The Sellout, Paul Beatty Treehouse of Horror #15, ed. Sammy Harkham Endless Monsoon 1-2, Sarah Welch – Really good, highly recommended. One of a few sight-unseen RIPE discoveries. Finding new work in that way is a very singular pleasure. – Some thoughts, after a period of reflection, on things I read this year: Uptight 5 […]
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October – November
Monster (2016 reprint of 2010 edition), ed. Paul Lyons Altcomics Magazine #3, ed. Sab Maynert Love and Rockets Vol. 4 #1, Gilbert and Jaime Hernandez – Wanted to get this since I missed out on previous L&R number ones, but now I’ll go back to the softcover compilations. Recent Glibert is too hit and miss […]
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September Landscape, Simon Hanselmann Frontier #13, Richie Pope What Happened, Simon Moreton You Will Return to Places, Madeleine Witt The Letting Go, Kevin Czap – It’s been fascinating for me how the Ley Lines series has moved from strength to strength with works that feel very different but are also clearly part of a single, […]
August
Gulag Casual, Austin English Lyric Sheet, Kevin Czap Price T Dies with Both Eyes on the Jackpot, Kevin Czap Duel with the Devil, Paul Collins Lab Girl, Hope Jahren – In the last week or ten days I worked on a project which you’ll never see and which didn’t push at the limits of my […]
July
Altcomics Magazine 2, ed. Blaise Larmee Mirror Mirror 1, ed. Blaise Larmee ITDN, Andy Burkholder After Nothing Comes, Aidan Koch Add Toner, Aaron Cometbus – Weird month or maybe just as weird as all the other ones. More soon??
June
Satin Island, Tom McCarthy Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage, Haruki Murakami Samuel Johnson Is Indignant, Lydia Davis Cometbus 56: A Bestiary of Booksellers, Aaron Cometbus Drawn Onward, Matt Madden Garden, Simon Moreton Some Portraits, Simon Moreton Rain and Other Stories, Simon Moreton Asthma, John Hakiewicz Sec, Sarah Ferrick – A pleasant and […]
May
The Violinist’s Thumb, Sam Kean Pulse, Julian Barnes The Waves, Virginia Woolf Sacred Heart, Liz Suburbia Drawn Onward, Matt Madden Nome, ed. Jason T. Miles and Tony Remple – Work harder. Catching bottles in bottles. Completing projects in a complete way feels attainable. Maybe.
April
Almost No Memory, Lydia Davis Minor Leagues #1, Simon Moreton Hand-Made Facsimile, Tym Godek Some Gags Involving Mirrors, Tym Godek TEOFTW, Charles Forsman Flesh and Bone, Julia Gfrörer Watching Days Become Years #4, Jeff LeVine Department of Art, Dunja Jankovic Habitat, Dunja Jankovic Zona 01, ed. Frank Santoro The Santoro School Handbook for Making Better […]
March
Parable of the Sower, Octavia Butler Hikaru no Go vols. 1-23, Yumi Hotta and Takeshi Obata Divide et Impera, ed. Pedro Moura Forest, Jon Marchione – Weird month in terms of making work because I feel like I didn’t get much done. April will be busy too. So that’s frustrating. Though on the other hand […]
February
Meursault, contre-enquête, Kamel Daoud Epoxy 5, John Pham Crickets 5, Sammy Harkham Uptight 5, Jordan Crane S. Song, Sarah Ferrick – Reread in preparation for Sec The Blonde Woman, Aidan Koch – I had put off reading this in print because I had such a clear, distinct memory of my experience reading it online. It […]