I enjoyed ‘The Best of Ray Bradbury’, a comic collection of adapted short stories. It was the different artwork styles and drawings that I liked best in this graphic collection. I don’t think some of these graphic comic adaptions adequately reflect the vitality or depth of his writing, though.

Ray Bradbury was an influential humanist writer who wrote science fiction and fantasy, sometimes using a story as his soapbox. He really had something to say often about the ways that Men were generally cruel, stupidly vindictive and ignorantly murderous to each other without much justification other than a mouth-breather’s desire for power and control. His most famous book is Fahrenheit 451. The novel really summarizes everything Bradbury believed in and how he feared the direction of what we’d call “social media” today was being taken by government control and a public that was dumbed down by both choice and ‘influencer’ misdirection. But he also was a fan of speculative and adventure fiction, loving to read stories by H.G. Wells, Jules Verne, and Edgar Allen Poe.

However, he also was a 1970’s Republican conservative, an admirer of Ronald Reagan when he was President. He had supported the Democratic Party until the Vietnam War was escalated under President Johnson, a Democrat. (For those readers who are young, the 1970’s was a time when the majority of Republicans were somewhat sane, if selfish, businessmen and male entrepreneurs. The Republican Party was not primarily under the influence of Nazis, evangelicals, and White supremacists as they are today.) Women had no constitutional rights back then, as they still do not, and were not allowed to have much social or political weight in science, politics or marriage. Women, because of the passage of a few major laws giving women some equality to men legally, do have more participation in public and private life now than when Bradbury was doing his best writing. To me, he sometimes reflects a lack of foresight in the actual range women could be in his books, but he definitely was on the right side of history more often than not (unintended pun, gentle reader! I noticed it after I wrote it).

Bradbury believed strongly in a liberal education, free libraries and free speech, which was why he hated affirmative action and political correctness since he felt supporters of both concepts restricted free speech. From what I’ve read of him in Wikipedia, he strikes me as someone who strongly believed in “water seeks its own level”, a quote I once heard regarding how people should be allowed to succeed in life. He felt Big Government restricted people too much in rising to their full potential in life, whatever that level of potentiality might be. He liked computers, but hated ebooks because of how their availability to the public are restricted by publishers. He was a big Star Trek fan!

He died in 2012 at the age of 91.

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Many of Bradbury’s stories are now considered classics, and they’ve been copied and reframed by many other authors and scriptwriters in and after Bradbury’s lifetime. While he himself was inspired by the golden age writers of science fiction, he in turn inspired many readers. While I disagree with some of his political views, I loved reading his books and stories. The man could write, and he was definitely a creator of terrific science fiction and fantasy ideas!

I've never read anything by Bradbury, but I really enjoyed all of the stories. I didn't really like some of the art, but all of it did a good job of making sure that the story was the important part.

Was a pretty good adaption of the Ray Bradbury stories. There were some that were better than others.

I had previously read all of these stories as short fiction, but they're very nice in graphic novel form as well. They short story versions are all better in my opinion, but it is really interesting to see them in panels too. My favorites in this are "A Sound of Thunder", which is beautifully adapted, and "Dark They Were, and Golden Eyed" which is completely gorgeous. To be fair, these are two of my favorite Bradbury stories, but the artists who turned them into comics did such an excellent job.

I happen to be one of the biggest Ray Bradbury fans, so I found myself "running to the shelves" for this masterpiece of graphic art. And yes, the artwork was AMAZING. So why only 2 stars? First, there were multiple typographical errors, and I just find that really sloppy and it frankly took away from the piece. Second, the actual book was completely cut wrong, so there were quite a few pages that were missing the first line of dialogue. Third, and most importantly, the adapted stories for the graphic novel were very confusing to say the least. If I didn't already know Bradbury's stories, I would have been completely lost. Still, the artful is truly amazing, and for that I gave it 2 stars. I was pretty disappointed, though, especially because I had paid a pretty penny for this, and I expected more since a well-renowned author and famous artists were part of this publication.

The Best of Ray Bradbury contains illustrated adaptations of some of Ray Bradbury's most famous stories. The text and the art unquestionably captures the essence of these classic science fiction tales from the 1960's. The language and clothing reflect the time period, and are not modernized. Reading it, I felt as if I was holding a yellowed paperback published in the 1970's. Definitely authentic.

The art for each story is unique. No artist's style is the same. Best of all, Bradbury (who is still alive and writing) has written a moving introduction to the book. The introduction really touched my heart. It has to do with following your dreams, and how he got his start in writing sci-fi. And as a delightful bonus, Bradbury has written brief introductions to each and every story in the book!

I enjoyed all the different styles of art, really amazing and varied. I did think some of the stories were confusing; I would prefer to have read ALL of the stories in the original and then read the graphic novel to further enhance my enjoyment or contemplation of the story. Bradbury writes the intro and gives a brief intro to each story: really cool.

A first rate collection of short stories from the SF godfather with illustrations from such luminaries as P. Craig Russel and Dave Gibbons. This is a can't-go-wrong kind of selection, I would recommend it to anyone.

I absolutely loved these short stories! Some of them were familiar and others were new to me. I was enthralled by the beautiful coloring and artwork as it truly seemed to help the stories come alive. For anyone who has read Bradbury, you'll know that his stories can stand on their own without any fillers. So to flesh these amazing stories out in full color was quite a treat to read!

In Italiano è stato tradotto in due volumi diversi, comunque di buona qualità, a parte la brossura a volte debole. Tanti tra i migliori disegnatori e scrittori si sono cimentati con queste storie, e se avete letto gli originali letterari di Bradbury vale la pena vedere con quale perizia sono stati resi.

I feel a little guilty having neglected the wonderful medium that is the graphic novel; after reading The Best of Ray Bradbury, I promised myself that I'd enjoy more comics.

The Best of Ray Bradbury is a collection of some of Mr. Bradbury's most beloved stories illustrated as comics- Golden Apples of the Sun, Come Into My Cellar and The City are some of the standouts of the collection.

The stories, for the most part, are short pieces of science fiction/fantasy interspersed with gripping drama- it's classic Bradbury. I do have a minor gripe- in the last story, one of the pages seemed to be cut or formatted wrong; I lost a word or two. Besides this, however, it's well done.

Something interesting about this collection is that every story is done by a different artist- this makes each story memorable in its own way, because each artist brings a different atmosphere, a different feeling to the work he illustrates.

Overall, I recommend this collection to just about anybody- if you're a fan of Bradbury, it's a must-have; this book showcases some truly fantastic fiction that's written in an almost poetic manner. If you're not familiar with Ray Bradbury, or if you think that you can't enjoy comics, sci-fi or fantasy works, give this collection a shot- it won't disappoint you.

Here are some of Bradbury's best short stories in comic/graphic novel form. While I didn't like a few of the art styles, most were great adaptations -- Bradbury's stories really translate well in the comic medium.