A review by audbuttrue
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button: A Graphic Novel by Nunzio DeFilippis

4.0

I thought this was an excellent adaptation of the original, silly and fun, short story. As far as I can tell, the actual text has not been changed very much. The illustrations do a fantastic job of enhancing the text. I thought the drawings were lovely to look at. They were similar in style to Edward Gorey, but still unique to the illustrator. I loved how the jokes in the text were brought into the drawings in clever ways. For example, a couple of panels after talking about how Benjamin breaks things to please his dad, there is a drawing of Benjamin talking to his grandfather on a sofa next to a broken and poorly mended lamp. The one thing that I thought was strange and took a little bit away from the book was the font used. I don't know why, but the Times New Roman font stood out oddly against the almost watercolor, sepia, illustrations.