This covers a lot about the history of comics. Does this cover everything? No. Was I expecting it to cover everything? No. Covering every historical event in the comic book world would be nearly impossible to do I would think. With this you get what the creators found important...like in most nonfiction. Of course I could give a list of things they forgot about, but it wouldn't be as interesting to read about things I already knew. I'm glad they focused on topics I wasn't that interested in and it thought me a bit about things I didn't know about like Will Eisner coining the term "graphic novel." Keep in mind this book focus more on creators and artist and the companies over the superheros themselves. Honestly, I think we should know more about the people who created the books, just like we do with an author of a book or a singer of a song and so on. Keep in mind this was published in 2012 too. The stop with the internet. Maybe an updated version would talk more about the movies and how they got all these new readers into the medium too. Overall this is worth the read if you are a mega comic nerd. Either way READ MORE COMICS AND NOVELS! ( )

Fred Van Lente and Ryan Dunlavey, creators of the unexpected and exceptional Action Philosophers, return to the nonfiction comics realm with this hilarious and insightful history of their chosen medium. Much like in Philosophers, the duo effectively uses exaggeration and humor. Van Lente employees asides and one-liners. Dunlavey relies on the best techniques from cartoonist forebearers. Perhaps nothing benefits more from this style than the events involving EC. They manage to display M.C. Gaines as a visionary, victim, and buffoon, often all at the same time. Though not as thorough as other similar prose histories, The Comic Book History of Comics covers the highlights in an energetic and exciting fashion of the convoluted, chaotic, and often tortured history in a unique and informative manner. ( )

O conceito é um sucesso.
A execução peca pela apoucada habilidade da arte e do argumento. Tem detalhes hilariantes, mas, a espaços, notam-se aquelas faltas de habilidade e desgusta-se o amargo de boca que é saber da existência de um potencial para a perfeição, estacionado muito aquém disso por contingências técnicas.
Ainda assim, aconselha-se vivamente a leitura deste regabofe comic gráfico-novelizado.^^ ( )

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