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S'està carregant… Young Lovecraft (edició 2012)de Jose Oliver, Bartolo Torres (Il·lustrador)
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Apunta't a LibraryThing per saber si aquest llibre et pot agradar. No hi ha cap discussió a Converses sobre aquesta obra. Srs Jose Oliver and Bartolo Torres have released a second volume of their comic strip Young Lovecraft through Kettledrummer Books, which is a reason for all fans of Lovecraftian comics to rejoice. For those not yet fortunate enough to know Young Lovecraft, this strip tells the story of HPL as a boy living with his two aunts. He has a pet ghoul, Glenn, masquerading as a dog and a little girl friend Siouxie. Howard attends grade school, while struggling with Siouxie's attentions, Glenn's misbehavior and his own attempts to harness unspeakable powers through spell casting. What can I say, I think this is just about a perfect comic. The writing is acutely observant and the art is wonderful. It is so obvious the creators are quite familiar with HPL's works and exploit situations from his stories to showcase young Howard's childhood frustrations. Other authors make appearance as ghosts leading to silly situations, including Poe, Baudelaire and Rimbaud. In his mind Howard acts out stories from James and Hodgson, while Siouxie wonders what the heck he is doing. Also included are sketches by Sr Torres as he was drawing the strip, and a very cool art gallery of other talented guest artists showing how they would depict Young Lovecraft. I am in awe that neither of the strip's creators is a native English speaker; they just wanted Young Lovecraft to be in HPL's native tongue. I can't choose favorites, but I really enjoyed the strip taken from Cool Air and the various ones about Howard's nightmares, and also the ones about the Hounds of Tindalos. OK, I liked it all. Did I have frustrations? Yes, the book is way too short! I want more! Fortunately, the end says these strips came from 2009 so I can only hope another album will be in the works later. If this is not enough for you, go ahead and order the first volume in this series. Bravo, Srs Oliver and Torres. Encore! Mas, por favor. Sense ressenyes | afegeix-hi una ressenya
An alternate vision of the biography of H. P. Lovecraft, this fanciful, gothic account imagines the childhood years of an author who would go on to write such innovative, weird fiction as the Cthulhu Mythos story cycle and the classic tome Necronomicon. Derived from the popular webcomic, each panel in this series imagines how Lovecraft's childhood would have occurred had he been visited by the horrendous creatures that later appeared in his finest fiction. Fans of Lovecraft will enjoy this humorous view of a misanthropic boy dealing with bullies and literary rejection as only a gothic can--with a large book of witchcraft and a few miscast spells. No s'han trobat descripcions de biblioteca. |
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(There's also excellent art from a variety of artists in the back. ( )