Moonshadow [Paperback]

J. M. DeMatteis (Author), Jon J. Muth (Author)

Product Details

• Paperback: 392 pages
• Publisher: Marvel Enterprises (December 1989)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0871355558
• ISBN-13: 978-0871355553
• Product Dimensions: 7.8 x 5.1 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 3.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,575,652 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Born and raised in Brooklyn, New York, J. M. DeMatteis was a professional musician and rock music journalist before entering the comic book field.

Although he's written almost all of the major DC and Marvel icons--including memorable runs on Spider-Man and Justice League--DeMatteis's greatest greatest acclaim has come for sophisticated original graphic novels like Seekers Into The Mystery, Blood: A Tale, The Last One, and Mercy. The autobiographical Brooklyn Dreams was picked by the ALA as one of the Ten Best Graphic Novels and Booklist, in a starred review, called it "as graphically distinguished and creatively novelistic a graphic novel as has ever been...a classic of the form." The groundbreaking Moonshadow was chosen (along with Brooklyn Dreams, Blood and other DeMatteis works) for inclusion in Gene Kanenberg, Jr's 2008 book 500 Essential Graphic Novels. "While Sandman may be the best known fantasy comic," he wrote, "Moonshadow is arguably the finest."

More recently DeMatteis has had great success with the acclaimed children's fantasy Abadazad --which Entertainment Weekly, giving the series an A grade, hailed as "...one of those very rare fantasy works that can enchant preteen kids and 40-year old fanboys..." and Publisher's Weekly, in a starred review, called "an appealing blend of Spirited Away and The Wizard of Oz." Abadazad began life as a CrossGen comic book before morphing into a three-book series, a unique blend of prose, illustration and sequential art, published by Disney's Hyperion Books For Children.

His success in the comic book medium has led DeMatteis to work in both television (writing live action and animation) and movies (creating screenplays for Fox, Disney Feature Animation, directors Carlo Carlei and Chris Columbus and producer Dean Devlin, among others).

DeMatteis's latest work includes the fantasy novel Imaginalis, published in July, 2010 by HarperCollins, and a variety of television and comic book projects.

DeMatteis and his family live in upstate New York. His blogs can be found here at Amazon.com and at www.jmdematteis.com.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Fairy tales for adults, September 25, 2000

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"[e-mail]" (Fairport, New York USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Moonshadow (Hardcover)

MoonShadow is a rare find- a wildly fictional book that manages to identify with the reader. Its a coming-of-age story in a lewd, violent, funny, whimsical, tragic, even nostalgic universe. Its written as an autobiography of a fictional character. An honest retelling of his life as an intergalactic Huckleberry Finn. The artwork is painted, adding a sense of realism to the character. This gets my highest compliment: after finishing it I felt disappointment that Moonshadow was fiction.

3 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The best comic, December 12, 1998

By A Customer

This review is from: Moonshadow (Hardcover)

The words above tells everything about the comic. It's the best, better than Watchmen and Dark Knights. The comic that my mom read and love and it's the best thing i can say

1 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Beg to differ, July 27, 2009

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danny boy "dbswongv" (Singapore) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Moonshadow (Paperback)

There are readable comics and then there are the others. Watercolour splashes abound on every page. Whimsical writings and drawings. What more could any poet ask for? However, this is NOT a comic. I defy any reviewer to state the plot here. Not thick enough for a doorstop.