A little while ago I may have mentioned Friends With Boys because it is an awesome comic that has now come out in honest to goodness touch-able form. Really, you can buy it from bookstores (if any have managed to survive around you) and hold it’s wood pulpiness in your hands. I did. One of the coolest things about Friends …
Like so many other pre and teenagers I had the wrong idea of Mark Twain imposed on me from a young age. I mean, I liked that thing that Tom Sawyer did where he tricked his buddies into washing the fence for him. But the standard primary school Mark Twain is just not as fabulous as the man could be. …
Ok, so long ago and far away I took a trip to Emerald City Comics. I was just getting into comics and I found the listing in the yellow pages while I was on my Summer vacation. What I found there was a slightly fear inducing, utterly magical world of tables and boxes filled with stories and pictures. This is …
So, I went to Megacon a few weeks back (or more – I’m so bad at time now a days) and I ran into two great people named Tara and Paul Abbamondi. They probably didn’t realize that I thought they were so great, ’cause I’m not good at getting that out there, but I was charmed by their comics and …
I think I said before, you know back in my first web comic love, that I would follow up with more as I had time to read more of the ones I had bookmarked that looked as if they were really smashing. Well, I’ve had a little time and they were really smashing. Here’s some more of the maybe-you-haven’t-found-these-yourself …
is that they can sometimes live hard and die too soon. The ability of any story teller to put up their stuff as they spin it and countless web hosts to help them means that a lot of stories die half lived…forever frozen in history and the internet archive and destined to frustrate eager readers in perpetuity. This is a …
When people find out you like to read comics they always ask you which ones you like, you know, to compare with their own list. Webcomics are the same–and, oddly enough seem to have a different cast of fans than regular comics do…maybe it’s generational, dunno. Anyway, I am really bad at having an answer to such simple questions on …
So, this desperately seeking out books that I had read went all the way back to the books I remember as a kid. Caps for Sale was just such a book. Another, that I haven’t managed to pin down, was one where a bunch of men rush about building a house and when they settle back to admire the great …
A little background: I went a little insane one summer and started compiling a list of all the books I had ever read. By memory… So, have you ever had your mind tickled by something and suddenly you are wracking your brain to remember the title of that book you read with the red flower on it? Yeah, I searched …
I’ve spent a lot of my youth browsing book shelves at various stores to find the best book I’d never heard about before. With all this practice I’ve developed something like a three step method to picking up the perfect read. Besides approaching the shelves blind folded, I am not sure there is a way to cold pick your next …