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Twilight Unbound: The Stephenie Meyer Story Graphic Novel
From a dream to a string of best sellers to a successful movie franchise, Stephenie Meyer has captured the imagination of millions with her stories about a young girl and her vampire lover. This graphic novel examines her rise in popularity, her Twilight saga novels, and her future plans.
40 pages, Hardcover
First published October 14, 2009
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June 14, 2010
Never in my life did I expect to read a graphic biography of Stephanie Meyer. Though I laughed at first at the ridiculousness of such a presentation, and I thought that this was merely a gimic to sell more Twilight stuff for avid fans, the biography combined with the graphic illustrations was surprisingly effective.
As the authors tell of Meyer's life and professional development, the illustrations depict dreams and inspirations that influenced her stories. Overall, this is a short work told from a vampire's perspective. It's great for those Twilight fans out there. Perhaps an academic audience could find other examples of graphic novels.
As the authors tell of Meyer's life and professional development, the illustrations depict dreams and inspirations that influenced her stories. Overall, this is a short work told from a vampire's perspective. It's great for those Twilight fans out there. Perhaps an academic audience could find other examples of graphic novels.
October 10, 2023
čekala jsem o dost víc...
May 28, 2024
Komiks o Stephenii Meyerové. O tom jak vznikla Twilight saga, o Forks....Rozhodně skvělá knížka, kterou by si měl každý fanoušek pořídit.;)
April 29, 2015
Let's be honest here: Stephenie Meyer has had a pretty boring life. She basically got married, had kids, and wrote a fantasy series about sparkly vampires.
So needless to say -- with no scandals, divorces, addictions, adventures or the like -- "Female Force Bestsellers: Stephenie Meyer" is a pretty boring experience. But it's not just boring. It's surreally bad and poorly done, with ghastly art, a breathlessly dramatic style and a horrendously contrived framing device wrapped around a thoroughly unexciting life story.
According to the author Ryan Burton, Meyer was an oh-so-special and down-to-earth girl ("It seemed as though every OTHER girl was... DIFFERENT"), and of course way smarter than her peers (both in high school and college, she alone is raising her hand). She went to Brigham Young University in Utah, and a spider got eaten by a vampire. Whoops, that was the framing narrative, so forget about that.
Anyway, she met some guy she had once shared a sandbox with, and they got married in less than a year. Three kids later, Stephenie had a dream about spying on a thuggish-looking vampire trying to make out with some blonde chick in a field (and she frankly looks like a dream voyeur spying on teenagers). She constructed a story around that dream, and ended up selling it -- and of course, it became a megahit and was adapted into a movie, took the world by storm, blah blah blah.
Because the unadorned life story of Meyer would take up about five pages, Burton frames it: A shark-mouthed Dracula living in a cliche Transylvanian castle (complete with graveyard and howling wolf), who is apparently telling Meyer's life story to a gang of grunting naked nosferatu. Not only is this hilariously cheesy, but it provides the unintentional message that Meyer is carrying out the will of evil monsters.
The biography oozes along at a glacial pace, with two whole pages devoted to shopping the manuscript around. The most mundane facts are written in a breathlessly melodramatic style ("Stephenie was 21 when she married Christian... also known as PANCHO") with lots of details that only her most fanatical fans would care about (who cares where the name "Stephenie" came from?). There's even a transparent attempt to equate Meyer with her self-insert Bella Swan (oh, how different and smart she is!).
And the artwork is simply ghastly -- Meyers has an evil grin, sinister eyebrows, freakishly tiny hands, and she looks EXACTLY the same from the age of four onward. Her husband's head looks like a mediocre Picasso work, and the Twilight fans appear to be a bunch of large-breasted grannies, mad-eyed adolescents and... coffee shop singers? And as the final hilarious conceit, it's sprinkled with topographic maps, and a bizarre page in which UTAH appears in the palm of Meyer's hand.
In short, the art makes the entire comic seem like a Stephenie Meyers acid trip. The funniest part is that they don't even get Meyer's characters right -- both Bella and Edward are washed-out blondes with wormlike lips, and Edward has spiky little fangs. Wha?
"Female Force Bestellers: Stephenie Meyer" reads like a bad drug trip, with spider-chomping vampires, horrendous art and lots of surreal extras. Good for a laugh, but nothing else.
So needless to say -- with no scandals, divorces, addictions, adventures or the like -- "Female Force Bestsellers: Stephenie Meyer" is a pretty boring experience. But it's not just boring. It's surreally bad and poorly done, with ghastly art, a breathlessly dramatic style and a horrendously contrived framing device wrapped around a thoroughly unexciting life story.
According to the author Ryan Burton, Meyer was an oh-so-special and down-to-earth girl ("It seemed as though every OTHER girl was... DIFFERENT"), and of course way smarter than her peers (both in high school and college, she alone is raising her hand). She went to Brigham Young University in Utah, and a spider got eaten by a vampire. Whoops, that was the framing narrative, so forget about that.
Anyway, she met some guy she had once shared a sandbox with, and they got married in less than a year. Three kids later, Stephenie had a dream about spying on a thuggish-looking vampire trying to make out with some blonde chick in a field (and she frankly looks like a dream voyeur spying on teenagers). She constructed a story around that dream, and ended up selling it -- and of course, it became a megahit and was adapted into a movie, took the world by storm, blah blah blah.
Because the unadorned life story of Meyer would take up about five pages, Burton frames it: A shark-mouthed Dracula living in a cliche Transylvanian castle (complete with graveyard and howling wolf), who is apparently telling Meyer's life story to a gang of grunting naked nosferatu. Not only is this hilariously cheesy, but it provides the unintentional message that Meyer is carrying out the will of evil monsters.
The biography oozes along at a glacial pace, with two whole pages devoted to shopping the manuscript around. The most mundane facts are written in a breathlessly melodramatic style ("Stephenie was 21 when she married Christian... also known as PANCHO") with lots of details that only her most fanatical fans would care about (who cares where the name "Stephenie" came from?). There's even a transparent attempt to equate Meyer with her self-insert Bella Swan (oh, how different and smart she is!).
And the artwork is simply ghastly -- Meyers has an evil grin, sinister eyebrows, freakishly tiny hands, and she looks EXACTLY the same from the age of four onward. Her husband's head looks like a mediocre Picasso work, and the Twilight fans appear to be a bunch of large-breasted grannies, mad-eyed adolescents and... coffee shop singers? And as the final hilarious conceit, it's sprinkled with topographic maps, and a bizarre page in which UTAH appears in the palm of Meyer's hand.
In short, the art makes the entire comic seem like a Stephenie Meyers acid trip. The funniest part is that they don't even get Meyer's characters right -- both Bella and Edward are washed-out blondes with wormlike lips, and Edward has spiky little fangs. Wha?
"Female Force Bestellers: Stephenie Meyer" reads like a bad drug trip, with spider-chomping vampires, horrendous art and lots of surreal extras. Good for a laugh, but nothing else.
September 5, 2015
This was an interested yet quick read.
Things that I liked: This book / graphic / comic whichever you want to call it, was a quick read. I liked that this basically told the story of how Stephenie Meyer got her fame, but it also gives a little background into Stephenie's life going all the way back to birth and where she lived. I found it interesting. I thought that this was an interesting format to tell about the becoming of the Twilight Saga phenomenon. It even gave a little history about the Forks area and the Quileute tribe.
Things that I didn't like: The vampire in the beginning that tells us about the story of Stephenie Meyer and eats a spider in the middle of it as a snack. That was a little weird.
Overall: I would recommend this to any Twilight fan that hasn't read this, and anyone who would like to add this to their Twilight/ Stephenie Meyer fandom. I rated this a 4 out of 5 stars.
Things that I liked: This book / graphic / comic whichever you want to call it, was a quick read. I liked that this basically told the story of how Stephenie Meyer got her fame, but it also gives a little background into Stephenie's life going all the way back to birth and where she lived. I found it interesting. I thought that this was an interesting format to tell about the becoming of the Twilight Saga phenomenon. It even gave a little history about the Forks area and the Quileute tribe.
Things that I didn't like: The vampire in the beginning that tells us about the story of Stephenie Meyer and eats a spider in the middle of it as a snack. That was a little weird.
Overall: I would recommend this to any Twilight fan that hasn't read this, and anyone who would like to add this to their Twilight/ Stephenie Meyer fandom. I rated this a 4 out of 5 stars.
September 24, 2010
Me: Did you poop?
Mom: No.
Me: It smells like crap.
Mom: Well, it's in your room.
Then I saw this on my bed, and it all became clear. My review is actually for zero stars, but I gave it one for making me feel better about myself, half a star because the illustration collage that depicted it as a cultural phenomenon had a drawing of someone getting the tattoo, and another half star for the so-stupid-it-must-have-taken-effort narration style.
Mom: No.
Me: It smells like crap.
Mom: Well, it's in your room.
Then I saw this on my bed, and it all became clear. My review is actually for zero stars, but I gave it one for making me feel better about myself, half a star because the illustration collage that depicted it as a cultural phenomenon had a drawing of someone getting the tattoo, and another half star for the so-stupid-it-must-have-taken-effort narration style.
January 29, 2012
Pretty interesting way to find out about Stephenie Meyer's life.
You get to read along as one of the oldest vampires of all tells you about Stephenie's life. After that, they have some true facts about Forks, Washington (where the Twilight books were set).
I enjoyed seeing how the town of Forks has embraced being "Home of the Cullens". :)
You get to read along as one of the oldest vampires of all tells you about Stephenie's life. After that, they have some true facts about Forks, Washington (where the Twilight books were set).
I enjoyed seeing how the town of Forks has embraced being "Home of the Cullens". :)
March 30, 2018
Told by a vampire, this quick little comic about how Stephenie Meyer came up with Twilight explains her early life, how she thought of Twilight and how it became so popular. There's also a "history of Forks Washington" and photos from all the Twilight landmarks in Forks
definitely recommend for any huge fan of Twilight and Stephenie Meyer
definitely recommend for any huge fan of Twilight and Stephenie Meyer
September 3, 2019
Životem Stephenie Meyerové provádí veselý upír, který díky jejím románům spolu se svými upírskými přáteli zažívá báječné časy. Graficky ztvárněný životopis je jednohubka, ale zároveň hezkou formou podává informace o oblíbené i zatracované autorce. Jak se dostala k nápadu napsat ságu o upírech a jak to vypadá v městečku Forks se dozvíme i díky fotkám přimo z míst, kde se romány odehrávají.
September 13, 2021
My local Ocean State Job lot’s book section looked like 2008 dropped off some books…so I poked around. Found this graphic novel and a few other twilight related books! As someone who read the first book before it got popular, and was obsessed with the series and movies…it made my heart so happy to find this gem. Just wish it was longer to please my nostalgic heart.
December 19, 2009
The gist of it is that Meyer always felt different from the other girls; narrated by a sinister stereotypical vampire caricature: your decadentured Europreening uncle: all monocle, widow's peak, red sash and black cape.
January 23, 2014
Numerous misspellings, for normal words and even the titles of classic literature. Not sure what the graphic designers were thinking either with some of the things they illustrate as I guess like excuses for transitioning the narrative. Not just bullying this because it's Twilight.
February 20, 2010
Little hokey but the Forks history was good!
April 7, 2010
Love the page with the tatto because it is so similar to mine!
April 19, 2010
Read April 2010
Forks edition.
Forks edition.
July 4, 2012
Rating: 2.5/5
It was a nice quick reading. I like the little background on Stephenie and also a bit about Forks and how it came to be.:)
It was a nice quick reading. I like the little background on Stephenie and also a bit about Forks and how it came to be.:)
December 27, 2011
I don't know what happened but the data for this book has been erased. I can't remember what it was so I can't review it.
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December 25, 2015
Very funny and also mildly informative
January 16, 2021
Tenhle zajímavý komiks jsem si četla jednou z nudy v knihovně a docela mě překvapily některé informace, které jsem doposud neznala. :)
May 13, 2023
Komiksové zpracování zivota oblibene autorky. Krásný pribeh a bozska ilustrace.
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