Moving Into a Black-and-White World Where Graphic Texture Trumps Dialogue
Andy WebsterMarch 21, 2012: Juliacks is a comic artist whose work — crude, ornate, subjective and dreamy — is not for those who prefer their narrative crisp and tidy. But “Swell,” her graphic novel about a bereaved family, a daughter in particular, is an immersive experience for brave readers. Now a production based on it has come to the Living Theater as part of the Culture Project’s Women Center Stage Festival, straining mightily to conjure the story’s lush stream of consciousness.
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