![]() ![]() Moon and Bá’s visual approach is more suggestive than representative but manages just the right amount of detail and thoughtful coloring, supplied by Dave Stewart, to masterfully draw the reader into the lush social and physical backdrop of Domingos’s life and, more broadly, Brazil as a nation. ![]() Each section bears the structure of an obituary and serves as a sometimes sobering and often life-affirming meditation on the weight of individual decisions and the balancing effect of fate. Adding to the layers of symbolism, Domingos languishes in his young adulthood in the shadow of his father’s legacy, working as an obituary writer. Originally serialized in ten separate comic books, Daytripper achieves the almost impossible task of playing equally to the individual unit and the finished work by making each story an alternative version of the last day of Domingos’s life, marking that point at a variety of locations along his possible timeline. Written and drawn by Brazilian twins Fábio Moon and Gabriel Bá (see WLT, March 2007), Daytripper is organized around the life of an aspiring writer named Brás de Olivia Domingos, whose father is a revered novelist. ISBN 9781401229696ĭaytripper is the rarest of graphic novels-a work meeting all the expectations of great literature that somehow emerged from the grinding gears of the American mainstream comics industry. ![]()
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