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Dan Goldman

Autore di Chasing Echoes

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Fonte dell'immagine: By Dan Goldman - Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=47979751

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Opere di Dan Goldman

Chasing Echoes (2019) 23 copie
Priya's Shakti (2014) — Illustratore — 22 copie
Red Light Properties (2014) 11 copie
Priya's Mirror (2016) — Illustratore — 3 copie
Secret KGB UFO Files (1999) 2 copie

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Chew, Volume 09: Chicken Tenders (2015) — Illustratore — 155 copie

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male
Attività lavorative
illustrator

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Note: I received an ARC sample from the publisher at ALA Annual 2019.
 
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fernandie | 2 altre recensioni | Sep 15, 2022 |
The artwork is excellent -- it combines photo (or photorealistic) backgrounds/settings with illustrated characters, to a wonderful effect. The illustrations themselves are beautiful (and appropriately scary at times). I particularly liked that the panels were not traditional rectangular or sharp-edged panels, but instead had curved edges and more of a smooth flow to them.

The subject may be a bit triggering, or at least upsetting, for some people, but it's an important topic that I'm glad to see addressed. I appreciated the incorporation of traditional Indian deities -- who needs made up superheroes when you can draw on such a rich history of colorful, powerful, and interesting beings?

I haven't yet explored any of the interactive elements (you can download an app and then scan pages to access extra content), but I think it's an interesting idea and, especially for a subject like this, a valuable addition.
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fernandie | 3 altre recensioni | Sep 15, 2022 |
2 stars for the story. I don’t know who thought using real pictures as a backdrop for comic book drawn characters was a good idea, but it looks terrible, like some B-grade BS you would see on late night MTV in the 90s.
 
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SGTCat | 3 altre recensioni | Feb 25, 2021 |
A Jewish American family bickers, squabbles and kvetches their way through Poland on a quest to find traces of their family roots from before the devastation of World War II and the Holocaust. Of particular interest is an old mill which, um, well, try not to look at the cover if you want to be in suspense about that.

Of course, the story is less about the quest and more about the relationships, at the center of which is the family black sheep, Malka. She's in quite the slump: jobless, broke, diagnosed with ADHD, facing eviction with no new home lined up, shamed for having had bed bugs, and being told by her son that he'd rather live in another state with her ex-husband. And on top of all this, she just found out via Facebook that she has been left out of the family pilgrimage.

The relationships in the book are almost too realistic, being muddled and focused on the little things that bug each other. The developments of the story are almost too realistic also, with the victories being as small and muted as the setbacks.

In the end, I never warmed up to sad sack Malka and the rest of the family irritated as much as they interested me. Also, the storytelling relied heavily on the reader studying the family tree provided at the front of the book, with at least one character going unnamed for much of the book and the actual familial relationships hardly explained in the story proper. And then there's that mill on the cover.

But the biggest problem I had with the book occurs on page 75. The family goes to an Elton John concert, and rather than working out some way to present the music graphically, the author actually inserts this text in the word balloons coming out of the singer's mouth: "Elton John's song lyrics are copyrighted by Universal Music Publishing -- and were not available for this graphic novel." This serves no purpose other than to display pettiness and to throw me out of the narrative. So here I am being petty in return: a third star was not available for this graphic novel.
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villemezbrown | 2 altre recensioni | Apr 28, 2020 |

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