5/12/2023 0 Comments Lorenzo mattotti fires![]() “Alice’s letter had been mailed from a faraway country…very far away indeed. The four panel sequence which relates this decision is a strange union of image and text, not merely illustrating but mystifying the process of description. Darko receives a letter from her some time later-”mailed from a faraway country”-not quite asking for him, yet somehow enticing him in its self-possession, inspiring him to set out on a extended journey in search for her ![]() By the time he regains his senses, she has already left him. The disruption occurs the moment she announces that she wants to have a child with him his seeming lack of commitment or existential terror announced by a flurry of pterosaur-like shadows and a roar in his ears. ![]() Over the course of three pages, the protagonist, Samuel Darko, recounts the circumstances under which he breaks from his partner, Alice. Lorenzo Mattotti and Jorge Zentner’s The Crackle of the Frost begins with a separation. ![]()
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