What is life, after all, if we don’t play favourites and love some people more than others? 🙂 My favourites were Kevin Nowlan (who illustrated the first chapter and part of the eighth chapter) and Scott Hampton who illustrated the hundred-page mammoth seventh chapter and part of the third chapter. Though I loved all the artists’ work, I liked some of them more. A must read for lovers of the original book and for all Gaiman fans. The galaxy of artists has done its work brilliantly in ‘The Graveyard Book’ and I think this edition on its own is a brilliant literary graphic work of art. I didn’t realize the full effect of it till I picked the graphic novel version of ‘Coraline’ and ‘The Sandman’ – both Gaiman books known for their artwork – and checked them in comparison. I really mean it in its best, most brilliant sense. But here, I am not using it just for effect. Words like ‘stunning’, ‘amazing’, ‘wonderful’ (my favourite) have become clichéd these days because we meet them in every page and sometimes every passage we read. So it was nine chapters and eight artists – and the result was a stunning work of art. (there is one chapter on which two artists have worked and there is another chapter on which three artists have worked). Russell had assembled a galaxy of eight artists (including himself) and asked each artist to work on a chapter. My first introduction to Gaiman’s work was Russell’s graphic adaptation of ‘Coraline’ and so I was excited. It was adapted into graphic novel form by Craig Russell, who had done similar work on Gaiman’s ‘Coraline’. I have wanted to read this book for a while and I was hoping to read Gaiman’s original, but when I saw the graphic novel adaptation, I couldn’t’ resist getting it. One of the books that I discovered was the two volume edition of the graphic novel adaptation of Neil Gaiman’s ‘The Graveyard Book’. I discovered new books that day which I hadn’t seen anywhere or heard anyone recommend – they were beautiful surprises which made me very happy.
Though these days I discover most new books through blogs and the internet, the bookshop still holds surprises and beautiful gems. I wondered why I don’t go to bookshops more often, because I love it every time I do. All the old memories of shopping in bookshops came back – the beautiful ambience, the fragrance of books, the wonderful new discoveries, the gentle music, the book-ish conversation with the bookshop assistants. I spent the whole evening there and couldn’t leave at the end of it. A few weeks back I went to the bookshop after a very long time – a real bookshop.
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