Apollo

by Matt Fitch, Chris Baker, Mike Collins (Illustrator)

Overview

In 1969, humankind set foot on the moon. Neil Armstrong, Edwin ”Buzz” Aldrin, and Michael Collins carried the fire for all the world. Backed by the brightest minds in engineering and science, the three boarded a rocket and flew through the void—just to know that we could. In Apollo, Matt Fitch, Chris Baker, and Mike Collins unpack the urban legends, the gossip, and the speculation to reveal a remarkable true story about life, death, dreams, and the reality of humanity's greatest exploratory achievement.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781910593509
Publisher:	SelfMadeHero
Publication date:	06/19/2018
Pages:	160
Product dimensions:	7.00(w) x 9.50(h) x 0.90(d)

About the Author

Mike Collins is a comic-book artist based in Wales. He has worked for Marvel on comics including Spider-Man and Transformers; for DC Comics on flagship titles such as Batman, Superman, and WonderWoman; and for the UK’s celebrated weekly comic 2000AD on JudgeDredd, Sláine, and RogueTrooper, among others. Matt Fitch and Chris Baker are the cofounders of Dead Canary Comics, a small press dedicated to comics and graphic novels. Together, they are the authors of Reddin (with Conor Boyle) and TheFitzroy, a collection of stories featuring artwork by Krent Able, Charlie Hodgson, Will Robson, Scott Cooper, and Will Kirkby.

Editorial Reviews

05/07/2018
Fitch, Baker, and Collins—a trio of Brits—bring an outsider’s POV to a quintessential American tale in this multi-layered graphic dramatization of the Apollo 11 mission that took Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin to the moon and back home again. The narrative opens with a visually dynamic presentation of the Apollo 11 launch at Cape Kennedy and ends with a haunting sequence looking at the Earth from the lunar surface, as the astronauts’ command module slowly recedes from view. All the major events—e.g. “one small step for man”—are represented, but it’s the depictions of smaller moments that set this telling apart. Remarkable scenes include the astronauts doing zero-G push-ups, a cutaway to President Nixon in the White House ranting about how history will blame him if the astronauts die but credit Kennedy if they live, and a truly surreal sequence where command module pilot Michael Collins plays a game of one-on-one basketball on the Sea of Tranquility with a jive-talking hippie who declares “They call me the Spirit of America.” The moon landing is one of the most well-documented events in human history, but it’s reimagined here in a way that makes it feel new again. Lovers of space-race lore will want to pick this up. (June)

Publishers Weekly

…readers will enjoy the unexpected details and surprising twists. Recommended for general adult graphic novel collections.

Booklist

Writers Fitch and Baker teamed up with illustrator Collins … to create a graphic novel of the suspense-filled story. They convey surprising depth and emotion, as well as rich historical details of the era.”

Scientific American

Writers Fitch and Baker teamed up with illustrator Collins … to create a graphic novel of the suspense-filled story. They convey surprising depth and emotion, as well as rich historical details of the era.”

—Scientific American

“The moon landing is one of the most well-documented events in human history, but it’s reimagined here in a way that makes it feel new again. Lovers of space-race lore will want to pick this up.”

—Publishers Weekly

“…readers will enjoy the unexpected details and surprising twists. Recommended for general adult graphic novel collections.”—Booklist

From the Publisher

…readers will enjoy the unexpected details and surprising twists. Recommended for general adult graphic novel collections.

Booklist