Jerusalem. Chronicles from the Holy City.
I bought this book one week ago. I found it by chance lurking around the shelves at the Old Heaven book shop in OCT loft. It's my first comic book in more than two years, being the last one I bought in 2010 at the Forbidden Planet in London while I was living there (it was an issue of Alan Moore's League of Extraordinary Gentlemen)
The book is good, nowhere close to be excellent, but a nice diary of the author's stay in Jerusalem: the drawing style is a less idiosyncratic Art Spiegelman, a little too soft in picturing the wounded land of Israel but effective in the story-telling (the author used to work in animation). I prefer when the story is up to the daily routine of the author and his family rather than attempting at unscrambling the big political and social issues, but in the end it's a good reading.
I've been a huge comics fan since I was a kid: I remember my father's Asterix books the first comics of my life. I wouldn't say not reading any one all this time was something hard to tolerate for me, but maybe more of a white noise in the back of my head.
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Comment by LLY on June 24, 2012 at 4:59pm -
It reminds us of our childhood!I guess you keep a child's heart which is precious! I just wish I could have more time to read and learn!
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Comment by Zen on my back on June 24, 2012 at 1:39pm -
@P: thanks, I will check it out soon. Never been too much into the 2000 A.D. stuff, but just because translations have always been inconstant and occasional in my language. I have to say all the materials I came across is absolutely brilliant though (Nemesis by Mills and O'Neill, Slaine by Bisley and a few Dredd stories mostly drawn by Ezquerra). As a teenager I was into Marvel and DC's comics and so I learnt to appreciate the so-called British school through Moore, Morrison, Delano's superheroes stints.
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Comment by Profanipenguin on June 23, 2012 at 10:31pm -
I download a lot of comics, because they give me pleasure too. I have all the 2000 A.D.s, all the Sandman stuff, and absolutely loads of other stuff from all eras of comics. You ought to hit demonoid if you miss regular comics, as they are regularly ripped and uploaded there. The .cbr reader is a freebie too.
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Comment by Half moon on June 23, 2012 at 10:04pm -
Deal. :-)
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Comment by Zen on my back on June 23, 2012 at 8:32pm
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@PN: let me finish it first and then you can have it, deal? :)
@FL: I read Shenzhen a few years go, when it first appeared in Italian and loved it. Guy Delisle, who used to work as an animation director, was sent here to oversee the production of some TV series whose title I'm missing at the moment. As you may imagine, Shenzhen 15 years ago was quite a different place and the book is an interesting account of a lost moment of this ever-changing city. You may like or not, it's up to you, but the book is well-written, funny and somewhat quirky, mainly due to the author's naivety.
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Comment by Filthy Lucre on June 23, 2012 at 8:25pm -
I don't understand why I need a comic book to give me insights about living in Shenzhen when I can hit the street every day to see these things first hand. Please explain. I am an avid reader and would love to find something important to read and help me understand what is actually going on with my life, instead of just what I think is going on in my life. Is there a Shenzhen comic book? Maybe you can produce one.
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Comment by Half moon on June 23, 2012 at 8:18pm
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I would like to read it. May I borrow from you please?
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Comment by Zen on my back on June 23, 2012 at 7:50pm
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Just sharing my emotions and experiences with anyone interested. As to the books, yes they are indeed: I suggest you to grab Shenzhen: it's about the author living here in the late nineties, harsh and hilarious at the same time.
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Comment by Filthy Lucre on June 23, 2012 at 7:44pm
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What's your point? Are these comic books full of valuable insights?
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Comment by Zen on my back on June 23, 2012 at 7:07pm
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All the books have been written and first published in French. I have the Italian translations of the first three and then Jerusalem in English. He's pretty famous and his books are easy to find anywhere (and if I found one in China...).
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