ENG353Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Jeff Lemire, Dementia, Ambiguous Image
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First book: tension between yearning for escape and accepting your surroundings superheroes. Rural setting is bleak and stark like the drawing of the characters (and the plot?) Time is fragmented, no narrator"s voice that guides us. Artist figure lester"s comics is a medium through which he experiences his own world. The land where lester is from affects his character and the desire to leave realist and fantasy register/ magic realism. To do something that cannot be done in these types of places: thinking about the mundane makes you think about the eternal. He eventually has to take off the cape. He doesn"t stay in the sky for long p. 11 following panels he is literally down to earth. Taking off eye masks and abandons it on a tree (realistic environment) accepts his life on the farm/earthbound. Crow is a signal of seasonal changes, mocking lester.
