The Encyclopedia of Early Earth by Isabel Greenberg is a graphic novel centred around one man in a mixture of myths and legends.
This is probably one of the most beautiful books I have ever read.
Each picture is a lino print in these really beautiful rich dark colours with some reds and yellows. If you don't like graphic novels get this book just so it looks good on your coffee table. You never get bored of looking at it, only more and more amazed at how pretty it is. All the words are in the artist's/author's handwriting. It's just gorgeous.
The book has one main plot with many little stories woven into it, much like a season of Veronica Mars ("yes, Veronica Mars has taken over my life" she writes while listening to the Season 1 Soundtrack). Each story can be one page spread to six or seven page spreads with pages being one piece of art to a comic-book-format (both shown in the photos above).
There's a really beautiful mixing of myths, including famous Christian ones (Noah and the Whale) to ones no one has ever heard of before. I loved the twists that the author had put on them. It was just really gorgeous.
I book leaves you with a warm, glowy feeling and do you really need anything else from a book? It's pretty, it belongs on a coffee table, it's a nice mix of old and new, it has a good plot and it leaves you feeling good.
I gave this 5 stars. This is definitely a good starter to graphic novels.
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