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Talking Lines

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I have always loved reading graphic novels, though they are more of comic books than anything else. I love the way a story is told through pictures and how it is written keeping the audience in mind. I chanced on Mr. Blechman's site and requested him to send me some of his works and voila here I was reading, "Talking Lines" - a collection of his short stories and they are brilliant!

The stories collected in this edition are anything but children's stories. Like Mr Blechman states at the beginning of a story, "I prefer my art to make a statement" and that's what his art does - it make several statements. Right from The Iraq War to Nuclear Warfare to Leonard Woolf's sacrifice to Shakespeare's imaginary sister, he touches on almost every subject that he has a comic to express with.

All I can say that the characters from these stories - the black and white lines drawn with ink will always remain with me. A treasure trove for anyone who wants to read a great graphic story series and re-read it for time to come. I know I will.