Friday, December 17, 2010

Book-A-Day 2010 # 317 (12/17) -- Cairo by G. Willow Wilson & M.K. Perker

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I've typed several paragraphs of a review of Cairo -- a DC/Vertigo graphic novel from a few years ago, written by G. Willow Wilson and ...

Quote of the Week: Special Snowflakes

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"Always remember that you are absolutely unique. Just like everybody else." - Margaret Mead
Thursday, December 16, 2010

Book-A-Day 2010 # 316 (12/16) -- War Is Boring by David Axe & Matt Bors

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There are always some people who run towards danger when the rest of us are running away. Some do it for glory, and some for self-destructio...
Wednesday, December 15, 2010

Advice to a Would-Be SF Writer

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Hey! Non-Book-a-Day content has been slim here for donkey's years, and I just wrote the following (thinly edited to remove the recipient...

Book-A-Day 2010 # 315 (12/15) -- Dark Entries by Rankin and Dell'edera

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It's a wonder that John Constantine isn't permanently crouched in a corner somewhere, keening softly and rocking back and forth in t...
Tuesday, December 14, 2010

Book-A-Day 2010 # 314 (12/14) -- The Storm in the Barn by Matt Phelan

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It's amazing how much a graphic novel suffers from lack of real lettering -- you wouldn't think that carefully-placed, professionall...
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Monday, December 13, 2010

Book-A-Day 2010 # 313 (12/13) -- Sophie Crumb: Evolution of a Crazy Artist

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There are certainly artists whose work up to the age of twenty-nine would easily justify a major retrospective: Keats, Byron, and Shelley in...

Reviewing the Mail: Week of 12/11

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I usually have a long, tedious explanation of the point of the "Reviewing the Mail" posts here, but it feels silly to do so this w...
Sunday, December 12, 2010

Book-A-Day 2010 # 312 (12/12) -- The Zabime Sisters by Aristophane

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Quiet, closely observed stories from odd corners of the world have never been the sort of thing to set the graphic novel world on fire. (Or...
Saturday, December 11, 2010

Book-A-Day 2010 # 311 (12/11) -- All-Star Superman, Vol. 1 by Morrison & Quitely

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This book is museum-quality: a highly-polished, painstakingly labored over, carefully presented coprolite. Every moment of it was digested l...
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Friday, December 10, 2010

Book-A-Day 2010 # 310 (12/10) -- Pride of Bagdhad by Vaughan and Henrichon

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It's amazingly easy to trivialize something, if you want to. "Four talking lions from Saddam's zoo meet a highly symbolic end a...

Quote of the Week: What to Do

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"Think nothing profitable to you which compels you to break a promise, to lose your self-respect, to hate any person, to suspect, to cu...
Thursday, December 09, 2010

Book-A-Day 2010 # 309 (12/9) -- Denys Wortman's New York

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Well over ninety-nine percent of humanity is forgotten fifty years after they die -- no matter how smart, or beautiful, or accomplished, or ...
Wednesday, December 08, 2010

Book-A-Day 2010 # 308 (12/8) -- Manga Claus: The Blade of Kringle by Marunas & Craddock

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There's a kind of comic -- exclusively published by people who have little experience in the form, though usually they know a lot about ...
Tuesday, December 07, 2010

Book-A-Day 2010 # 307 (12/7) -- The Complete Peanuts, 1977 to 1978 by Charles M. Schulz

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When I last left Peanuts -- with my Book-A-Day #298 post on the 1975-76 volume, less than two weeks ago -- I noted that Peanuts wasn'...
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