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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59% complete! dvo has read 39 of 66 books.
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.
Eleven "eerie" stories by women writers from the seventeenth century to the present, including Madame d'Aulnoy, Edith Nesbit, and Shirley …
In a sequel to their spellbinding, experimental graphic biography of Che Guevara, Hector Germán Oesterheld …
Not the ending to the Breccia Library I was hoping for but I'm so grateful we got what we did.
In a sequel to their spellbinding, experimental graphic biography of Che Guevara, Hector Germán Oesterheld and the Breccias chronicle the …
