The world of the comic book is mystifying, adventurous and packed full of heroes, villains and the role playing attendees that flock to Comic-Con. Super Graphic comes courtesy of one of the art directors of Wired magazine and traverses this graphic world through a heady combination of pie charts, timelines, bar graphs, scatter plots, and much more.Super Graphic gives the reader a unique look at the intricate and oftentimes contradictory storylines that are a comic book. It also shares valuable advice on navigating the complex pages of many of the longest-running, most popular and best loved graphic novels and comics that are out there.
Every so often a book comes out that reveals everything about a subculture that you never even knew existed. Very rarely, this book then goes on to become a phenomenon all of its own. First published in 2004, the Russian Criminal Tattoo Encyclopedia ($23) was one such phenomenon, going on to spawn a further 2 […]