Matt Kindt’s comics work is notable for the way in which it walks a line between genre concerns (frequently bordering on deliberate evocations of nostalgia) and the emotional particularities of alternative comics. There’s always been a sharpness in concept that manages to distill the essence of the genre in question that Kindt deliberately undermines with the wispy, delicate nature of his brushwork. Kindt eschews the sort of slickness and pyrotechnics common to genre work through his character design. Indeed, his almost fragile line gives his work a visceral charge.
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