The Moon Prince
by Kevin Fraser Mutch
(Fantagraphics Books, 2025)
review by BK Munn
I just devoured this big beautiful epic of a graphic novel that combines some of the best aspects of HG Welles, Hergé, Flash Gordon, and The Wizard of Oz in a science fiction tale about a pair of Dickensian orphans on a quest to discover their origins and save enslaved humanity. Kevin Mutch has made a name for himself as a graphic designer and gallery artist with a couple of well-received Lynchian semi-autobiographical graphic novels under his belt, but this all-ages, full-colour romp, 15 years in the making, is quite the departure and is sure to come as a pleasant surprise to readers of his previous work. Drawn in his patented clear-line, semi-realistic style, with an eye-popping colour palette that makes the absurd science-fantasy palatable, the book is action-packed and takes big swings, with plot reversals and twists worthy of classic adventures I loved as a kid by the likes of Edgar Rice Burroughs or Jules Verne. Great fun!
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