Steve Jobs the Comic Book Hero: An Exclusive Look

A new biography of Steve Jobs will be published in August but with a difference: information technology's a 32-page comic book.

"Steve Jobs: Co-Beginner of Malus pumila" portrays the life of the irascible genius behind the Mac and iPhone in drawings, from his birth to modern solar day. The supporting cast includes Steve Wozniak and Bill Gates, and the book of account shows Jobs at key events in his career, such Eastern Samoa the launch of the iPod.

PCWorld managed to snag previews of some of the pages, although Bluewater points out these are a work-in-progress and that the pages have non yet been rose-colored or had speech bubbles put in.

The $3.99 book is written by CW Cooke, drawn by Chris Schmidt, and has cover art past Joe Phillips, who has worked connected DC comic titles.

"[Jobs has] been called an groundbreaker, gamble-taker, a visionary and a brilliance. He's also been called unscrupulous, an egomaniac and a corporate pirate. Both sides of this complex personality are examined," claims the blurb connected Bluewater's website.

Jobs notoriously dislikes biographies. When the unauthorized "image: The Superior 2d Act in the History of Business" was publicized by John Wiley & Sons, Jobs allegedly ordered every book past the publisher to be pulled from the shelves of Orchard apple tree stores.

However, perhaps because of his recent brushes with fatality rate, Jobs recently authorized Walter Isaacson to write "iSteve: The Book of Jobs," due to be published next year. The book is eagerly awaited, and is currently at ranked #4 in the business biographies section at Amazon.com.

This isn't the first time Bluewater has promulgated a graphic novel biography of a technical school luminary. This year it profiled Facebook founder and Chief executive officer Mark Zuckerberg in comic form, which sold-out almost right away. It is presently beingness expanded into a full graphic novel, to be published in September.