Orson Welles was only 25 years old when he directed Citizen Kane, one the single most important and influential movies of all time – it was ranked "the greatest film of all time" by many film critics for decades (for example, The British Film Institute's Sight & Sound magazine's decennial poll, which gathers the opinions of critics, had "Citizen Kane" at the top for four decades, from 1962 to 2002).  Hard to believe, right?  Think of what you were up to when you were 25.

So, suffice it to say, starting out that big that early is going to have an effect on anyone's self-perception, and, of course, on the perception that others had of him, in turn.  Youssef Daoudi has already given us an intriguing look at Thelonious Monk that focused on his relationship with Pannonica de Koenigswarter, and here in the 272 pages of The Giant, expressively drawn black & white, he provides a look at the effects that such a level of early success had on the arc of Orson Welle's later life and career.