Comic Book Encyclopedia: The Ultimate Guide to Characters, Graphic Novels, Writers, and Artists in (Hardcover) by Ron Goulart

from LisCarey

This is a big, beautiful, richly illustrated book that covers a lot of territory-the history and development of comic books and graphic novels. It attempts to cover the entire field, characters, artists, writers, and give at least a basic understanding of the history. Unfortunately, as it says on...

from Artur

This book could have been so much better. The entries are incomplete, leaving out a great deal of information. They also vary in format, which means different types of information are missing in different entries. This book can only very loosely be referred to as an "encyclopedia". It is more lik...

from schteve

A missed opportunity, this 'encyclopedia' is too skimpy on detail for the entries it does contain but on top of that it misses entries that it should have included. People might argue that maybe Harvey Comics' Hot Stuff, Little Lotta and Wendy the Good Little Witch were second stringers behind Ca...