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bookblogging
Jul. 11th, 2008 10:18 amNovels/prose books:
Kipling, Rudyard: The Jungle Book II.
Graphic novels:
Weissman, Steve: White Flower Day
(wtf).
Gipi: Garage Band
(I didn't know Gipi's art could be so beautiful! His people are always sort of ugly-beautiful, but the landscapes and buildings in Notes on a War Story were blasted and ruined and sad. Here, his horizons and buildings and fields and houses are quietly, soulfully lovely
I'm not disaffected white male youth, so I can't say Gipi's stories really speak to me on a personal level, but I love the way he paints them).
Hosler, Jay: The Sandwalk Adventures
(like Journey into Mohawk Country, this is good, intelligent execution of an enticing conceit. Both Hosler's depiction of Darwin and his notes on him suggest that Darwin was a likable person, as well as an interesting and admirable one, and this comic has made me interested in reading more about him. Props for a sympathetic treatment of religious faith in a story in which it is important to distinguish between metaphysical and scientific questions and ways of thinking; the world needs more of that and less of the sort of racist, religiously intolerant shit David Collier wrote in his story for Rosetta.
You require proof? Darwin asks. Replies Mara, the follicle mite who lives in Darwin's eyebrow and believes he's a god: I do if I'm going to give up everything I've ever believed in. And so begins the conversation.
That exchange is not all of what there is to be said about faith and reason, but it's an important piece of it. This is a worthy comic, and a charming one. Recommended).
Kipling, Rudyard: The Jungle Book II.
Graphic novels:
Weissman, Steve: White Flower Day
(wtf).
Gipi: Garage Band
(I didn't know Gipi's art could be so beautiful! His people are always sort of ugly-beautiful, but the landscapes and buildings in Notes on a War Story were blasted and ruined and sad. Here, his horizons and buildings and fields and houses are quietly, soulfully lovely
I'm not disaffected white male youth, so I can't say Gipi's stories really speak to me on a personal level, but I love the way he paints them).
Hosler, Jay: The Sandwalk Adventures
(like Journey into Mohawk Country, this is good, intelligent execution of an enticing conceit. Both Hosler's depiction of Darwin and his notes on him suggest that Darwin was a likable person, as well as an interesting and admirable one, and this comic has made me interested in reading more about him. Props for a sympathetic treatment of religious faith in a story in which it is important to distinguish between metaphysical and scientific questions and ways of thinking; the world needs more of that and less of the sort of racist, religiously intolerant shit David Collier wrote in his story for Rosetta.
You require proof? Darwin asks. Replies Mara, the follicle mite who lives in Darwin's eyebrow and believes he's a god: I do if I'm going to give up everything I've ever believed in. And so begins the conversation.
That exchange is not all of what there is to be said about faith and reason, but it's an important piece of it. This is a worthy comic, and a charming one. Recommended).
