Friday, November 24, 2006

Shutterbug Follies - Jason Little


I've been reading the amusing and quirky Motel Art Improvement Service weekly comic on Jason Little's site for a few months now. Digging through his other work a while ago I found a teaser for his book Shutterbug Follies. Luckily I found this book in my local library the other day and scooped it up. It's a short story about a young woman who while working at a photo-lab uncovers a mystery that she can't resist investigating. Little has a great drawing style (and loves to use dramatic punchy colours) that reminds me of the Tintin books I read as a kid. While I really enjoyed the book and highly recommend it to anyone, Shutterbug Follies suffers the curse of the graphic novel - a very high price to reading time ratio.