Despite contributions by Michael Chabon, the creator of the creators of the Escapist, and Glen David Gold, author of the fabulous 'Carter Beats the Devil' and 'Sunnyside,' this didn't do it for me. I wanted a simulated artifact--the work of Kavalier and Clay, especially from the 30s and 40s--and although that's what this work seemed to promise, it didn't deliver. I liked 'The Escapists' much better, because it defines itself clearly as being tangential to Chabon's novel, starting after that book stopped.

A collection of stories by some very well-known comics creators based on characters from Michael Chabon's "The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay." There are some nice-looking styles respresented, but the stories struck me as a bit too campy.

a fun graphic depiction of the Escapist. It adheres closely to Kavalier & Clay canon. Nothing breathtaking that wasn't done in Kavalier and Clay proper, but a joy to see the story laid out as a real comic.

Hit or miss, but overall delightful to read right after finishing Kavalier & Clay.

Sorry, but this book could not live up to what I had imagined while reading "The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay." A couple of the Escapist pieces were good, but otherwise...I kind of hoped it would look like something from the 40s or 50s.

The exact book I read isn't on Goodreads, but is bigger than this one and called "The Escapist: Amazing Adventures." Being a collection of comics and a few stories, it's a mixed bag, with some very very good stuff, and other stuff that's meh. On the whole, though, I like that they've taken the fake comics of the Kavalier and Clay novel, and made them real. It feels like a alternate history kind of thing.

Originally from In Lesbian With Books

I told you, I'm shamelessly obsessed with Michael Chabon's The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay. I can't seem to move on with the book hang-over after reading it and to make the matter worse, I discovered the graphic novels entitled The Amazing Adventures of the Escapist by Michael Chabon featuring Kavalier and Clay's brainchild, the Escapist. It has different fictional news, history, and essays about the comic books during the birth of comic books and the Escapists, the Depression, the WWII, and the Golden Age which made the book somewhat real (and I really thought the history the book was telling was true because the contributor writers mentioned a LOT of famous comic book artists). Aside from that, it included the main attraction of the book: the story of the Escapist. If you don't know, the Escapist is an escape artist (you know, like Houdini) showing amazing feats of escapology and he's a part of the League of the Golden Key that fights tyranny (Iron Chain gang) and save the oppressed and bounded by the chain!


(please continue to read  HERE . The pictures don't seem to fit the layout of the Goodreads site.

I read "The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay" years ago and read this when it was selected by my book club. I asked my comic book-loving pre-teen to read it with me, turning it into an opportunity to discuss a book we both read.

I cannot say that I love comics but the detail in this one is very thorough and the illustrator and editor managed to keep the general ideas on the page while bringing the characters very much to life.

Tem Harvey Pekar sendo Harvey Pekar, Will Eisner sendo Will Eisner (na sua última história) e acima de tudo tem um jogo delicioso de verdade e mentira. O único ponto fraco é a história sobre o Vietnã.

What I found interesting reading  is I thought the prose descriptions of the comic would obviously work better as a comic... I now think they worked better as prose. More depth, more analysis, whatever it was, this fell flat. I liked the history that was supplemental to the book, knowing what happened to the characters, but the comics themselves just weren't that special. I appreciate the different writers and art styles, which is consistent with a long running comic, so points for effort, but that's about it.

Yeah, don't bother reading this unless you thought The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Klay was the best book evaaaaar and also you have a soft spot for single-entendre fifties-era comic books. Some of the art is lovely, but fundamentally wasted; this is basically a glorified ultra-fluffy bestseller-tie-in, and not that glorified, either.

The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay is one of my favorites, so I loved this look at some of the actual Escapist comics. A few of them were definitely better than others, but this was enjoyable nonetheless.