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"Eisner Award Winner! A beautiful wildwood flower in a cluttered field of graphic novels" according to Paul C. Tumey. UPDATE JULY 201Eisner Award Winner! A beautiful wildwood flower in a cluttered field of graphic novels UPDATE JULY 2013: This book has won the 2013 Eisner Award for Best Reality-Based Work. This recognition from what is essentially the Academy Awards of comics is well-deserved and yet more sign this book deserves a large readership.ORIGINAL REVIEW:A masterfully told story of a group of amazing people that saved and shaped a huge part of our musical heritage. As ambitious and densely layered as . : This book has won the 201Eisner Award Winner! A beautiful wildwood flower in a cluttered field of graphic novels UPDATE JULY 2013: This book has won the 2013 Eisner Award for Best Reality-Based Work. This recognition from what is essentially the Academy Awards of comics is well-deserved and yet more sign this book deserves a large readership.ORIGINAL REVIEW:A masterfully told story of a group of amazing people that saved and shaped a huge part of our musical heritage. As ambitious and densely layered as . Eisner Award for Best Reality-Based Work. This recognition from what is essentially the Academy Awards of comics is well-deserved and yet more sign this book deserves a large readership.ORIGINAL REVIEW:A masterfully told story of a group of amazing people that saved and shaped a huge part of our musical heritage. As ambitious and densely layered as . As classic and classy as Country Music at its best. And it will make you cry. Byron This book takes the format of the "Graphic Novel" and makes it sing. It's a wonderful portrait of the famous Carter Family, capturing the feeling of the rural South they came from and the imaginative, sorrowful mood that helped define the early years of commercial country music. And the sense of humor also.The excellent artwork evokes the newspaper comics of the time. At some point an annotate. It's haunting and beautiful - just like the music of the Carter Family Michael 'De Smurführer' Thomsen Excellent graphic novel about the career of The Carter Family, maybe THE seminal group of early recorded music in America.It uses storytelling techniques inspired by the early comic strips to create something that's more fragmented - and truer to life - than a script for a streamlined Hollywood bio-pic would be.The artwork by David Lasky is quite beautiful. It's clearly somewhat inspired by ma

Winner of the 2013 Eisner Award for Best Reality-Based Work!The Carter Family: Don’t Forget This Song is a rich and compelling original graphic novel that tells the story of the Carter Familythe first superstar group of country musicwho made hundreds of recordings and sold millions of records. Many of their hit songs, such as Wildwood Flower” and Will the Circle Be Unbroken,” have influenced countless musicians and remain timeless country standards.The Carter Family: Don’t Forget This Song is not only a unique illustrated biography, but a moving account that reveals the family’s rise to success, their struggles along the way, and their impact on contemporary music. Carter himself. Illustrated with exacting detail and written in the Southern dialect of the time, its dynamic narrat

Panels vary little in size; a half-pager’s a real event. As for that subject, readers of Mark Zwonitzer and Charles Hirshberg’s Will You Miss Me When I’m Gone? (2002) will appreciate how closely Young and Lasky reflect that masterpiece of country music history. Altogether, the art recalls early daily comics and old Carter Family photos. An 18-minute CD lets those who’ve never heard them get acquainted, but chances are that most readers will already know their hits—the likes of “Wildwood Flower,” “Can the Circle Be Unbroken,” and “Keep On the Sunny Side.” --Ray Olson . From Booklist To tell the story of the first family of country music, Lasky poses simple, flat figures before minimal backdrops, letting color and sha

Frank M. Born in the Deep South, he now lives in Seattle. David Lasky has written and illustrated a number of highly acclaimed comic books. Originally from Virginia, David now makes his home in Seattle.. Young is a writer and editor who has contributed to newspapers and magazines across the country

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