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4.16 AVERAGE
4.16 AVERAGE
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.
Beautiful adaptation - though I still rank the novel and then the audio above the GN.
This made me feel pretty foolish that I didn't realize Silas was a vampire until near the end of the novel. He's walking around like Bela Lugosi in this thing.
Lo leí hace como 5 años
Pero recuerdo que me había gustado mucho
Pero recuerdo que me había gustado mucho
My VOYA review:
A freshly orphaned toddler wanders into the safety of a graveyard in the dead of night, where he is adopted by two childless ghosts and named Nobody Owens. Nicknamed Bod, he is given the freedom of the graveyard, where he grows and thrives under the care of the ghostly inhabitants and his guardian, Silas. But danger awaits Bod, as his family’s killer, the man Jack, relentlessly searches for Bod in order to complete his assignment to murder the toddler.
Volume 1 of a planned two-volume set covers chapters 1-5 and the interlude from Gaiman’s original 2008 Newberry Medal-winning title of the same name (HarperCollins Children’s Books, 2008/VOYA August 2008). Each chapter features a different artist in an interesting and effective way into a full-color graphic novel. The novel’s scenes of violence are front and center in opening pages of the graphic novel, leaving little to the reader’s imagination as to how Bod’s entire family dies. In a lovely touch, unique to comic adaption, the living characters are clearly depicted in a variety of different ethnicities, most notably Bod’s friend Scarlett Perkins as a biracial child. While most libraries will already have a copies of Gaiman’s original title, the graphic novel captures and enhances the magic and horror in new and unexpected ways. Libraries will want to offer both the original prose and the graphic novel to their patrons.
A freshly orphaned toddler wanders into the safety of a graveyard in the dead of night, where he is adopted by two childless ghosts and named Nobody Owens. Nicknamed Bod, he is given the freedom of the graveyard, where he grows and thrives under the care of the ghostly inhabitants and his guardian, Silas. But danger awaits Bod, as his family’s killer, the man Jack, relentlessly searches for Bod in order to complete his assignment to murder the toddler.
Volume 1 of a planned two-volume set covers chapters 1-5 and the interlude from Gaiman’s original 2008 Newberry Medal-winning title of the same name (HarperCollins Children’s Books, 2008/VOYA August 2008). Each chapter features a different artist in an interesting and effective way into a full-color graphic novel. The novel’s scenes of violence are front and center in opening pages of the graphic novel, leaving little to the reader’s imagination as to how Bod’s entire family dies. In a lovely touch, unique to comic adaption, the living characters are clearly depicted in a variety of different ethnicities, most notably Bod’s friend Scarlett Perkins as a biracial child. While most libraries will already have a copies of Gaiman’s original title, the graphic novel captures and enhances the magic and horror in new and unexpected ways. Libraries will want to offer both the original prose and the graphic novel to their patrons.
El estilo de Neil Gaiman siempre me ha parecido algo… raro. Probé con Coraline y no me entusiasmó, la atmósfera de Sandman me resultó demasiado agobiante.
En navidades le tocó el turno a El libro del cementerio y me encantó. Es un libro fantástico y casi infantil, pero tan adulto a la vez… La vida en el cementerio de Nadie Owens junto con los demás seres que viven en él, sus preguntas, sus ganas de ver el mundo, los peligros que le acechan…
Un argumento original, una atmósfera mágica y una serie de ilustraciones que terminan de redondear la historia.
Estoy deseando hincarle el diente a otro libro del autor desde entonces.
En navidades le tocó el turno a El libro del cementerio y me encantó. Es un libro fantástico y casi infantil, pero tan adulto a la vez… La vida en el cementerio de Nadie Owens junto con los demás seres que viven en él, sus preguntas, sus ganas de ver el mundo, los peligros que le acechan…
Un argumento original, una atmósfera mágica y una serie de ilustraciones que terminan de redondear la historia.
Estoy deseando hincarle el diente a otro libro del autor desde entonces.
3,5
El libro de Nadie Potter... Dos terceras partes del libro son bastante lentas (por eso no le doy 4 estrellas), pero la historia (particularmente el final) es muy buena, interesante e intensa.
El libro de Nadie Potter... Dos terceras partes del libro son bastante lentas (por eso no le doy 4 estrellas), pero la historia (particularmente el final) es muy buena, interesante e intensa.
La relectura me hizo disfrutarlo más. No lo amo, pero al menos ya entiendo por qué es tan querido.