Super Graphic: A Visual Guide to the Comic Book Universe
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...
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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.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9781452113883 (1452113882)
ASIN: 1452113882
Publish date: July 16th 2013
Publisher: Chronicle Books
Pages no: 196
Edition language: English
Category:
Non Fiction,
Humor,
Writing,
Reference,
Books About Books,
Art,
Sequential Art,
Graphic Novels,
Comics,
Graphic Novels Comics,
Design,
Superheroes
If you love graphics, statistics, and comics, this is your book. Ever wonder who all has been, for example, an Avenger? It's here. Want to know the relative strength of Galactus versus Apocalypse? It's there, too. Need to know which comic book heroes are associated with Rodents? Check: from Atomic M...
When I finally get a flat with a coffee table, this is going on it! "Why would you not want to build infographics about comic books?!" Tim Leong (Author and Illustrator) in an interview with LifeHacker in July 2013. I checked this book out from the library, thinking that I'd enjoy the graphi...