Noir - Łukasz Bogacz & Wojciech Stefaniec
It’s a familiar story: guy suspects his wife of cheating on him, hires a private detective, the PI provides photographic evidence and the guy decides to take matters into his own hands with a gun in his hand. Well, it’s a familiar story for a noir anyway, so it’s perfectly natural to expect something along those lines in a graphic novel called Noir . Written by Łukasz Bogacz and Wojciech Stefaniec, Noir inevitably has its own spin on how those events play out, and just as a noir cinema is in equal part defined by its style, so too Wojciech Stefaniec’s art brings a unique dark character to the work. Noir is all about situation and there’s a few intriguing elements that give Bogacz & Stefaniec’s graphic novel its distinctive flavour of almost grim inevitability. An opening scene on a shooting range not only puts guns in the picture from the start, but as Robert, Oskar and their father Norman discuss matters of wives and girlfriends, it’s already suggested that it’s going to be a cl...