Monkey Covers

Sunday is Monkey Covers day here at YACB. Because there's nothing better than a comic with a monkey on the cover.

On the cover of 1947's Tom-Tom, The Jungle Boy #1, Itchi the Monk pals around with his friends Tom-Tom and some unnamed elephant.

(Read more about this comic from Scott Shaw!)

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Box of Manga from Japan

We have a new 'source' at the library for manga from Japan, and we just got our first box in today.

What was in the box? I'm glad you asked:

A two volume Best of Blackjack by Tezuka.

Volumes 4 & 5 of Tezuka's Phoenix.

A volume of Tezuka's Mighty Atom.

The four latest volumes of Inu-Yasha.

And all six volumes of Yotsuba&!.

That's right, we have volumes 4-6 of Yotsuba&! Of course they're in Japanese so I can't read a lick, but even looking at the pictures it's still a lot of fun. In one story in volume 4, the gang goes fishing (with the expected results). ADV, please get to publishing the final four volumes!

The physical quality on all of the volumes is excellent, much better than the cheaply produced editions that most of our translated manga ends up being. (And all of the above came out to costing just under US$70!)

A Short List of Manga I'd Like To See Translated Into Engish

A note to any manga publishers: I'd most likely pay good money for any of the following series were they to be translated into English and made available:

• Ge Ge Ge no Kitaro by Shigeru Mizuki (This is available in a bilingual Japanese/English edition, but only in Japan!)
  
• Palepoli by Furuya Usamaru
  
• Genju Jiten (Hungry Wolf Story) by Taniguchi Jiro
  
• Yomi Henjou Yawa by Okano Reiko
  
• Tengoku-Kyu (Crazy Heaven) by Takaya Miou
  
• Ame Miya Yuki Kohri (Rain, Princess, Snow Ice) by Tsuno Yuko
  
• Louise by Hiroki Mafuyu
  

Thanks!

 

New This Week: January 31, 2007

Based on the NCRL list for this week's comics shipping from Diamond, here are a few things to look for at the local comic shop later today:


The Pick of the Week is Richard Sala's new graphic novella, The Grave Robber's Daughter, from Fantagraphics. Sala's stories are nearly always fun-spooky, and worth both your $$$ and your reading time.


In other comics:


Asbtract have the latest Strangers in Paradise (#87)

Antarctic bring the GD love with three comics: Gold Digger #81, GD Sourcebook #2, and Gold Digger 15 Year Anniversary Special #2. There are also new issues of Ninja High School (#146) and Dinowars (#2).

Archie have a new issue of Sabrina (#82).

Dark Horse have the 100th issue of Stan Sakai's Usagi Yojimbo.

DC have the 5th collection of Grant Morrison's classic Doom Patrol, and well as the final volume of Morrison's Seven Soldiers of Victory (vol. 4). There are also new issues of 52 (week 39), Blue Beetle (#11), Ex Machina (#26), Hawkgirl (#60), Jack of Fables (#7), and Uncle Sam and the Freedom Fighters (#7).

Image have new issues of Elephentmen (#6), Negative Burn (#8), and The Walking Dead (#34).

Marvel have the third collection of Whedon & Cassaday's Astonishing X-Men; a collection of the very fun Giffen/DeMatteis/Maguire Defenders; and new issues of Daredevil (#93) & Kabuki (#8).

Meisha Merlin have the second collection of Robert Asprin & Phil Foglio's Myth Adventures.

Plus Del Rey, TokyoPop & Viz all have tons of manga volumes dropping this week. I know that Diamond doesn't care about the manga that much, but couldn't they try a little to spread things out a bit more?

Cliff Chiang Totally Rules

Cliff Chiang Totally Rules



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New Library Comics: Week of January 22, 2007

Here's a list of the comics we added to our library collection last week:



Amano, Shiro. Kingdom hearts /Los Angeles, CA : Tokyopop, 2005-2006. vols. 2-3

Attitude 3 : the new subversive online cartoonists /New York : Nantier, Beall, Minoustchine, c2006.

Bernet, Jordi. The best of Jordi Bernet's Clara /San Francisco, CA : Big Wow Art and Auad Publishing, 2006.

Busch, H. The adventures of Edgar Mudd and Elaine /[Port St. Luci, FL] : Wet Earth, 2001- vols. 1-2

Calt, Stephen. R. Crumb's heroes of blues, jazz, & country /New York : Abrams, 2006.

Castells, Ricard, 1955- Poco /Madrid : Sinsentido, c1999- vol. 2

Cordoba, Sergio. Malas tierras /Bilbao : Astiberri, 2004- vol. 2

Crane, Jordan, 1973- The last lonely Saturday /Seattle, Wash. : Fantagraphics, c2000.

Crumb, R. The sweeter side of R. Crumb : being a delightful collection of adorable heart-warming and lovingly rendered drawings which, I promise, will not make you feel threatened in any way, and will put you in a state of warm and fuzzy and cuddly towards the artist and life in general. /London : MQ, c2006.

Dimona. /[Tel-Aviv : Dimona Comix Group, 2003-] vol. 3

Duran, Luis. Antoine de las tormentas /[Spain?] : Astiberri Ediciones, [2003?]

Gaiman, Neil. The absolute sandman /New York : DC Comics, 2006- vol. 1

Garcia, Camille Rose, 1970- The magic bottle /Seattle, Wash. : Fantagraphics, 2006.

Gerber, Steve, 1947- Hard time : 50 to life /New York, NY : DC Comics, c2004.

Griffith, Bill, 1944- Are we having fun yet? : Zippy the Pinhead's 29 day guide to random activities and arbitrary donuts /Seattle : Fantagraphics Books, 1994.

Henderson, Sam. Magic whistle /Gainesville, FL : Alternative Comics, 1998- vol. 2 no. 10

Hickee /Gainesville, FL : Alternative Comics, [2003]- vol. 3 nos. 1-2

Howard, Josh. Josh Howard's Dead@17 : The complete first series /Dallas, TX : Viper Comics, c2004- vol. 1

Inguine mah!gazine. /Roma : Coniglio editore, 2003- no. 3

Ito, Junji. Museum of terror /Milwaukie, Or. : Dark Horse, 2006- vol. 3

Kotegawa, Yua. Line /Houston, Tex. : ADV Manga, 2006.

Kramers ergot. /Corte Madera, Calif. : Gingko Press, 1999- vol. 6

Lanza en astillero : el caballero don Quijote y otras sus tristes figuras /Toledo : Junta de Castilla-La Mancha, c2005.

Max. Espiasuenos ; Chasseur de Reves ; Dream Spy (1973-2003) /Barcelona : La Cupula, Ediciones, c2003.

Meathaus. /New York, N.Y. : Meathaus Press, [2000- no. 8

Millionaire, Tony. Premillennial Maakies : the first five years /Seattle, Wash. : Fantagraphics, 2006.

Odgers, Chris. Mule /Cornwall, Great Britain : Sawhorse Books, 2005.

Remender, Rick. Black heart Billy /San Francisco, CA : AIT/Planetlar, 2002.

Rubber frame. Strips, toons, and bluesies : essays in comics and culture /New York : Princeton Architectural Press ; St. Louis : Washington University, [2006], c2004.

Stathis, Pete. Evenfall /San Jose, CA : SLG Pub., 2004- vol. 1

Takahashi, Rumiko, 1957- Ranma 1/2 /San Francisco, CA : Viz Communications, c2003- vol. 36

Tezuka, Osamu, 1928-1989. Ode to Kirihito /New York : Vertical, c2006.

Tomine, Adrian, 1974- Optic nerve. /Montreal, Que. : Drawn & Quarterly Publications, 1995- nos. 2, 4, 8-10

Vance, Steve. Simpsons comics extravaganza /New York : HarperPerennial, c1994.

Monkey Covers

Sunday is Monkey Covers day here at YACB. Because there's nothing better than a comic with a monkey on the cover.

Beefcake and bones on Alfredo Alcala's 1976 cover to Adventures on the Planet of the Apes #9!

(Standard disclaimer about damn dirty gun-toting apes not really being monkeys applies.)

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