Mowgli's Mirror is the largest of my Retrofit comics and perhaps the largest Retrofit comic that has come out. Totally devoid of dialogue, it is bichromatic in orange and blue, telling the story, initially, of a man and an orangutan. The orangutan is the man's "mirror" in that the two acts similarly in the beginning of the comic. The man also sees a proboscis monkey, a wolf, a lemur, and other creatures. The orangutan gives birth. The elephant poops.
I was captivated by this story and the artwork, and I happily read it through to the end, where the man finds… Well, I won't give that away. I've loved every single Retrofit comic that I've read, and this one is no different. It is soul rending. My only regret is that I didn't read it earlier so that I could order copies of Mowgli's Mirror for Christmas as presents for my friends and family.
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