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Watching the Watchmen: The Definitive Companion to the Ultimate Graphic Novel | 
 enlarge | Authors: Dave Gibbons, Chip Kidd, Mike Essl
Publisher: Titan Books Ltd
Category: Book
List Price: £24.99
Buy New: £12.00
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Rating:  3 reviews
Sales Rank: 1552
Media: Hardcover
Pages: 256
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 4
Dimensions (in): 12 x 9.4 x 0.9
ISBN: 1848560419
Dewey Decimal Number: 741
EAN: 9781848560413
ASIN: 1848560419
Publication Date: October 24, 2008
Availability: Usually dispatched within 1-2 business days
Condition: Mint condition
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 An essential companion for my favourite graphic novel November 5, 2008
Jesse (Richmond, Surrey United Kingdom)
6 out of 6 found this review helpful
I must have re-read Watchmen once a year since I first bought it and loved it, and thought there was nothing new I could now discover about it, but this book has changed my mind. I found it's a book to dip into, not read from start to finish in one big bite, but there's so much to see and pore over on every page, I didn't want to gulp it down anyway, lots of colours and textures and so much fine detail in every frame. Alan Moore gets loads of kudos, and deserves it 100%, but it's good for once to see Dave Gibbons get his time in the sun - a fantastic artist.
Manhattan perfect transfer December 1, 2008
M. Osterloh (Forest Hill, South East London)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
`Watching the Watchmen' is the hardback equivalent of all those extra features you get in a deluxe DVD movie package. Dave Gibbons delivers the text equivalent of the audio commentary and opens up his portfolio to offer us page after beautiful glossy page of early, revised or deleted scenes from key stages in the development of the greatest graphic novel of all time.
It is a refreshingly frank and humble guide. Despite already enjoying huge critical success on a variety of other projects, Gibbons recalls how he and (Alan) Moore did not take DC's exclamations of approval for granted as they began to submit pages and receive the glowing feedback.
If you've ever wondered how your favourite comic strips go from concept to critical acclaim, this is the book for you.
One word of advice, this may have the weight and girth of a coffee table book, but you may want to read it wearing white gloves. It really is a thing of beauty - and such beauty should remain untainted!
 Worth Watching the Watchmen November 7, 2008
John Freeman (Lancaster UK)
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
For Watchmen fans, Watching the Watchmen offers a gorgeous companion to the comics masterpiece, revealing excised pages, early versions of the script, original character designs, page thumbnails, sketches and much more.
Gibbons deliberately skirts around the controversy that ensued the publication of Watchmen, which ultimately led to Alan Moore refusing to work for DC Comics because of royalty and character ownership disputes. While not averse to scandal, the consummate artist prefers instead to celebrate the work and its ongoing success.
While I would have liked to have seen more of Alan Moore's script for this seminal work, the art samples are stunning and a testament to Gibbons artistic skills. This is a beautifully packaged, superbly designed celebration of the Watchmen which should encourage fans to revisit the original work and see its pages and storytelling in a whole new light.
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