Shutterbug Follies

This graphic novel follows a young girl names Bee, who works with photo development in the city of New York. While developing pictures for a "crime scene investigator" she becomes suspicious of the graphic pictures. She decides to investigate on her own. Using the help of a taxi cab driver and a few friends she scurries around New York following the man, Oleg, in his Russian Mafia type adventures, eventually getting a little too close for comfort. She finds herself in the house of Oleg as he catches on her to spying and after an intense action scene manages to get herself out of the sticky situation and Oleg into jail.

Some themes and ideas, I would have to agree with Lori, is defenetly the city experience and atmosphere which allows Bee to investigate. Like in the City of Glass, the city creates a setting in which Bee can follow Oleg without being completely obvious. Another theme was the detective style and action.

Another theme I saw, which ties into his visual techniques, was the theme of photograhy. Many of the frames were creatively drawn in a fish eye lens or in a photo negative. Also the shape of the book itself was inventive, a long horzontal frame with a hardback.

The visual style was like a cartoon comic book with lots of bright colors and the use of creative frames. There were also many pages that did use words, so on the picture did the talking.