Monkey Covers

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

Dr. Nagan gets his comeuppance on Larry Lieber & Vince Colletta's 1974 cover to Weird Wonder Tales #7.

(Standard disclaimer about pissed-off gorillas not really being monkeys applies.)

Image courtesy of the GCD. Click on the image for a larger version.

Go Read: Flytrap episode 2

The second installment of Sara Ryan's Flytrap is now available online. Art this time out is provided by Ron Chan, who does a great job.

(The first episode, with art by Steve Lieber, is also online.)

My Current Fave Online Strips

My Current Favorite Online Comic Strips are:

* The Joy of Tech
* The Perry Bible Fellowship
* Piled Higher and Deeper
* A Softer World
* Unshelved
* XKCD

What are yours?

Cyborg Monkeys!

The world becomes more and more like comic books every day...



(via Q via Random Good Stuff)

YACB Bulletins

ITEM! "Capes, flying, and eye lasers are important plot points to a kid." - Eric Powell talks about his upcoming gig on Action Comics.

ITEM! Saw Ghost Rider Saturday night with a group of friends. We laughed a lot. Not because the movie was trying to be funny, but because it was so ridiculous. They trotted out every single super-hero cliche, and possibly even invented a new one or two. It's one of those so-bad-it's-good movies if you're in the right frame of mind.

ITEM! When did scrotum become a bad word?

ITEM! My new favorite Webcomic is XKCD. Very funny.

New Library Comics: Week of February 12, 2007

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


Battaglia, Dino. Due racconti /Milano : Studio Michelangelo, 1998.

The book of boy trouble : gay boy comics with a new attitude /San Francisco, Calif. : Green Candy Press, c2006.

Castells, Ricard. Araia /Onil (Alicante) : Edicions de Ponent, [2003]

Giménez, Carlos, 1941- Los profesionales /Barcelona : Glénat, c2003- vol. 1

Giménez, Carlos, 1941- Paracuellos /Barcelona : Glénat, 2001- vol. 1

Hergé, 1907-1983. Cigars of the pharaoh /Brussels, Belgium : Casterman, 2006, c1984.

Hergé, 1907-1983. The blue lotus /Bruxelles : Casterman, c2006.

Kawashima, Yoshio. Gloom party /Carson, Calif. : Digital Manga ; London : Diamond [distributor], 2006.

Marzocchi, Leila. Niger /Seattle : Fantagraphics Books ; [Bologna, Italy?] : Coconino Press, c2006- no. 1

Nonaka, Eiji. Cromartie High School /Houston, Tex. : ADV Manga, 2005- vol. 1

Prado, Miguelanxo Tangencias. /Barcelona : Norma Editorial, 2006.

Sacco, Joe. But I like it /Seattle, Wash. : Fantagraphics ; [S.l.] : Distributed in the U.S. by W.W. Norton, 2006.

Monkey Covers

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

Hokey jokes never go out of style, like on the 1995 cover to Hanna-Barbera Presents #4.

(Standard disclaimer about clueless cartoon gorillas not really being monkeys applies.)

Image courtesy of the GCD. Click on the image for a larger version.