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Raw and Dark
Read in English
Review story:
A man and his son, a little boy, are on the road through an apocalyptic world. Some kind of disaster has occurred that killed off most humans and those that are still alive have to fight to survive, especially for food. Pushing a cart with all their belongings both cross this dead world, a burned up United States. There's not only the danger of starvation, as all plant and animal life has gone, but also other survivors that have resorted to cannibalism and would do anything to get their hands on a little defenseless boy. With danger lurking at every corner the both of them have to rely on themselves to get through.
As reader we don't know exactly what has happened, whether it was a nuclear war or a climate disaster, Cormac McCarthy left this out of the story. But in itself, this part of the story is not the important part. The entire story really is about the survival and the relation between the two main characters, the father and the son.
As for the way Manu Larcenet brought to live the story and adapted it into this graphic novel:
Manu Larcenet wrote a letter to Cormac McCarthy wherein he asked permission to adapt the raw and dark post-apocalyptic story into a graphic novel wherein Manu could show the world McCarthy described. Larcenet succeeded in truly giving a very bleak world, by bringing it in black and white with a little sepia color mixed in there. He brought to live the story that McCarthy wrote (and left the ending a little more ambiguous than McCarthy himself did) and added his own stunning visuals.
The world Larcenet has drawn is darker than any post-apocalyptic graphic novel I have read so far (and I have read a few series like the Walking Dead, The Stand and Crossed). In my opinion this graphic novel enhanced the story of McCarthy and made it even scarier than the source novel.
Review story:
A man and his son, a little boy, are on the road through an apocalyptic world. Some kind of disaster has occurred that killed off most humans and those that are still alive have to fight to survive, especially for food. Pushing a cart with all their belongings both cross this dead world, a burned up United States. There's not only the danger of starvation, as all plant and animal life has gone, but also other survivors that have resorted to cannibalism and would do anything to get their hands on a little defenseless boy. With danger lurking at every corner the both of them have to rely on themselves to get through.
As reader we don't know exactly what has happened, whether it was a nuclear war or a climate disaster, Cormac McCarthy left this out of the story. But in itself, this part of the story is not the important part. The entire story really is about the survival and the relation between the two main characters, the father and the son.
As for the way Manu Larcenet brought to live the story and adapted it into this graphic novel:
Manu Larcenet wrote a letter to Cormac McCarthy wherein he asked permission to adapt the raw and dark post-apocalyptic story into a graphic novel wherein Manu could show the world McCarthy described. Larcenet succeeded in truly giving a very bleak world, by bringing it in black and white with a little sepia color mixed in there. He brought to live the story that McCarthy wrote (and left the ending a little more ambiguous than McCarthy himself did) and added his own stunning visuals.
The world Larcenet has drawn is darker than any post-apocalyptic graphic novel I have read so far (and I have read a few series like the Walking Dead, The Stand and Crossed). In my opinion this graphic novel enhanced the story of McCarthy and made it even scarier than the source novel.
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