Lachowski, Kris – Cheetah Story

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Cheetah Story

All that nonsense about never judging a book by its cover aside, it does help to be impressed before opening a comic.  In this case it’s not because of anything particularly impressive about the image (not that there’s anything wrong with it), but because of the fact that this is a 24 hour comic about a cheetah.   Maybe it’s only impressive to somebody like me who can’t draw their way out of that proverbial paper bag, but the thought of doing a rushed comic with all the different motions of a cheetah just sounds daunting.  Kris does mention that he loved cheetahs as a kid, so maybe it was easy to him, but I was still impressed.  This is, obviously, the story of a cheetah as he goes through a couple of days.  He hunts, rests, and remembers a traumatic encounter with a lion.  It’s nicely paced and looks much better than it has any right to, which is all that you can ask out of these 24 hour books.  Kris also put an informative timeline in the back of the book (so some of these people DO take naps while making 24 hour books!) and writes a nice epilogue while clearly hanging on by a thread.  What can I say, people pushing through pain always gets approval from me.  Way back in the day when Martin Wagner had marathon session of answering the phone for people ordering his book Hepcats.  I waited until the 72 hours was almost up just to see what he would be like.  Charming and alert, as it happened.  So yeah, this comic is worth checking out, don’t mind my unrelated rambles…  $1