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The Comics Go to Hell: A Visual History of the Devil in Comics

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The book was excellent as far as it went, and the writer seems to know his material very well. The main improvement that could be made would be to increase the number of examples of the artwork, perhaps in an enlarged format, and include examples of the use of the Devil in political cartoons.

The book contains a large number of black and white reproductions of various demon and devil imagery in comics. One sample per random artist, generally. The images, many poorly reproduced, low contrast, and small, appear on one page faced by a paragraph or two of commentary.

I found the images to be largely uninteresting. Banal. And the commentary flat and superficial.

This is a really interesting subject, and the book is fairly well written; however it's very sloppily edited and could have used the services of a proofreader! Perhaps the author is a non-native English speaker and the clunky sentences are a bad translation? Anyway, it's a bit frustrating as there is a lot of information in this book and it does seem to be well researched. I'd definitely recommend the book, especially if you don't tend to notice typos.