offbalance80's review
4.0
One rainy Saturday I chose to curl up with this book, and discovered a wonderful way to disappear for a few hours. In its pages I was delighted, amused, heartbroken, and even scared a few times.
This is a great book to introduce to people who've never read or understood how great a graphic novel could be. It certainly reminded me.
This is a great book to introduce to people who've never read or understood how great a graphic novel could be. It certainly reminded me.
zekehero's review
5.0
People who like something different would really do well to give this book a shot. The premise is simple: The editor found a box of old postcards, filled out with messages, and gave them to respected writers and artists for them to tell a story. The results are extremely interesting and the art and writing is top notch.
bluenicorn's review
1.0
I LOVED the concept of this book. Find an old postcard, draw/write a story to explain/go with it. Awesome. I just found the follow-through... kind of weak. And it was oftentimes too difficult to even read what was on the postcard. And then he writes a spiel about "wow, when i read this postcard, i though that's crazy, and i knew that my good friend [fill in the comic's name:] would know what to do..." I don't know. Conceptually great, maybe just not executed how I would have wished.
krismoon's review
4.0
The graphic novel "Postcards" has a very interesting and thought-provoking premise: the editor found/procured old postcards with either cryptic or telling messages from sender to reader. Each team consisting of a writer and illustrator would use one of the postcards as inspiration to tell the story behind it. Some of the stories are clever, funny, sad, or just confusing (only one of the stories was confusing and I feel a little dull-witted for not getting it, but uh... I didn't get it).
curiouslibrarian's review
5.0
I love the conceit of this book: take an antique postcard, and then create a comic based on the message, picture or both. All the stories are so different from one another, and so different from what I would have come up with if I had been given the postcard. They brought in some wonderful artists and writers for this book. (Although, honestly, I was less than impressed with Pekar's story at the end.) I really hope that they do another collection of these comics, and I would love to read more of these stories!
moxiedoll's review
3.0
The concept behind this was truly interesting and the editor seemed to put his heart and soul into it, but some of the stories fell flat.
lauren_endnotes's review
3.0
Great concept: real postcards found in various antique shops in the US, and stories imagined around the short paragraphs on the back. The idea to turn this into a graphic novel was brilliant, and I liked seeing so many styles of writing and illustration together. I found the annotations of each card to be distracting and unnecessary, but the stories themselves were entertaining - about 3 or 4 pages of art based on these words, completely out of context.