I've been reading a lot of indie comic lately. Not sure why, just a lot of good ones have come my way lately. One of the best is Bottomless Belly Button. Coming in at over 600 pages, BBB tells the story of a family falling apart.. Although personally I think that the true magic of this book is not the family dynamic, but how each character personally deals with the downfall. Alan Moore once said that with Watchmen he aimed to tell a story in a way only comics can. BBB does this as well. with diagrams, blueprints, handwritten letters, the author, Dash Shaw, has melded straigh ahead narrative with emotional, yet simple art. This is def a book worth the time it takes to read it.
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