![]() ![]() David utilizes wordless panels to exemplify his inability to speak, all the while making the story stronger and more evocative. His pen is his lens, giving him the ability to seize each emotion, each horribly nostalgic moment of disaffection with fade-ins, fade-outs, wide-shots, close-ups, aerial shots, landscapes, alignment, wordlessness and lack of color. His prime technique is using expressive artwork instead of language to tell the reader his story. Small uses various different techniques to tell his story other than just words. Each significant character plays an important role in David's development. The character list includes David, his mother, his father, his brother, his grandparents, his fathers coworkers, David's friends, and a few insignificant side characters. ![]() ![]() It is a graphic novel in the form of a memoir, focusing on the life of David Small as he ages. 2009).ĭavid Small's "Stitches" was published in 2009 on September 8. I worked about three years on the book very intensely and always at night…” (Touger, R. “All the silence and the necessity for learning to read body language as a means of survival, those elements made the graphic form seem an appropriate medium for my tale. ![]()
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