Will Eisner

I was really pleased to see Will Eisner

at a Comics Conference

and had his current book signed by him

Are you a Graphics Artist? Do you love Graphic Story Telling? Do you want to really understand the basics? Or is this your first trip into this wonderful art? You've got to read the books I mention below. 

But who was Will Eisner?

Here is the back of one of his books.

Without him one would never fully understand the wonderful Art and the things that many of us reading a Graphic Novel didn't know. Yes, of course, you could still enjoy the books. True. But to understand what they really are, you should read these two books by him.

And if you are considering this as your next project or actually a lifetime sequential art producer, these are really essential.

There are many books that he has written, but the one that I would really ask you to get hold of is this amazing superb book …

Have a great time

and let's get some good

graphic novels in Pakistan.

Get it if you haven't read it …

As a Graphic Novel fan I often re-read the major writings/drawings and look at pictures with their details and, often, discover something new or worth looking at again. Of late, I was re-reading Maus and came across this panel …

It reminded me of my own Breakfast list of Tablets I have to take, given my Prostrate problems, my old Diabetes, a heart attack that you could read about here, and - a little later - a Pacemaker.

You haven't read Maus?

It's the best book about the Holocaust, drawn (and written) by Art Spiegelman, whose father Vladek Spiegelman was a survivor.

It shows the Jews as Mice and the Hitler Gang as Cats.

Maus has won several awards and is considered among the top Graphic Novels. He has also done a lengthy book, called MetaMaus (which includes a CD) that I have … and I've loved it, too. Art was known before this for Raw and his works that were published in several leading Newspapers and Magazines..

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Here are some pieces from Maus

GO! GO! GO!

 

Philip Pullman

Simon Mason put together some of Pullman's pieces in "Daemon Voices - On Stories and Storytelling". An absolutely lovely book. Get it if you are a Pullman Fan.

Pullman has been one of my favourite authors (Have you read "His Dark Materials"? The one I got was a gift from Maha Husain, a wonderful young woman whose father was a great friend of mineI miss him a lot.)

I always thought that if Pullman and I were actual twins, I'd be the poorer twin, unknown and unheard of, while he would be the world famous author. Why would I think that, you ask. 

Well, let me quote Simon about Pullman.

 

Sounds like everything that I love. And, to add to it, he loves Carpentry — something I used to do on the ship and at home. 

Of the many books that I read (from his 29 books so far  —including many children's books), one was "The Good Man Jesus and the Scoundrel Christ", a book that I thoroughly enjoyed. A friend, Riffat Zarreen, bought it with me. So I hope she reads the longish article I am quoting below. It's about why Pullman wrote the piece, since many people were confused by it.

What a lovely article!

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I would strongly suggest that you buy "His Dark Materials"
(and get a few children's books for your kids/siblings.)

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Not fond of reading?
Pity!
However you can still enjoy it:
Audio Versions of the 3 volumes are available.
Also, they are out on film
(the last one coming out soon).