Geoff's Reviews > Pinball: A Graphic History of the Silver Ball

This book explores pinball as a gaming technology and a cultural force and follows its rise and fall and recent internet-fueled renaissance. I found the art to be really well done - sometimes graphic non-fiction finds it difficult to balance the words and pictures, but here the specific pieces of pinball technology or game design were illustrated superbly and were much easier to understand than if this was just a normal nonfiction book. The history lesson was also really well structured. The other very interesting part of this book was its triumphalism about the recent rise and rebirth of pinball culture. I had *no idea* that pinball was having a internet-fueled renaissance! This is a reminder of the promise of the internet, when communities could use the internet to find each other an organically share and grow their passions.

**Thanks to the artist, publisher, and NetGalley for a free copy in exchange for an honest review.