Graphic Book Reviews Samples For Students

Comics are a simple and engaging style of storytelling with the help of images, visual art and words. The images are arranged in a panel and into a sequential narrative. Words might or might not be used and usually, appear in a box or balloons near the images. The essay discusses MAUS graphic novel, its content and visual strategies used by the illustrator to convey the information. It evaluates as to how some specific concepts of comics are employed by the author of MAUS. When one mentions a graphic novel, it conjures images of illustrated books and comics.
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American cartoonist Art Spiegelman’s Maus is considered a comic masterpiece and the two-volume telling the horrors of the Holocaust is a winner of Pulitzer Prize. Art’s father, Vladek was a Polish Jew, who survived the Holocaust. The essay looks at MAUS graphic novel, its artwork and how the author uses those images to tell a compelling story. Maus is considered to be as an intellectually substantive graphic novel.
Spiegelman has depicted Germans as cats and Jews as mice and Germans and Poles as pigs cats in the graphic novel. The purpose is to show Germans as the ...

Introduction

People have always been fascinated to read more colorful novels and other literary works than just pure texts. It is believed that the more you stimulate your senses, the higher the chances that you will have fun. We call these books graphic novels because of their not only story-telling quality but also because of their catchy and detailed drawing that would surely help the readers have a good grasp about what really happened or what really is happening at a particular scene. Among the most successful graphic novels published in 2010 was Doug TenNapel’s Ghostopolis.

Ghostopolis Overview

Ghostopolis is a renowned and an ...

The Psychiatric Tales consists of ten sections, a conclusion and an introduction, which begins with Cunningham’s account of the things that inspired his decisions to write the book. In the first instance, he wasn’t sure if to use a graphic format, but after encounter with Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi, which is a lauded comic strip about her Iranian childhood, he eventually decided on choosing drawings, which he was sure could creatively enhance the book.
The ten subsequent sections after the introduction are organized around specific disorders, symptoms, or societal viewpoints. In the beginning two sections, Dementia and Cut, which ...

Marjane Satrapi’s book Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood, published by Pantheon Books of New York, NY in 2003, tells the author and artist’s own story of her childhood in Iran during the 1970s and 1980s during revolutionary times in her home country. Told in graphic novel or comic book form, Satrapi’s book illustrates what it was like to be a young girl growing up in Iran as regimes and social standards underwent monumental change. Presented from a young girl’s point of view, she navigates not only the typical hazards of growing up, but also encounters the violence ...

Book Review - Persepolis

In the graphic novel Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi, the reader follows the author through an autobiographical look at her own life, though interestingly, this is done through the use of the comic book format. Growing up in Iran, Satrapi had to remain innocent and dignified, despite the horrors that were happening around her. Due to the enigmatic, strange, quirky and often outrageous directions her life had taken her, Satrapi decided to use the comic book format in order to tell her childhood story. This lent it a heightened, visually intriguing spin that turned the horrific and out-of-control world of her ...