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Comic Book Tattoo Special Edition
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Product Description
Over 80 of the best creators from every style and genre have contributed over 50 stories to this anthology featuring tales inspired by the songs of multi-platinum recording artist, Tori Amos! Featuring an introduction by Neil Gaiman, with stories by creators such as Carla Speed McNeil, Mark Buckingham, C.B. Cebulski, Nikki Cook, Hope Larson, John Ney Reiber, Ryan Kelly, and many, many others, Comic Book Tattoo encapsulates the breadth, depth, and beauty of modern comics in this coffee table format book.
Product Details
- Amazon Sales Rank: #89995 in Books
- Published on: 2008-10-29
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Binding: Hardcover
- 480 pages
Customer Reviews
Definitive Version.
This brilliantly produced, hardcover graphic novel is a must have for any Tori Amos fan.
The 480 page book is a collection of graphic novellettes (ie: short comic books) written/illustrated by 80 different graphic artists, based on 51 of Tori Amos' intriguing lyrics ranging from 1992's 'Little Earthquakes' up to 2007's 'American Doll Posse' (with some B-sides & soundtrack songs along the way). Also included is a foreword by Neil Gamain.
The official lyrics to each of the 51 songs is presented on the title page for each story.
I am a Tori Amos fan, not so much a graphic novel fan. This book offers so many different variations of the graphic novel genre that it may help the casual graphic novel reader to more comprehensively understand the genre. There are wordy, text-based stories; picture-based, wordless stories; colour pictures (mostly); black&white, sepia, monochromatic (etc) based stories. Some songs are reenacted openly using lines of the lyrics in the book - some songs use an artier or stealthier approach and hint at the intention of the song rather than focusing on a spoken phrase (eg: the book for 'Bouncing Off Clouds' is literally about bouncing off clouds; where the book for 'Marianne' well, I'll let you work it out!)
Having seen the soft-cover version locally I decided that the hard-cover, slide-box version was more fitting for an on-going Tori collector so bought this one from Amazon. I'm very glad I did. The full-colour pages are thick and printed beautifully, the slide-box and hard-cover book are tough and feel solid (unlike the soft-cover version, which felt cheap and destructible).
The only negative (for a Tori fan, not a graphic novel fan) is that there are so many storylines in the book and each is a different form of graphic novel; that it can be difficult to switch gears in brain to know how to read the next story - however this is not really an issue as the pages are so, so beautiful (even the more violent looking pages).
In short, whether a Tori Amos fan or a Graphic Novel fan, this book is worth your purchase.
mostly amazing
I was able to get one of the limited edition copies, signed by The Goddess herself. I think there is some audience for the book if one is not strictly a Tori fan. When the story more closely matched what I felt the song was about, then I loved it (like Merman or Girl) but when they were too experimental or only riffed on one line of the song I didn't like them so much. I think if you are a true comic book fan or a EWF (and if you are one, you know what that means) then, by all means, buy it. I think just as much satisfaction can be derived from the paper copy than the expensive leather-bound copy.
Must Have for Ears with Feet
This is a HUGE book of various interpretations of Tori's ever-bemusing lyrics. Some of them seem to take the lyrics literally while others have interpretations that I would have never imagined. It's worth having if you're a big fan of the artists (there must be 80 of them) or of Tori, the goddess herself. (Yeah, okay I'm a bit biased). If you're not an Ears with Feet, though, this may not be a good buy for you.
For all of you who have spent countless hours lying in bed listening to Tori and wondering what she meant there... or what was that supposed to mean?... this is the book for you.
