ghostofyesterday's review against another edition
4.0
Beautiful edition of a very clever artist's work that I'm not sure I'd previously been exposed to (the New Yorker is frightfully expensive to buy in Australia), or at least if I have seen I didn't have a name to ascribe to it (his work reminds me of Daniel Clowes, so I could have assumed I was looking at Clowes when it was actually Tomine). As others have noted, it was a bit difficult to read because the notes to each piece were located in the back, but it is a minor quibble, as it may have been too cluttered to list the notes beside each work and consequently detracted from their immediate impact. Aside from the beautiful cover work and article illustrations, I enjoyed the comic strips that were included and I will have to check out some of his graphic novels at a later date.
canadianbookworm's review
4.0
This collection intrigued me from the cover, which was actually a The New Yorker cover. It shows a young woman on a subway train reading a book, looking through a window to see a young man on another subway train going in the opposite direction, reading the same book. I liked the image, and was interested to see what else he had done.
The book is structured with the images, placed nicely on the page, with just their titles, where they were published, and the date of publication. There is a section of notes at the end that explains the context of the images: what they were accompanying, if anything; the artist's intention (sometimes), and other commentary. I didn't discover the notes until I'd looked through all the images, so then I went back to the beginning again and looked through them all again, checking the notes as I went.
Because I hadn't seem the images in context originally, when they were published, my first round left me unclear for many what their context and purpose were. The notes helped immensely with this and I found them very useful. I am of two minds as to whether they should have been included with the image, as I think they would have cluttered the clear pages, but they were essential to my understanding and appreciating the images.
The book is structured with the images, placed nicely on the page, with just their titles, where they were published, and the date of publication. There is a section of notes at the end that explains the context of the images: what they were accompanying, if anything; the artist's intention (sometimes), and other commentary. I didn't discover the notes until I'd looked through all the images, so then I went back to the beginning again and looked through them all again, checking the notes as I went.
Because I hadn't seem the images in context originally, when they were published, my first round left me unclear for many what their context and purpose were. The notes helped immensely with this and I found them very useful. I am of two minds as to whether they should have been included with the image, as I think they would have cluttered the clear pages, but they were essential to my understanding and appreciating the images.
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