УРА!!!!! I'll start by saying that this is terrifying in part because it seems like the voice of the song is saying poor ol' Hackovyockil somehow deserved to die for being a mamby-pamby who liked coffee and reading and was afraid of guns. I must confess, I am in many respects a "Books and Chocolate" O'Keefe. The meany songster has no pity - I think it may be the murderer who is speaking. "I hate that 'Books and Chocolate' Hackovyockil!" The way the rhythm of the song and the rhythm of the panels gets tripped up at the final moment is nice. Nice smoky drawings, like a page from a creepy old 1913 newspaper.
This is a wonderful comic. I found myself reading the second line in each panel twice. I think I don't understand the rhythm it is supposed to be read to. I drawings are really superb. I especially like panels 1,2,4,5, and 6 though they are all great as is the moody background. The sureness and purity of the stroke defining the butt in panel 4 reminds me of some of the song dynasty stuff you always liked, Conor.
Excellent. A strange comic, sort of musical, I could imagine it as one of those rhythmic Fleischer bros. cartoons. Conor, you did a comic!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
A terrific return to the Rhino. The children's-song rhythm sets an eery backdrop, as does the withered rose background pattern. In the first panel, we imagine a cheerful person, his steps look light, but we quickly learn he is troubled and his forward foot has changed, suggesting a rigid stomp. Why he is troubled, we will never know, but his "worldly cares" seem to emanate from his phone. Something is wrong in his life before we even hear the shots, so it seems the killer may be someone he knows. A score is about to be settled. By the fifth and sixth frame, he is terrified. Again, he understands the danger and perhaps has already guessed that his fate is unavoidable. It is only in the 8th frame that we see the "books and chocolate" hidden under the bed. And in the last frame we see that the villain had no interest in the books, since one is loosely tossed on the floor. This leaves us to believe the chocolate was the prize, which makes it a perfect Halloween tale. The artwork is perfect. The story is terrifying and the character's turn from sympathetic in frame one, to mean and hostile in frame 2 and 3 make us feel he may have deserved it. He hoarded his treat and was rewarded with a terrible trick.
УРА!!!!!
ReplyDeleteI'll start by saying that this is terrifying in part because it seems like the voice of the song is saying poor ol' Hackovyockil somehow deserved to die for being a mamby-pamby who liked coffee and reading and was afraid of guns. I must confess, I am in many respects a "Books and Chocolate" O'Keefe. The meany songster has no pity - I think it may be the murderer who is speaking. "I hate that 'Books and Chocolate' Hackovyockil!" The way the rhythm of the song and the rhythm of the panels gets tripped up at the final moment is nice. Nice smoky drawings, like a page from a creepy old 1913 newspaper.
This is a wonderful comic. I found myself reading the second line in each panel twice. I think I don't understand the rhythm it is supposed to be read to. I drawings are really superb. I especially like panels 1,2,4,5, and 6 though they are all great as is the moody background. The sureness and purity of the stroke defining the butt in panel 4 reminds me of some of the song dynasty stuff you always liked, Conor.
ReplyDeleteExcellent. A strange comic, sort of musical, I could imagine it as one of those rhythmic Fleischer bros. cartoons. Conor, you did a comic!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
ReplyDeleteI had to read it several times because it was so much fun. The first two times I thought it was "Books and Chocolate Hackof yockit"!
ReplyDeleteA terrific return to the Rhino. The children's-song rhythm sets an eery backdrop, as does the withered rose background pattern. In the first panel, we imagine a cheerful person, his steps look light, but we quickly learn he is troubled and his forward foot has changed, suggesting a rigid stomp. Why he is troubled, we will never know, but his "worldly cares" seem to emanate from his phone. Something is wrong in his life before we even hear the shots, so it seems the killer may be someone he knows. A score is about to be settled. By the fifth and sixth frame, he is terrified. Again, he understands the danger and perhaps has already guessed that his fate is unavoidable. It is only in the 8th frame that we see the "books and chocolate" hidden under the bed. And in the last frame we see that the villain had no interest in the books, since one is loosely tossed on the floor. This leaves us to believe the chocolate was the prize, which makes it a perfect Halloween tale. The artwork is perfect. The story is terrifying and the character's turn from sympathetic in frame one, to mean and hostile in frame 2 and 3 make us feel he may have deserved it. He hoarded his treat and was rewarded with a terrible trick.
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