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Bowie: Stardust, Rayguns, & Moonage Daydreams (Ogn Biography of Ziggy Stardust, Gift for Bowie Fan, Gift for Music Lover, Nei by Mike Allred
3.0
This should probably be a 2 star but I can't give a book about Bowie by the Allreds something that low, so I'll say this is maybe a 2.75.
This was the most intricately illustrated Wikipedia entry I've ever read?
Listen. We all think David Bowie is cool as hell and a rad musician, and that his life was a novel one. Of course. As a collection of cool illustrations of the first half of his career, with bits of trivia dispersed throughout, it's interesting! I learned a few things. ...but only a few.
I was kind of befuddled by this book until it was all over and I read Mike Allred's afterword, where he explains that this book was originally his research for a Ziggy Stardust comic he never got to do, and that he slowly drew over time as a passion project. That's what it reads as. Illustrated research, a sparse timeline with little notes here and there and no new ideas or narrative framework other than a vague idea of identity.
A fun diversion for Bowie fans, rendered in Allred's trademark pop-art style. Wish it was something deeper, but oh well.
This was the most intricately illustrated Wikipedia entry I've ever read?
Listen. We all think David Bowie is cool as hell and a rad musician, and that his life was a novel one. Of course. As a collection of cool illustrations of the first half of his career, with bits of trivia dispersed throughout, it's interesting! I learned a few things. ...but only a few.
I was kind of befuddled by this book until it was all over and I read Mike Allred's afterword, where he explains that this book was originally his research for a Ziggy Stardust comic he never got to do, and that he slowly drew over time as a passion project. That's what it reads as. Illustrated research, a sparse timeline with little notes here and there and no new ideas or narrative framework other than a vague idea of identity.
A fun diversion for Bowie fans, rendered in Allred's trademark pop-art style. Wish it was something deeper, but oh well.