A FEW GOOD READS
Okay, I really hate reviewing books, but I also want to keep track of the good fiction and comics stuff I’ve read lately, so here:
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Shortcomings by Adrian TomineNot my kind of story, not my kind of style, but a really well-executed, 100-page story. I think Tomine’s a terrific artist, and I love his sketchbooks and illustration work (his New Yorker covers are always great). This book deserves the attention it’s getting.
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The Cheese Monkeys by Chip KiddWent to see Chip Kidd talk a couple of weeks ago, so I read his first novel. It’s very funny and a quick read, and anybody who’s been through an art-school critique would appreciate the great classroom scenes. (Kidd modeled the fictional Winter Sorbeck off his own professor at Penn State, the graphic designer Lammy Sommese.) And since so much of the action takes place in the classroom, it sort of functions as a wacky introduction to graphic design. I recommend it. |
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Crickets #2 by Sammy HarkhamThis is a comic book. For $5, you get a bunch of stories, all of them pretty wild and pretty great. Sammy is one of my favorite cartoonists, and I’d been looking forward to this for a while. It didn’t disappoint. |
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Big Questions by Anders NilsenI’ve been following this series for a while. I found #3 last week in a bargain bin at my local Half Price books—it’s amazing how much Nilsen has grown as an artist. I buy everything he makes, and so should everyone else. |
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The Perry Bible Fellowship by Nicholas GurewitchThis is bathroom reading: most of the strips are the equivalent of a good dick joke. A good and hilarious dick joke. |
I VOTED TODAY!
My neighborhood polling location is McCallum High School, which is only a couple blocks from our place, so after work I grabbed a New Yorker and my sketchbook and headed over to face the lines.
There’s something really great about being able to see a bunch of the folks from your neighborhood in the same high school cafeteria. Here are some sketches I did while standing in line:
CAMPAIGNING FOR PRESIDENT
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[Hillary Clinton] must be the first presidential candidate in history to devote so much energy to preaching against optimism, against inspiring language and — talk about bizarre — against democracy itself.
— Frank Rich, “The Audacity of Hopelessness“
I saw there was no reason to think that [comics] were intrinsically a limited form… ‘Cause you could choose ANY word that was in the dictionary… You got the same choice of words as SHAKESPEARE… and you got a huge variety of art styles that you could use. Comix are WORDS and PICTURES… WORDS AND PICTURES… you can do ANYTHING with WORDS and PICTURES…— Harvey Pekar
I asked my mother, what should I teach my kids? She said don’t teach them anything, just give them lots of supplies.— Tony Millionaire
Don’t piss on my leg and tell me it’s raining.— Judge Judy
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