jcampbell's review
adventurous
challenging
fast-paced
5.0
A fun read that you can pick up and put down or binge in a single sitting. There are 24 artists giving their 7 page creation tale. They vary drastically in clarity and complexity but there is a wide mix. I particularly liked - Pilgrims, Moshori Ikkewe Chep and Ulgen Tenger.
likecymbeline's review
My 2016 Reading Challenge list (the one from PopSugar) included graphic novel as one of the forty items to check off, and it surprised me that I don't actually read them. Really ever. Because I respect graphic novels and the people who enjoy them. And I have read the occasional webcomic, and I always see what [a:Kate Beaton|2921970|Kate Beaton|https://images.gr-assets.com/authors/1318610112p2/2921970.jpg]'s done lately, and working at the bookstore I always went through to sort that section and thought that plenty looked interesting, and yet I don't read graphic novels. And when it came time to check this off my list, I didn't even know where to begin. I went to the library with a few recommendations, spent a long time going through the shelves, chose four, but only read this one. (It was a beautiful sunny day in the park, so warm for late October, almost wrong yet I wasn't about to complain.)
I like the structure of it, allowing each artist seven pages. It's like the confines of a sonnet, encouraging artistry through limitation. There were definitely some I preferred over others, some which I might look into the illustrators of had I not already returned this book to the library, and yet I still have no great desire to take out specific graphic novels (apart from, admittedly, the graphic novel version of [b:In Search of Lost Time: Swann's Way: A Graphic Novel|25620698|In Search of Lost Time Swann's Way A Graphic Novel|Stéphane Heuet|https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1434334770s/25620698.jpg|48536146], which intrigues me to no end, but which I wouldn't dare open till I read the novel, which will be a while yet).
I like the structure of it, allowing each artist seven pages. It's like the confines of a sonnet, encouraging artistry through limitation. There were definitely some I preferred over others, some which I might look into the illustrators of had I not already returned this book to the library, and yet I still have no great desire to take out specific graphic novels (apart from, admittedly, the graphic novel version of [b:In Search of Lost Time: Swann's Way: A Graphic Novel|25620698|In Search of Lost Time Swann's Way A Graphic Novel|Stéphane Heuet|https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1434334770s/25620698.jpg|48536146], which intrigues me to no end, but which I wouldn't dare open till I read the novel, which will be a while yet).
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