My favourite part of every book is the front matter. The forewords, the introductions, everything but the book. I like how books relate to other books, and how they form a personal constellation.
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50% complete! dvo has read 33 of 66 books.
Binky Brown Meets the Holy Virgin Mary is an autobiographical comic by American cartoonist Justin Green, published in 1972. Green …
As the world around us increases in technological complexity, our understanding of it diminishes. Underlying this trend is a single …
With sure and steady moves, Sai and Hikaru are making a name Hikaru Shindo as the one who might possibly …
Kitaro the Vampire Slayer is the fifth volume in Shigeru Mizuki’s bizarre stories about a …
It's been a while since I picked one of these up. Mizuki's blend of realistic backgrounds and cartoon figures is awesome.
These stories from THE INVISIBLES #1-12 and ABSOLUTE VERTIGO #1 introduce the latest recruit into the covert action team known …
"I am going to sink it." "You are not!" "I am," he coldly replied. "Do …
When this book is at its best it's full of wonder and adventure and at its worst I'm reading endless taxonomies of fish.
From legendary animator Hayao Miyazaki comes Shuna's Journey, a new manga classic about a prince on a quest for a …
Bart Beaty and Benjamin Woo work to historicize why it is that certain works or creators have come to define …
This is in the running for one of the best comics I've ever read. It's so sweet and tender and horrifying
Only Dashiell Hammet could have created the swift, breathless suspense and excitement of this great new daily strip. Here is …
Eleven "eerie" stories by women writers from the seventeenth century to the present, including Madame d'Aulnoy, Edith Nesbit, and Shirley …
Hikaru Shindo is like any sixth-grader in Japan: a pretty normal school boy with a two-tone head of hair and …
Lost in the Great North, two men are saved by the appearance of an old hunter who divulges a strange …
Lost in the Great North, two men are saved by the appearance of an old …
My annual foray into Taniguchi. What a master.
