I was inspired to read this book after Renton’s excellent review. I stumbled across a used hard cover and the visuals were simply too stunning for me not to pick it up; deep blues and clear reds twisting and intertwining to create an intricate tree. There were no blurbs or summaries, just this tree on the back and a young woman floating in blue on the front cover. And the artwork does not disappoint. O’Malley still manages to combine the styles of manga with that […]
Life Imitates Art
This graphic novel by Alison Bechdel, perhaps knowns to some as the creator of the Bechdel test, to others as the creator of the comic Dykes to Watch Out For, has won critical acclaim and is currently featured as The Atlantic’s 1book140 selection for LGBTQ month. I found to to be a truly engaging read both for its art and for its written content. The art is done in black, white and blue tones. Bechdel mixes up her own comic illustrations of her family with […]
A charming and surprisingly haunting graphic novel about mistakes, friendship, spirits and cookery from the author of Scott Pilgrim.
Katie is the head chef behind Seconds, the best restaurant in town, but she’s already looking towards new pastures and new challenges. All of her friends have moved away, and she’d like to run her own restaurant, rather than work in somebody else’s kitchen. She’s found the perfect place across the river, but the building work is taking far too long and seems to be tied up in a bureaucratic limbo. She also has the ghost of her previous relationship hanging over her head in […]
Broken city and a broken Batman
Broken city revisists the concept of Bruce as the broken Batman. It is a brilliant juxtaposing of the brokeness in Bruce Wayne/Batman and the city. It is in this book as it is in most Batman books: Healing a broken city is part of healing himself; “I’d turn the entire city into my doctor” The murder of an unmarried, pregnant woman starts Bruce on an investigation. The brother, Angel Lupo is involved somehow as is his girlfriend. The brother loved his sister and was overprotective […]
Okay, and?
I’ve read comic books as long as I’ve been able to read, but I’d never be allowed to call myself a “comic book geek”, because the Anglo-American super hero thing remains terra incognita for me, at least for large parts. Whenever I think of changing this, the few decades worth of “canon” seems daunting. Where to even start getting to know these characters and their stories? But last week in the library I decided to just do it: pick a Batman book and read it, […]
A whimsically surreal comic about music and being a freak at school that will appeal to both adults and children alike.
Joey Moonhead is easily distracted. Prone to daydreaming and not particularly interested in day to day life at school, he is very much an ordinary boy… that is, except for the small fact that he has a floating moon for a head. Throughout the day his disembodied head drifts off, leaving the rest of his body to get on with life as he tries to escape the humdrum world around him. The thing that finally wakes him up is the discovery of his parent’s classic […]
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