Wednesday, September 06, 2023

Clyde by Jim Benton

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I'm pretty sure I'm four to five times  the expected age of a reader of this book, but, you know what: I don't care. Jim Benton ...
Tuesday, September 05, 2023

As a Cartoonist by Noah Van Sciver

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I used to personalize  far too much when I read, to reflexively attribute ideas or thoughts in a book to the author. To blame  the author, s...
Monday, September 04, 2023

This Year: 2005

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"This Year" is a series of weekly posts, each about one song from one year of my life. See  the introduction  for more. Way back a...
Sunday, September 03, 2023

Books Read: August 2023

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As usual, this is primarily an index and a way for me to organize things here, which is why I often forget to do it "on time" and ...

Reviewing the Mail: Week of September 2, 2023

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I got three books from the library this week, and these are them: I Was Their American Dream  was the first comics memoir from Malaka Gharib...
Saturday, September 02, 2023

Quote of the Week: The Uncreated Conscience of His Political Party

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But every morning, even if there's been a nighttime session and he has only slept two hours, he gets up at six and reads his paper while...
Friday, September 01, 2023

Inside Moebius, Part II by Jean "Moebius" Giraud

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This is the middle, so there will be the usual problems with talking about middle. And the whole "Inside Moebius" project is a lat...
Thursday, August 31, 2023

The Elegance of the Hedgehog by Muriel Barbery

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People who read a lot of books have lists - maybe on paper, maybe in their heads, maybe both. Lists of things they think they want to read s...
Wednesday, August 30, 2023

Ralph Azham, Vol.3: You Can't Stop a River by Lewis Trondheim

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If there's one lesson from Lewis Trondheim's fantasies, it's that you don't get what you want, no matter how powerful or ric...
Tuesday, August 29, 2023

The Agency by Katie Skelly

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Katie Skelly is a fun, interesting cartoonist whose work hasn't quite connected with me. I knew that from her My Pretty Vampire , but th...
Monday, August 28, 2023

This Year: 2004

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"This Year" is a series of weekly posts, each about one song from one year of my life. See  the introduction  for more. Any list l...
Saturday, August 26, 2023

Quote of the Week: No Hurry

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There is a great difference in boats, of course. For a long time I was on a boat that was so slow we used to forget what year it was we left...
Friday, August 25, 2023

Miss Lonelyhearts by Nathanael West

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I think I read Day of the Locust  some time in the '90s. I'd have to dig through my reading notebook to prove or disprove that, and ...
Thursday, August 24, 2023

Fortune & Glory by Brian Michael Bendis

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I went through a Bendis kick, around the time a lot of the hip comics kids did, back in the mid-Aughts. I at first liked Powers , and then t...
Wednesday, August 23, 2023

Die Laughing by Andre Franquin

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I've said this before, but I tend to read the outliers rather than the main works. I've mentioned it most often related to my pencha...