Glacial Period by Nicolas De Crecy Reviewed by Rebecca Porte
Rain Taxi
"Someday, when the next ice age sweeps in and you can only get to Europe by digging through a healthy layer of permafrost, Spiderman and Hulk will still be good names to call your dog ? at least, according to Nicolas De Crecy's Glacial Period. In many ways a graphic novel about the endurance of art, and especially of comics, Glacial Period asks what would happen if travelers in a distant future stumbled on the remains of a museum while surveying a frozen wasteland known to them as 'the lost continent.' Given that the book was commissioned by the Louvre as part of a series of graphic novels, De Crecy's choice of subject is unsurprising. Translated from the French by Joe Johnson, the resulting comic is a well-executed, if slight, combination of humor, whimsy and elegant draftsmanship...." Read the entire Rain Taxi review.