Fabio Moon is a Brazilian comic book artist who is known for many collaborative works with his brother and other artists with similar tastes in drawing style. Jess suggested this artist after our group critique session and I was very interested in learning more about his work.
Style-wise, this artist reminds me somewhat of Dave McKean in his use of commercial comic-book materials with a dark twist. Moon is very skilful in terms of layout and creates narrative pages with minimalistic amounts of dialogue, so his art work fills the page and isn't smothered in white text boxes like so many other published comics.
He uses traditional materials and works mostly in black and white, which serves well to showcase his great inking abilities; however I also admire his beautiful watercolour pieces. These are not as popular for commercial use due to the cost of printing, but are fascinating as stand-alone works.
To get a better understanding of his work as a narrative, I am planning on reading one of Moon and his brother's Horror comic books "Pixu" as I feel the themes of the story are relevant to my project. Hopefully I will be able to gain some inspiration from their use of panel layout to create my own illustration sequence with limited dialogue and allowing the images to tell the story.
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