Jean Giraud AKA Moebius; holy shit what can one even say about this man. Moebius for the quite some time has been one of my favorite graphic novel/comic artists around, his amazing use of line to create form is something to be jealous of, and his sense of color is just beautiful. Moebius throws us into these fantastic landscapes and with no dialogue is able to progress the story just as well as anyone else could. Moebius may perhaps be one of the greatest graphic novelists of our time.
The Arrival is a wonderful story with no words which beautifully depicts the struggle of the immigrant. Through masterful visual storytelling shaun tan is able to give the reader so much information, using a combination of iconic imagery and excellent world building he also achieves a whole different level of fascinating; Shaun Tan depicts a very strange world which is similar yet very different from ours, yet within it's own self-contained story it is able to communicate the same ideas effectively by creating some parallels to our own world.
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