  | Book Details Title: BOWIE: Stardust, Rayguns, & Moonage Daydreams (OGN biography of Ziggy Stardust, gift for Bowie fan, gift for music lover, Neil Gaiman, Michael Allred) |
Book DescriptionReview “This tribute is a ravishing spectacle” , Publishers Weekly”BOWIE: Stardust, Rayguns & Moonage Daydreams is an absolute dream come true… there have been other books that meld comics with rock and roll. None of them, though, have done it so seamlessly and so attractively as BOWIE: Stardust, Rayguns & Moonage Daydreams does. For fans of David Bowie, Mike Allred, rock and roll, comics and art, this is a must-have purchase.” — Andy Burns, BiffBamPop.com”So, does it live up to the hype? Yes, and more so!…This is the best I’ve seen out of the Allreds, as they surpassed an already incredibly high bar. Pick up the book, put on some David Bowie on your listening device of choice, and let Major Tom and Ground Control bring you on a journey! 10/10″ — Olivier Roth, ComicsTheGathering.com”David Bowie, perhaps more than any other figure in Rock music, translates almost flawlessly into a comic book narrative. Not just his life as a performer, but his life as a person….Visually, Allred’s contribution is a tour de force, this is the story he has been waiting years to tell and the payoff is worth the wait…this book is much more than the sum of its amazing parts. While I am admittedly a huge Bowie fan myself, I found this book to be enjoyable beyond my own adoration of the man and his music.” — Shawn Warner, ComicCrusaders.com “I was thrilled and honored to receive an advance copy of BOWIE: Stardust, Rayguns & Moonage Daydreams. I had no idea what to expect. Being a superfan, I jealously believed that no one could love Bowie like I, that no one knows his songs and lyrics like I do. Ha! This book sure proves me wrong! It was so fun to be taken on a trip through Bowie’s humble beginnings to his super stardom. The images are so gorgeous. It was especially fun to recognize what the drawings mean and what songs the lyric quotes come from. I have A LOT of books about David Bowie. This one is extra special indeed.” — Jane Weidlin, The Go-Gos”Allred & Company have created a Bowie biography that’s as colorful as his persona, as deep and varied as his music, and as cosmic as his life.” — Patton OswaltMike Allred and David Bowie are a match made in glam heaven, so much so that BOWIE: Stardust, Rayguns, & Moonage Daydreams feels like the product of a kind of cosmic spontaneous generation, but I know better. I know about the painstaking work Mike, Steve, and Laura put into crafting this magnificent union of sound and vision. It’s more than a tribute, more than a biography; it’s a signal straight from outer space beamed to Bowie fans of today, and more importantly, tomorrow. — Phillip Hester (Mythic, Deep Sleeper)This book is innovative, provocative and endlessly compelling, just like the legend himself. Steve Horton and Mike and Laura Allred have done a sensational job bringing Bowie and the transformative energy of his music to life. — Devin Grayson (Marvel Rising; Nightwing, Huntress)If you are a Bowie fanatic and love Mike and Laura Allred’s art, then you are in for a visual treat down memory lane as we follow the career of David Bowie and his many alter egos. This book is a visually lush account of one of the most eclectic superstars of our times presented beautifully by Steve Horton and the Allreds. Every single page is informative and poster worthy. — Jimmy Palmiotti (Harley Quinn)BOWIE: Stardust, Rayguns, & Moonage Daydreams is a gem, a stunning accomplishment that pushes the boundaries of the graphic novel medium, much as Bowie himself pushed the boundaries of music, fashion and culture. — Russell Lissau (Old Wounds, The Batman Strikes!) Read more From the Author Michael Allred is the artist behind such classic graphic novel works as Madman, Silver Surfer, Red Rocket 7, and iZombie. Michael’s work on the eighth volume of the Fables graphic novel landed him on the New York Times best-seller list for graphic fiction for ten weeks in a row. He has been co-creator or substantial contributor to such seminal works as Sandman, Batman ’66, X-Force, X-Statix, and iZombie. This last became a TV series on the CW in 2015 and was just renewed for a fourth season. Allred has more than 35,000 Twitter followers and 8,000 Facebook likes. Steve Horton is the New York Times best-selling co-creator of Bowie: Stardust, Rayguns and Moonage Daydreams, with Michael Allred; the critically acclaimed IDW series Satellite Falling, and the Dark Horse series Amala’s Blade. Horton has written for a number of comic book publishers, including DC, Image, Dark Horse and IDW.Laura Allred is an Eisner-winning colorist. She has colored most of Michael Allred’s work for decades. Her award came in 2012 for her work coloring iZombie and Madman after two previous nominations, in 1998 for Red Rocket 7 and in 2000 for Madman and Happydale. Read more About the Author Michael Allred is the artist behind such classic graphic novel works as Madman, Silver Surfer, Red Rocket 7, and iZombie. Michael’s work on the eighth volume of the Fables graphic novel landed him on the New York Times best-seller list for graphic fiction for ten weeks in a row.Steve Horton is the New York Times best-selling co-creator of Bowie: Stardust, Rayguns and Moonage Daydreams, with Michael Allred; the critically acclaimed IDW series Satellite Falling, and the Dark Horse series Amala’s Blade. Horton has written for a number of comic book publishers, including DC, Image, Dark Horse and IDW. Read more Customers Review: Gorgeous art, truthful but sensitive writing — it is clear that this was a labor of love from start to finish. There’s only one thing that kept me from calling it perfect: they referred, multiple times, to Bowie’s friend and genius behind many of his early Ziggy looks Freddie Burretti as “Freddie Brunetti.” Poor Freddie died as a virtual unknown and deserves better. His tailoring was incredibly innovative and it’s a shame he gets forgotten.Other than that, as I said, this book was lovely and necessary for any Bowie fan. | |
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