Super Graphic

"This gorgeous compendium illustrating comic-book-world factoids will give info-graphic obsessives much to pore over." —Entertainment Weekly

The comic book universe is adventurous, mystifying, and filled with heroes, villains, and cosplaying Comic-Con attendees. This book by one of Wired magazine's art directors traverses the graphic world through a collection of pie charts, bar graphs, timelines, scatter plots, and more.

Award-winning author Tim Leong's Super Graphic offers readers a unique look at the intricate and sometimes contradictory storylines that weave their way through comic books, and shares advice for navigating the pages of some of the most popular, longest-running, and best-loved comics and graphic novels out there. From a colorful breakdown of the DC Comics reader demographic to a witty Venn diagram of superhero comic tropes and a Chris Ware sadness scale, this book charts the most arbitrary and monumental characters, moments, and equipment of the wide world of comics.

"An absorbing, wonderfully unnecessary pairing of inventive, beautiful designs with nerd-friendly comic-book statistics and insights." —Chicago Tribune

"This book is a delight—and you don't have to be a comic fanatic to get something out of it . . . Super Graphic is simply perfect for that cofee table—right next to your comic books, of course." —SFX magazine