Thursday, August 27, 2026

Proof That the Devil Loves You by Gilbert Hernandez

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So Gilbert Hernandez makes his regular comics stories - I almost said "normal," but that's not the right word here - with cont...
Wednesday, August 26, 2026

Perfect Example by John Porcellino

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When you self-publish a comic on any kind of regular basis, you tend to pour all of your creative work into that one outlet. (I don't th...
Tuesday, August 25, 2026

The Moving Target by Ross Macdonald

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I have a shelf dedicated to reading projects, in my to-be-read bookcases. It's mostly sat quietly for the last few years, with three hal...
Monday, August 24, 2026

All of This and Nothing: Barracuda

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"All of This and Nothing" is a series of weekly posts, each about one song I really love, by an artist I haven't featured in t...
Saturday, August 22, 2026

Quote of the Week: The Vocal Qualities of Rural Aunts

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I had already divined who was at the other end of the wire, my good and deserving Aunt Dahlia having a habit of talking on the telephone wit...
Friday, August 21, 2026

Muybridge by Guy Delisle

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Guy Delisle's new book last year - his first graphic novel since 2021's Factory Summers  - was something of a change of pace. Delisl...
Thursday, August 20, 2026

How I Make Comics by Kim Deitch

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Kim Deitch's work has been largely of a piece for the last thirty or so years, going back to A Shroud for Waldo . Deitch himself is a ch...
Wednesday, August 19, 2026

Much Obliged, Jeeves by P.G. Wodehouse

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This is the fourteenth of the fifteen books primarily about Bertie Wooster and his man Jeeves. Others may argue with that number, since it i...
Tuesday, August 18, 2026

The Cartoonists Club by Raina Telgemeier & Scott McCloud

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If you knew nothing else, and heard that Raina Telgemeier and Scott McCloud had made a graphic novel together under the title The Cartoonist...
Monday, August 17, 2026

All of This and Nothing: Alarm Clock

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"All of This and Nothing" is a series of weekly posts, each about one song I really love, by an artist I haven't featured in t...
Sunday, August 16, 2026

Reviewing the Mail: Week of August 15, 2026

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I was out at the library, and vaguely unhappy with the choices I had at home for my next book to read. (Three big bookcases just isn't e...
Saturday, August 15, 2026

Quote of the Week: O Pioneers!

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It was a splendid population - for all the slow, sleepy, sluggish-brained sloths staid at home - you never find that sort of people among pi...
Friday, August 14, 2026

Lone Wolf and Cub, Vol. 10: Hostage Child by Kazuo Koike & Goseki Kojima

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Lone Wolf and Cub  is a twenty-eight volume series, collecting a serialized story that originally appeared in installments in the early ...
Thursday, August 13, 2026

Interlibrary Loan by Gene Wolfe

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Last novels are often incomplete, fragmentary, not fully formed. Details might be fluid in different chapters, as if the author hadn't f...
Wednesday, August 12, 2026

Seek You by Kristen Radtke

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One of the standard kinds of nonfiction is the "here's a trend; what does it mean?" book. It can be serious or tabloid-y; bree...