Thoreau at Walden
Thoreau & Porcellino: a perfect match if there ever was one! We have nothing but good things to say about this, the third volume in the Center of Cartoon Studies series of American Biography in Comics. Printed in brown and black ink, this new hardcover book is a fantastic intro to the life and works of Henry David Thoreau and makes for a transporting read. Porcellino had extracted the key quotes from Walden (along with a fe from Civil Disobedience, for good measure) and then given them plenty of space to breath in the reader’s mind, as the gently paced visuals flow across the page and work to capture the deliberate and gradual rhythms of Thoreau’s day to day existence, which is to say real life, as it is lived: the practical realization of his philosophy, in comics.
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