Friday, 28 December 2007

New Library Comics: Week of December 17, 2007

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


Art Spiegelman : conversations / Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, 2007.

Cham, Jorge. Life is tough and then you graduate : the second Piled higher and deeper comic strip collection / Los Angeles, Calif. : Piled Higher and Deeper Pub., c2005.

Cham, Jorge. Piled higher and deeper : a graduate student comic strip collection / Palo Alto, Calif. : Piled Higher and Deeper Pub., c2002.

Coudray, Jean-Luc. Nous sommes tous morts / Jean-Luc Coudray & Lewis Trondheim. Paris : L'Association, 1995.

Dazieri, Sandrone, 1964- Pinocchio / Roma : BD, 2006.

Howarth, Matt, 1954- The comix of two cities / Seattle, Wash. : Aeon,; 1996. nos. 1-6

Trondheim, Lewis. Galopinot / Paris : L'Association, 1998.

Trondheim, Lewis. Les aventures de la fin de l'episode / Paris : L'Association, 1995.


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Thursday, 27 December 2007

Satrapi on NPR

NPR's Bob Mondello interviews Persepolis author Marjane Satrapi on the event of the release of the Persepolis movie: "Story of Growing Up in Revolutionary Iran"

Monday, 24 December 2007

Christmas Covers - December 25



For each day of December until Christmas I've been featuring a Comic Cover Advent Calendar. Just move your mouse over the image to reveal today's special Holiday comic cover. Click on the image to get a larger version.

We finish this season's celebration of Christmas covers with an image of Madonna and Child from Treasure Chest of Fun and Fact #194.

We'll be back in December 2008 with twenty-five more holiday-themed covers (and for those of you who have been patiently waiting, we'll be back to Monkey Covers on Sunday!)

(2006: Treasure Chest of Fun and Fact #35)
(2005: Dell Four Color #1274)
(2004: Captain Marvel Adventures #19)

(Polite Dissent's 2007 Comic Book Cover Advent Calendar)

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Christmas Covers - December 24



For each day of December until Christmas I'm featuring a Comic Cover Advent Calendar. Just move your mouse over the image to reveal today's special Holiday comic cover. Click on the image to get a larger version. (If you're on a feed reader you may need to click through to the blog to get it to work.)

Superman gives Santa a helping hand down the chimney on Wayne Boring's cover to Action Comics #105.

Come back tomorrow for our final Christmas cover of the year.


Just 1 more 'get-up' until Santa!

(2006: Dell Four Color #666)
(2005: Dell Four Color #1274)
(2004: Captain Marvel Adventures #19)

(Polite Dissent's 2007 Comic Book Cover Advent Calendar)

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Sunday, 23 December 2007

Christmas Covers - December 23



For each day of December until Christmas I'm featuring a Comic Cover Advent Calendar. Just move your mouse over the image to reveal today's special Holiday comic cover. Click on the image to get a larger version. (If you're on a feed reader you may need to click through to the blog to get it to work.)


Dennis is gift-wrapped on the cover of Dennis the Menace Pocket Full of Fun #22.

Come back tomorrow for our penultimate Christmas cover of the year.


Just 2 more 'get-ups' until Santa!

(2006: Girls Bravo vol. 6)
(2005: All-New Collectors' Edition #C-53)
(2004: Impulse #34)

(Polite Dissent's 2007 Comic Book Cover Advent Calendar)

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Saturday, 22 December 2007

Christmas Covers - December 22



For each day of December until Christmas I'm featuring a Comic Cover Advent Calendar. Just move your mouse over the image to reveal today's special Holiday comic cover. Click on the image to get a larger version. (If you're on a feed reader you may need to click through to the blog to get it to work.)

Lulu makes like a Christmas Tree on the cover of Marge's Little Lulu #90.

Come back tomorrow, and every day this month, for a new Christmas cover.


Just 3 more 'get-ups' until Santa!

(2006: Dell Giant #26)
(2005: Man-Thing #3)
(2004: Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer #9)

(Polite Dissent's 2007 Comic Book Cover Advent Calendar)

(Looking for a little Christmas cheer of your own? Tune in to free Yet Another Music Radio for our Christmas Extravataganza 2007 mix with over six and a half hours of seasonal songs.)
 

Friday, 21 December 2007

Christmas Covers - December 21



For each day of December until Christmas I'm featuring a Comic Cover Advent Calendar. Just move your mouse over the image to reveal today's special Holiday comic cover. Click on the image to get a larger version. (If you're on a feed reader you may need to click through to the blog to get it to work.)

Bugs Bunny chows down on his favorite Christmas gift: Carrots!, on the cover of 1955's Bugs Bunny #46.

Come back tomorrow, and every day this month, for a new Christmas cover.


Just 4 more 'get-ups' until Santa!


(2006: Wacky Squirrel #2)
(2005: Archie Giant Series Magazine #15)
(2004: DC Comics Presents #67)

(Polite Dissent's 2006 Comic Book Cover Advent Calendar)

(Looking for a little Christmas cheer of your own? Tune in to free Yet Another Music Radio for our Christmas Extravataganza 2007 mix with over six and a half hours of seasonal songs.)