Reviews

Mind Afire: The Visions of Tesla by Abigail Samoun, Elizabeth Haidle

jldavis's review

5.0

I backed this on Kickstarter and received it just yesterday. I read it during some downtime and really loved it. I really liked Tesla's life story. I feel like the entire universe was conspiring against him though; nothing seemed to go his way.

Also regarding the artwork, it was spectacular. I really enjoyed the pictures.

I definitely recommend it.

jeffreyp's review

4.0

I supported the Kickstarter for this book, and what a great book it is. I'm glad to have a physical book in this case, because the layout is more of an illustrations-accompany-text than a traditional comic book format, so I think a .pdf layout would have been a problem. The drawings are lovely, the writing is mostly well done and straightforward. The few detours toward flowery language were appropriate, I think, given the interestingly complex character that Tesla was.

I learned a lot about Tesla, and enjoyed the illustrations--the one thing that was lacking was a more detailed, more involved description of the technical details regarding AC and DC, I thought. Just a preference--I would have dug a few intricate, close up diagrams of the actual AC engines--even though the kind of sparse schematic drawings were also cool and interesting.

sshabein's review

5.0

Beautiful artwork, interesting story. It covers a lot of the same ground as a Tesla documentary I saw on Netflix, but this book's presentation makes revisiting the material worth it.

jenn_reads's review

4.0

Very interesting story with lots of great detail about a fascinating person. My one complaint is that many pages were mostly text with a not particularly great handwriting font. A normal print with occasional drawings would have been much easier to read, given that it's not a typical graphic novel.