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The Essential Guide to World Comics (Paperback)

by Tim Pilcher (Author), Brad Brooks (Author), Dave Gibbons (Author)

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Paperback: 320 pages
Publisher: Collins & Brown (24 Oct 2005)
Language English
ISBN-10: 1843403005
ISBN-13: 978-1843403005
Product Dimensions: 21.8 x 21.6 x 2.2 cm

Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)

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Comics International, #190, November, 2005

...Great anecdotes, masses of names, titles, facts and figures and rarely seen imagery... A remarkable achievement, colourful and sharply designed...

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...A very entertaining insight... the sheer variety of featured creators and creations is simply astonishing... Packed with stunning imagery...

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4.0 out of 5 stars An alternative history of comics around the world, 2 May 2006

By	Alan Woollcombe - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

Fat, glossy, stuffed with illustrations and useful potted biographies, this is intended as a globe-spanning primer on comics and the creators behind them. Inevitably some of the information here will be common knowledge to anyone with a passing acquaintance with the medium, but other areas - Indian comics, for example - are unfamiliar to all but a few.

Equally inevitably, there are omissions and typos: you will search the index in vain for any mention of Jim Steranko or John Buscema (*TIP for the editors of any revised edition: any creator whose name is big enough to feature in the title of a book should be an automatic candidate for at least a mention*) or Marcus Morris, founder and editor of The Eagle, although at least he and it are both covered in the text.

Perhaps the most controversial aspect of the book is how it favours the rare and esoteric over the popular and mainstream, and it is this that is both its biggest strength and weakness: it sacrifices several pages on the biggest American comics success story of the 1960s, Marvel Comics (covered in a skimpy two pages), in order to allocate another American publisher with a more 'alternative' line-up, Fantagraphics, a generous six pages. Unbalanced? Undoubtedly. Unfair? Perhaps, but the shelves are groaning under the weight of superhero-oriented surveys.

That apart, this is a fun read and a good primer for anyone wanting to learn about the history and diversity of comics. Just don't make the mistake of assuming that "essential" means "definitive".

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5.0 out of 5 stars A great overview of the world's comics, 3 Mar 2006

By	John Freeman "jfreeman_lancaster" (Lancaster UK) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

This is a thoroughly absorbing overview of World Comics from former Comics International associate editor Tim Pilcher and Les Cartoonistes Dangereux co-founder, Brad Brooks. I think it offers a terrific global snapshot of the the world's comic industries from the obvious -- America, UK , France and Japan -- to the esoteric -- Malaysia, Hong Kong, Kenya and Turkey.

There are some omissions -- apparently, there simply wasn't space to include every country, and web comics, spannning all borders, get only limited coverage -- I found this a very entertaining book. While I'm familiar with some French, Italian, Norwegianand Australian titles, for example, it came as a surprise to learn of enthusiastic comics publishing in India - now being exploited by the new Virgin Comics company - and Africa, and the sheer variety of featured creators and creations is simply astonishing.

The book is also useful as a "starting point" when it comes to exploring some countries output. With Japanese manga, for example, there are some very useful recommendations when it comes to identifying the quality among the quantity.

It's also interesting to learn how comics are regarded in different countries. While British comics generally remain the province of children, in France they are regarded as "The Ninth Art".

Fingers crossed, there will be an updated volume at some point!

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