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A review by jared_davis
Moby-Dick in Pictures: One Drawing for Every Page by Matt Kish
5.0
An affinity for Moby Dick can be hard to explain. The book runs long, droning at times, yet still stands as a quintessentially American classic. The endless attempts to transform the book into other modalities -- textual, visual, theatrical, cinematic -- may too be an American cultural tradition.
Kish has done a fine job for our generation. I'm impressed by the very feat of producing an original artwork, once per day, for every page of a nearly six-hundred page book. But Kish has done more than simply illustrate Moby Dick; he's made Melville accessible by a nation that feeds on mere impressions of narrative. Pictures really do speak thousands of words in Kish's art.
Kish has done a fine job for our generation. I'm impressed by the very feat of producing an original artwork, once per day, for every page of a nearly six-hundred page book. But Kish has done more than simply illustrate Moby Dick; he's made Melville accessible by a nation that feeds on mere impressions of narrative. Pictures really do speak thousands of words in Kish's art.