Books by Thomas Ott and Complete Book Reviews
Thomas Ott, Author . Fantagraphics , 13.95 (48p) ISBN (45p) ISBN 978-1-56097-498-7
Swiss cartoonist Ott is well known in Europe, but outside of a few anthologies, this is the first collection of his work to be published in the U.S. Ott's wordless short stories synthesize two nearly forgotten comics traditions: the evocative,...
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Thomas Ott. Fantagraphics, $16.99 (32p) ISBN 978-1-68396-516-9
Ott’s wordless graphic novella showcases his mastery of haunting black-and-white illustration with its images of quiet menace. Told through a series of full-page etchings on black scratchboard (using the technique of scratching away light marks from
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Thomas Ott, Author, Thomas Ott, Illustrator Fantagraphics Books $18.95 (104p) ISBN 978-1-56097-649-3
Comics are popularly defined as a combination of words and pictures, but words are no more necessary to the comics than sound is to cinema. Swiss cartoonist Ott employs neither dialogue nor captions in his stories; words appear rarely, usually as...
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