Today, I finished and published the essay about Virginia Woolf’s diary that I’ve been working on for a while. This is the same essay that I’ve posted excerpts from for a few months, but now it’s more polished. Read it here.
I already wrote for the Comics Journal about my favorite comics published in 2019, but here’s a longer list of my favorite things I read this year, regardless of when they were published.
- Bee Season, Myla Goldberg
- Minor Leagues #6-9, Simon Moreton
- Late Bloomer, Maré Odomo
- Gus vol. 4, Christophe Blain
- Sundays with Walt and Skeezix, ed. Peter Maresca
- F zines, Kevin Huizenga
- Pickle #1-2; Atlas #1, Dylan Horrocks – For a while I was toying with the idea of doing a fake issue of an one person anthology comic, using that as a framework to draw excerpts from stories that I wasn’t interested in completing. I think these comics planted that idea in my head.
- Waiting for Ariel, Daryl Seitchik
- Bone, Jeff Smith (reread) – This comic is very good! I guess I had forgotten that. It’s pleasant and easy to read and very impressive on a panel-to-panel basis.
- Wedding Toasts I’ll Never Give, Ada Calhoun
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The Left Hand of Darkness, Ursula K Le Guin
Essays One, Lydia Davis
Bough Down, Karen Green (reread)
Tar Baby, Toni Morrison