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Oct. 1st, 2008 11:45 amGraphic novels/comics:
Lutes, Jason: Jar of Fools part 1
(my first Jason Lutes work, and I like his style a lot. He's of the cartoony black-and-white style, with everything really clear and cleanly rendered; lots of detail lines, but little grey color. It's a style that lends itself very well to liveliness and expressiveness, and it's easy to read, and to become engaged with the story. The story features a young magician struggling with a lot of personal issues--a stalled career, a breakup from an intense relationship, a beloved mentor who is going senile, and the bizarre and tragic death of his older brother, which may or may not have been suicide. Kind of unsettlingly weird. I would definitely like to read more of this).
Lasko-Grass, Miss (she's credited as "Miss Lasko-Grass; I'm not entirely sure, but I think that "Miss" is a nickname for "Melissa" and not meant to be a title; that's how WorldCat treats it, at any rate. God love super-prentious creator credits--the bane of catalogers everywhere): Escape from "Special"
(really not what I was expecting, and more interesting to me for it--it's sort of a not-very-strict chronicle of growing up as a creative person in environs that were not always prepared to handle the intensity and sometimes shocking manifestations of her creativity. It's not at all whiny, or snobbishly dismissive of the people who didn't quite get her as a kid, which makes it very approachable--Lasko-Gross clearly understands both how it feels on the inside and what it can look like on the outside to people who are not on your wavelength. Mucho cool).
Schrag, Ariel, editor: Stuck in the Middle
(is there anything more cheerful than people's tales of middle school hell? Although the specific experiences don't match up to mine, I appreciate this collection for acknowledging the horror of middle school--the horror of high school gets a lot more press, but I remember high school as the point when the sickeningly intense cruelty of my classmates eased up a bit, and I began to find friends again for the first time in about five years. High school was unpleasant, but middle school was pure hell).
Tyler, C: Late Bloomer.
Manga:
Aoi Hana: Love for Dessert
(LuvLuv. My god, what a total waste of 11 dollars. The plots were entirely banal, the art dull, the sex scenes formulaic, repetitive, and unsexy.).
Lutes, Jason: Jar of Fools part 1
(my first Jason Lutes work, and I like his style a lot. He's of the cartoony black-and-white style, with everything really clear and cleanly rendered; lots of detail lines, but little grey color. It's a style that lends itself very well to liveliness and expressiveness, and it's easy to read, and to become engaged with the story. The story features a young magician struggling with a lot of personal issues--a stalled career, a breakup from an intense relationship, a beloved mentor who is going senile, and the bizarre and tragic death of his older brother, which may or may not have been suicide. Kind of unsettlingly weird. I would definitely like to read more of this).
Lasko-Grass, Miss (she's credited as "Miss Lasko-Grass; I'm not entirely sure, but I think that "Miss" is a nickname for "Melissa" and not meant to be a title; that's how WorldCat treats it, at any rate. God love super-prentious creator credits--the bane of catalogers everywhere): Escape from "Special"
(really not what I was expecting, and more interesting to me for it--it's sort of a not-very-strict chronicle of growing up as a creative person in environs that were not always prepared to handle the intensity and sometimes shocking manifestations of her creativity. It's not at all whiny, or snobbishly dismissive of the people who didn't quite get her as a kid, which makes it very approachable--Lasko-Gross clearly understands both how it feels on the inside and what it can look like on the outside to people who are not on your wavelength. Mucho cool).
Schrag, Ariel, editor: Stuck in the Middle
(is there anything more cheerful than people's tales of middle school hell? Although the specific experiences don't match up to mine, I appreciate this collection for acknowledging the horror of middle school--the horror of high school gets a lot more press, but I remember high school as the point when the sickeningly intense cruelty of my classmates eased up a bit, and I began to find friends again for the first time in about five years. High school was unpleasant, but middle school was pure hell).
Tyler, C: Late Bloomer.
Manga:
Aoi Hana: Love for Dessert
(LuvLuv. My god, what a total waste of 11 dollars. The plots were entirely banal, the art dull, the sex scenes formulaic, repetitive, and unsexy.).