The Art of Midsummer Night's Dream

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The recolored touch everything. Kelly Jones was like the penciler for Calliope and dream of a thousand cats, but Charles Vess did the pencils for midsummer night's dream. I think it's mostly evident in like crowd scenes or anything where there'slike a background that's sort of faded or where there's like weird light. That's where the recolor touches stuff the most. If you're not intimately familiar with Shakespeare, you might just kind of gloss your eyes might kind of slide over that one. It's the only comic book story ever to win the World Fantasy Award for Best Short Fiction apparently. The Academy loves movies about making movies like storytellers, like

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