A closer understanding of these astonishing graphic languages might just offer us a clue for why that is.
An astonishing, sometimes challenging, graphic novel but so much more than that.
What remains of this naughtiness and wildness finds expression in the astonishing covers, the assertive graphics, and the provocative special issues of Artforum.
The graphics are, erm, astonishing.
The effect is highly unsettling, like flicking quickly through the pages of a graphic novel, and there are astonishing things like the metamorphosing 'scramble suit'.
For a small file that difference means very little but for a big one, such as a complicated web page with multiple graphics elements and text, that's astonishing.
David Small, the award-winning children's book illustrator, wrote his first full-length graphic work for adults, Stitches, about his astonishing upbringing in Detroit, set against the city's filmic background.
And well, Sony engineers know how to put games hardware together… If you want to see the graphics potential of the device, just look at Backstab, Gameloft's visually astonishing open-world swashbuckler.
Yet after Dr. Nielsen discovered the lump in her breast, the story became an astonishing mix of improvised medicine assisted by recent technology like e-mail and computer graphics.
He was "drawing with scissors", he said; his gouaches découpées were "the graphic, linear equivalent of the sensation of flight".This helps to explain the appeal of these works and their astonishing freshness.
