In 2004, critic Domingos Isabelinho published an extensive essay on The Cage (“ The Ghost of a Character: The Cage by Martin Vaughn-James“). Sporting short descriptive texts upon or below single-page illustrations or spread panels, the self-described “visual novel” is devoid of any human presence and stages an imaginary journey across empty rooms and post-apocalyptic scenarios infused with feelings of loneliness and decay. The last of these four books, entitled The Cage, is probably the most critically acclaimed. Vaughn-James’ series of ante litteram graphic novels, especially the sequence of four works Elephant (1970), The Projector (1971), The Park (1972) and The Cage (1975), are infused with surrealist overtones and can balance an evidently experimental character with “complete control of the language of comics,” as underlined by critic Andrei Molotui. Some days ago, in one of our regular derives in this universe, we stumbled upon the work of painter and comic artist Martin Vaughn-James (1943-2009), to whose publications UbuWeb dedicated a run of online reeditions. Together with Monoskop, aaaaarg, Libgen, Memory of the World and the Internet Archive, among some others, we consider it as one of those few websites able to define the specificity of the Internet as a medium and determine its historical, political and cultural agency. Words have power, quite literally for Makoto, a wielder of the mystical Kotodama.Wonderful online archive UbuWeb, created in 1996 by conceptual artist, poet and theorist Kenneth Goldsmith (author of many books among which Duchamps is my lawyer), is a goldmine for avant-garde documents (experimental literature, film, and music). It may later be updated to add in a few more titles, particularly for the later releases of 2022 that we haven’t completed yet.įeel free to let us know your choices for the best visual novels of 2022 by pinging us on Twitter or our Discord. KuroKairin, Wes Playfair, and I (Thomas Knight) have worked together to put together a number of the top visual novels of 2022 and chosen some we’re looking forward to in 2023.Īs always with GOTY lists (or VNOTY in this case), these choices are subjective and based on the visual novels we have personally played. While we can’t claim to have played every single one, we have checked out quite a few! As we finish off 2022 and start 2023, the NookGaming team wants to take a look back and highlight some of our personal favorites. 2022 has seen quite a few visual novels released in English.
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