Asterios Polyp.

The thing about this reading that I found most interesting was the style of the comic itself. I've never really been one to read comics or graphic novels religiously, but I do pick them up from time to time. That's mostly because I find most graphic novels too cluttered and hard to read/follow. This piece I didn't have any trouble reading, and the style fit the content of the story.

 

Even the font on the cover relates to the story, Futura Bold being a very fitting choice in font. Of all the pages in the book, I found page 33 to be my favorite; it's the one with the 16 different renderings of apples. I believe that apples are the most popular item to draw in a still-life, not to mention there's a biblical meaning behind apples being a symbol of knowledge and self-knowledge leading to shame. It's not just the apples themselves that are important to the piece, but the grid format that they're organized in allows Asterios to sort and classify them. I feel like this page is the guide to the book as a whole with the color schemes and the grid being used to organize the main characters.

I also really liked the colors used (cyan, magenta, yellow), which are all printer primary colors. That would have definitely made the book easy to print, and the use of negative space between the panels made it easy to follow. It was really cool how the author uses different drawing styles, colors, and even fonts for different characters. 

 

Even the text/word balloons have the characters "speaking" in different shaped balloons. The picture above is from page 91 and is a good example of the different shapes of the word balloons. You almost don't need the words in them because the shape itself gives you a sense of what the characters are feeling.