![]() It's a complicated one, starting with the fact that most of us only think of these icons as colorful tropes in the first place. ![]() The problem for the artist is how to depict Gaiman's characters without adding quaintness back in. But as Gaiman shows, the truth is far otherwise. In the world Gaiman's drawn, as in our "real" one, the obliterating steamroller of modern technology has made the gods, demons and tricksters of ancient lore seem rickety and quaint. American Gods shows these figures - Odin, Bast, Loki, even the personification of Easter – grappling with the failure of that attention. ![]() Hampton's task duplicates the thorny one Gaiman set himself in the 2001 novel: To convince readers that figures out of myth and fable deserve deadly serious, unsentimental attention. Scott Hampton has big work to do in My Ainsel, volume 2 of an ambitious, three-part graphic adaptation of Neil Gaiman's American Gods. Your purchase helps support NPR programming. Close overlay Buy Featured Book Title American Gods 2 Subtitle My Ainsel Author Neil Gaiman, P. ![]()
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