Byrne ISAMBARD KINGDOM BRUNEL A graphic biography

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Stan: Nowy
Rok wydania (xxxx): 2006
Język: angielski
Cechy: czarno-biały,

ISAMBARD KINGDOM BRUNEL
A graphic biography
Written by Mr EUGENE BYRNE
Illustrated by Mr SIMON GURR
The Brunel Graphic Biography, or ‘Brunel comic’ as it became known, was a steam-powered feast of entertainment brought to you through the miracle of modern precision-engineered cartoon.

Written by Eugene Byrne and illustrated by Simon Gurr, with an introduction by Adam Hart-Davis, the comic proved to be more successful than the team could have hoped for.
Simon draws and writes comics, and creates pieces for web and print: some of his web games are live on the award-winning ARKive site and he has illustrated several books for Oxford University Press, including Arnold Bennett’s The Card and The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins. His published comics include The Enhancer, co-written with Peter Gurr, St. Vincent’s Rock, written by Eugene Byrne, The Day of The Triffids, serialised for newspaper by the artist and Isambard Kingdom Brunel: A Graphic History, written by Eugene Byrne.
Eugene is Consulting Editor of Venue magazine in Bristol, as well as an author of 3 novels, and freelance journalist for newspapers and magazines. Born in Ireland, Eugene grew up in Burnham-on-Sea and settled in Bristol in 1981 after seeing a mummy being dissected live on CCTV at the City Museum & Art Gallery!

Opis książki:
This 100-page book was published to celebrate the bicentenary of Brunel's birth, and made available mainly to local schools, libraries etc in Bristol, to encourage children to learn about science, engineering, and local history. It's not for sale through bookshops and so the only other way to get hold of it is secondhand. It's a cross between a 'proper' book and a graphic novel, the result being closer to a (heavily) illustrated novel than anything else. There's very little of the sequential graphic narrative that a proper comicbook would use - most of the story is told via the text. Brunel scholars will learn little new, as pretty much all the material is drawn from other biographies, but that's hardly the target audience. To try and keep it interesting, there are several jokes, sarcastic comments etc, although to my taste it could have happily had far more of these as it still often reads as a dry history lesson. The illustration is good and does help understand the text, although there are very few technical diagrams that might be suitable for a secondary school science subject, for example. This is a history of technology which is fairly light on the technology, although this is true also of the "grown-up" Brunel biographies. I felt it missed some of the criticisms of Brunel's personality that Adrian Vaughan's biography did a good job of highlighting (in many ways, he wasn't a particularly pleasant person, especially in his business dealings). But my main complaint is simply that the comicstrip concept wasn't used fully. I'd far prefer to have had less text and more rollicking pictorial narrative - especially since this would have helped the book to "show" rather than "tell" - as it is, there's far too much telling and too little showing. Having said all that, I'm sure it would make a great book for a youngster already showing signs of an interest in the engineering field.

Wydawnictwo: Brunel 200
Rok wydania: 2006
Język: angielski
Liczba stron: 98
Oprawa: miękka

Stan: pomagazynowy, niewielkie uszkodzenia, środek stan bardzo dobry

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Byrne ISAMBARD KINGDOM BRUNEL A graphic biography