Tag: comics
Logicomix
https://fairfieldpubliclibrary.org/blog/2010/02/02/logicomix/
Title: Logicomix: An Epic Search for Truth Author: Apostolos Doxiadis and Christos Papademitriou Publisher: Bloomsbury, September 2009 Summary: Bertrand Russell, mathematician, philosopher, pacifist and lightning rod, was one of the most important thinkers of the twentieth century. This ambitious graphic biography focuses equally on his turbulent personal life and...
Watchmen
https://fairfieldpubliclibrary.org/blog/2008/09/12/watchmen/
Title: Watchmen Author: Alan Moore Illustrator: Dave Gibbons Publisher: DC Comics, April 1995 Summary: After a summer of blockbuster movies, you might just be sick of superheroes. But soon (pending some legal wrangling) the greatest graphic novel ever is coming to the big screen: Watchmen,...
Batman: The Long Halloween
https://fairfieldpubliclibrary.org/blog/2008/07/23/batman-the-long-halloween/
Title: Batman: The Long Halloween Author: Jeph Loeb Illustrator: Tim Sale Summary: I reread this fantastic graphic novel before I saw The Dark Knight. While the plot lines aren’t exactly the same, both the movie and the book share a similar film-noir feel and focus on the same three...
A People’s History of American Empire
https://fairfieldpubliclibrary.org/blog/2008/06/24/a-peoples-history-of-american-empire/
Title: A People’s History of American Empire: A Graphic Adaptation Author: Howard Zinn, with Paul Buhle, and illustrations by Mike Konopacki Summary: It is hard to believe that the groundbreaking A People’s History of the United States is almost 30 years old! Historian Howard Zinn’s classic ‘history from the...