![]() ![]() Given control over matter itself, the brash young artist sets out to solve life’s big riddle: Is greatness worth the ultimate price? David wants to live forever, and on his 26th birthday, he accepts Death's deal: He gets unlimited power to make artwork with his literal bare hands, but just 200 days to do what he will with it. Maybe it isn't so far from the path followed by middle-aged Mira, the superior sculptor whose work he winds up stealing, albeit unconsciously-but no matter. Such a humdrum destiny is a fate worse than death, in David’s estimation. Would David give his life for his artwork? Yes, the sculptor says, unmoved by the alternative vision that Death outlines for his life: a house upstate, a wife (and maybe a second wife), kids and grandkids, a modest career at the community college. So much so, in fact, that in a moment of despair, drunk and broke, totally out of options, he makes a deal with the Grim Reaper, who here takes the form of his Great Uncle Harry. The Sculptor, a new graphic novel by the cartoonist Scott McCloud, follows this artist, David Smith-no, not that David Smith, but a young artist living in New York today who very much aspires to his namesake's success. ![]()
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