Bob Marley in Comics!

By Sophie Blitman and Gaet's

In the middle of a depressing youth in a ghetto of Kingston, Jamaica, Robert Nesta Marley sees only one way out: music. And that music will be what Jamaica made of rock and pop locally that had hardly been heard anywhere else: reggae! It is Marley who brings the unmistakable beat of reggae to the entire world. From small stages in Jamaica, his partners, The Wailers, accompany him all the way to the most fabulous world tours and adulation. In addition to a rocketing musical career, the most famous rasta wants to shake things up and proclaim his humanitarian and egalitarian values.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Independent Publishers Group
• Release date: Dec 16, 2019
• ISBN: 9781681122502

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[villemezbrown · Rating: 3 out of 5 stars]

Another of NBM's readable but clunky biographies about musicians. Like the previous volumes with the Beatles and the Rolling Stones, the format is weird. A guy named Gaet's writes short dramatized graphic stories from various moments of Bob Marley's life that are illustrated by 19 different artists (mostly French, I'd guess, like the author) with wildly different styles. It's sometimes a little hard to tell what's going on in the stories, but after every story or two, Sophie Blitman jumps in to provide a two-page text piece going into more detail about the people and events in the graphic portions. This makes for a lot of redundancy and some awkward writing, so it's not an optimal reading experience, but the book is informative with the breeziness of a magazine.