Sin City: Booze, Broads and Bullets - Visual Style

The graphic novel Sin City: Booze, Broads and Bullets, like other graphic novels is very image based.The stories in the novel would not have the same effect without the pictures. The pictures are the main focus in the book. The pictures in this graphic novel are very “graphic”, they are full of death, blood, and sex. By the end of the story most of the characters die, in every chapter at least one character dies or is murdered.

The pictures in this graphic novel are different than other novels because they are more based around little colour and shadows. The pictures are mainly black and white, except for the few characters or materials that are in colour to make it stand out. There is one character that has blue eyes, so in every panel that she is in everything is black or white except for her bright blue eyes because it makes them stand out. Most of the time throughout the book the blood is white because there is so much of it in the books so it would make the book very red. There are not many colours used in the book, the only colours used are blue, red, pink and a little bit of yellow.

The main characters in the novel are all very different looking, some are big some are small, fat or skinny, strong or weak. The women in the book stand out from the men because most of the women in the novel are in colour or have a lot of colour on them. The pictures of the characters really let the reader figure out what the character is like because the men in the novel look like their personality. The women on the other hand look harmless at the beginning, they look fragile or distressed, but then they turn out to be worse then the men. The women are killing machines in this novel, one of them is an assassin and another one lures men to her parents’ house so that her father can kill them. The visual style of Sin City: Booze, Broads and Bullets is very good and goes very well with the stories and the text.