Berry, Brandon – Daucus Carota

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Daucus Carota

Note to aspiring comic artists: please don’t take four years drawing, re-drawing and re-re-drawing your comic before putting it out.  Sure, you may end up with something that looks as incredible as this book, but at the end of the day you’ve spent four years on a mini comic when your better alternative would have been to put out the book as you made it the first time and hate it for all time while working on improving your craft with other books.  That’s my opinion anyway, I am well aware of the desire of the artist to achieve the unachievable: perfection.  This book really is stunning in every way, with gorgeous splashes of color (making even more of an impact because most of the book is in black and white), and a downright mesmerizing fight scene.  This is a silent book (which, as Brandon says in the afterward, just kind of ended up that way) involving that giant rabbit creature on the cover taking on some ninja monkeys.  Yes, you read that correctly: ninja monkeys.  Maybe he has a different term, but any monkey that has whittled a bone down into a long sword is a ninja monkey in my book.  I’m not entirely clear on their disagreement, but it seems to boil down to a carrot vs. banana argument.  As I said, every page of this book is phenomenal.  It almost looks like he could have spent four years on this thing; the level of detail is just that great.  This sample should convince you, if it doesn’t there are more at that website linked above, but you should know that it isn’t a proper website, more of a showcase for art from the comic.  $5