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The Rough Guide to Graphic Novels (Rough Guide Specials) | 
 enlarge | Author: Danny Fingeroth
Publisher: Rough Guides Ltd
Category: Book
List Price: £11.99
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Rating:  1 reviews
Sales Rank: 5041
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.9
Dimensions (in): 7 x 6.9 x 0.7
ISBN: 1843539934
Dewey Decimal Number: 741
EAN: 9781843539933
ASIN: 1843539934
Publication Date: August 1, 2008 (New: Last 30 Days)
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If you are going to buy one book about graphic novels... August 27, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
... then it probably shouldn't be this one. A better bet is 500 Essential Graphic Novels: The Ultimate Guide (500 Essential...). That said, this is a good second choice and complements the aforementioned book quite well.
The Rough Guide isn't as comprehensive, focussing in-depth on a top 60 graphic novels, referencing dozens of others. It also includes a short graphic novel about graphic novels, brief articles about icons of the genre (Eisner, Gaiman, Crumb, Moore, all the usual suspects and some not so usual), a piece about Manga, and quite a lot more.
As for how effective it is, it certainly brought to my attention a number of graphic novels I hadn't either considered or heard of before and I'm very glad it did.
Overall, not by a long way a definitive reference work, but not a bad introduction, and worthwhile. (The rating is really three and a half stars.)
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