New Library Comics: Week of November 6, 2006

Here are the comics we added to our library collection last week:


Andersson, Max. Bosnian flat dog /Seattle, Wash. : Fantagraphics, 2006.

Doran, Colleen, 1963- Knights of the angel /West Chester, Pa. : Whitford Press, c1989.

Dunlop, Rob. Tozzer 2 : special edition /London : Ablaze Media, c2005.

Fiering, Greg. I don't love you! : the best of Migraine Boy /San Jose, CA : SLG Pub., c2004.

Hoffmann, Heinrich, 1809-1894. Struwwelpeter /Seattle, Wash. : Fantagraphics, 2006.

Konig, Ralf. Dschinn Dschinn /Reinbek bei Hamburg : Rowohlt Taschenbuch Verlag, 2005-2006. vols. 1-2

Laxman, R. K. Brushing up the years : a cartoonist's history of India, 1947-2004 /New Delhi ; New York : Penguin Viking, 2005.

Love and rockets (Fantagraphics Books) Love and rockets. /Stamford, CT : Fantagraphics Books, 1982- vol. 2 no. 17

McCubbin, Lauren. Pretty like a princess /Berkeley, CA : Penny Dreadful Press, c2002.

Minus, Walter. Darling Cheri /Seattle, Wash. : Fantagraphics, 2006.

Rennie, Gordon. The life and times of Ulli & Marquand and their misadventures in Mordheim, city of the damned /Nottingham : Games Workshop Publishing, c2002.

Umezu, Kazuo. Reflections /Milwaukie, OR : Dark Horse Manga, 2006. vol. 1

Watase, Yu. Oracle /San Francisco, CA : Viz Communications, 1999.

Watase, Yu. Priestess /San Francisco, CA : Viz Communications, c1999.

Monkey Covers

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

Magilla Corilla is juggling fish on the cover of 1964's Magilla Gorilla #4.

(Standard disclaimer about fish-juggling cartoon gorillas not really being monkeys applies.)

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

Galaxion

Back in the late 90s one of my favorite comics at the time, Tara Tallan's Galaxion, folded due to a hostile market. But now Tallan has brought Galaxion back as a Webcomic at Girl-a-Matic. The first page of a new story is up: go take a look.

(BTW: Tara, if by chance you're reading this: the 11 existing issues of Galaxion would make a killing I think as a 'manga format' collection...)

(link via Laura)

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New Library Comics: Week of October 30, 2006

Here are the comics we added to our library collection last week:


Cendreda, Martin. Bare foot riot : a sketchbook compilation /[Los Angeles] : Giant Robot Books, [2005]

Daly, Joe. Scrublands /Seattle, Wash. : Fantagraphics, 2006.

Disney comics : 75 years of innovation : the official anniversary book. /[United States] : Gemstone Publishing, c2006.

Edwards, Jonathan. Aunt Connie and the plague of beards /[London] : Les Cartoonists Dangereux, c1999.

Howlett, David. The complete Bad moon rising /[Canada] : Guerilla Press, [200-?]

Kim, Miran. The fallen /New York : NBM, c1999-

Ottaviani, Jim. Wild person in the woods /Los Angeles, CA : Orangutan Foundation International, c1998.

Minicomics Monday: SNAP!

I had a good time at SNAP! on Saturday and picked up a lot of cool stuff. I'll do some real reviews of some of the comics in later editions of Minicomics Monday, but here are some highlights:

Easily the coolest thing I got this year was the collected edition of Cool Jerk & Homo Gal, the early minicomic from Sean Bieri featuring the titular Defenders of Detroit's Cass Corridor. I first read these way back in library school when Sara came bounding into class one day, thrust a bunch of the minis into my hands and told me to read them. I laughed then, and I'm laughing now. Plus, for $3 collecting the six minis it's a good deal too.

Matt Feazell was there too of course with a couple new issues of The Amazing Cynical Man, and Pam Bliss had a couple new Kekionga Miniworks, including the oblong-shaped "The Smell of Midnight" featuring everyone's favorite werewolf librarian.

I'm also ready to add Suzanne Baumann to my list of area minicomicsers whose work is not to be missed, as I'm really enjoying her work and she's nice and friendly and really seems to enjoy her cartooning. I picked up both issues of her As Eavesdropped... and laughed quite a few times.

Matt, Sean, Suzanne & Pam shared the middle aisle with Jim Ottaviani (though I see him once a week or so at work) and the kids from the U-M School of Art & Design with the second volume of their Empty Pockets anthology.

But enough with the old faves--how about some new stuff?

I was very impressed by Max Ink and his chapbook series Blink. His art is very good--reminiscent in ways of Alex Robinson--and based on the pages-in-progress he had on hand for his fourth issue he keeps on improving. Plus Max was very friendly and professional; he had a free 10-page minicomic he was giving away and was drawing sketches on the back for people whether or not they bought any of his comix. If he wants to make the leap to 'regular' comics I have no doubt that he'd be a success.

I was pleasantly surprised by Tom Williams' S.P.B.: Rise! I didn't care much for Williams' early work, but this chapbook with its addition of a sepia-toned color scheme brings it to an attractive new level.

Biggest pleasant surprise was Josh Johnson and his new hardcover book The Spindletons. Gorgeous to look at. Johnson also does a lot of handcrafted books which are pretty to look at (though a bit pricey).

In all we spent a couple of hours there. (We being myself and Annette, our Art & Design librarian who was buying items for the library collection. It was quite amusing to see the range of reactions from sellers when she asked them for a receipt!) Once again the fine folks at Green Brain Comics did a great job of putting on a good comic art show. Here's hoping this becomes an annual event!