{"id":24778,"date":"2020-11-20T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-11-20T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=24778"},"modified":"2021-05-22T09:42:15","modified_gmt":"2021-05-22T13:42:15","slug":"monsters-by-barry-windsor-smith-is-coming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=24778","title":{"rendered":"MONSTERS by Barry Windsor Smith is Coming!"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The cover above is to Barry Windsor Smith’s Monsters<\/span><\/a>.\u00a0 As many of our readers know, BWS is considered to be one of the greatest artistic geniuses to have ever worked in comics.\u00a0 Smith’s last comic work was in 2005 and many thought he had retired.\u00a0 Little did we know that he had been working on Monsters<\/span> for 35 years.<\/p>\n

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35 years in the making, the most anticipated graphic\u00a0novel in recent comics history!\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

The year is 1964. Bobby Bailey doesn\u2019t realize he is about to fulfill his\u00a0tragic destiny when he walks into a US Army recruitment office to join\u00a0up. Close-mouthed, damaged, innocent, trying to forget a past and\u00a0looking for a future, it turns out that Bailey is the perfect candidate for a\u00a0secret U.S. government experimental program, an unholy continuation of\u00a0a genetics program that was discovered in Nazi Germany nearly 20 years\u00a0earlier in the waning days of World War II. Bailey\u2019s only ally and protector,\u00a0Sergeant McFarland, intervenes, which sets off a chain of cascading events\u00a0that spin out of everyone\u2019s control. As the titular monsters of the title\u00a0multiply, becoming real and metaphorical, literal and ironic, the story\u00a0reaches its emotional and moral reckoning.<\/p>\n

Monsters<\/span>\u00a0is the legendary project Barry Windsor-Smith has been\u00a0working on for over 35 years. A 380-page tour de force of visual storytelling,\u00a0Monsters<\/span>\u2019<\/em>\u00a0narrative canvas is both vast and deep: part familial drama, part political thriller, part metaphysical journey, it is an intimate portrait of\u00a0individuals struggling to reclaim their lives and an epic political odyssey\u00a0across two generations of American history. Trauma, fate, conscience,\u00a0and redemption are just a few of the themes that intersect in the most\u00a0ambitious graphic novel of Windsor-Smith\u2019s career.<\/p>\n

Monsters<\/span> is rendered in Windsor-Smith\u2019s impeccable pen-and-ink\u00a0technique, the visual storytelling with its sensitivity to gesture and\u00a0composition is the most sophisticated of the artist\u2019s career. There are\u00a0passages of heartbreaking tenderness, of excruciating pain, and devastating\u00a0violence. It is surely one of the most intense graphic novels ever drawn.<\/p>\n

Black and white illustrations.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Monsters<\/span> by Barry Windsor Smith will be released on January 19, 2021.\u00a0 It is available for pre-order now<\/a>.\u00a0 Deal me in.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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