Amazon Top 25

Just for kicks on a Friday, here's the current Amazon Top 25 Comics & Graphic Novels:

1. The Perry Bible Fellowship: The Trial of Colonel Sweeto and Other Stories
2. Watchmen
3. 52, Vol. 3
4. Sopratos, The: A Pearls Before Swine Collection
5. Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood
6. Diary of a Wimpy Kid
7. The Complete Calvin and Hobbes
8. I'm Ready for My Movie Contract: A Get Fuzzy Collection
9. Marvel Zombies/Army Of Darkness HC
10. Dark Hunger
11. The Complete Peanuts 1963-1966 Box Set
12. Ultimate Spider-Man Vol. 18: Ultimate Knights
13. The Halo Graphic Novel
14. Process Recess 2: Portfolio
15. Captain America by Ed Brubaker Omnibus, Vol. 1
16. 300
17. Hellboy Volume 7: The Troll Witch and Other Stories
18. Cubes and Punishment: A Dilbert Book
19. The Complete Peanuts 1965-1966
20. Stephen King's Dark Tower: The Gunslinger Born
21. And When She Opened the Closet, All the Clothes Were Polyest: A FoxTrot Collection
22. Naruto, Volume 19
23. Artemis Fowl: The Graphic Novel
24. The Death and Return of Superman Omnibus
25. Arrival


(All of our previous caveats apply)

Chris Butcher Talks Process

While I'm by no means a huge Belle & Sebastian fan, I quite enjoyed reading Chris Butcher's deconstruction of how he created his story for the anthology Put The Book Back On The Shelf. I'm a structure freak, so I especially appreciated how Butcher used color as a structural element in his story.

Ladies' Bookplate

Found this bookplate in the Google scan of The Pilgrims of the Rhine by Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-Lytton Lytton.

Zot!

So just a couple of days ago I was thinking that it was odd that Scott McCloud's Zot! was out of print. With his popularity as the creator of Understanding/Reinventing/Making Comics, it seemed a natural to make his seminal, highly praised work available again.

And then lo and behold, this week's PW Comics Week shows up, and Zot! is being reissued, in its entirety, as a massive 576-page volume collecting the black and white issues.

On the downside, while the first ten issues were originally in color, they will be in black & white in the collection (the remaining issues were originally in black & white). On the plus side, $23 for the entire Zot! saga is a fantastic bargain on some great comics.

Edit: Unfortunately, the collection will not contain the first ten issues that introduced the characters. While these issues were perhaps not as strong as the later issues, they form the basis of the series and what came after (fortunately for me I already have the original trade collection of the first 10 color issues!)

Start saving your pennies for summer 2008!

(As a service to the comics community, I will now start to think really hard about another lost Eclipse classic, Larry Marder's Beanworld...)

(Edited because I misread an important part of the announcement article!)

New Library Comics: Week of September 17, 2007

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



Allred, Mike (Mike Dalton) Madman gargantua! / Image Comics, 2007.

Balm in Gilead : salves from the souk of imagination / Jersalem, Israel : MW Publications, c2007.

Beland, Tom. True story, swear to God / Berkeley, Calif. : Image, 2007- vol. 1

Braddock, Paige. Jane's world / [Sebastopol, Calif.] : Girl Twirl Comics, 2003- vol. 7

Burgoon, Charles. Odd / Coldwater, Mich. : Ghost Train Press, [1994]- nos. 6-7

Byun, Byung Jun. Run, Bong-gu, run! / New York : NBM, 2007.

Campbell, Eddie, 1955- The Black Diamond Detective Agency / New York : First Second, 2006.

Cannibale. / Roma : Primo Carnera, 1977-1979. nos. 2, 12

Carey, Mike. Re-gifters / New York : DC Comics, c2007.

Deevee 2007. / Paddington, Australia : Deevee Press, c1997-

Empty pockets. / Ann Arbor, Mich. : Wooden Book Press, 2005- no. 2 2006

Fior, Manuele, 1975- Rosso oltremare / Bologna : Coconino Press, c2006.

Foo, Swee Chin. Heofigendlic loðrung : FSC issues 1-5 / La Mesa, Calif. : Neko Press, [2006]

Friedman, Drew. The fun never stops! : an anthology of comic art, 1991-2006 / Seattle, Wash. : Fantagraphics, 2007.

The Ganzfeld. / New York : Kaput Press, no. 5 2007

Gatiss, Mark. The Vesuvius Club : graphic edition / New York : Simon & Schuster, c2005.

Hartzell, Andy. Fox bunny funny / Marietta, Ga. : Top Shelf Productions, 2007.

Hayashiya, Shizuru. Sister Red / Fremont, CA : ComicsOne Corp., 2004- vols. 1-2

Hickee / Gainesville, FL : Alternative Comics, [2003]- v. 3 no. 3

Hornschemeier, Paul, 1977- The three paradoxes / Seattle, WA : Fantagraphics, 2007.

Kuper, Peter, 1958- Stop forgetting to remember : the autobiography of Walter Kurtz / New York : Crown, 2007.

Lapham, David. Silverfish / New York : Vertigo, 2007.

Malkasian, Cathy. Percy Gloom / Seattle, Wash. : Fantagraphics Books, 2007.

Matt, Joe, 1963- Spent / Montreal : Drawn & Quarterly, c2007.

Mattotti, Lorenzo, 1954- Il rumore della brina / Torino : Einaudi, 2003.

Mattotti, Lorenzo, 1954- Lettere da un tempo lontano / Torino : Einaudi, 2006.

Mineshaft. / Brattleboro, VT : Mineshaft, c1999- no. 17

Modan, Rutu. Exit wounds / Montréal : Drawn & Quarterly, c2007.

Mome. / Seattle, Wash. : Fantagraphics, 2005- Summer 2007

Nonaka, Eiji. Cromartie High School / Houston, Tex. : ADV Manga, 2005- vols. 9-11

Orff, Joel. Thunderhead Underground Falls / Gainesville, Fla. : Alternative Comics, 2007.

Ottaviani, Jim. Levitation : physics and psychology in the service of deception / Ann Arbor, MI, G.T. Labs, 2007.

Ottaviani, Jim. Wire mothers : Harry Harlow and the science of love / Ann Arbor, Mich. : G. T. Labs, 2007.

Pekar, Harvey. Macedonia / New York : Villard, c2007.

Peters, Steve. Sparky in love / Willow Grove, Pa. : Awakening Comics, 2007.

Phillips, Sean. Intersections / Berkeley, Calif. : Image, c2007.

Pop art funnies / Detroit, Mich. : MPH comics, [2004]- no. 9

Pope, Paul, 1970- Pulphope : the art of Paul Pope. / Richmond, Va. : AdHouse, c2007.

Potlatch project 6. / [Westminster, Md.] : Angry Dog Press, c2007.

Rees, Peter. Play-grounds : 2 short untruths / Seattle, WA : Fantagraphics Books, c1991.

Rivera, Jonathan. Heart break / [United States] : 1130 Studios, c2007.

Robel, Nicolas. Fallen angel / Montreal : Drawn & Quarterly, 2006.

Robot : super color comic / Carson, CA : Digital Manga Pub., 2005- vol. 3

Sally, Zak. Sammy the mouse / Seattle, Wash. : Fantagraphics, c2007- no. 1

Simmons, Josh. House / Seattle : Fantagraphics, c2007.

Smith, Jeff, 1960 Feb. 27- The art of bone / Milwaukie, OR : Dark Horse Books, 2007.

Snakepit, Ben. My life in a jugular vein : Snakepit comics 2004-2006 / Portland, Or. ; Bloomington, Ind. : Microcosm Pub, 2007.

Steinke, Aron Nels. Big plans / Portland, Or. : [A. Steinke], 2007- no. 1

Takahashi, Rumiko, 1957- InuYasha / San Francisco, CA : Viz, LLC, c2003- vol. 30

Takahashi, Yoshihiro. Ginga legend Weed / Fremont, CA : ComicsOne, c2000- vols. 1-3

Takemiya, Keiko, 1950- To terra -- / New York : Vertical, 2007- vol. 2

Tanaka, Masashi, 1962- Gon / La Jolla, CA : WildStorm Productions, c2007- vol. 1

Tanner, Jamie. The aviary / Richmond, Va. : AdHouse, 2007.

Tinder, Jeremy. Black ghost apple factory (and others) : by jeremy Tinder. / Marietta,Ga : Top Shelf Productions, c2006.

Toth, Alex. Alex Toth : edge of genius. / New York : PUre Imagination, c2007- vol. 1

Wagner, Matt. Grendel archives / Milwaukie, Or. : Dark Horse Comics, 2007.

Wheeler, Shannon. Screw heaven, when I die I'm going to Mars / Milwaukie, Or. : Dark Horse, 2007

Y.Kids. Albert Einstein. / [Seoul, Korea] : Y.kids/YoungJin Singapore, c2007.

Y.Kids. Gandhi : Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi. / [Seoul, Korea] : Y.Kids, c2007.

Young bottoms in love : a collection of gay romance comics / Los Angeles, Calif. : Poison Pen Comics, 2007.


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Monkey Covers

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

We conclude our special Colleen Coover week here at YACB with her cover to Banana Sunday #3, featuring the gang taking in a movie.

(Standard disclaimer about talking apes not really being monkeys applies.)

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Colleen Coover Week, Day 3

So much for being too busy to blog; I think I've blogged more this week than I have in the past several weeks! But to keep Colleen Coover week going, here's an illustration of a woman enjoying a good book and a good soak:



(Taken from http://cooverart.livejournal.com/5064.html)