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Russ Kick is the editor of the three-volume anthology The Graphic Canon and the bestselling anthologies You Are Being Lied To, Everything You Know is Wrong, 50 Things You're Not Supposed to Know and Death Poems: Classic, Contemporary, Witty, Serious, Tear-Jerking, Wise, Profound, Angry, Funny, toon meer Spiritual, Atheistic, Uncertain, Personal, Political, Mythic, Earthy, and Only Occasionally Morbid. He is also the creator of the popular website www.thememoryhole.com. (Bowker Author Biography) toon minder
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Everything You Know Is Wrong: The Disinformation Guide to Secrets and Lies (2002) — Redacteur — 986 exemplaren, 5 besprekingen
You Are Being Lied To: The Disinformation Guide to Media Distortion, Historical Whitewashes, and Cultural Myths (2001) — Redacteur; Medewerker, sommige edities706 exemplaren, 3 besprekingen
Everything You Know About God Is Wrong: The Disinformation Guide to Religion (2007) — Redacteur — 309 exemplaren, 5 besprekingen
50 Things You're Not Supposed to Know (2003) 302 exemplaren, 1 bespreking
100 Things You're Not Supposed To Know (2004) 288 exemplaren, 7 besprekingen
The Graphic Canon, Vol. 3: From Heart of Darkness to Hemingway to Infinite Jest (2013) — Redacteur — 151 exemplaren, 1 bespreking
50 Things You're Not Supposed To Know, Volume 2 (2004) 131 exemplaren, 2 besprekingen
Quotes That Will Change Your Life (2015) — Redacteur — 69 exemplaren, 2 besprekingen

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This is a pretty wide-ranging graphic sampler of crime and mystery fiction, spanning almost the entire history of literary creation. Everything from ancient Greek tragedy to the Bible to Agatha Christie and Edgar Allan Poe are represented, in a variety of graphic styles. Each piece has a nice introduction, to both the original work and the graphic (and sometimes textual) adaptation. There are a whole bunch of these volumes, and I'll probably continue to delve in, but in some ways they are like short story collections, with some pieces only a couple of pages long, some longer, and others really like annotated paintings, with only the barest interpretation of the original work. It's an interesting approach, though I do tend to favour long-form literature, so I'm not sure how much I got out of it. I did share a couple of snips with others though.… (meer)
 
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Note: I accessed a digital review copy of this book through Edelweiss.
 
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Note: I accessed a digital review copy of this book through Edelweiss.
 
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fernandie | 2 andere besprekingen | Sep 15, 2022 |
I enjoyed it when I read it in high school but very much a book that is only good when it is applicable to your life.
 
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