Postcards
"The inventive writers and illustrators who crafted these transporting stories just may convince you to trash your BlackBerry and buy some stamps."--Frank Warren, author of PostSecretYou've seen them at flea markets and in antique shops and used-book stores across the country: Vintage postcards inscribed with handwritten notes, evocative messages that capture a thought, an expression, a concern, a snapshot of someone's life once upon a time. Jason Rodriguez, acclaimed editor of Elk's Run, collected a remarkable array of these correspondences, dispersed them among thirty-three of comics' greatest creators, and asked each to craft a story about the person who sent it. The result is a vividly imagined, gorgeously rendered graphic anthology illustrating tales of romance, adventure, hardship, and mystery. In Postcards, these gifted artists share some of the richest and most inventive work of their careers.From the Hardcover edition.
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The quality of art and storytelling was inconsistent
Blue – good art, but felt like ithe story was trying to come off as deep instead of just being so 3
Time – I love Tom Beland, great art and great story 5
Meet me in dreamland – I like what the story addresses two women, from different classes in love , however, the story would have been more enjoyable if they made it more clear of what happened to the missing girl 3
Taken on Faith – wasn't that interesting to me, but decent 3
Send Louis – hard to read, and poor quality of editing the image on the postcard in 2
Res Libero – Really?! She broke her leg, by tripping over Nothing! thus 2
Homesick – an okay story 3
Cora's dress – touching, I suppose 3
Joyous Eastertide – oddly wonderful 4
Tic-Tac Bang-bang – not bad 3
Quarantine – I wish I could see this go further 4
Best Side Out – quite enjoyable when a woman , who seems like an outsider, outsmarts her husband, who deserves it, with a friend 4
Intersection – delightful in a manner similar to the last tale 4
The Midnight Caller – fount it to be too much/too campy 2
Operation torch – I liked it 3.5
History of a Marriage – not the most moving of a life collage, but not bad 3
