Neil Gaiman and Dave McKean are two big international cartoon. But like all great, they also have had a beginning, and it turns out that the principle (or most) of these two is their story. Gaiman was a novice journalist, McKean an illustrator who began to show his portfolio around, we're talking about twenty-five years ago, and it was England which flourished in the likes of Alan Moore and Bill Sienkiewicz. They met by chance, recruited from the same magazine that will know a very poor luck, and find that they both believe that comics can be a means of communication far more powerful and 'adult' than it had been until then. So start thinking, and the idea to create and publish on the "Escape" a short story, which eventually will prove to be not so short, growing from five to forty-four pages during the works. This story is "Violent Cases".
The story is nothing but the recollection of a meeting held during the infancy of the narrator, between him and an osteopath who said he was in the service of Al Capone. As often happens with the memory, some memories are confused and blurred, others sharp and precise, and all are filtered through the mind of a child with his personal scale of values \u200b\u200band meanings. Thus, the England of the sixties alternates with America in the twenties, those of Prohibition and gangsters, and gradually the two worlds merge, forming an indistinct fresco is a heartfelt and profound reflection on the concept Male.
Part of childhood memories, partly reconstructions of violent era that marked the history, all linked by the magical alchemy that transcends time and binds to fragments with wire so strong as to be inaudible. A work that is able to evoke feelings and emotions in unusual ways as unusual. Gaiman's narrative blends perfectly illustrating innovative and futuristic (for the time) of
McKean in a society that not only makes it even now a work of great merit, but lays the foundation for all who will be the future work of two artists, both together and separately. Things like this will arise from "Sandman", "Cages", "Mr. Punch, "and all that in the last twenty five years, the authors were able to produce, even if only for having been the starting point of all this we can not avoid the obligation to read and appreciate this graphic novel.
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