Read in July

I spent a lot of sitting time by one pool or another this month, but watching to make sure the children don't drown (on their own, or deliberately drowning each other) doesn't always leave as much time for reading as one might like. Still, I soldiered on. (On the other hand, I also spent way too much time chasing random links for blogging -- and I'm going to cut back severely on that particular time-sink in future.)

• Matt Wagner, Grendel Archives (7/1)
  
• Brian Michael Bendis, Mark Bagley, & others, The Pulse, Vol. 1: Thin Air (7/2)
  
• Bill Willingham, Mark Buckingham, & others, Fables, Vol. 9: Sons of Empire (7/3)
  
• Mark Beyer, Amy + Jordan (7/4)
  
• Gilbert Hernandez, Luba: Three Daughters (7/5)
  
• Ben Schott, Schott's Almanac 2007 (7/6)
  This was my bathroom reading for nearly half of this year; it was a very dense book, full of little snippets of interesting stuff. Since that's probably its intended reading venue, I'll have to count it as a fine success.
  
• Michael Swanwick, The Dog Said Bow-Wow (7/6)
  
• Will Eisner, New York: The Big City (7/7)
  
• P.G. Wodehouse, Psmith, Journalist (7/7)
  
• Will Eisner, The Building (7/8)
  
• Will Eisner, City People Notebook (7/9)
  
• Will Eisner, Invisible People (7/10)
  
• Will Jacobs, Gerard Jones, & Tim Hamilton, The Trouble With Girls, Vol. 2 (7/11)
  
• Osamu Tezuka, Apollo's Song (7/12)
  
• Mike Carey & various artists, Lucifer, Vol. 1: Devil in the Gateway (7/13)
  
• Gene Wolfe, Pirate Freedom (7/14)
  
• Tim Truman, Scout, Vol. 1 (7/15)
  
• Larry Gonick, The Cartoon History of the Modern World, Part I (7/16)
  
• Art Spiegelman & Chip Kidd, Jack Cole and Plastic Man: Forms Stretched to Their Limits! (7/17)
  
• Max Barry, Company (7/17)
  
• Mike Baron & Andie Tong, The Architect (7/18)
  
• Frank Miller & Lynn Varley, 300 (7/19)
  
• Mike Baron & Steve Rude, Nexus Archives, Volume One (7/20)
  
• Jim Krueger, Alex Ross, & Doug Braithwaite, Justice, Vol. 1 (7/21)
  
• Will Eisner, The Plot (7/22)
• Howard Zimmerman, editor, The Best of Ray Bradbury: The Graphic Novel (7/23)
  
• J. David Spurlock, compiler, The Thrilling Comic Book Cover Art of Alex Schomburg (7/24)
  
• Charlie LeDuff, Work and Other Sins (7/25)
  
• George Sullivan, In the Wake of Battle: the Civil War Images of Matthew Brady (7/26)
  
• Robert Mash, How To Keep Dinosaurs (7/28)
  
• Joe Matt, Spent (7/29)
  
• Mike Carey, Sonny Liew, & Marc Hempel, Re-Gifters (7/30)
  review tk
• Joann Sfar & Emmanuel Guibert, The Professor's Daughter (7/31)
  review tk

And that's what I read: not as many "real books" as I'd have liked, but I did get rid of the backlog of comics/graphic novels. (Although I then announced myself to various comics companies as a reviewer for ComicMix, so I'm starting to get review copies to build the pile back up. I must admit that I am powerless to control my to-be-read pile and turn it over to a Higher Power...)