{"id":30972,"date":"2024-11-25T16:51:19","date_gmt":"2024-11-25T16:51:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/?p=30972"},"modified":"2024-11-25T16:51:19","modified_gmt":"2024-11-25T16:51:19","slug":"edifice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/2024\/11\/25\/edifice\/","title":{"rendered":"Edifice"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nBy Andrzej Klimowski<\/strong> (SelfMadeHero)
\nISBN: 978-1-914224-25-6 (TPB)<\/p>\n

Win\u2019s Christmas Gift Recommendation: A Christmas treat for Sentimentalists Who Can\u2019t Switch Their Brains Off \u20269\/10<\/strong><\/p>\n

This book includes Discriminatory Content<\/strong> included for dramatic effect.<\/em><\/p>\n

Born in London in 1949 of proudly Polish heritage (me too!), Andrzej Klimowski studied at St. Martin\u2019s School of Art in London and the Warsaw Academy of Fine Arts. A world-renowned designer, poster maker, illustrator, writer, political satirist, filmmaker and graphic novelist (go check out collaborations and adaptations like The Master and Margarita<\/strong>, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde<\/strong>, Robot<\/strong> and Behind the Curtain<\/strong> or solo efforts The Depository<\/strong>, The Secret<\/strong> and Horace Dorlan<\/strong>), he was Head of Illustration at the Royal College of Art until they promoted him to Professor Emeritus. With his wife Danusia Schejbal, Klimowski still produces graphic art and profound works like this book. You probably didn\u2019t see his retrospective at the National Theatre, London, but you really should have.<\/p>\n

At least you can compensate by falling in love, in awe and in wonder at this dark wry, twisty exploration of human nature and polite foibles at Christmas…<\/p>\n

Set in the iconic and dankly expressionistic city of Engelstadt (City of Angels!), a broad, socially disparate group congregate in and around one certain building. Each has a remote, compartmentalised life, full of secrets and desires, but occasionally the so-civilised residents grudgingly get together. It\u2019s the done thing after all, and who would be so churlish as to decline an invitation from formidable matriarch Lady Dendrite<\/em> poised at the peak and at the top of this heap?
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\nHowever, strange events are unfolding in run-up to that much-anticipated soiree. All those isolated, iconic lives (a domestic, her kid, a strange foreigner, clerics, pontificating professor, hero\/victim, love interest and a monster… just like some bleak game of Cluedo<\/strong>!) are about to intrude and burst in upon each other… at least if sudden disappearances and odd phenomena outside the tall straight walls don\u2019t upset everyone\u2019s plans…<\/p>\n

Comfortingly macabre, and unravelling at its own mesmeric, seductive pace, Edifice<\/strong> is a captivating visual treat, a sinister social comedy of errors if not terrors and a puzzle-game\/trick played on and for you. This is a purely pictorial extravaganza you will either love or hate, but should not ignore.<\/p>\n

(PS. I loved it.)
\n\u00a9 Andrzej Klimowski, 2024. All rights reserved<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By Andrzej Klimowski (SelfMadeHero) ISBN: 978-1-914224-25-6 (TPB) Win\u2019s Christmas Gift Recommendation: A Christmas treat for Sentimentalists Who Can\u2019t Switch Their Brains Off \u20269\/10 This book includes Discriminatory Content included for dramatic effect. Born in London in 1949 of proudly Polish heritage (me too!), Andrzej Klimowski studied at St. Martin\u2019s School of Art in London and … <\/p>\n

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