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artist: Rob Cham (https://www.robcham.com/)

Life is Strange: Settling Dust #1 by Emma Vieceli, Claudia Leonardi and Andrea Izzo. Cover by Gabriel Picolo. Variant covers by (2) Leonardi, (3) Rob Cham and (4) Caspar Wijngaard. Out in September.

Titan announces Life is Strange: Settling Dust #Comics #ComicBooks #LifeIsStrange

Max finally believes that she has found a way to cross the timelines and return to the woman she loves, Chloe Price! Life is Strange: Settling Dust is the heart-wrenching conclusion to Max and Chloe’s epic comic journey. Life is Strange: Settling Dust #1 comics to comic shops September 15 and written by Emma Vieceli with art by Claudia Leonardi and Andrea Izzo. Covers are by Gabriel Picolo,…

Graphic Novel Folktales from the Pacific! The Night Marchers and Other Oceanian Tales @ironcircuscomix

The Night Marchers and Other Oceanian Tales , Edited by Kate Ashwin, Sloane Leong, Kel McDonald, Jonah Cabudol-Chalker/Contributions by Rob Cham, Yiling Changues, Paolo Chikiamco, Diigii Daguna, Brady Evans, Mark Gould, Gen H. , (Apr. 2021, Iron Circus Comics), $15, ISBN: 9781945820793 Ages 8 to 12 This collection of cautionary tales from the Pacific is just incredible. The Philippines, Hawaii,…

Nintendo Handheld illustration by Rob Cham

Writer: Rob Cham / Artist: Rob Cham / Magnetic Press and Buno Publishing

When I received Light, I was told that it’s a treat. What I can tell you is that Light is definitely that and so much more. It’s beautiful, charming, adventurous, and a great example of the power of visual storytelling.

What immediately caught my attention with Light is the fact that it’s presented as a silent graphic novel. A moniker that while simple, can easily fail to meet expectations. Even graphic novels and comic books that have the benefit of both words and images find trouble conveying their story. Trying to tell one with artwork alone is a difficult task. However, Light succeeds in that regard by telling a story that is equal parts easy-to-follow and adorable.

Light’s main protagonist (who we’ll call the Adventurer) is an interesting one. The first page will tell you everything you need to know about them. The Adventurer is a hero who is a bit weary and seems reluctant to embark on this daring journey to collect five magical stones. Over the course of the book, you soon learn the hero’s motives and why they’ve decided to do something they are not otherwise excited about. What’s amazing is that all of this is conveyed through the use of imagery alone, moving you from one scene to the next without ever questioning what’s going on.

The Adventurer’s visual design reminds me of the main characters from Bone, just without their eccentric personalities. In fact, much of Light reminds me of the classic comic, especially the dangers and creatures the Adventurer encounters. Where Light and its hero stand apart is in its tone, which is less comical and somewhat dream-like.

Rob Cham

I started knowing about Rob mainly because of his Spidersona illustration since I love Spider-Man then I found joy seeing his Doraemon meme works on Twitter which also helped him cope with the pandemic. Before when I saw that Red Horse billboard with a 2D illustrated character in EDSA I blurted out it looks like Rob's illustration and that's when you know that an illustrator has a very distinct style because I turned out to be right.