Photo Booth Original Lewis Helfand Books
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A deadly new drug is about to flood the streets of New York, but the police have no leads on who is producing the drug or where it is coming from. Interpol agent Praveer Rajani reckons the only way to prevent countless deaths lies in a handful of mysterious photographs. But what are the photographs leading him to?
Photo Booth Original Lewis Helfand Books
I was able to pick up this title as a free Kindle book! As of this writing, it is still free!I thought it looked absolutely gorgeous on my 9" tablet! The artwork almost looked photo-realistic. It also displayed perfectly! I do wish the entire book was in color. The beginning and end are much more crudely drawn black and white panels, however.
The story contains a little bit of just about every genre! An Interpol agent tracking down drug dealers with a bit of paranormal and romance thrown in. Perfect for older kids and adults. The romance is strictly g-rated. Slightly sappy, but still a decent story.
I would recommend checking this one out for a quick and pretty read! A nice way to show off your tablet!
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Photo Booth Original Lewis Helfand Books Reviews
Over the last year or two, the Indian publisher Campfire has put out several dozen graphic novels adapting public domain stories (20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, Gulliver's Travels), along with a few biographies of well-known figures. Photo Booth is different. It's an original story--apparently the only completely original work that Campfire has published to date--and it's an ambitious attempt that deserves notice.
Campfire bills this book as a romantic thriller, and it's that and a bit more. It's about a reckless Interpol agent, Praveer Rajani, who is on the trail of a criminal gang flooding the streets with a new and dangerous drug. But the drug also has mysterious ties to the automobile accident that killed Rajani's parents 20 years ago. And tied to the drug and the mystery of his parents' death are sheets of photographs, taken at a carnival photo booth, that magically changes to show different people, different situations, and different locations, some of which might be clues to the drug case Rajani is working. And on top of that is a tale of love, featuring Rajani's brother Jayendra and the woman he almost lost.
It's all a bit too much for one story, and the whole coincidence of the parents' death being tied to the drug that's just hitting the streets 20 years after the car accident that orphaned their children is hard to accept. But writer Lewis Helfand uses the whole laundry list of interconnected plot elements to tell a story of a family torn apart and the fragility of love, and that gives the graphic novel its very real emotional core.
Helfand tells a good story, although much of the police work he depicts does not ring true. His cops are tough-guy analogs, not real characters, and nothing about their case moves like a real investigation. It's a shame; this could have been a much more powerful story if the emotional core were attached to a more believable plot.
Artist Sachin Nagar uses two styles in this book a stark, sketchy, ink-strewn black-and-white style for the modern sequences that start and end the tale, and a more colorful approach (with Photoshop-heavy hues by Prince Varghese) for the flashback to the past, which takes up more than half of the novel. He packs a lot of detail onto the page, and his characters have excellent body language, especially in relation to each other. Nagar isn't as good depicting action, and he tends to stick to rather bland, emotionless character expressions, but his layouts are solid and move the story along ably.
Like all of Campfire's books, Photo Booth ends with a couple of pages of kid-friendly back-matter, offering a few lessons from the preceding story (in this case, it's photography tips and some trivia about Interpol). It seems like an odd inclusion, since this is a decidedly older story, for teens and above, while the back pages are designed for children.
All in all, Photo Booth is a graphic novel that tries and sometimes succeeds. I am eager to see what Helfand and Nagar produce in the future.
Reviewed by John R. Platt
I'm not so sure how this came to be a graphic novel, that a publisher read the script and felt it was a 'thriller,' or stimulating in any way. The story begins with a chip-on-his-shoulder cop on patrol, bagging a bad guy, finding vials of 'the new drug'(never even given a name) everyone is crazy about, and then finding a familiar object from his childhood a magical photo booth that reveals to you your desires, and in those pictures are riddled a way in which you might go seek them out.
Shortly after it begins, the story suddenly takes a different narrative, from his older brother's view, and 20 years in the past. This is where Photo Booth lost me, it bored me to pieces! It's about a man trying to find love, losing it, and then chasing it to Denmark. Of course, getting there wasn't so hard, the author skipped over it entirely. The Older Brother simply sold his belongings, took his siblings out of school, and the next page over they're in Denmark. Two pages later, they're finding all the clues, one after another, which lead them to the finale.
It's hacked and stitched together, the story is. I understand the author was more focused on the message of love, family, and never giving up on your dreams. That's fine, but he wasn't an able story teller in the least. This entire novel is forced, it ignores lots of common sense in order to get to where it wants to take you.
This was my first ever graphic novel experience and I was really taken for a great ride. The story was exciting and really had me caring for the characters and what was going on. I'm not going to give a synopsis of the story but I will say it leaves you thinking about your own life and may even have you searching for your own photo booth. This was a good first graphic novel reading. I will definitely be reading more from Lewis Helfand.
I'm new to graphic novels. This one had great drawings and a decent story line. The story could have used a little more meat to it, but maybe I feel like this because of the condensed story telling format that graphic novels must use. As a middle school teacher I appreciate that the novel was clean and appropriate for me to put in my classroom library.
The story looked interesting and the concept of the story seemed good , but the way in which was delivered fell short . Storyline could have been improved , the artwork was good . 4/5 for the artwork and 1/5 for the storyline.
Pretty cut and dry story.
Nice little read if you are looking to fill 30 minutes. Good narrative with interesting nod to the quasi-paranormal.
Campfire has nailed this one! This book is beautiful because it is universally relevant. Recommended for anyone who dabbles in graphic novels!
I was able to pick up this title as a free book! As of this writing, it is still free!
I thought it looked absolutely gorgeous on my 9" tablet! The artwork almost looked photo-realistic. It also displayed perfectly! I do wish the entire book was in color. The beginning and end are much more crudely drawn black and white panels, however.
The story contains a little bit of just about every genre! An Interpol agent tracking down drug dealers with a bit of paranormal and romance thrown in. Perfect for older kids and adults. The romance is strictly g-rated. Slightly sappy, but still a decent story.
I would recommend checking this one out for a quick and pretty read! A nice way to show off your tablet!
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