A complete, illustrated history of video games--highlighting the machines, games, and people who have made gaming a worldwide, billion dollar industry/artform--told in a graphic novel format.
JONATHAN HENNESSEY is the author of three previous nonfiction graphic novels, The U.S. Constitution, The Gettysburg Address, and The Comic Book Story of Beer, as well as the history-based time travel series Epochalypse. Based in Los Angeles, he works in film and television. After receiving a BFA in illustration from Syracuse University, JACK MCGOWAN worked in-house for the Buffalo design firm Wynne Creative Group. Now freelance, McGowan focuses on drawing pictures, collaborative projects, and bringing a human story back into marketing and branding.
"For anybody wondering how we went from Pong to Pokemon Go in just a few decades, this history is a great starting point." --Publishers Weekly
"A highly entertaining book that will resonate with gamers and
nongamers alike. Grades 9 and up."--School Library Journal "Full of
interesting information and insight."--Kirkus "[A] thorough,
entertainingly illustrated account of an often overlooked corner of
pop-culture history."
--Peter Blenski, Booklist "The idea of telling the history of
video games in a graphic novel is a radically inventive idea, and
Jonathan Hennessey and his team have done an amazing job of it. It
is chock full of fascinating stories about the people who laid the
foundation for the technologies we take for granted today. I wish
my history textbooks from high school had been this cool. I highly
recommend this book!" --Warren Davis, designer/programmer of
Q*Bert "The Comic Book Story of Video Games is fun, smart,
and informative, all at the same time. Hennessey manages to be
scholarly, too, as he blends forty years of sources, putting
mysteries in context and settling controversies. The illustrations
by Jack McGowan are terrific and appear lively enough to spring
from the page." --Dona Bailey, Atari programmer of
Centipede
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