Monsters is built on the connections of Bobby Bailey and his family to the closing days of World War II. But after that amount of work, he has now created a work that his legacy will be forever tied to, melding his stylistic artwork with a story that explores trauma and grief in ways that he has never been able to before. His work over many different comics created a body of beautiful and fluid drawings. From Conan to Solar to Rune, Windsor-Smith always brought a high degree of craft to all of his work, creating beautiful illustrations that served the needs of corporations and their restrained views of what comics should be. Windsor-Smith appears liberated from the constraints of the kind of 20+ page comics that he built his career on. Bobby Bailey, the most obvious of the titular monsters, gets to be a character we see at the beginning and near the end of his life, becoming this tragic figure who was destined to be nothing more than a victim of life. On each of the more than the nearly 360 pages that make up this work, Windsor-Smith settles into a pacing where each sequence allows the story and the characters to breathe. This is a story that needs a lot of space. (Image credit: Barry Windsor-Smith (Fantagraphics Books)) (opens in new tab)
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