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Toen ik Pedrosa's Portugal ontdekte, raakte ik meteen betoverd door de combinatie van zijn verhalende gevoeligheid en zijn virtuoos veelzijdige tekenstijl. One needs to read it again and again, and I have just read it once over ten days or so and I feel have just scratched at the surface of it. Just wonderfully drawn and colored, lovely to see.

It’s an adult novel, for those interested more broadly in the arts, and deeper reflections about the meaning of life. It feels like this is one of the books that can join the great new voices of the graphic novel as a serious literary and artistic form. It’s a reflective canvas on which ideas are being painted with rich tones. The last section, in summer, seems to bring things to some kind of closure.īut it’s not about plot, foremost. Visually each section has its color schema and tone. We have an atheist and a priest for brothers. They’re all trying to make meaning, make sense of things. Each character seeks equilibrium in her own ways. These prose stories happen once in each of the four sections.

Each features a woman taking photographs and making up stories-in prose, no comics-of the people she photographs. Musical lyrics make its way throughout.Įach season has a silent sub-section telling an anecdote of a young person in prehistoric times. So that part of it seems multiple, less balanced, complicatedly related, but it is also balanced in many ways: it’s divided into four sections, each one connected with a season. The novel is multilayered, multigenre, involving an array of characters (though mainly from two central groups) from different social backgrounds, some of them weaving into other stories.

The idea here for the purpose of story and art is balance, equilibrium. So the idea is to show the passage of time in various contexts and with different people.

On an equinox, day and night are of approximately equal duration all over the planet. It occurs twice a year once in late March, and again in late September. Just take a look for a minute or so at some images from what Scott McCloud calls the “sumptuous feast” of this ambitious and awe-inspiring graphic novel by Pedrosa.Īn equinox happens when the plane of the equator passes through the center of the sun.