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Winshluss' graphic novel is an adult noir movie that at times is both comedy and tragedy. The narrative begins with a shooting, and then flashes back to Pinocchio's creation (he is now a robot-like android) and adventures. Collodi's original story is also darker than Disney's version, while at the same time very funny. The artwork is primarily done in pen and ink, and watercolor but switches to paint for larger splash panels.
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
This is a very handsome, very large, very well-produced hardcover graphic novel, which takes the Pinocchio story, adds in a bit of Sleeping Beauty, then stirs in elements of hard-boiled crime fiction, some satirical commentary, some very lewd and ribald happenings and a very dark worldview to produce an absolutely engrossing narrative. It definitely isn't for kids.
In this tale, Pinocchio is a home-made metal automaton, rather than a puppet, whose unfortunate added extras (Gepetto wants to sell him to the military as a "super-robot") results in him and his father having to go on the run from the law. They are quickly separated and Gepetto is swallowed by Dogzilla, a giant fish, while Pinocchio is sold out by a couple of tramps, and runs away to the promised land for homeless boys, except that it is now anything but. A good part of the story is told without words, the major exceptions being the Jiminy Cockroach sections and a bit with a cop who has the head of an Easter Island idol, meaning that all the storytelling has to be carried by the art and Winschluss does that incredibly well.
The art style is very much an animation style, skewing toward underground comix style, though there are variations through the book, from full colour to light pen and ink, to a more pastelly concoction, that make it something to marvel at. Elements are grotesque, and there is a distinct reaction to the bowdlerization of fairy tales by Disney in some of the design of the characters and sets. Winschluss reaches through to some of the underlying issues of the fairy tales and displays them more accurately.
There's a strong flavour here, but as usually it's worth it.
In this tale, Pinocchio is a home-made metal automaton, rather than a puppet, whose unfortunate added extras (Gepetto wants to sell him to the military as a "super-robot") results in him and his father having to go on the run from the law. They are quickly separated and Gepetto is swallowed by Dogzilla, a giant fish, while Pinocchio is sold out by a couple of tramps, and runs away to the promised land for homeless boys, except that it is now anything but. A good part of the story is told without words, the major exceptions being the Jiminy Cockroach sections and a bit with a cop who has the head of an Easter Island idol, meaning that all the storytelling has to be carried by the art and Winschluss does that incredibly well.
The art style is very much an animation style, skewing toward underground comix style, though there are variations through the book, from full colour to light pen and ink, to a more pastelly concoction, that make it something to marvel at. Elements are grotesque, and there is a distinct reaction to the bowdlerization of fairy tales by Disney in some of the design of the characters and sets. Winschluss reaches through to some of the underlying issues of the fairy tales and displays them more accurately.
There's a strong flavour here, but as usually it's worth it.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
The art in this is some of the best I've ever seen (by one of the chief animators on the Persepolis movie), and the production standard is super high with quality paper and gorgeous thick cover. Whoever did the colouring on this deserves some kind of medal.
It's basically The Pinocchio story retold in a scabrously funny way..a bargain at 14 squid.
It's basically The Pinocchio story retold in a scabrously funny way..a bargain at 14 squid.
Format:Hardcover
Winshluss has absorbed and can draw perfectly in classic cartooning style (with some of the best colouring I have seen in comics) - but this then becomes the vehicle for his clever, dark and sometimes very funny distortions of the familiar stories. He takes the sanitised Disney stories, subeverts then and returns them to their violent sexually charged roots in folk mythology. This book is a vindication of everything that is exciting and entertaining in the comics medium. The book binding is also, like many new comics, a piece of art in its own right. Strongly recommended (though don't let the kids near it)
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