Epileptic

Rating:
Summary: WOW!
Review: This book is amazingly great! I want the next volume NOW! Order this if you want a really wonderful comic that is a great first exposure to the French expressionist comics movement. This is definitly a must own book. I really admire this guy, David B. Hopefully, my work will be able to match this man's, someday. Everything about this book is wonderful: paper, ink, art, story, etc., etc. An inspiration, scrible it down in your memo pad!

Rating:
Summary: WOW!
Review: This book is amazingly great! I want the next volume NOW! Order this if you want a really wonderful comic that is a great first exposure to the French expressionist comics movement. This is definitly a must own book. I really admire this guy, David B. Hopefully, my work will be able to match this man's, someday. Everything about this book is wonderful: paper, ink, art, story, etc., etc. An inspiration, scrible it down in your memo pad!

Rating:
Summary: Brilliant
Review: To people who reject newer narrative forms, I have always said that genius surfaces in every medium. The graphic novel MAUS is a good proof. Now, I have found another one in this fine work by David B. Epileptic is the life story, actually, of the author/artist, and his family as they go through the profoundly moving events surrounding David's older brother's epilepsy. I must say that the casual cruelty to which this child was subjected by the community was shocking. While it is true that that is the basic core around which the story develops, it is also about David's coming to grips with his own personal fears and demons, along with his development as an artist. It was interesting to see how much quackery his family was subjected to -- the desperate parents who love their son so much that they try anything at all that seems to offer hope. At any rate, I recommend this book to anyone with an interest in the subject, and also anyone who is interested in outstanding graphic work.