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4.16 AVERAGE
Me ha encantado, es muy original y parece que hubiera una segunda parte
Love the illustrations. My favourite Neil Gaiman's book so far. Can't wait to start volume 2.
I loved this. It has been years since I read the original Gaiman novel— one of my favorites— and I had forgotten how much I love this story. The artwork and story adaptation are beautiful, haunting and macabre, in all the right ways. The art shows exactly how cinematic this, and how absolutely crazy Disney is to not have developed the stop-motion film adaptation yet.
Es uno de los libros más bonitos que he leído, lo pintaban como un libro de terror pero realmente ha sido como una lectura fácil de digerir, perfecta para romper el bloqueo lector. Me he quedado con un pedacito de los personajes, porque de todos aprendí un poco. Es realmente brillante la simpleza con la que está escrito, que es comprensible para pequeños y grandes, de la misma manera deja enseñanzas valiosisimas para ambas partes.
‘The Graveyard Book’ by Neil Gaiman is a very entertaining graphic comic for young readers and the young at heart! It is very mysterious too. I haven’t read the novel this graphic comic is based on, but I enjoyed the story and the illustrations. This comic is volume one. It ends when the main character is ten years old.
Nobody ‘Bod’ Owens is a boy who is growing up in a cemetary. Why and how is a mystery! Silas, a vampire, rescued him after finding him wandering about the cemetary as a baby. Bod had run from his home during the slaughter of his parents and a sibling. The killer, Jack, is still looking for him. Why Bod and his entire family needed to be killed is not revealed.
Bod is a happy boy despite that his only friends are dead people. The ghosts are taking care of him. Mr. and Mrs. Owens are his stepparents. Silas brings him food. All of the other ghosts are teaching him how to read and write. They also are giving him an education, but it is a problematic one, since the ghosts are teaching him what children were taught in the 17th, 18th and 19th centuries. Never mind. Bod is alive and healthy.
Silas has given Bod one rule - never leave the cemetary! Bod doesn’t know why. In the meantime, he becomes familiar with many of the dead who are buried and now ‘live’ in the cemetary. He is able to see them, talk to them, touch them.
During visits by the living to the cemetary, who are looking after relatives’ graves, he learns the difference between the living and the dead, the primary one being those who are alive cannot see the ghosts as he can.
But it’s all good. Bod is friendly and very young, and he doesn’t really question his life. He meets ghouls and witches, and has a series of adventures. There is a mysterious woman on a horse who is revered by the ghosts. There is a mysterious dance done every eighty years at midnight by the living and the dead, called the Macabray.
However, Bod obeys Silas and avoids most of the living visitors. Mostly. But. Bod leaves the cemetary once out of curiosity and necessity. It teaches him he definitely is safer in the cemetary!
At the end of volume one, many mysteries remain. Bod is a very appealing kid, the ghosts are fun, kind or mean, depending on who they were when they were alive, and Silas is a dark entity who yet is somehow a good protector of the graveyard. The woman on a horse and the ghouls are strange and wonderous beings who are the opposites of each other on a spiritual spectrum of Good and Evil. Jack, the killer, is still looking for Bod because a group of men continue to want Bod found and murdered. Why? I guess I will have to go on to Volume Two!
Nobody ‘Bod’ Owens is a boy who is growing up in a cemetary. Why and how is a mystery! Silas, a vampire, rescued him after finding him wandering about the cemetary as a baby. Bod had run from his home during the slaughter of his parents and a sibling. The killer, Jack, is still looking for him. Why Bod and his entire family needed to be killed is not revealed.
Bod is a happy boy despite that his only friends are dead people. The ghosts are taking care of him. Mr. and Mrs. Owens are his stepparents. Silas brings him food. All of the other ghosts are teaching him how to read and write. They also are giving him an education, but it is a problematic one, since the ghosts are teaching him what children were taught in the 17th, 18th and 19th centuries. Never mind. Bod is alive and healthy.
Silas has given Bod one rule - never leave the cemetary! Bod doesn’t know why. In the meantime, he becomes familiar with many of the dead who are buried and now ‘live’ in the cemetary. He is able to see them, talk to them, touch them.
During visits by the living to the cemetary, who are looking after relatives’ graves, he learns the difference between the living and the dead, the primary one being those who are alive cannot see the ghosts as he can.
But it’s all good. Bod is friendly and very young, and he doesn’t really question his life. He meets ghouls and witches, and has a series of adventures. There is a mysterious woman on a horse who is revered by the ghosts. There is a mysterious dance done every eighty years at midnight by the living and the dead, called the Macabray.
However, Bod obeys Silas and avoids most of the living visitors. Mostly. But. Bod leaves the cemetary once out of curiosity and necessity. It teaches him he definitely is safer in the cemetary!
At the end of volume one, many mysteries remain. Bod is a very appealing kid, the ghosts are fun, kind or mean, depending on who they were when they were alive, and Silas is a dark entity who yet is somehow a good protector of the graveyard. The woman on a horse and the ghouls are strange and wonderous beings who are the opposites of each other on a spiritual spectrum of Good and Evil. Jack, the killer, is still looking for Bod because a group of men continue to want Bod found and murdered. Why? I guess I will have to go on to Volume Two!
The Graveyard Book: Volume 1
By: Neil Gaiman
Adapted by: P. Craig Russell
Gaiman is often a little too sad or dreary for me to be able to convince myself to pick up his novels, and so turning it into a beautiful graphic novel is the perfect way for me to experience it.
I love the world Gaiman has crafted, everything from the forgotten crypt to the shadowy world of elite criminals (and I especially loved the artwork of the Night-Gaunt!) while also loving the intimate human characters and emotions (Silas is the best).
I look forward to picking up book 2!
By: Neil Gaiman
Adapted by: P. Craig Russell
Gaiman is often a little too sad or dreary for me to be able to convince myself to pick up his novels, and so turning it into a beautiful graphic novel is the perfect way for me to experience it.
I love the world Gaiman has crafted, everything from the forgotten crypt to the shadowy world of elite criminals (and I especially loved the artwork of the Night-Gaunt!) while also loving the intimate human characters and emotions (Silas is the best).
I look forward to picking up book 2!
Read it in no time.. It was too good to put it down.
P. Craig Russell has brought together and amazing group of artists for this adaptation. The Graveyard Book (the non graphic novel version) is definitely on my too-read list, but it was great to see the visuals and the differences between individual styles from chapter to chapter.
Beautifully done.
If you aren't familiar with Russell's other work, make the effort to find it: his adaptations of Oscar Wilde's fairy tales and Mozart's The Magic Flute are amazing. Also if you haven't read Neil Gaiman's The Sandman series, Russell is the illustrator for possibly my favorite issue in that series: Ramadan.
Beautifully done.
If you aren't familiar with Russell's other work, make the effort to find it: his adaptations of Oscar Wilde's fairy tales and Mozart's The Magic Flute are amazing. Also if you haven't read Neil Gaiman's The Sandman series, Russell is the illustrator for possibly my favorite issue in that series: Ramadan.
Fue hermoso de muchas maneras, es bellísimo en general y creo que sin duda es uno de los libros que mas se van a quedar conmigo partir de hoy.