John Porcellino

Porcellino's minimalism is deft and often affecting--there's sometimes that particular kind of magic/rhythm where something happens in the moving between panels that comes together to make something bigger than any of the individual panels themselves--and his portrayal of his own deeply ill thought patterns is brutally honest and visceral, but. But! I worry about the way he portrays various kinds of medical (and alternative) treatments, and the hope for a recovery that he doesn't seem quite able to shake. … (mais)