![]() Just take a look for yourself at the two page samples above. It feels like the characters literally jump from page to page. Her action scenes are totally believable. Looking at the artwork to this latest book, I marvel at how Hicks brings her characters to life. That’s what I gather from doing some research and from just looking at her output, from her first attempts with her very first webcomic begun while still in high school, “Demonology 101,” (1999-2004) to right about when she fell on my radar with one of her more recent graphic novels, “The Adventures of Superhero Girl,” published by Dark Horse Comics in 2013, all the way to her current work. But sometimes you just have to break the rules.įaith Erin Hicks is one of the most organized and precise cartoonists that I have come across, and determined too. If they listened to their elders, they would stay as far away from each other as possible. And yet they both end up crossing paths in the ancient Nameless City. The two of them could not be farther apart in the scheme of things. ![]() Meet Kaidu, part of the Dao dynasty, and Rat, a “skral,” someone deemed less than human. ![]() ![]() ![]() “The Nameless City,” the new graphic novel by Faith Erin Hicks, published by First Second Books, is a fun and spirited adventure that is pretty breathtaking. ![]()
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