Read in February

I do these posts every month, mostly as an index to my posts about books -- though partly also to serve as a backup to my handwritten booklog. (And also, not to forget, because I find the making of lists to be very soothing.) There are usually a few things scattered in the middle that didn't get their own posts, but those are pretty rare.

• Michael Crowley & Dan Goldman, 08: A Graphic Diary of the Campaign Trail (2/2)
  
• Jiro Taniguchi, The Quest for the Missing Girl (2/3)
  
• Jeffrey Brown, Little Things (2/4)
  
• J.G. Ballard, Miracles of Life (2/4)
  
• Jeffrey Brown, Sulk, Issue 1 (2/5)
  
• Jeffrey Brown, Sulk, Issue 2 (2/5)
  
• Chris Schweizer, Crogan's Vengeance (2/6)
  
• Masashi Kishimoto, Naruto, Vol. 31 (2/7)
  More fighting. It's been three weeks since I read it, so that's about all I can say specifically -- these books tend to blur together. But, as a male American who reads manga, I'm more-or-less required to read this series, and I enjoy it as well.
  
• Pascal Girard, Nicolas (2/9)
  
• Diane Obamsawin, Kaspar (2/10)
  
• Justine Larbalestier, How to Ditch Your Fairy (2/10)
  
• Koren Shadmi, In the Flesh (2/11)
  
• Tom Pomplun, editor, Graphic Classics, Vol. 16: Oscar Wilde (2/12)
  
• Kazuo Koike & Goseki Kojima, Path Of The Assassin, Vol. 14: Bad Blood (2/13)
  This is the penultimate book of Koike & Kojima's historical saga, which follows the man who will one day be shogun, Ieyasu, and his best friend the ninja. (Apparently the super-ninja best friend is a real historical personage, but I expect there have been some liberties taken for the sake of a good ninja story.)
  
• Pascal Blanchet, Baloney (2/14)

Posy Simmonds, Tamara Drewe (2/16)
I've been informed that this is a loose adaptation of Hardy's Far From the Madding Crowd, but I've never read that novel, so don't take my word for it. It's a very assured, novelistic graphic novel that relies much more heavily on extensive text sections than I'm entirely comfortable with; it doesn't quite manage to integrate the story it wants to tell into comics, but lets the most important parts of that story (the internal monologues in particular, and, a few times, important scenes) happen, much of the time, in prose which is then illustrated by comics. This may be a format quibble, but I think it's about something more fundamental: what kind of text a particular work actually is. Tamara Drewe is somewhere between a fine novel and a fine graphic novel, but doesn't come down solidly on either side.

• Gerry Alanguilan, Elmer (individual issues) (2/17)
  
• Budjette Tan & Ka-Jo Baldismo, Trese: Murder on Balete Drive (2/18)
  
• Walter Jon Williams, This Is Not a Game (2/18)
  
• Budjette Tan & Ka-Jo Baldismo, Trese: Unreported Murders (2/19)
  
• Mariko Tamaki & Jillian Tamaki, Skim (2/20)
  
• Jean-Benoit Nadeau & Julie Barlow, Sixty Million Frenchmen Can't Be Wrong (2/20)
  
• Brian Azzarello & Lee Bermejo, Joker (2/23)
  
• Matthew Stover, Star Wars: Luke Skywalker and the Shadows of Mindor (2/23)
  
• Mike Marts, editor, Batman: Joker's Asylum (2/24)
  
• Neil Gaiman, Coraline (2/24)
  
• Susan Hughes & Willow Dawson, No Girls Allowed (2/25)
  
• Arnold Arre, Martial Law Babies (2/26)
  
• Janice Poon, Claire and the Bakery Thief (2/28)
  
• James Kochalka, Johnny Boo: The Best Little Ghost in the World (2/28)
  
• Corey Barba, Yam: Bite-Sized Chunks (2/28)
  
• Christian Slade, Korgi, Book 2: The Cosmic Collector (2/28)
  

That's what I read last month; not bad for twenty-eight days, I think.