Analysis Of Michael Nicoll Yahgulanaas's Red

Michael Nicoll Yahgulanaas’s Red might be best described as an experimental comic, which actively blends two different culturally specific art styles of manga and Haida. Both of these simultaneously confront and resist traditional Western storytelling methods in graphic narratives. One of the most challenging aspects of the text is its seemingly non-linear plot, which is emphasized by the thick black lines that sometimes function as gutters, and sometimes blend together with the image itself. The gutter space is better described as wave lines, and they form another image if the book is torn apart and puzzled together. As a result, it is not always easy to tell what order to read the panels in on any given page, or even what happening in the