Being enormously perceptive I realised this trend replicated that of the reception to Charles Burns’ THE HIVE (also vol.2 of 3 also consistently stunning also a sort of an open secret). Genius Isolated (Vol.1) was met with much fanfare and fan love on its release in 2011 while the second volume’s reception was so muted I was surprised when it arrived from my LCS (the LCS of the elephantine memory no pre-order is too “pre” for OKComics!) having not realised it had even been released. These two volumes comprise the first two thirds of a project to detail and illustrate the talent and life of the monumentally gifted, butchly moustachioed and abrasively tempered comic artist Alex Toth. IDW, £37.99 (2011) GENIUS, ILLUSTRATED: THE LIFE AND ART OF ALEX TOTH GENIUS, ISOLATED: THE LIFE AND ART OF ALEX TOTHīy Alex Toth, Dean Mullaney & Bruce Canwell But only two have come out yet so here’s what happened when I read them and then tried to write about them.Īll images are sourced from The Internet and this place in particular was very useful: The Library Of American Comics. Now, obviously Alex Toth doesn't deserve two books. These two books were about one man: Alex Toth. Sometimes I read books about the people who make comics.
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