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Title: Comics: Between the Panels by Steve Duin, Mike Richardson ISBN: 1-56971-344-8 Publisher: Dark Horse Comics Pub. Date: 30 September, 1998 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $49.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4 (7 reviews)
Rating: 3
Summary: Too anecdotic, too unbalanced
Comment: 500 pages and 670 illustrations about comics might seem like a good deal for comic lovers, but think again before you invest in this encyclopedic volume, unless you have an obsession for details and writers of the 30s.
No matter if you know a little about every Marvel, DC, EC and Image Comic book ever published, you will still find plenty of information about rare titles and anecdotic situations of the industry you never heard before. That on the positive side. On the negative side, it is not very encouraging to read only 50 or so pages about your favorite topics, and spend the rest of the book learning about rare cult titles and "legend" writers.
Also, the book is a little or too much unbalanced. There are six pages, four illustrations and two text boxes devoted to the story of mile high comics. On the other side, there is less than one page dedicated to The Fantastic Four, one of the key titles to understand comic book history. Spider Man is mentioned only nine times in 500 pages, while Frank Frazetta (who?) appears 46 times. Jimmy Hendrix is mentioned one time.
Good for a library. Too much detail for the average reader.
Rating: 5
Summary: THE BIBLE FOR EVERY COMIC BOOK FAN
Comment: Curious about the behind-the-scenes to the wondrous world of comics? Look no further! This massive book is everything you wanted to know about comic books, but were afraid to ask! What's great about this read, is the stories behind the creators are pratically more fantastic than the comics they're creating. Mike Richardson and Steve Duin add a stylish and humorous flare to the writing, making it the most enjoyable encyclopedia I've ever read. Comic book fans beware! Within a matter of hours, this book could transform you from a mild-mannered comic reader, into an omniscient virtuso with the comic book medium. This book must be read!
Rating: 1
Summary: Marred by negativity
Comment: The author assumes an almost cynical and throwaway air in many of his discussions of personalities both living and dead that are highly opiniated and frequently unfair. As an attempt at encyclopedic scope it fails because of a lack of objectivity, as a book of opinion it also fails because it is too longwinded and not insightful when it presumes to spend a lot of time discussing the psychology of artists instead of focusing on their work and its merits. The author clearly struggles in a finding a voice that he hopes to be both sophisticated and informed, but which is neither. Puzzling entries include the one on Alex Schomburg that makes highly negative allusions to the latter years of his life -- he lived to 92! -- when he was becoming senile, instead of detailing his enormous achievement as one of the best Golden Age cover artists who left his indelible mark on the era. And God knows where he got his opinion of Al Feldstein, who he apparently has never met, because his pop psychology analysis of him would fall apart when confronted by the man who wrote and drew for EC and then edited MAD during its heyday. Only the comics industry, with its devout fanboys who devour everything printed about it would tolerate such a sloppy and frequently silly compendium as this.
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Title: The Complete Peanuts: 1950-1952 by Charles M. Schulz, Garrison Keillor, Seth ISBN: 156097589X Publisher: Fantagraphics Books Pub. Date: 03 May, 2004 List Price(USD): $28.95 |
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