08-10-2004, 11:10 AM
If you are a comic book fan (and if you are reading this I would say the likelyhood of that is high,) I would give my highest possible recommendation to Michael Chabon's wonderful novel, "The Amazing Adventures of Cavalier and Clay."
This book is a fictionalization of the Golden Age of comic books. What Chabon has done in his book is taken every important event to happen to comics in the 30's and 40's and condensed them down into the lives of two would-be comic book colaborators. Chabon is the amazing wordsmith behind "The Wonderboys" and one of the screenwriters of Spider-man 2. He is as close to a ComicBook historian as you will ever find, and knows this subject matter inside and out. The world he invents in "The Adventures of Cavalier and Clay" is nothing short of amazing and will delight you beyond anything you could hope for. I can not recommend this book enough. Please, go out and pick up a copy. As a ComicBook fan you will not be disappointed.
This book is a fictionalization of the Golden Age of comic books. What Chabon has done in his book is taken every important event to happen to comics in the 30's and 40's and condensed them down into the lives of two would-be comic book colaborators. Chabon is the amazing wordsmith behind "The Wonderboys" and one of the screenwriters of Spider-man 2. He is as close to a ComicBook historian as you will ever find, and knows this subject matter inside and out. The world he invents in "The Adventures of Cavalier and Clay" is nothing short of amazing and will delight you beyond anything you could hope for. I can not recommend this book enough. Please, go out and pick up a copy. As a ComicBook fan you will not be disappointed.