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| Review by Lily Fierro |
The Tipping Point
Written and Illustrated by Naoki Urasawa, John Cassaday,
Boulet, Bastien Vivès, Bob Fingerman, Katsuya Terada,
Frederik Peeters, Emmanuel Lepage, Taiyō Matsumoto,
Paul Pope, Atsushi Kaneko, Keiichi Koike, Eddie Campbell
Cover by Enki Bilal
Published by Humanoids
Released on January 20, 2016
ISBN-10: 1594651361 / ISBN-13: 978-1594651366
Price: $29.95
As a society, our tipping point quickly and ominously approaches.
With autonomous cars only a few years around the corner, a remaining giant question on how to address international and domestic terrorism, and no improvement on our oil-dependent lifestyles in America, some form of change will occur, and when it does, we’ll have moved into a new post-technology age.
Perceptive to this sense of a drastic change in the future to come, the master minds and creators at Humanoids have created The Tipping Point, an anthology inviting 13 international comics creators to write and draw their own adaptations and interpretations of the concept of the tipping point, the precipice of change.
The Tipping Point compiles stories from some of the most established and revered comic artists and writers. In the introduction, Fabrice Giger, the head honcho at Humanoids, describes the publisher’s commitment to combining Japanese manga, French-language bande dessinée, and American comics, and the thirteen stories appropriately blend the established styles that Humanoids advocates, creating an excellent source of inspiration for the “cross-pollination” that Giger hopes for future generations.
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