
Omwo (Review)
Creator: James Turner There are graphic novels that tell stories, graphic novels that experiment with the medium, and then there is Omwo, a Bauhaus, metafictional sojourn which regards the very concept of storytelling as something that needs to be taken apart and examined under a microscope. Written and illustrated by James Turner, Omwo begins with a deceptively simple premise: Omwo is a doodle born during an interminably long office meeting. Like many creations scribbled in the margins of a notebook, we suppose, he soon develops an inconvenient desire to understand why he exists. From there, Omwo finds himself wandering through an unstable cosmos populated by strange companions, living concepts, bizarre societies, and competing interpretations of reality. Here is the promotional copy: Born from a doodle during an impossibly long meeting, Dopol Omwo enters existence with one urgent need: purpose. His search leads him through a strange and unstable cosmos filled












