Lux and Alby: Sign on and Save the Universe [Paperback]

Martin Millar (Author), Simon Fraser (Author)

Product Details

• Paperback: 288 pages
• Publisher: Slab O Concrete (May 1999)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1899866248
• ISBN-13: 978-1899866243
• Product Dimensions: 7.7 x 5.1 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 12 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,362,137 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Simon Fraser is a well travelled, Scottish, Comics Artist living in Brooklyn NY.
Best known as the Co-Creator of "Nikolai Dante" with Writer Robbie Morrison , for "2000AD". For whome he also drew 'Judge Dredd','Shimura' and 'The Family'.He drew "Lux & Alby" for Writer Martin Millar, 'Richard Matheson's HELLHOUSE' for IDW and created the 'Lilly Mackenzie Adventures' on ACT-I-VATE.com .

Look for his work currently in the Outlaw Territory #1 anthology and in the ACT-I-VATE Primer.

Simon is a founder member of Deep6 Studios in Gowanus Brooklyn and is there unless he can think of a good excuse.

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3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars An interesting and amusing look at British youth culture, February 15, 2000

By A Customer

This review is from: Lux and Alby: Sign on and Save the Universe (Paperback)

There were several things about this book that deserve a mention... The first is the fact that the book's format is very unusual for a comic publication and fits neatly onto my shelf..

The book concentrates on the lives of the major characters (Lux and Alby) and their lives on the dole (social security benefit) in Thatcher's Britain of the 80's.. It will give American readers an insight into a very British political and social humour..

The book has a strong storyline and is beautifully illustrated..

I wouldn't normally presume to give my opinion on other peoples work but I thought that this book was woth the effort.. I hope that other readers enjoy it as much as I did..

0 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Good if you like that sort of thing, September 25, 2002

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Simon Booth (UK) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Lux and Alby: Sign on and Save the Universe (Paperback)

I like Martin Millar's novels a lot, and picked up Lux & Alby thinking it was just another one. In fact, it is a 'graphic novel', or basically a long comic.

Several of Millar's characters are brought together in the story, a typical Millar fantasy adventure in a London slum world. The story seems a little bit hollow compared to Millar's full length novel stories, but still has many moments and ideas that appeal.

I'd have rated the book higher if it had just been a very short novella, I think. The graphic novel format does not work well for me. It's not that Simon Fraser's pictures are bad, it's just that I don't like having pictures placed in my mind when I'm reading - I prefer to let my mind conjure up the images itself. I'd rather not have somebody else's idea of what Lux, Alby and Ruby look like in my head. Also, the idea that 'a picture speaks a thousand words' doesn't really apply in the case of fiction, IMO. A lot more can be conveyed through description than by illustration.

I'm sure other people will love Lux & Alby as it is, but for myself I almost wish I hadn't read it. I don't want to have those pictures of the characters in my head next time I read the novels in which they really belong.