It also succeeds quite well as just an example of graphic non-fiction, especially without relying on a “narrator character” like McCloud (and others…me included). Clearly, Sousanis knows his craft and carries it out effectively. It is a pleasure to read, and nicely balances the artistic and expository, accessible and academic. The message is a good one, and the execution is wonderful and sensory. In these regards, the book deserves all the praise it has received. This advocacy specifically targets the hegemony of words, with the freeing power of images-particularly through “comics.” The book was Sousanis’ doctoral dissertation, and in being a graphic work, it thus embodies its message of attempting to break through the confines of the “flatlands” of received viewpoints that unconsciously pervade the ways we see the world. Nick Sousanis’ recent book Unflattening has been receiving praise for its freeing message and artistic execution.
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