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The afterword with notes on each comic are what pushed this to four stars for me. These comics are all over the place, some work better than others, some look better than others, but ultimately that's the intention of this compilation. To show an artist working things out, experimenting and growing. It's funny that all those times I saw Low perform when I was younger I had no idea Zak was a cartoonist!
The included comics are all over the place both in terms of style and quality, but its imperfection ends up Being The Point in the author's afterword, which turns this (I should note: still on its own accord very enjoyable) collection into something absolutely transcendent. Zak Sally found the exact combination of words and thoughts I needed to see in the darkest point in my life, a time of uncertainty and hopelessness and volatility. It is ultimately a personal tale of depression and the anxiet...
The artwork is excellent. The writing is also great. I think that this is the graphic novel more for the artist than the reader, though anyone should be able to appreciate it's beauty. Certain pieces I enjoyed or connected with more than others, so my review beyond what I've already said would be biased.
Kind of uneven for me. Some stuff I liked, and others were just so- so for me. God, I sound like Randy Jackson on American Idol.Anyways, I liked 2 stories a lot- Room 21 and The Man Who killed Wally Wood,both had descent plots. Sally's art is interesting and he seems to be able to change his style up befitting the particular story.
This was fine, but I wasn't excited about it and it was getting to be overdue.
A very interesting collection of Zak Sally's early and sundry works. I can definitely say that the notes at the end of this book -- what Sally thinks might come across as self-indulgent to some readers -- actually makes the book even better. A good read, and intelligent!
This book is all over the place, which is refreshing if you happen to get tired of any particular narrative, but can also be frustrating because it lacks a concrete flow or narrative. Ultimately, this is a scrapbook of a comic collection. The strength of it is that the drawing is interesting, and many of the shorts are really very good, but the weakness is that the whole book just feels kind of like an act of desperation to catalog the work of the author- but for what purpose? It seems as though...
Great collection of Sally's early comics. Worth it for the afterword alone, where he describes, with humor and humanity, the psychological struggle he endured to produce this work. Inspirational!Those of you who enjoy this one should track down his self-published Recidivist #3, which contains his most compelling and mature work to date.(Full disclosure: I wrote the introduction, and Sally is a friend, but that doesn't change how I feel about this book... it's a beautiful, well constructed overvi...
It's nearly impossible to assign a star rating to a collection of this nature. Zak Sally set out to chart his growth as a cartoonist by publishing a 12-year span of his work, some of which he is decidedly not at all enthusiastic about. I understand his motives (explained extensively in the back matter), and I respect him for following through on them. I also appreciate the frankness in his admission that his nonstop touring and recording with Low during this same period was not the main reason w...
