What’s this!? a Fanboy Fridays post on a Wednesday? Stick with me here. I’ve been wanting to talk about Evan Dahm’s Rice Boy for a while now, but for one reason or another, I haven’t done it. Well, I am thinking about it right now, so before it slips my mind again, Let’s talk about Rice Boy.
Actually, there is a whole lot I could say about this comic. I am absolutely in love with the deceptively simple and beautiful art and the story evolves at a brilliant pace that is both surprising and satisfying. But my friend Tom over at Marooned Comics describes what makes Rice Boy so fantastic, and he does a better job at it than I ever could.
Heck, Tom even got to interview Evan about his work! Evan talks about the way he went about creating the wonderfully sympathetic character of Rice Boy:
He started as something I drew in high school; just a simple little person. Putting him in this sort of story seems to suggest an incongruously passive, meek character, and I liked how he contradicted the large scope of the story. It wasn’t that conscious, I guess; I just liked doing as much as I could with a severely visually limiting character.
Be sure to head over to Marooned and read the interview with Evan, then head over to rice-boy.com and check out the amazing world that Evan has created.
