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A review by saidtheraina
Comic Book History of Comics by Fred Van Lente
3.0
Yeah, yeah, yeah. Of COURSE this is incomplete. Partial. A bit scattered. The entire history of an art form is difficult to contain in a linear narrative. I appreciated reading this for myself, as an overview of points in comics history I haven't studied before. I feel like I understand the ownership rights drama a little bit better now that I've read this. And have more fodder for my ongoing opinion-forming re: superheroes and their pluses and minuses and ramifications for amerikan culture.
BECAUSE there's SO MUCH Content, this feels a little breathless. The pages are packed with illustrations and text, and the reader gets no breaks. So, I feel like, as a comic book, this could be better crafted. But the content is important and worth communicating. I'd almost say this would be a good text book for high school or so, but there's enough R rated content, maybe not so much. :)
Obviously biased and from a particular point of view, but fairly transparent in that point of view. The coverage of Disney is particularly intriguing. And I'm glad I now have context for names like Jack Kirby, Stan Lee, and Osamu Tezuka.
It's a good start.
::cough cough would comics history pass the bechdel test? cough cough::
BECAUSE there's SO MUCH Content, this feels a little breathless. The pages are packed with illustrations and text, and the reader gets no breaks. So, I feel like, as a comic book, this could be better crafted. But the content is important and worth communicating. I'd almost say this would be a good text book for high school or so, but there's enough R rated content, maybe not so much. :)
Obviously biased and from a particular point of view, but fairly transparent in that point of view. The coverage of Disney is particularly intriguing. And I'm glad I now have context for names like Jack Kirby, Stan Lee, and Osamu Tezuka.
It's a good start.
::cough cough would comics history pass the bechdel test? cough cough::