The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo Book 1

by Denise Mina, Andrea Mutti (Illustrator), Leonardo Manco (Illustrator)

Overview

A New York Times Best Seller!

DC Comics/Vertigo will publish the official graphic novel adaptation of Stieg Larsson's "Millennium Trilogy," starting in Fall 2012 with THE GIRL WITH THE DRAGON TATTOO, the international publishing phenomenon. Each book in the "Millennium Trilogy" will be adapted in two hardcover graphic novel volumes.

Harriet Vanger, a scion of one of Sweden's wealthiest families disappeared over forty years ago. All these years later, her aged uncle continues to seek the truth. He hires Mikael Blomkvist, a crusading journalist recently trapped by a libel conviction, to investigate. He is aided by the pierced and tattooed punk prodigy Lisbeth Salander. Together they tap into a vein of unfathomable iniquity and astonishing corruption.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781401235574
Publisher:	DC Comics
Publication date:	11/13/2012
Pages:	152
Product dimensions:	6.92(w) x 10.32(h) x 0.52(d)

About the Author

Denise Mina is the award-winning author of eight acclaimed crime novels and is one of the leading figures in Scotland's "Tartan Noir" genre of crime fiction. Denise made her comics debut with a 13-issue run of HELLBLAZER in 2006-2007. Her first graphic novel was the Vertigo Crime title A SICKNESS IN THE FAMILY.

Stieg Larsson, who lived in Sweden, was the editor in chief of the magazine EXPO and a leading expert on antidemocratic right-wing extremist and Nazi organizations. He died in 2004, shortly after delivering the manuscripts for THE GIRL WITH THE DRAGON TATTOO, THE GIRL WHO PLAYED WITH FIRE, and THE GIRL WHO KICKED THE HORNET'S NEST.

Editorial Reviews

The late Stieg Larsson’s slick potboiler is wildly popular in both movie and novel form; its tale—disgraced journalist Mikael Blomkvist and his unorthodox ally hacker/investigator, Lisbeth Salander, struggle to discover the truth behind the disappearance of Harriet Vanger decades before—is familiar to people around the world. Now it has been transformed into a graphic novel, this installment covering the events of the first half of the novel. As with the movies, translation to graphic form requires streamlining the novel, discarding details not absolutely essential to the plot. Despite a tight adaptation by crime novelist Mina, this version preserves many of the flaws of the original, the visual fetishization of Salander emphasizing Larsson’s clueless background misogyny. In addition, the photorealistic art style and attempt at dynamic storytelling, while striking in and of itself, works against the procedural grind of reading documents and computer hacking which provided the action in the novel. The resulting hybrid is not so much a reinterpretation of the original as a slightly edited storyboard. While it won’t necessarily make new fans on its own, completists should enjoy the new visual interpretation. (Nov.)

Publishers Weekly

Praise for THE GIRL WITH THE DRAGON TATTOO:

"A whip-smart heroine and a hunky guy who needs her help? This sexy, addictive thriller is everything you never knew you could get from a crime novel."—GLAMOUR

"Unique and fascinating.... It's like a blast of cold, fresh air to read The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo."—CHICAGO TRIBUNE 

"Combine the chilly Swedish backdrop and moody psychodrama of a Bergman movie with the grisly pyrotechnics of a serial-killer thriller, then add an angry punk heroine and a down-on-his-luck investigative journalist, and you have the ingredients of Stieg Larsson's first novel."—THE NEW YORK TIMES

"Wildly suspenseful...an intelligent, ingeniously plotted, utterly engrossing thriller."—THE WASHINGTON POST

“I am beginning to believe that Denise Mina is the finest contemporary exponent of British crime fiction.”—Marcel Berlins, THE TIMES (LONDON)

From the Publisher

An aging millionaire grieving the long-ago disappearance of a beloved niece hires a disgraced investigative journalist to look into her presumed murder. Mikael Blomkvist, the journalist, teams up with brilliant punk hacker-investigator Lisbeth Salander, and the pair eventually uncovers a cascade of family horrors involving rapes, murder, and corporate corruption. Larsson's wildly popular mystery comes through surprisingly clearly in this able adaptation from crime writer Mina (Garnethill; Hellblazer). The original Swedish title was Men Who Hate Women, and Mina has emphasized the victim's point of view for Salander's rape as well as flashbacks of her mother's abuse. The art is realistic color with monochrome flashbacks. While some characters appear a little stiff, the fascinating Salander seems almost alive on the page. VERDICT This adaptation of an international megaseller is a solid, compelling candidate for adult graphic novel collections. Note: the book contains disturbing sexual content as appropriate to the story, although not especially graphic.—M.C.

Library Journal