![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
bookblogging
Jul. 15th, 2008 12:52 pmGraphic novels/cartoons:
Decker, Timothy: Run Far, Run Fast
(rather lacking in plot or direction. The blurb on the inside cover mislead me into thinking that it would have some, which is why the absence bothered me. The art reminds me of Edward Gorey, with everybody's faces represented by simple, undecipherable slashes, withholding any sense of connection into the minds of the characters, who are only externally described by the narration. I do not mean that as a bad thing, as it is appropriately unsettling, with a fearful tinge to it. This is a book about the Black Plague; a sense of horror is not out of place).
Chast, Roz: The Party After You Left
(the aggressive disinterest towards life outside New York is the most annoying export of the city; material glorying in the ability to live inside a bubble that sneers at not-New York whenever it pauses in ignoring not-New York doesn't resonate with me. But since I'm not from New York, and I'm okay with that, Roz Chast is not interested in having me as an audience. I will solve this dilemma in the future by not reading her cartoons, and we'll both be happy.).
Sfar, Joann: Little Vampire Goes to School, Little Vampire Does Kung-Fu
(cute! they've got that bemusing Sfar accessibility).
Manga:
Otomo Katsuhiro: Akira vol. 3.
Bouquillard, Jocelyn, and Christophe Marquet: Hokusai: First Manga Master
(eeeee! What a lovely selection of pieces. Um, it's just a selection of works from Hokusai's volumes of manga--manga being a term I think he did not invent himself, but which was not in common use at the time he published his instructional art books--accompanied by a couple of contextual essays and blurbs before each thematic section. It's lovely, and beautifully printed, and worth looking up if you have any interest in Hokusai).
Decker, Timothy: Run Far, Run Fast
(rather lacking in plot or direction. The blurb on the inside cover mislead me into thinking that it would have some, which is why the absence bothered me. The art reminds me of Edward Gorey, with everybody's faces represented by simple, undecipherable slashes, withholding any sense of connection into the minds of the characters, who are only externally described by the narration. I do not mean that as a bad thing, as it is appropriately unsettling, with a fearful tinge to it. This is a book about the Black Plague; a sense of horror is not out of place).
Chast, Roz: The Party After You Left
(the aggressive disinterest towards life outside New York is the most annoying export of the city; material glorying in the ability to live inside a bubble that sneers at not-New York whenever it pauses in ignoring not-New York doesn't resonate with me. But since I'm not from New York, and I'm okay with that, Roz Chast is not interested in having me as an audience. I will solve this dilemma in the future by not reading her cartoons, and we'll both be happy.).
Sfar, Joann: Little Vampire Goes to School, Little Vampire Does Kung-Fu
(cute! they've got that bemusing Sfar accessibility).
Manga:
Otomo Katsuhiro: Akira vol. 3.
Bouquillard, Jocelyn, and Christophe Marquet: Hokusai: First Manga Master
(eeeee! What a lovely selection of pieces. Um, it's just a selection of works from Hokusai's volumes of manga--manga being a term I think he did not invent himself, but which was not in common use at the time he published his instructional art books--accompanied by a couple of contextual essays and blurbs before each thematic section. It's lovely, and beautifully printed, and worth looking up if you have any interest in Hokusai).
