It’s always a bit sad when someone quits a job, especially a well-loved and -trusted colleague who did a huge amount of the work. Sure, you’ll all take him out to lunch on his last day (or as close to it as you can manage), but that’s for his benefit. The next Monday, you all…
I’m writing this late on Thursday evening, full of turkey and stuffing and good will toward my fellow man. And I’ve been thinking that I don’t have any theme to unify them – I almost had three books starting with “G” and then almost had three volume twos — but a theme just jumped out…
Bourbon Island 1730 By Appollo and Lewis Trondheim; Art by Lewis Trondheim First Second, October 2008, $17.95 Bourbon Island is a small but real place – it’s called Réunion these days, but it’s there, hanging near the east coast of Madagascar – and several of the characters in this graphic novel either carry the names…
Once again I’m left with a stack of books that are sequels to other books – that’s what comics is about, isn’t it? stories that never end? – and so I shoved three of them together due to some vague shojo similarities. And they are… Nephilim, Vol. 2 By Anna Hanamaki Aurora, July 2008, $10.95…
Sometimes I even confuse myself, and I think I’ve just done it with that sub-head. These three books are all the fourth volumes of their series, all things I reviewed before, and all from Yen Press (because they and Del Rey are the most consistent at sending me books for review – hint, hint, other…
Buffy the Vampire Slayer Season Eight, Vol. 3: Wolves at the Gate Written by Joss Whedon and Drew Goddard; Illustrated by Georges Jeanty Dark Horse, October 2008, $15.95 I have to admit something right up front, by quoting myself: Not only have I never read any [[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer]]] comics, I’ve never seen the…
The Venice Chronicles By Enrico Casarosa Atelier Fio/AdHouse, November 2008, $19.95 Sometimes it seems like people live in completely different worlds. For example, I live in an America where a guy named Andy can marry a girl named Chris, have a series of decent jobs in book publishing, and go on occasional vacations to theme…
I warned you that we’d be back to high school before we knew it, but did you listen to me? (OK, maybe you did. I don’t really know, to be honest.) It’s that time again: to cavort with sword-swinging, vampire-snogging, dog-spirit-cavorting high school students! To see lots of stylized tears, food-gobbling binges, and unexpected nudity!…
There have now been eight generations of teenage boys to thrill to the exploits of [[[Conan]]], one for each decade since he first appeared in [[[Weird Tales]]] in 1932. The oldest cohort is likely mostly dead; the youngest one will mostly wander away once they get drivers’ licenses or beer-purveying fake IDs. But Conan endures…
Berlin, Book Two: City of Smoke By Jason Lutes Drawn & Quarterly, September 2008, $19.95 More than ten years ago, Jason Lutes began serializing his long graphic novel [[[Berlin]]] in a comic of the same name. Making long-form comics is long, hard work – more like an ultramarathon than any other art form – and…
Just one book this week, but what a book! How could I mention anything else in the same breath as… Bat-Manga! The Secret History of Batman in Japan Compiled, edited and Designed by Chip Kidd Photography by Geoff Spear From the Collection of Saul Ferris Translated by Anne Ishii Pantheon, October 2008, $29.95 paperback/$60 hardcover…
The Night of Your Life By Jessie Reklaw Dark Horse, September 2008, $15.95 For the last thirteen years, Jessie Reklaw has been turning dreams – mostly those of strangers – into comics, on his website and in a growing number of alternative weeklies nationwide. (Not to derail my own train of thought, but are there…
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