- Hardcover: 192 pages
- Publisher: Weidenfeld & Nicolson (8 Nov 2007)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0297852744
- ISBN-13: 978-0297852742
- Product Dimensions: 22.8 x 22.6 x 2 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 278,550 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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"terrifyingly plausible and plausibly terrifying.. originally free online, this strip deserves its enshrinement between the hard covers" (James Lovegrove FINANCIAL TIMES )
"The writing is witty and appropriately gonzo, with all the moral ambiguity that implies" (The Observer )
"riveting" (Plan B )
One of the 100 Best Things in the World! (GQ )
"it is fascinating to read a graphic novel about what the Iraq occupation might look like" (Morning Star )
"a darkly funny trip into a shattered country.. each page is packed with in-jokes and references" (Max Leonard Time Out )
"The writing is witty and appropriately gonzo, with all the moral ambiguity that implies" (The Observer )
"riveting" (Plan B )
One of the 100 Best Things in the World! (GQ )
"it is fascinating to read a graphic novel about what the Iraq occupation might look like" (Morning Star )
"a darkly funny trip into a shattered country.. each page is packed with in-jokes and references" (Max Leonard Time Out )
The Observer
"The writing is witty and appropriately gonzo, with all the moral ambiguity that implies"
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Format:Hardcover
Politically this is resonably astute as an antiwar graphic novel. The content may not be as efficiently incisive as some other works (only compared to mainstream is it outstanding, though it has some very nice touches) but what interests me about this work is the actual graphic art and story telling mechanics. Its different and it works. That counts for a lot in the burgeoning graphic novel market and is far less true of some "sounder" antiwar comics which may as well be prose for the use they make of the medium. In one sense, this is fair enough. They are simply trying to get their message to a new readership. But for me graphic novels are largely about the graphics and this work is far stronger here. Its not cheap (at time of reviewing) but it is good. Recommended.
Format:Hardcover
Not ordinarily being a graphic novel reader I don't know how this stands in the genre. I have only read this and The Complete MAUS (I guess these are the breakout hits). Firstly its very interesting artwork - really playing with the combination of this medium and the social networking generation, The setting and dialogue is just realistic enough for the satire to be disturbing in only just pushing the story beyond reality and into surrealism. All in all a stimulating read which I think achieves in part its grand aim of throwing a spotlight on the direction in which media war coverage is heading and the effect the media savvy are having on the modern world.
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Format:Hardcover
Visually and narratively this is a treat. In a future in which McCain won the United States Presidential elections Jimmy Burns is a normal big boy playing with his new toy, a handheld video camera that streams live to the net, filming his Brooklyn neighbourhood for his left wing blog when the local Starbucks explodes in a suicide bombing. On the back of his ensuing fame Jimmy is employed by Global News to go out to Bagdad and report on the Iraq War. There he finds himself caught in a lethal war of words, public opinion and guns between the secretive Sword of Islam, the American military and UN forces and the US media.
I love the graphic art used in this story, on the one hand there are standard circular white balloons with black writing which contrast with internal dialogue in black boxes with white writing, but this is complemented by great little touches such as battery indicators and buffering speeds on the web streaming footage and the scrolling headlines running across the bottom of the news footage. The artwork itself is in the style of video games with drawn characters over photographic backgrounds.
The graphics and narrative work together as a brilliant indictment of the insularity of American culture and its media coverage, my favourite sequence is the reportage of the nuking of Bangalore by Global News where the concern is not humanitarian but rather the National Emergency McCain calls because of the widespread crippling of 24 hour customer services hotlines which have been farmed out overseas because of the low cost of labour.
A terrifyingly accurate and funny satire, it never understates the horror of war and the effect it has on Iraquis, rather, it reminds us of these horrors by presenting them through the lenses of blog footage, mass media news footage and the military engines of war and graphically demonstrating how each of these are deeply dehumanising and are as a screen we can place between ourselves and the reality of living through such a nightmare.
I love the graphic art used in this story, on the one hand there are standard circular white balloons with black writing which contrast with internal dialogue in black boxes with white writing, but this is complemented by great little touches such as battery indicators and buffering speeds on the web streaming footage and the scrolling headlines running across the bottom of the news footage. The artwork itself is in the style of video games with drawn characters over photographic backgrounds.
The graphics and narrative work together as a brilliant indictment of the insularity of American culture and its media coverage, my favourite sequence is the reportage of the nuking of Bangalore by Global News where the concern is not humanitarian but rather the National Emergency McCain calls because of the widespread crippling of 24 hour customer services hotlines which have been farmed out overseas because of the low cost of labour.
A terrifyingly accurate and funny satire, it never understates the horror of war and the effect it has on Iraquis, rather, it reminds us of these horrors by presenting them through the lenses of blog footage, mass media news footage and the military engines of war and graphically demonstrating how each of these are deeply dehumanising and are as a screen we can place between ourselves and the reality of living through such a nightmare.
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Terrible in almost every way.
There have been a slew of great graphic novels about the war on terror and the current war in Iraq. Shooting War is not one of them. Read more
Published on 5 Mar 2008 by Katherine Farmar
Interesting and largely unique.
Shooting War is an appreciable text on several levels. Firstly, as a pop culture artifact in and of itself it tells an intesting, if patchy, story about a naive/enlightened... Read more
Published on 12 Jan 2008 by Mr. R. E. Mccallum
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"Shooting War" is the most innovative and important graphic novel I've ever encountered. While it's a captivating read, and the art is gorgeous throughout, it's also a penetrating... Read more
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I thought this was a superb book, a very clever graphic novel basically extrapolating contemporary themes of media, politics, the blogosphere (ugh), the 'war on terror' and the... Read more
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