- and it almost feels like Jason does everything he can visually to hold his readers at a distance and to never let them fully into his story.