“This is the most cartoonish comic I’ve ever done”, Fior says as soon as we start talking about his new work. This is how we enter inside Celestia (Fantagraphics, 2021), the new book by Manuele Fior, with a mechanism only possible in comics. We – the readers – turn the page only to find another black panel and the voice saying: “ Now you can look”.
“ Now close your eyes”, is the answer, echoing on an entirely black panel. An invisible presence is in some way leading him.
The soil where he is walking is now flooded by water. The boy has a tear drawn upon his face, he wears a cloak and a cone-shaped hat. The starry sky appears only every now and then over the buildings. A boy wanders through the alleys of a dark city.
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