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.
Mark Laita has put together a spectacular book of snake photography called Serpentine ($39). Serpentines photographs span the beautiful and the dangerous in a collage of color and danger. Accompanying the photographs is an essay written by William T. Vollmann. The snakes covered in the book include such beauties as the black mamba, pit viper […]