Unlike most comics artists—and most artists in any medium—who settle on astyle early in their career and spend the rest of their lives in refinementor repetition, Breccia never stood still. Working in color, which he began to do extensively in the late seventies, Breccia shifted from realism toward a more stylized, expressionist approach to both figuration and setting. The approach is sometimes almost cubist, constructing spaces and figures out of irregularly shaped facets and blobs, defined by a painterly, colored line.
From top: Mort Cinder (1962; scanned from original art – not by me!), El Eternauta 1969 (1969) Informe Sobre Ciegos (1991), Monsieur Valdemar (1992), William Wllson (1979)
Located in Antarctica, Mt Erebus is one of the only volcanoes to host a permanent lava lake (seehttp://tinyurl.com/q8mqrjs andhttp://tinyurl.com/ofajpv6). The flanks of the mountain are also active, including a variety of fumaroles, places where hot steam and gases released by the magma deep below in the chamber are released into the atmosphere. These gases are exsolved as the magma rises because the drop in the surrounding pressure affects how much of them the magma can hold dissolved within itself.
When the fumaroles emerge into the icy air, they gradually build up these structures as small amounts of steam crystallise into ice as they leave the vent, slowly creating these surreal ice landforms.
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