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Title: Blood Song: A Silent Ballad by Eric Drooker ISBN: 0-15-600884-X Publisher: Harvest Books Pub. Date: 01 November, 2002 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $20.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.89 (9 reviews)
Rating: 3
Summary: Beauty Marred by Agenda
Comment: Drooker's one conceit here is the beauty of his work. Every page of the book features woodcut scenes with colour for mood, and is accomplished and aesthetically pleasing. Praises can end there, however.
Blood Song is supposed to be a wonder to read and behold for the fact that there is not a single word balloon - no dialogue, no narrative. And though Drooker certainly propells his story forawd through the pages of silence, on might hope that he could offer better than the overly simple tale of a hapless, honest, and beautiful native girl and the vile, oppressive, and censorious authority figures. Really, if there's one cardinal sin a film or book can commit is that of making me feel as if I've been preached at. Blood Song is a textbook example of this.
This is the work of a freshman in college who has just discovered politics - unfortunately for Drooker, college was well over twenty years ago.
Rating: 5
Summary: Left me Speechless (no pun intended)
Comment: I was a little hesitant to read this book but after turning the first couple of pages I was hooked. The artwork in this book is absolutely stunning. I love the little bits of colour worked into the otherwise black and white artwork because the colour is always added at exactly the right places. The story itself is very powerful and it makes you wonder. While there is no specific time or place for this book it is very possible for it to happen in this world (okay, so maybe not the row boat accross the ocean part but have you read "Life of Pi"?) the settings and events in this book are very realistic. I would definetly recommend this to anyone who is even romotely curious. This was my first graphic novel and it got me hooked so I figure that speaks for itself.
Rating: 4
Summary: A very moving graphic novel
Comment: This book is a graphic novel without words, where artist Eric Drooker uses images to tell the story of a young Southeast Asian girl, who finds trouble and despair, and ultimately life and hope. The images are stark and moving, relying on black and white - with small blasts of color for life and hope. Overall, the story is very hyper-orthodox leftist with happy people of color brutalized by dehumanized and dehumanizing white people. But, nonetheless, I found this to be a very moving graphic novel.
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Title: Flood!: A Novel in Pictures by Eric Drooker, Luc Sante, Eric Drooker ISBN: 1569718210 Publisher: Dark Horse Comics Pub. Date: 27 September, 2002 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: Illuminated Poems by Allen Ginsberg, Eric Drooker ISBN: 1568580703 Publisher: Four Walls Eight Windows Pub. Date: 01 June, 1996 List Price(USD): $18.95 |
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Title: Shutterbug Follies (Doubleday Graphic Novels) by Jason Little ISBN: 0385503466 Publisher: Doubleday Books Pub. Date: 08 October, 2002 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: Persepolis : The Story of a Childhood (Alex Awards (Awards)) by MARJANE SATRAPI ISBN: 0375422307 Publisher: Pantheon Pub. Date: 29 April, 2003 |
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Title: Fat Kid Rules the World by K.L. Going ISBN: 0399239901 Publisher: Putnam Publishing Group Pub. Date: 01 June, 2003 List Price(USD): $17.99 |
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