Clockwork City: Hinges [Book One] - Meredith McClaren
Genre: Manga & Graphic Novels
Published 10 March 2015 by Diamond Book Distributors - Image Comics
Number of pages: 112
About the author
"HINGES is a fantasy webcomic, turned graphic novel, about a doll named Orio and her troubling companion Bauble. New to the city of Cobble, Orio must depend on help where ever she can find it, but her assigned familiar Bauble has other interests. And as the two explore the walls of their city, they find that they are not the only new arrivals. In a place that runs like clockwork, it only takes a little disruption to upend a city."
Hinges Book One: Clockwork City was first serialised on the author's blog, Hinges. This publication compiles the first book in the series, where some boards have been revised and improved.
This is one of those works that need to be read twice to be fully comprehended and appreciated. The artwork is beautiful, but as the author builds up the tension in the story, some boards are quite difficult to understand without knowing what you are meant to be seeing, which unfortunately makes this work rather confusing and difficult to understand to begin with.