Spent the last week staying with my Nana, helping her around the house since she had her hip operation, was a pretty good week kinda quiet, but on the upside I managed to get through Kavalier and Clay, Hitchhiker’s Guide and V for Vendetta.
Kavalier and Clay is just brilliant, the story is an amalgamation of the experiences of many Golden Age comic book creators, such as Will Eisner (The Spirit), Sigel and Shuster (Superman) and CC Beck (Captain Marvel). The comic creation parts of book really drew me in and really got me excited about the medium again, in fact after reading about Joe Kavalier’s amazing pencil work, the first thing I did was break out the George B. Bridgeman and Burne Hogarth anatomy books and started drawing.
The self destructive natures of Josef and Sammy throughout the tale are harrowing and well embellished to the point that when the book took a downturn it pretty much ruined my mood for the whole day.
I’d recommend this book to anyone who has an interest in the history of comics and of the experience of growing up in New York in the 1940s, excellent read.
Right, I’m going back to the drawing board.
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