A sprawling dissection of the Jack the Ripper mythos. Campbell abandons "pretty" art for scratchy, expressionist ink. The streets of London feel wet and filthy. The black ink bleeds into the gutters of the page, mimicking the fog.
Lemire’s sketchy, almost-naïve black-and-white art perfectly captures rural Canada, family trauma, and the ghostly loneliness of hockey rinks and farmhouses. Heartbreakingly simple. blacknwhitecomics 20 comics best
Cooke’s adaptation of Richard Stark’s novels is a design masterpiece. Using a limited, flat black-and-white palette with bold blue accents (in original print—but the B&W line art is sold separately), Cooke uses page layouts that mimic film editing. It’s cool, efficient, and brutal. A sprawling dissection of the Jack the Ripper mythos
While many know the colored movie or the Marvel color reprints, the original black and white Akira manga is a different beast entirely. Otomo’s architectural backgrounds and chaotic motion lines lose nothing in translation; the lack of color makes the psychic explosions of Tetsuo feel colder and more terrifying. Technically watercolored, but the digital black and white
Technically watercolored, but the digital black and white versions highlight Guarnido’s incredible linework. This anthropomorphic noir features a black cat detective. The shading is so smooth it looks like a Disney film had a violent nightmare.