One Week in the Library
by:
W Maxwell Prince (author)
John Amor (illustrator)
Welcome to the Library. It’s here that every story ever written is catalogued and monitored by a single man, who’s begun to notice something strange: the books are rebelling. Image Comics proudly presents this experimental graphic novella from writer W. Maxwell Prince and artist John Amor, which...
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Welcome to the Library. It’s here that every story ever written is catalogued and monitored by a single man, who’s begun to notice something strange: the books are rebelling. Image Comics proudly presents this experimental graphic novella from writer W. Maxwell Prince and artist John Amor, which recounts a troublesome week in the Library via seven short stories—one for each day—that use comics, infographics, prose, and poetry to play with the graphic medium and explore the multivalent world of living narrative.
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Format: Paperback
ISBN:
9781534300224 (1534300228)
Publish date: 2016-12-13
Publisher: Image Comics
Pages no: 96
Edition language: English
This volume takes you through a week in a fantasy library where books come to life and the librarian muses on his role and gets involved with the literary characters. Nicely-illustrated and fun to read, this is well worth a look with all kinds of literary references, most of which I got!
The ending left me unsatisfied.
Thoughts off the top of my head, will later turn into a formal review It reminded me on multiple levels of any of the imaginary magical literary libraries I've encountered. I liked the tributes to known and established tales, though not sure at some of the changing in tale names since the refere...