The New Adventures of Abraham Lincoln

by Scott McCloud

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Genres: Comics, Graphic Novels, Fiction

144 pages, Paperback

First published February 1, 1998

About the author

Scott McCloud (born Scott McLeod) is an American cartoonist and theorist on comics as a distinct literary and artistic medium.

Reviews

[Drew Canole · Rating 1 out of 5]

Reads like a bad episode of a kids cartoon show like Jimmy Neutron. Evil Abraham Lincoln versus the real Abraham Lincoln and only a 12 year old can save the day!

Scott mentions in the afterword that his font choice might date the book as 90s. Unfortunately it’s not limited to just the font. I’ll give him props for making one of the first computer generated comic books... but this looks horrific. It would have had some appeal perhaps back when it came out but just for the novelty.

The 3D backgrounds look really bad and Scott’s 2d drawings don’t fair much better.

[C. · Rating 3 out of 5]

Mildly diverting, McCloud is a better teacher of the comic art than practitioner.

[Greg · Rating 5 out of 5]

Published during Clinton’s second term, this felt like it could have been written with the Trump presidency in mind. Extremely relevant today, the blatant challenging of the whitewashed version of American history we are fed is a necessity for all Americans to face. I wish the book would have delved deeper into some of the specifics but there are plenty of resources elsewhere. This did what it intended to do and in an interesting way, even if 20 years on it is a bit visually dated.

[Bryan · Rating 4 out of 5]

This aged really well in some ways and endearingly terribly in others.

[John Kirk · Rating 3 out of 5]

I agree with the basic message of this book: symbols can become an end in themselves, rather than a shorthand to represent something else. That's partly because they lose their meaning by constant repetition, and partly because it's easy to think that you understand a topic based on an iconic phrase/image rather than making the effort to research it properly.

The story is quite energetic, and there are some funny scenes. The artwork is unusual, with "cartoony" figures on a very detailed background. I'm not a huge fan of this style, but it doesn't get in the way of the story. Mind you, it would make more sense if Byron and Marcie didn't wear the same clothes all week.

It's not as groundbreaking as some of McCloud's other work (e.g. Zot) but I still enjoy re-reading this every few years.

[Philip · Rating 4 out of 5]

I've been meaning to re-read this for years, ever since a comic blog (Mike Sterling's Progressive Ruin) mentioned that the rhetoric coming from the fake Abraham Lincoln sounded a lot like the rhetoric coming from the then-current Bush White House (I said I've been meaning to re-read this for years). He was absolutely right. This book's message about the dangers of letting symbols become more important than the things they symbolize is an important lesson, and one that we may have forgotten.
I didn't care much for this book when I first read back in 1998, but recent history has caused me to re-evaluate my opinion of it. I like it a lot better now.

[Owen · Rating 5 out of 5]

People always forget this book, but it is one of my favorites.

I have not read it in years, but it spoke to me at the time. Especially the panel mocking the unspoken idea that black people were just waiting for Lincoln to free them.

I identified with the protagonist, a smart, black teen named Byron and I loved how he both supported and questioned the real Lincoln. He did not let the man off the hook for suspending habeus corpus, or for his views on equality.

I need to find my copy and read it again so that I can give a better review.

[Paolo · Rating 3 out of 5]

Not only for kids, but readable by kids, too. Actually thisi is a political pamphlet (not-so) disguised as educational comic book. Not very thrilled by the graphics, especially the computer generated backgrounds.

[Ben · Rating 2 out of 5]

A very clever concept and some funny scenes, but the story and theme seem rather labored.

[Brantley · Rating 4 out of 5]

Once again, Abe saves the day...just from Benedict Arnold and aliens this time...

[Craig · Rating 2 out of 5]

This was completely forgettable, but I did give it two stars for the artistic experimentation McCloud used on this volume in pre-Photoshop days.