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mat_tobin's review
4.0
A dazzling dimensional leap into an alternate reality. Gorge upon a visual feast and welcome your mind to a new style of picturebook: the fusion text.
José Domingo’s art is like nothing I have encountered before. I would describe it as an overloaded sugar-rush of kaleidoscopic colour which is as entertaining as it is imaginative. Here is an illustrator and writer whose work begs to be poured over and endlessly revisited. C’mon, I’ll show you what I mean.
Pablo & Jane and the Hot Air Contraption is Domingo’s first picturebook for children. Already established as a successful Spanish comic-book artist who has also worked in the animation industry, Domingo brings a very different style to the picturebook genre: the fusion text* (an amalgamation of picturebook, comic and graphic novel). It is a format that works perfectly for what Domingo is trying to achieve here and I think it’s a style that will work for many readers: especially reluctant ones.
See my full review here: http://mattobin.blogspot.co.uk/2015/08/pablo-jane-and-hot-air-contraption.html
Update. I have now been fortunate enough to interview the author. Read about it here and enjoy a fascinating look into the creative process
José Domingo’s art is like nothing I have encountered before. I would describe it as an overloaded sugar-rush of kaleidoscopic colour which is as entertaining as it is imaginative. Here is an illustrator and writer whose work begs to be poured over and endlessly revisited. C’mon, I’ll show you what I mean.
Pablo & Jane and the Hot Air Contraption is Domingo’s first picturebook for children. Already established as a successful Spanish comic-book artist who has also worked in the animation industry, Domingo brings a very different style to the picturebook genre: the fusion text* (an amalgamation of picturebook, comic and graphic novel). It is a format that works perfectly for what Domingo is trying to achieve here and I think it’s a style that will work for many readers: especially reluctant ones.
See my full review here: http://mattobin.blogspot.co.uk/2015/08/pablo-jane-and-hot-air-contraption.html
Update. I have now been fortunate enough to interview the author. Read about it here and enjoy a fascinating look into the creative process
capeltheartist's review
4.0
This was a cool concept: a story with seek and finds so that the reader feels included in the adventure. :)
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