6/30/2023 0 Comments Shoplifter graphic novel![]() ![]() Her relentlessly pink world is also a traditionally gendered one, as she writes ad copy for perfumes and walks in the shadows of supermodel billboards. ![]() While Cho employs those limitations to impressive effect-the edgeless panels allow the white of the gutters to merge with the imagery, often with striking manipulations of negative space-Corinna’s life is less for it. Corinna’s world consists of only three colors: white, black, and pink. The once seemingly infinite potential of her city life grows increasingly confined-a fact Cho expresses through his always regular layouts and his restricted color palette. ![]() It’s been several years since its publication, and though Cho’s career is booming ( his blog includes his recent covers for Action Comics and Batwoman), I hope he will eventually return to this non-superhero project because it features such a complex but subtle use of the graphic form to express its protagonist’s inner landscapes.Ĭorinna is a frustrated, 20-something employee of a New York ad agency. ![]() Michael Cho intended Shoplifter, his first graphic novel, as the first in a series of linked stories. ![]()
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