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The limited edition of The Rough Guide to Graphic Novels is the ultimate companion to the expanding world of the “literary comic book”. This special collector’s edition includes a unique number, elegant slip-case and fold-out cover with panoramic artwork from graphic novels star illustrator: Kyle Baker. Written by comic industry insider Danny Fingeroth, the guide explores the mediums history, from sequential art in Egyptian tombs, through the superhero boom of the 1940s to the birth of the graphic novel movement and the latest online offerings. All you need to know about the best and rest with 60 must-read graphic novels, including the genre-defining Maus and A Contract with God, plus modern classics-in-the-making Fun Home and Alice in Sunderland. You’ll find profiles of the movements legends including Harvey Pekar, Chris Ware, Denis Kitchen and other amazing illustrators, writers and publishers who’ve helped win respect for this once marginalised art form. And everything else you need to know from “how to make a graphic novel” to Persepolis and the best in film and television, manga, documentaries, conventions, books, magazines and websites.
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Danny Fingeroth is a long-term mainstream superhero comics writer and editor, best known for editing Spider Man
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10 of 11 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
If you are going to buy one book about graphic novels...,
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This review is from: The Rough Guide to Graphic Novels (Rough Guide Specials) (Paperback)
... then it probably shouldn't be this one. A better bet is 500 Essential Graphic Novels: The Ultimate Guide (500 Essential...). That said, this is a good second choice and complements the aforementioned book quite well.
The Rough Guide isn't as comprehensive, focussing in-depth on a top 60 graphic novels, referencing dozens of others. It also includes a short graphic novel about graphic novels, brief articles about icons of the genre (Eisner, Gaiman, Crumb, Moore, all the usual suspects and some not so usual), a piece about Manga, and quite a lot more. As for how effective it is, it certainly brought to my attention a number of graphic novels I hadn't either considered or heard of before and I'm very glad it did. Overall, not by a long way a definitive reference work, but not a bad introduction, and worthwhile. (The rating is really three and a half stars.)
3.0 out of 5 stars
Almost great,
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This review is from: The Rough Guide to Graphic Novels (Rough Guide Specials) (Paperback)
This is a really well written and constructed guide to graphic novels. It is divided into eight clear sections, starting with what constitutes a graphic novel and the history of the genre with a 40 page graphic novel about writing comics as interlude before moving on to Fingeroth's selection of 60 best graphic novels, the writers, artist and publishers and finishing with a good informative section on Managa, a section on film adapations and resources. The layout is really attractive, with blue boxes in the margins providing information along the lines of 'if you like this, you might like...'. It is good but not great, and it isn't completely up to date, being published in 2008 it misses some of the major movements of the last four years, such as the rise of steampunk, and there are some puzzling omissions as to major writers and artists. However, a good starting point which has given me plenty of new information.
3 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
2.0 out of 5 stars
Graphic Novels - Without the Graphics!!!!,
By pingpong (Edinburgh) - See all my reviews
This review is from: The Rough Guide to Graphic Novels (Rough Guide Specials) (Paperback)
This is a BIG disappointment.
Firstly, this is a book about graphic novels for the introductory reader. I am one of them. I want not only to read a good story but to be seduced by the art of the graphics. This book does a poor job all round. There is very little in the way of pictures of the 'cannon' the author recommends, and subsequently of story being told. Secondly, they waste thirty pages on an irrelevant how to create a 'graphic novel' chapter! Dont waste your money. Go for the 500 Essentials.
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