bookblogging
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ceruseeGraphic novels:
Rolston, Steve: One Bad Day
(note: this is Oni Press; as was Past Lies. I've noticed their logo on a lot of titles I've never heard of, and I'm attempting to read through as much of their catalog as I can borrow from libraries; I am interested in their niche and have theories.
It's not a terribly ambitious story, and almost jarring in how it just stops, but it's pretty well told otherwise, with the art supporting the story. I kind of like the cigarette subplot).
Geary, Rick: J. Edgar Hoover
(Man, Geary's good at this graphic biography/graphic NF stuff. He makes it so very readable. Great art, great sense of pacing. I would read his artistic adaptation of his grocery list, if he drew one; I'm sure it would end up being an insightful portrait of his home and his inner life).
Murphy, Sean: Off Road
(another Oni Press. This book is probably not more than a hundred pages, but I gave up after ten. The art is excellent--cartoony, expressive, dynamic and sharp--but the story revolves around testosterone-drenched twenty-something guys Having An Adventure with their Badass Jeep. Worse, the story kicks off with the artist protagonist getting dumped by his girlfriend because she's dissatisfied with their relationship. He calls her a whore. Shortly thereafter, she "returns" a pair of boxers to him with another man's name written on the label, which is possibly what the author had in mind when our hero called his girlfriend a whore for dumping him, but since that's not the actual sequence, it makes me just think that she broke up with him and revealed/pretended she'd been cheating on him because he's the kind of self-satisfied asshole who tells women they're whores when they do things he doesn't like. I have twenty-nine books out from three different libraries right now, and I think I could be making better use of my time).
Rolston, Steve: One Bad Day
(note: this is Oni Press; as was Past Lies. I've noticed their logo on a lot of titles I've never heard of, and I'm attempting to read through as much of their catalog as I can borrow from libraries; I am interested in their niche and have theories.
It's not a terribly ambitious story, and almost jarring in how it just stops, but it's pretty well told otherwise, with the art supporting the story. I kind of like the cigarette subplot).
Geary, Rick: J. Edgar Hoover
(Man, Geary's good at this graphic biography/graphic NF stuff. He makes it so very readable. Great art, great sense of pacing. I would read his artistic adaptation of his grocery list, if he drew one; I'm sure it would end up being an insightful portrait of his home and his inner life).
Murphy, Sean: Off Road
(another Oni Press. This book is probably not more than a hundred pages, but I gave up after ten. The art is excellent--cartoony, expressive, dynamic and sharp--but the story revolves around testosterone-drenched twenty-something guys Having An Adventure with their Badass Jeep. Worse, the story kicks off with the artist protagonist getting dumped by his girlfriend because she's dissatisfied with their relationship. He calls her a whore. Shortly thereafter, she "returns" a pair of boxers to him with another man's name written on the label, which is possibly what the author had in mind when our hero called his girlfriend a whore for dumping him, but since that's not the actual sequence, it makes me just think that she broke up with him and revealed/pretended she'd been cheating on him because he's the kind of self-satisfied asshole who tells women they're whores when they do things he doesn't like. I have twenty-nine books out from three different libraries right now, and I think I could be making better use of my time).