David Smith is giving his life for his art - literally. Thanks to a deal with Death, the young sculptor gets his childhood wish: to sculpt anything he can imagine with his bare hands. But now that he only has 200 days to live, deciding what to create is harder than he thought, and discovering the love of his life at the eleventh hour isn't making it any easier. This is a story of desire taken to the edge of reason and beyond; of the frantic, clumsy dance steps of young love; and a gorgeous portrait of the world's greatest city. It's also about the small, warm, human moment of everyday life. Scott McCloud wrote the book on how comics work, now he vaults into great fiction with a breathtaking new work. Date Available: 02/04/2015
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Thanks to a deal with death, David, the titular sculptor, can create any sculpture he can dream of, the caveat being that he now has only 200 days to live. Exploring questions of mortality, legacy, and what we are willing to sacrifice in the pursuit of art and love, The Sculptor is welcome introspection into the human condition in a medium usually filled with cataclysmic superhero battles and sci-fi weirdness. Author Scott McCloud is most widely known for his seminal Understanding Comics, a graphic novel thesis on the mechanics how comics “work.” The time between panels, representative imagery, flow of the page, etc. His knowledge of the form shows on every blue-toned page, pulling the reader along on David’s journey.
