Super Graphic: A Visual Guide to the Comic Book Universe Author: Tim Leong | Language: English | ISBN:
B00D4FR8FS | Format: EPUB
Super Graphic: A Visual Guide to the Comic Book Universe Description
The comic book universe is adventurous, mystifying, and filled with heroes, villains, and cosplaying Comic-Con attendees. This book by one of Wired magazine's art directors traverses the graphic world through a collection of pie charts, bar graphs, timelines, scatter plots, and more. Super Graphic offers readers a unique look at the intricate and sometimes contradictory storylines that weave their way through comic books, and shares advice for navigating the pages of some of the most popular, longest-running, and best-loved comics and graphic novels out there. From a colorful breakdown of the DC Comics reader demographic to a witty Venn diagram of superhero comic tropes and a Chris Ware sadness scale, this book charts the most arbitrary and monumental characters, moments, and equipment of the wide world of comics.
- File Size: 58993 KB
- Print Length: 196 pages
- Publisher: Chronicle Books LLC (July 16, 2013)
- Sold by: Amazon Digital Services, Inc.
- Language: English
- ASIN: B00D4FR8FS
- Text-to-Speech: Enabled
X-Ray:
- Lending: Enabled
- Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #179,042 Paid in Kindle Store (See Top 100 Paid in Kindle Store)
- #37
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- #37
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Updated review - since my original review the ebook version of this has been updated. Here are my comments in the form of an email to Tim Leong, the author on the update:
OK - so the update is in. It comes in at about 60 MB. I've come to realize that you probably have little to no control over this, you're probably not seeing the ebook before it goes live, so this really isn't your fault. I don't want to sound like a whiner, sour grapes, all that. But I have to be honest with you about this: it is somewhat better - but will still disappoint. The images are now clear enough to read all the text when zooming in. They're still not beautiful by any means like the book, but they are at least functional now.
One thing that is now wrong with it is that all the two page spreads are split into TWO PAGES. So you can zoom in - but if you want to say follow a timeline view over two pages - you have to zoom out - then zoom in on the next page - and then hopefully find your place and pick it up.
So listen - the book is functional. But when I look at magazines that I get on the iPad - even they are far better than this. Entertainment weekly - with less pages - is 100+ megs per issue. Wired is 300 meg an issue. Comics I buy on Comixology can be anywhere from 25-100 meg an issue. So - they've increased the file size to make the images in the book just functionally readable, and that's it. Maybe I just expected too much from this ebook.
Here's where I approach this from: who is the target audience? It's mostly comic book fans, and maybe a few graphic designers and infographics folks. When they get this book - if they get the electronic version - they EXPECT a large file - and heck - they'd probably rather take the large file for the quality.
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