Sophie Blitman

I'm not a big fan of the format of the "Pop Rock in Comics" series -- short comic strips of five pages by 17 different illustrators of key moments, each followed by a text piece that rehashes and slightly expands on the strip -- but I keep checking the books out of the library because they always appeal to my nostalgia by covering the history of the bands and singers I grew up listening to.

This is a nice overview of Queen that, like the recent biopic, focuses heavily on lead singer Freddie Mercury. It's not deep, and the artists vary wildly in styles and the ability to capture likenesses of the real people involved, but it gets you in the mood to put on a Queen playlist or check out some old videos.… (més)

The history and making of the world famous band, Queen, in graphic novel form.

This is a great graphic novel about the highlights of the band Queen’s journey.

I enjoyed having bits in graphic novels and then covers in regular text format - it allowed me to read and get more about the band than one tends to get while reading a graphic novel.

Queen is one of my mom’s favorite bands, so it was nice to kind of read up on them more to see their history. Freddie Mercury is a legend.

*Thank you NBM Publishing for an advance digital copy of this book in exchange for an honest review… (més)

Another of NBM's readable but clunky biographies about musicians. Like the previous volumes with the Beatles and the Rolling Stones, the format is weird. A guy named Gaet's writes short dramatized graphic stories from various moments of Bob Marley's life that are illustrated by 19 different artists (mostly French, I'd guess, like the author) with wildly different styles. It's sometimes a little hard to tell what's going on in the stories, but after every story or two, Sophie Blitman jumps in to provide a two-page text piece going into more detail about the people and events in the graphic portions. This makes for a lot of redundancy and some awkward writing, so it's not an optimal reading experience, but the book is informative with the breeziness of a magazine.… (més)