The blurb on the front cover plays up the many Hollywood films that have been adapted from his stories. I think more people have seen those movies than have read his work, even if that work has been ill-represented by the films (I'm looking at you in particular, Total Recall.) The book even kicks off with Dick in Hollywood at a private screening hosted by Ridley Scott of a montage of scen The title says it all. All thoughts are my own and in no way influenced by the aforementioned.more Received a review copy from NBM and Netgalley. I found myself severely disappointed and struggled to finish. Yes, you will get little moments in his life, but nothing beyond the surface and nothing that actually tells you a story of his life. The storytelling is very disjointed and almost incoherent in places. Instead it focuses on how many times he was married and his mental instability. None of his impact on culture is mentioned. The Man in the High Castle gets a one line mention. The book almost ignores his literary impact. I found myself sev Little one or two page peeks into Phillip K. Little one or two page peeks into Phillip K. Queyssi and Marchesi give us a quick and readable but very surface-level account of this sci-fi giant.more Dick’s life, this comics bio will do the trick but not if you’re looking for a deeper understanding of the writer and the man. If you just want a brief summary of Philip K.
Dick was just another writer whose work was far more engrossing than their comparatively mundane life. It’s not the most gripping of reads either which isn’t Queyssi/Marchesi’s fault as they’re just recounting the facts of Dick’s life. So, was that true or was that another hallucination? In this regard, I didn’t find this book especially informative or enlightening. There isn’t much insight in the latter though beyond one page where he tells his second wife that he was sexually molested as a child. Besides hallucinations about otherworldly beings speaking to him, he became paranoid, thinking the government was spying on him!īeyond the generic biographical route showing his rise to fame from writing short stories for sci-fi magazines to Hugo Award-winning novels like The Man in the High Castle, we learn about his penchant for brunettes, his many marriages and suicide attempts. His mental health though remained shaky until the end. Dick: A Comics Biography is a fine overview of one of the most original and notable writers of the 20th century.ĭick had health troubles from birth, both physical and mental, exacerbated later in life by a heavy pill addiction that began to ensure his work rate remained high - he wrote five novels alone in 1964! But the drugs finally took over and began affecting his health until he went to rehab. Dick seeing early footage from Ridley Scott’s Blade Runner shortly before his death in 1982, Laurent Queyssi and Mauro Marchesi’s Philip K.
Dick had health troubles from birth, both physical and mental, exacerbated later in life by a heavy pill addiction that began to ensure his work rate remained high - he wrote five novels alone in 1964! But the drugs finally Opening with Philip K. Dick: A Comics Biography is a fine overview of one of the most original and notable writers of the 20th century.