So I got a couple of things that they boys can earn by telling me stories that they read, and. for myself, mostly books I used to have:
Famous Players
by Rick Geary, his tenth graphic novel about a single historical murder, which I reviewed for ComicMix in 2009.Speaking of Rick Geary, I also got the 2007 Gumby
collection that he drew and Bob Burden wrote.
Good-Bye
, the third collection of Yoshihiro Tatsumi's devastating and masterful gekiga stories from the early '70s, which I also reviewed for ComicMix.The Grave Robber's Daughter
, a short Richard Sala graphic novel from 2006.
Slow News Day
and Dumped
, two Andi Watson graphic novels.Dork Vol. 2: Circling The Drain
and Bill & Ted's Most Excellent Adventures, Vol. 1
, two Evan Dorkin joints.
Scott Saavedra's Dr. Radium Battles Phill, King Of The Pill Bugs
.A bunch of Gilbert Hernandez, for my big planned Love and Rockets re-read and a couple of books that I actually don't think I ever read: Girl Crazy
, The Adventures of Venus
, and New Stories #1
.
Almost Silent
, a hardcover collection of four separate graphic novels by the Norwegian cartoonist Jason; I reviewed three of them here in separate posts and the fourth in a roundup.The classic Violent Cases
by Neil Gaiman and Dave McKean.
Steve Moncuse's mostly-forgotten Fish Police Volume 1
, which got a reprinting from IDW in 2011 for no obvious reason. I think I had the old, old album-size reprints (and all of the issues packed up in longboxes), but I haven't read this in twenty years.Legend Of GrimJack Vol. 7
by John Ostrander and Tom Mandrake.
And, last, the first volume of James Kochalka's American Elf
, since it's now done, so I'll have to dig into the archives for my fix.(It might be clear from this list that I began my comics-reading in the '80s, and I'll cheerfully admit that.)
