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Cargando... Godspeed: The Kurt Cobain Graphic (2003 original; edición 2003)por Barnaby Legg, Jim McCarthy, Flameboy, Music Sales (Editor)
Información de la obraGodspeed: The Kurt Cobain Graphic por Barnaby Legg (2003)
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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. Full colour short graphic about Kurt Cobain from his childhood to fatherhood. Being prescribed Ritalin as a small child for his hyperactivity, his imaginary friend "Boddah", through his fame and struggles with heroin. ( ) Wow, where do I begin? I couldn't resist the novelty of this, but I feel a little dirty after having read it. This is pretty much a fairy tale, not a biography. I don't think the authors had any intention of writing a realistic biography, but how do you write a "fictional biography" (as a graphic novel no less) about someone like Kurt Cobain? I don't know. The book is told from Kurt's first person perspective looking back on his life after he has committed suicide. Obviously from the very beginning, liberties are taken imagining what Kurt might have to say and what he was thinking. The last few days of his life are a mystery and so certainly the authors here are imagining, just as other biographers have imagined, what happened in that time period. I have read about many of the major scenes in this book in other well-researched biographies. Other information and dialogue appears to have been taken directly from interviews. The questionable material is much of Kurt's inner dialogue and his thinking process. Since the book is told in the first person from his perspective, that can be a problem for discerning readers. The artwork is okay, but I think it is hard to capture the grunge scene of the early 90s in glossy comic art. It was kind of anti-glossy, you know? The religious symbolism- Kurt with halos, Kurt with a crown of thorns, Kurt at the last supper/drug intervention- is ridiculous and only serves to perpetuate the rock icon myth, which he loved and despised at the same time. The man was mentally ill and self medicated with heroin. He was a brilliant songwriter and musician, but he was not sacrificing himself and he certainly wasn't innocent. All in all I see this being something teenagers, who don't know the facts, would like. It's all about the fairy tale rock-star-rebel-hero myth, which angst ridden teens eat up. I know because I used to be one of those angst ridden teens, and I was coming-of-age when Nirvana exploded. Looking back, the music has weathered well. It's still brilliant. All of the rest, well... I guess I'm getting old. sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
GodSpeed: The Kurt Cobain Graphic tells Cobain's story in the form of a totally unique graphic novel. Writers Barnaby Legg and Jim McCarthy have constructed their story using biographical fact interwoven with references to the singers tortured self-image. The vibrant art by Flameboy captures both the subjective dreamscape and the objective reality that form the heart of this examination of a tragic musical legend.Much more than a biography, GodSpeed is unlike anything you have read about Kurt Cobain before. Going beyond the facts it transmutes an extraordinary life into an equally extraordinary work of art. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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