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Super Graphic
A Visual Guide to the Comic Book Universe • By Tim Leong
The comic book universe is adventurous, mystifying and filled with heroes, villains and
cosplaying Comic-Con attendees. This book by one of Wired magazine’s art directors traverses
the graphic world through a collection of pie charts, bar graphs, timelines, scatter
plots and more. Super Graphic offers readers a unique look at the intricate and
sometimes contradictory storylines that weave their way through comic books and shares
advice for navigating the pages of some of the most popular, longest-running and bestloved
comics and graphic novels out there. From a colourful breakdown of the DC Comics
reader demographic to a witty Venn diagram of superhero comic tropes and a Chris
Ware sadness scale, this book charts the most arbitrary and monumental characters,
moments and equipment of the wide world of comics.
Tim Leong is the director of digital design at Wired magazine
and founder of the Eisner Award–nominated Comic Foundry
magazine.
Super Graphic
£11.99 UK
PB • 978-1-4521-1388-3
235 x 184 mm (9£ x 7£ in), 192 pp,
6-page gatefold, die-cut cover,
full-colour images throughout
Rights: W
Comics/Pop Culture
Pub Month: September
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Also available:
The Boy Who Loved Batman
£19.99 HC
978-0-8118-7550-9
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