This book cover caught my eye yesterday as I was walking through Bloomsbury: http://www.web-options.com/L1001054.jpg
I went into the shop to have a look at it, and it turns out to be a strange mixture of reportage photography and cartoon drawings of the Herge / Tintin type, called Strong Line, I think. The style is derived from Hiroshige woodblock prints. Anyone, I bought a copy so I could have more time to examine it. It's called The Photographer and is the story of the photographer Didier Lefevre, who went to Afghanistan with MSF in the late 1980s. His photos are used as frames in the cartoon strip, the remaining frames being derived from his photos by the cartoonist Emmanuel Guibert. http://www.amazon.co.uk/Libre-Photographe-Lemercier-Guibert-Lefevre/dp/28001 33724/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1252249828&sr=8-1 The book had excellent reviews from some impressive names, but I can't quite get away from thinking of it as a Tintin adventure, rather than serious journalism. But perhaps it's reaching audiences who aren't used to this sort of photojournalism. I've never been in a 'graphic novel' shop before. Strange place, and a strange medium. 'Graphic novel' is a terrible phrase which only draws attention to itself and to the terms 'cartoon' and 'comic book' which it's trying to avoid. Unless I think in French, in which case they are bandes dessinees, or BDs, which is a much better term. Bob -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
