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Cargando... David Bowie in Comics (2020)por Thierry Lamy
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From David Jones to David Bowie and from Ziggy Stardust to The Thin White Duke, discover the fate of an artist with a thousand faces. He is one of the most influential and creative artists of the 20th century, and his incredible ever changing and pioneering visions endure to this day. He explored a thousand styles and crossed the ages with splendor. Discover his incredible destiny in this comics biography with photo illustrated articles and comics chapters presenting all his different persona and stages in a career marked by constant re-invention. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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 Google Books — Cargando...GénerosSistema Decimal Melvil (DDC)782.42166092The arts Music Vocal music Secular Forms of vocal music Secular songs General principles and musical forms Song genres Rock songs History, geographic treatment, biography BiographyClasificación de la Biblioteca del CongresoValoraciónPromedio: (3)
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Like the other books in the Pop Rock in Comics series, it's translated from the French (where it is Pop Rock en BD, or Pop Rock en Bandes Dessinées). Each comic strip is by the same writer, but the illustrations rotate through a dozen different artists with very different styles, which can be a bit jarring.
The copy editing isn't terrific, so you'll need to excuse some typos (like mention of the Velvet Underground's "Lou Rood"). And the format is a bit grating with its 20 chapters that each have 1) a text introduction telling you what the comic strip is about, 2) a comic strip about a small section of Bowie's life, and 3) a following text piece that repeats and elaborates on what was told in the strip in a manner that fawns over how awesome Bowie was. So much repetition! But the text pages do include photographs of the era that can be interesting to compare to the drawn art.
Anyhow, it does what it sets out to do, telling about Bowie's life chronologically, from birth to death, while picking out and highlighting some recurring themes. It dramatizes and lionizes, but I felt I got a decent sense of the artist behind the continuous reinvention his public persona underwent.
FOR REFERENCE:
Table of Contents:
Note: Comic strips are written by Thierry Lamy, and biographical text between the comic strips is written by Nicolas Finet.
• The 1950s. Plastic Saxophone / Martin Trystram, art
• 1962. A Unique Gaze / Thomas Gilbert, art
• 1962-1966. First Bands / Marcello Quintanilha, art
• 1966. When David Jones Becomes David Bowie / Christelle Pécout, art
• 1969. Ground Control to Major Tom: The Space Oddity Period / Jérémie Royer, art
• 1969-1971. Angie / Nicolas Pitz, art
• 1972. Top of the Pops: The Birth of a Legend / Monsieur IOU, art
• 1972-1973. An Alien Named Ziggy Stardust / Christopher, art
• 1972-1973. Bowie the Producer: Lou Reed & Iggy Pop / Claire Fauvel, art
• 1974. A Hint of Science Fiction / Léonie Bischoff, art
• 1975. Turning to Soul: Young Americans / Marcello Quintanilha, art
• 1976. The Thin White Duke / Christelle Pécout, art
• 1976-1979. A Date With Berlin / Christopher, art
• 1980-1984. The Global Icon: Let's Dance / Monsieur IOU, art
• 1983. Bowie in Film: Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence / Joël Alessandra, art
• 1989-1992. Forever Inovating: Bowie and Tin Machine / Martin Trystram, art
• 1992. Iman / Samuel Figuière, art
• 1992-1999. Experiments in Genre / Joël Alessandra, art
• 2004-2014. Quiet / Samuel Figuière, art
• 2014-2016. The Last Dance / Nicolas Pitz, art
• End Matter: Discography, Filmography, Sitography, Recommended Reading
• David Bowie / portrait by Alex Bochard (