Book Review: Bigfoot by Jim Butcher with Mark Powers and Joseph Cooper (graphic novel)

Bigfoot
by Jim Butcher, with Mark Powers (adaptation) and Joseph Cooper (illustrations) (Butcher)

Since 2000, author Jim Butcher has put out 17 full-length novels and several short story collections, all featuring his Chicago-based modern day wizard Harry Dresden, who works as a magic-using private investigator in the windy city. Several of the stories in the Dresden Files series have also been adapted into graphic novel format.

 

Bigfoot is one of the latter — Over the past 22 years, Butcher has written three different short stories that feature Harry being hired by a Bigfoot, Strength of a River in His Shoulders, who hires Harry to intervene to protect his half-Sasquatch/half-human son, Irwin, at three different times in his life — as a pre-teen, a teenager and in college. Irwin’s special nature means that he can be the focal point of paranormal intrigue, so Harry’s abilities to manipulative the forces of magic are essential to keeping Irwin safe. (Previously collected in text-only form in a collection in 2015.)

 

The artwork in Bigfoot is quite good, but I’ll offer one slight caution to sensitive readers — the third of the adapted storylines in this volume involves considerable nudity. Be forewarned. None-the-less, this was a terrific addition to the evolving world of the Dresden Files.

 

(If you enjoy this, you may also wish to try other graphic novels in the Dresden Files universe — all featuring stories by Jim Butcher but with different artists for each entry: The Dresden Files: Storm Front (vol. 1): The Gathering Storm, Dresden Files: Omnibus Vol. 1, and The Dresden Files: Welcome to the Jungle.)

 

( official Dresden Files page on the official Jim Butcher web site )

 

Recommended by Scott C.
Bennett Martin Public Library — Public Service

 

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