Comics and infographics—two of the trendier, if not trendiest, ways to make visual art these days, a means to take either stories or data and turn them into something pretty.
One of the most important ways to read and critique this medium is as a visual language.
Mirrormask is so busy gazing at its own sumptuous exterior that its portrait of adolescent maturation and familial reconciliation winds up being frustratingly skin-deep.