Snow White

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Award winning graphic novelist Matt Phelan delivers a darkly stylized noir Snow White set against the backdrop of Depression era Manhattan.The scene New York City, 1928 The dazzling lights cast shadows that grow ever darker as the glitzy prosperity of the Roaring Twenties screeches to a halt Enter a cast of familiar characters a young girl, Samantha White, returning after being sent away by her cruel stepmother, the Queen of the Follies, years earlier her father, the King of Wall Street, who survives the stock market crash only to suffer a strange and sudden death seven street urchins, brave protectors for a girl as pure as snow and a mysterious stock ticker that holds the stepmother in its thrall, churning out ticker tape imprinted with the wicked wordsAnother More Beautiful KILLIn a moody, cinematic new telling of a beloved fairy tale, extraordinary graphic novelist Matt Phelan captures the essence of classic film noir on the page and draws a striking distinction between good and evil. Best Read Snow White By Matt Phelan For Kindle ePUB or eBook – kino-fada.fr 3.5 stars.I kid you not when I say that it took me 5 minutes no , no less to read this graphic novel.Why Because it contains scarce series of dialogs And that s a problem, even though the aquarelle illustrations are beautiful, because it takes away from the substance of the story.When I say that the illustrations are pretty to look at, I do mean it, but they are also quite simple It works to release a peculiar atmosphere which in return releases emotions inside the reader and enthrals 3.5 stars.I kid you not when I say that it took me 5 minutes no , no less to read this graphic novel.Why Because it contains scarce series of dialogs And that s a problem, even though the aquarelle illustrations are beautiful, because it takes away from the substance of the story.When I say that the illustrations are pretty to look at, I do mean it, but they are also quite simple It works to release a peculiar atmosphere which in return releases emotions inside the reader and enthrals him her, but if we compare this work to The Arrival by Shaun Tan, for instance, which contains no dialog at all, we can see the difference in quality The Arrival is rich in world building, whereas Snow White A Graphic Novel has a different style, a simpler one, th...I d have said it couldn t be done The Snow White fairytale has been told and retold and overdone to death until there s not much left to do but forget about it entirely Not that every graphic novel out there has to be based on an original idea And not that the world is fed up with fairytales now it isn t But when I heard about Matt Phelan s Snow White A Graphic Novel I was willing to give it a chance simply because I trusted its creator and not its material The crazy thing is that even b I d have said it couldn t be done The Snow White fairytale has been told and retold and...I may have sighed when I opened this one My son has been watching Once Upon a Time on Netflix and I m kinda all set on Snow White these days This, however, is a creative retelling of the original tale Once the dwarfs appear, the story ...I am a fan of the rich, sensitive, image based storytelling of Matt Phelan He s nostalgic, he loves history, and loves to create historical fiction, rendering stories with such quiet intensity it is hard to think most video gaming children will appreciate them, but I think of them as all ages picturebooks and graphic novels Not easily categorizable, which is good, he s himself, this Phelan Who is almost equally tween and teen, illustrator and graphic novelist Check out Bluffton My Summers w I am a fan of the rich, sensitive, image based storytelling of Matt Phelan He s nostalgic, he loves history, and loves to create historical fiction, rendering stories with such quiet intensity it is hard to t...This story was very short It had very minimal dialogue and this made the story hard to follow, even though there were plenty of pictures It just made the story feel sort of choppy However, the art was very beautiful, so that helped bump the rating up just a little bit.I was convinced for about 2 3rds of this book that it would be a 3 star read, but it won me over in the end.A beautiful, impressionistic retelling of the classic fairy tale, set in depression era NY I loved, SO MUCH, the recasting of Snow White s 7 Dwarves I don t want to say too much, because spoilers But it was a...A fairly straight forward retelling of Snow White, set in the late 1920s The illustrations are beautiful, and the whole is very sparing on dialog Interestingly, Phelan chose to borrow a lot from Disney s version, enough so that it almost reads as an adaptation of an adaptation at times.This one is really hard to rate it because while I really enjoyed the graphic novel, I also think it neededsubstance.a better review to possibly come in the futureI m not sure what I expected when I picked up this graphic novel, but it wasn t what I got I love the art, and the setting of this classic story in New York City, circa 1928, is a brilliant idea The plot does not stray far from the Disney adaptation, and the casting of Snow and the seven street urchins was quite fun There is so little dialog, that this might almost be a wordless picture book, and while the art is wonderful, I found the story itself just OK So, 4 stars for the art, and 2 for I m not sure what I expected when I picked up this graphic novel, but it wasn t what I got I love the art, and the setting of this classic story in New York City, circa 1928, is a brilliant idea The plot does not stray far from the Disney adaptation, and the casting of Snow and the seven street urchins was quite fun There is so little dialog, that this might almo...I received a copy of Snow White from Walker Books Australia to review I love fairy tale retellings so I was excited to read a graphic novel retelling I still need to read the original fairy tale though I don t know much about the pre Depression era in America so it was interesting to see a version of Snow White told during that time Even though that wasn t the focus of the story.I really liked the illustrations in this, they were beautiful and very film noir which I ve never seen in a graphic I received a copy of Snow White from Walker Books Australia to review I love fairy tale retellings so I was excited to read a graphic novel retelling I still need to read the original fairy tale though I don t know much about the pre Depression era in America so it was intere...

Snow White
  • English
  • 19 February 2017
  • Hardcover
  • 216 pages
  • 0763672335
  • Matt Phelan
  • Snow White