A Contract with God

The comic “Contract with God” is an interesting read all of its own, and makes for a good character study piece. And the art style of it also helps convey the deep and personal story in it, as well as telling the environment and flow of the story. In the first few pages the scenery is these large apartment buildings that are categorized by their downwards shading, the pen-strokes guiding the eye down which is best seen in PDF format, allowing a certain flow to aid the reading. The method of the pen work also aids to setting the mood, their just barely offset lines putting just enough hint of unease in the person which is only echoed by what is quickly reveled. The pen work only gets more and more dynamic as the story goes on, the quick strokes help echo the rage and anger felt by Frimme Hersh, but soon settle into thicker lines and blocks in the middle with the quicker strokes liking the boarders of the scenes, but filling the space at the same time. this helps with showing the characterization of the man, who is rich beyond belief now, but still angry at his core, feeling as though his god had broken a contract and betrayed him. this only becomes more clear as towards the end the angry lines start to take up the majority of the pages, his rage spilling over with glee, thinking he finally has gotten what he wanted. The only time these lines disappear is at the end when Shloime Khreks finds the contract and agrees to it with no hate or malice in his heart.