The world of the comic book is mystifying, adventurous and packed full of heroes, villains and the role playing attendees that flock to Comic-Con. Super Graphic comes courtesy of one of the art directors of Wired magazine and traverses this graphic world through a heady combination of pie charts, timelines, bar graphs, scatter plots, and much more.Super Graphic gives the reader a unique look at the intricate and oftentimes contradictory storylines that are a comic book. It also shares valuable advice on navigating the complex pages of many of the longest-running, most popular and best loved graphic novels and comics that are out there.
Asylum ($30) is a visual dairy which documents the decay of state mental hospitals throughout the United States. For more than half history of our nation, mental hospitals were a disturbing feature of the landscape of America. Between the middle of the 19th century and the start of the 20th, more than 250 institutions were built across the […]