Saturday, January 13, 2018

Book-A-Day 2018 #13: Fire!! by Peter Bagge

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When I got this book, I noted here that Zora Neale Hurston seemed like an odd choice for cartoonist Peter Bagge to biographize. But his in...
Friday, January 12, 2018

Book-A-Day 2018 #12: Satania by Vehlmann and Kerascoet

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"There's a world going on underground," a great man once growl-sang, and Satania just is the book to explore that hidden un...
Thursday, January 11, 2018

Book-A-Day 2018 #11: The Secret Door at the White House by Rick Geary

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I can't remember if I bought this from Rick Geary's webstore along with some other things, or if it was some kind of freebie/rewar...
Wednesday, January 10, 2018

Book-A-Day 2018 #10: The Complete Iron Devil by Frank Thorne

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Full disclosure alert: I definitely am using Book-A-Day as a way to clean out my shelves, to read things that I'm not sure why I have...
Tuesday, January 09, 2018

Book-A-Day 2018 #9: The Someday Funnies edited by Michel Choquette

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We all love a good story. And a behind-the-scenes story can be even better than the story told in the book itself. "Heroic editor spe...
Monday, January 08, 2018

Book-A-Day 2018 #8: Nabokov's Favorite Word is Mauve by Ben Blatt

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Dictionopolis and Digitopolis are still deeply separate and often-warring cities, despite various peace offerings over the years. Dictiono...

Reviewing the Mail: Week of 1/6

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Hi there! In keeping my my new simplified Reviewing the Mail policy that Everything Counts®, this week's post will include both books ...
Sunday, January 07, 2018

Book-A-Day 2018 #7: The Bloody Cardinal by Richard Sala

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I wish I had a picture to share with you, but I don't, so you'll have to imagine it. I live in a small town in northern New Jers...
Saturday, January 06, 2018

Book-A-Day 2016 #6: Baking With Kafka by Tom Gauld

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Is Tom Gauld our most erudite cartoonist? From the evidence of his work, he well could be -- there's a parade of authors both classic ...
Friday, January 05, 2018

Book-A-Day 2018 #5: The Tao of Travel by Paul Theroux

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Paul Theroux is the modern master of travel writing, at least as far as selling books in the US goes. (And I spent enough years in the boo...
Thursday, January 04, 2018

Book-A-Day 2018 #4: The Poisoner's Handbook by Deborah Blum

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There are always people who would be happier if other people weren't around. And some subset of those unhappy people try to rectify th...
Wednesday, January 03, 2018

Book-A-Day 2018 #3: Two Treasuries of Murder by Rick Geary

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Rick Geary has been retelling historical murders as small graphic novels for about two decades now -- first a series of famous Victorian c...
Tuesday, January 02, 2018

Book-A-Day 2018 #2: The Gods Lie by Kaori Ozaki

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Yesterday I had a teen sex story from a Japanese creator. Today I have something that rhymes with that: a pre-teen story of love and loss,...
Monday, January 01, 2018

Book-A-Day 2018 #1: A Girl on the Shore by Inio Asano

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The whole point about teens is that they're not done yet. They're not the people they're going to be; they might not even be ...

This Was 2017: How the Year Was Hornswoggled

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Every year, I do this post for New Year's Day, linking the first and last (with some wiggle room for comprehensibility) sentences of eac...