Alex Raymond: His Life And Art | 
| Authors: Tom Roberts, Alex Raymond
Publisher: Adventure House
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  13 reviews
Sales Rank: 123887
Media: Hardcover
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 320
Shipping Weight (lbs): 3.6
Dimensions (in): 12.1 x 9.1 x 1.1
ISBN: 1886937788
Dewey Decimal Number: 709
EAN: 9781886937789
ASIN: 1886937788
Publication Date: February 13, 2008
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Product Description
Complete with a foreword by George Lucas and an introduction by famed artist James Bama, Alex Raymond: His Life and Art delves deep into the history and work of this internationally famous artist, showcasing never-before-known facts and art that transcended the confines of a comic strip page and make him more than the renowned artist of Flash Gordon.
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Alex Raymond: His Art and His Life July 19, 2008
Enjoyed the book very much. My father, Toby Cromwell, served in the military as a Marine with Alex during WWII. I never heard much about my father's time during his years in the military, so the chapter during Alex's time in the military helped put some more pieces of the puzzle together. Thank you.
Rob Cromwell
Lots of good and rare stuff! July 10, 2008
Just a quick review for those of you still hesitating wether you should buy this book or not.
Buy it! I'd say.
It's loaded with rare artwork and photos of Raymond in action.
The selection of drawings are not the usual dailies or sunday pages (Even if there are a few of those too.) but it's mostly rare and/or previously unseen stuff. Several of these "unpublished" pieces has actually appeared in Russ Cochrans "Graphic Gallery", but that was a long time ago.
One thing that bothered me was that all of the black and white line art drawings had been reproduced in a way that they look like "grey" drawings instead. Raymonds sharp ink lines has been changed into grey lines where the pixels shows. (If you own the book: Take a close look again if you don't believe me.)
The black and white images could have been so much sharper reproduced.
Too bad on an otherwise excellent book.
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 Alex Raymond - trendsetter June 9, 2008
Alex Raymond, a giant in the comics world. Though his intentions are genuine,this book lacks the quality of design it deserves. A lack of reprints of Raymond's classic comic strips is it's major downfall. Inferior paper and binding cheapens the subject matter. Alex Raymond deserves better.
 Raymond deserves MUCH better May 27, 2008
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
If you've been waiting for a good, solid book on Alex Raymond, this isn't it. An artist of Raymond's stature and influence deserves much better than this effort. Roberts does a good job reproducing some little known Raymond art and that is a treat for fans of his work, but as a writer and biographer he really falls down, providing little insight into either Raymond's art or life. The book reads as if the author just "dump-trucked" everything he could find out about Raymond and his creations into the book with little thought to overall theme, organization, and detail selection. Hence areas where he has a lot of information, e.g. the movement of Raymond's ship during the war or the cast of Flash Gordon movies, are way over-developed to no purpose. There's little presentation of Raymond's character or analysis of his art and his contribution to the medium and to American popular culture. This is more of a fanzine Raymond-fest on slick paper than a solid, professional biography. We'll have to keep waiting for a good book on this great artist. He certainly deserves one.
Singular Alex Raymond Reference April 6, 2008
0 out of 2 found this review helpful
This book covers in deep detail the many accomplishments of want-to-be Illustrator , and Comic Strip Cartoonist Alex Raymond, whose early work on FLASH GORDON , and his late work on RIP KIRBY, earned him
a worthy Award WInning Career in the Sunday and Daily Comic Strips.
A small matter of less-than-perfect images of those Strips is a niggling point, but notwithstanding , the book is a complex,complete and coherent revisitation of the Legendary Alex Raymonds work.
A great thanks from a grateful Fan.
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