Lugosi

I'm a huge fan of biographical graphic novels. It's an excellent medium for telling the story of a person's life.

I wasn't terribly familiar with Lugosi's personal life outside of a basic understanding that he struggled to break free of his horror persona and ended up in financial difficulties as so many any film actors of this age of Hollywood experienced.

As it turns out, I'm not impressed with Bela as a person. He was more often than not the creator of most of his struggles and seemed to refuse to take any responsibility for his role in them. I got the impression that he never grew out of the attitude that he was being wronged by others when in reality he was often the one causing harm to those around him and to himself. I found myself being quite exasperated by him throughout.

With that said, I still found it to be very interesting (especially learning about the different women in his life), and that the story had lots of detail that gave a nice well rounded view of Lugosi's life. The drawings were very well done and I would definitely check out more from Koren Shadmi.

***Thank you to Humanoids, Inc for providing me with a copy of the audiobook for free via NetGalley for an unbiased review.