![]() ![]() The first story Maya Angelou ever told me was how Elmo saved Christmas. TO WATCH THE VIDEO FOLLOW THE LINK BELOW: If you have any questions, suggestions, or requests for books you would like to see me review, please feel free to comment below. The Adventures of Captain Underpants by Dav Pilkey (Scholastic)Ĭalvin and Hobbes by Bill Waterson (Andrews McMeel Publishing, LLC) The Complete MAUS by Art Spiegelman (Pantheon Books)įun Home: A Family Tragicomic by Alison Bechdel (Houghton Mifflin) Watchmen by Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons (DC Comics)Ī Contract With God by Will Eisner (W.W. The Sandman: The Doll’s House by Neil Gaiman (Vertigo)įrom Hell by Alan Moore and Eddie Campbell (Top Shelf Productions) The House of Secrets by Various (DC Comics) King by Ho Che Anderson (Fantagraphic Books) The Plot: The Secret History of the Protocols of the Elders of Zion by Will Eisner (W.W. 1 by Grant Morrison and Frank Quitely (DC Comics)ĭeath the Deluxe Edition by Neil Gaiman (Vertigo) But if it isn’t hopefully this video, and the two essays I’ve written about it will.ĭaytripper by Gabriel Ba & Fabio Moon (Vertigo)Īll Star Superman Vol. That should be a universal appeal enough to convince the reader that this book is made of magic. Instead it finds an individual man who is trying to find some sense of meaning or purpose in his life. There are many works which try to tell readers that life is wonderful and strange, but Daytripper is unique amongst this bunch because it actually shows them this through Bras’s first kiss, meeting the woman who would become his wife, being a spectator in a home invasion, writing close to a hundred obituaries for a Plane Crash, discovering he has terminal cancer, and losing his friend to madness.ĭaytripper doeesn’t take the life of a superhero or a mythic being as its protagonist. This last word is important because when you say “the book is about life” the reader may summon up images of Once-A-Day-Faith Calendars or else platitude ridden Valedictorian speeches. Instead Gabriel Ba and Fabio Moon try to show the odd magic that makes up life without resorting to clichés. Looking at Bras part of that standard is creating something out of his life, and so his novel, and then eventually his life, becomes that very means.ĭaytripper is a book that explores life in all of its absurdity and mundane reality, and while each chapter ends in death, the larger creative goal seems to be to demonstrate that life is not purely beautiful or purely meaningless. Every son in his own way tries to live up to what he believes to be the supposed expectations his father establishes during his life. His father is a world famous novelist and throughout the book Bras mourns the fact that he and his father do not always have the best working relationship, however beneath this I believe as a fascinating glimpse into father-son relationships. The graphic novel is about the life of the writer Bras de Olivas Domingo who, before he publishes his first novel to great success, works as an obituary writer. The reader doesn’t need my validation however, nor does the book and so in this video I try to just discuss a few of the themes addressed in the book. Books like Watchmen, The Sandman, and MAUS consistently appear on lists of truly great and wonderful graphic novels yet Daytripper is left from such lists for some mysterious reason. This is a book that, in my estimation, is one of the most underappreciated graphic novels in the ever growing canon of what Scott McCloud refers to as Graphic Art. In this video I provide a brief review of the graphic novel Daytripper. ![]()
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