Customer Reviews
Splendid - By: Ted Maul, 20 Oct 2008 
This book provides a very good in road to the world of comics for novices,and also provides plenty of opportunity for arguments amongst more knowledgeable readers-for example,why include 4 Daniel Clowes books & ignore the peerless David Boring?. Excellent nonetheless.
An excellent and comprehensive overview. - By: IanW, 27 Aug 2008 
This reallly is a very good book & I'm going to recommend it to a librarian friend of mine who is responsible for selecting graphic novels for Sunderland City library.
Divided into 10 categories, each one has an introduction followed by the 10 most important titles & then the rest. Each title has a synopsis & brief critical appraisal, an age rating, a colour reproduction of the cover and, sometimes, samples of the artwork. The indexes are very useful being by: age range, writer, artist, & title.
As with alll books of this type, you'll wonder why some titles were included & some of your own favourites weren't, but that's alll part of the fun of reading it.
As for how effective it is, I've bought ten titles listed & only financial restraints have stopped me from ordering more. For the moment.
Highly recommended.
