Fury by Dominique Duong Review - A Stunning Visual Journey Through Rage
How about an exquisite introspective comic on the nature of anger and repression in beautifully brutal visually striking art? Explore the darkness with Fury by Dominique Duong.
Dominique Duong is a comic book artist and illustrator based in London. She creates queer fantasy, horror, autobiographical and romance comics such as The Black Cloud, Ignatz Award nominated The Dog and The Cat, The Flower Maiden, Last Call and art zine Clowntober to name just a few. Alongside these Dominique also runs workshops and guest lectures on comics, self-publishing, self-employment, illustration, drawing and tabling at conventions and fairs. A copiously talented creator introduced it's review time.
So, let's start with the art. Dominique Duong's art is beautifully bold and packs a punch with a sharp stripped back style of simple, reserved, perfect lines. Dominique's style has a wonderful edginess to it that I really like and a four colour palette that absolutely rocks. It adds huge weight to already impressively impactful art. There is a tangible power to this art I feel that takes this comic far from a passive experience. Even the lettering is completely on point to bolster this experience through every page and panel.
The cover both front and back are adorned with this same level of powerful, beautiful imagery, even down to panel layout everything is powerful in its presentation. This is comic book art demanding, deserved attention. An absolute, complete comic book art experience. Adoration deserving art adored and addressed, how does the story hold up?
Fury is a furiously frank examination of individual anger. It's a brutally honest, brutal depiction that sums up a very relatable aspect of the human condition while examining our, but in particular Dom's, relationship with anger and its manifestation. Covering from childhood to adulthood it's a complete examination and self reflection. Even managing to touch on bullying and family strife before using some well pitched shock value of gore and violence to hammer home its point.
Another impressive aspect of this comic is how much emotion it packs in such a small package. The precise and powerful metaphor on display is an extra nice choice and adds a level of easy understanding to this one. Overall what's so beautiful about this book is how it manages to be so relatable and universal in its inclusivity and yet so deeply personal in its conviction. As violent as the book gets it is very beautiful in a very special way and undeniably powerful in its performance.
This is a book you know was cathartic for its creator and will offer solace and recognition to readers in the healthiest of ways, through creative expression and a fine example of why we love comics.
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To get your copy will require some patience for physical comics lovers I'm afraid. Or a better way to look at it is another perfect excuse to get yourself to the best comic convention in the world.No one does it bigger and better for small press than the Thought Bubble Comic Art Festival at Harrogate Convention Centre 15th and 16th November. I can say from personal experience its absolutely sublime. And this is where you'll be able to grab your copy along with a host of other amazing books from truly amazing people. It's comics at its best and I can't recommend it enough. You should also be following Dom on her socials or supporting her Patreon and the best place to get all the info and more is the official website here.
Review: 5/5
