While The Gull Yettin may seem like a very contemporary graphic novel type of object, it actually harks to a very ancient trope in storytelling. Ardently so.
According to Dante, there are three methods through which one could read and interpret texts. The Italian poet was referring to biblical texts, but these methods became hermeneutical tools applicable to other sort of texts, and I believe comics can be such sorts of texts. Confronted with a book such as Joe Kessler’s latest volume, one cannot be satisfied by “reading its story” or “contemplating its’ images and their very own coordination into a meaningful sequentialization.” If we take to heart what the book flap’s is selling – that this is “pushing comics to new heights” – we have to understand. what heights are these? And, how did we get here?
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