Nearly every blurb feels AI crafted. Some of them are just obvious comments about the image, e.g., “A graceful bird woman seducing an ugly wise monkey.” It is unnecessary and not necessarily what’s intended in the image. There are so many of these and they all feel like an art teacher trying to find too much meaning and failing.
It really reads like it’s AI. But, there isn’t anything in the book to explain where these comments come from. If from Toppi, then I imagine it’s a translation issue. If not, the editor should never have added them, in my opinion.
The art is fantastic and you should get it, just try to overlook the blurbs (if you can).
One more thing, they should have used the lighter typeface for the blurbs and the heavier for the citations. It would have fit better and not made the page look so bad.
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Toppi a master, the blurbs not so much
Nearly every blurb feels AI crafted. Some of them are just obvious comments about the image, e.g., “A graceful bird woman seducing an ugly wise monkey.” It is unnecessary and not necessarily what’s intended in the image. There are so many of these and they all feel like an art teacher trying to find too much meaning and failing.It really reads like it’s AI. But, there isn’t anything in the book to explain where these comments come from. If from Toppi, then I imagine it’s a translation issue. If not, the editor should never have added them, in my opinion.The art is fantastic and you should get it, just try to overlook the blurbs (if you can).One more thing, they should have used the lighter typeface for the blurbs and the heavier for the citations. It would have fit better and not made the page look so bad.
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Reviewed in the United States on January 26, 2024
Nearly every blurb feels AI crafted. Some of them are just obvious comments about the image, e.g., “A graceful bird woman seducing an ugly wise monkey.” It is unnecessary and not necessarily what’s intended in the image. There are so many of these and they all feel like an art teacher trying to find too much meaning and failing.
It really reads like it’s AI. But, there isn’t anything in the book to explain where these comments come from. If from Toppi, then I imagine it’s a translation issue. If not, the editor should never have added them, in my opinion.
The art is fantastic and you should get it, just try to overlook the blurbs (if you can).
One more thing, they should have used the lighter typeface for the blurbs and the heavier for the citations. It would have fit better and not made the page look so bad.
It really reads like it’s AI. But, there isn’t anything in the book to explain where these comments come from. If from Toppi, then I imagine it’s a translation issue. If not, the editor should never have added them, in my opinion.
The art is fantastic and you should get it, just try to overlook the blurbs (if you can).
One more thing, they should have used the lighter typeface for the blurbs and the heavier for the citations. It would have fit better and not made the page look so bad.
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Reviewed in the United States on August 9, 2022
I love this series and am so glad that it exists, however, this latest volume has some severe quality issues.
First: The hatched line motif they have used as chapter breaks throughout the series is for some unknown reason used as background on almost every page - ruining the aesthetics of Toppi's designs. I don't know why Chris Northrup designed the book this way or why it was not caught in editing. The hatching even breaks the edge of the artwork and is printed under the linework making for an ugly mess (see photo 3 of the apes).
Second: Every image from the Fantastic Women 2001 portfolio is blurry and out of focus. It looks like they did low-resolution scans from textured paper. Compare the mermaid on the cover of Lo Scarabeo's Narratore D'Immagini on the right to the version in Beastiary.
This is no way to showcase the mastery of Sergio Toppi and is disrespectful to his memory.
First: The hatched line motif they have used as chapter breaks throughout the series is for some unknown reason used as background on almost every page - ruining the aesthetics of Toppi's designs. I don't know why Chris Northrup designed the book this way or why it was not caught in editing. The hatching even breaks the edge of the artwork and is printed under the linework making for an ugly mess (see photo 3 of the apes).
Second: Every image from the Fantastic Women 2001 portfolio is blurry and out of focus. It looks like they did low-resolution scans from textured paper. Compare the mermaid on the cover of Lo Scarabeo's Narratore D'Immagini on the right to the version in Beastiary.
This is no way to showcase the mastery of Sergio Toppi and is disrespectful to his memory.
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Caution, no sequentials
Reviewed in Canada on November 11, 2023
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Reviewed in Canada on November 11, 2023
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Reviewed in Brazil on October 15, 2022
