As long as the story can support the extravagance, I say go wild. That isn’t to say a comic creator can’t go ludicrously complex with the art, of course. There’s no room in the children’s book world for authors and illustrators to indulge only themselves. Comics for kids… well, we just have the raise the bar a little higher there. Honestly, you could be holding the most gorgeously rendered art imaginable, but if it’s a book for kids then the pretty pictures just come off as a kind of amusing experiment. They get away with it because the writing’s so good. Some of the best comics I’ve ever read in my life have been drawn with an extremely limited hand. On the one hand you have the art of the book. Or maybe I should say between the eye and the brain. You ever encounter a comic so pretty that it feels like a dare? Like picture books, comics are an infinite juggling act between the eye and the ear. Quill Tree Books (an imprint of Harper Collins)
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