Friday, August 29, 2008

Friday Night Fights: Supergirl vs. Robot



From Super-Team Family #11 (1977). Written by Gerry Conway. Drawn by Alan Lee Weiss & Josef Rubinstein. (click pic for larger)

Ladies Night? Ka Whamm!

Monday, August 18, 2008

New Library Comics: Week of August 11, 2008

Here's a list of the comics we added to our library collection last week:


Awesome : the indie spinner rack anthology / Brooklyn, N.Y. : Evil Twin Comics, 2007.

Azzarello, Brian. El Diablo / New York, NY : DC Comics, c2008.

Baker, Kyle. The Bakers : babies and kittens / Berkeley, Calif. : Image Comics, 2007.

Chippendale, Brian. Maggots / Brooklyn, NY : PictureBox ; [New York, N.Y.? : Available through D.A.P./Distributed Art Publishers, c2007]

The comic eye / Hamilton, Ont. : Blind Bat Press, 2007.

Delisle, Guy. Albert & the others / Montréal : Drawn & Quarterly, c2007.

Doucet, Julie, 1965- 365 days / Montréal : Drawn & Quarterly, c2007.

Drunk Duck : drunk on laughter. / Los Angeles, Calif. : Platinum Studios, 2008.

Dupuy, 1960- Maybe later / Montreal : Drawn & Quarterly, c2006.

Gamache, Line, 1956- Hello, me pretty / Montreal : Bdang, 2007.

Geary, Rick. J. Edgar Hoover : a graphic biography / New York : Hill and Wang, 2008.

Goscinny, 1926-1977. Asterix the Gaul ; Asterix and the golden sickle ; Asterix and the Goths / London : Orion Children's, 2007.

Gurewitch, Nicholas. The trial of Colonel Sweeto and other stories : a collection of the comic strips of the Perry Bible Fellowship / Milwaukie, Or. : Dark Horse, 2007.

Hopkins, David. Astronaut dad / [Fairfax, Va.] : Silent Devil, 2007-

Horacek, Tom. All we ever do is talk about wood / Montréal : Drawn & Quarterly, c2008.

Hurd, Damon. Pictures of you / Gainesville, FL : Alternative Comics, 2007.

Hyde, Laurence, 1914-1986. Southern Cross / Montreal : Drawn & Quarterly, c2007.

Itō, Junji, 1963- Uzumaki : Spiral into horror / San Francisco, CA : Viz Media, 2007- vol. 1

Jason, 1965- The last musketeer / Seattle : Fantagraphics, c2007.

Johnson, Mat. Incognegro / New York : Vertigo/DC Comics, c2008.

K., Ulf. Hieronymus B : 1997-2007 / Wuppertal, Germany : Edition 52 ; New York : Top Shelf, 2008.

Lawless, Molly. Great moments in baseball / [Washington, D.C.? : M. Lawless], 2007- no. 1

Lawless, Molly. Infandum! : adventures in intoxication / [Washington, D.C.? : M. Lawless, 2006]- no. 1

Lewis, Pat. The claws come out / San Diego, Calif. : IDW, 2007.

Lofficier, Jean-Marc. Tintin / Harpenden : Pocket Essentials, 2007.

Matt, Joe, 1963- The poor bastard / Montréal : Drawn & Quarterly, 2007.

Millionaire, Tony. Maakies with the wrinkled knees / Seattle, WA : Fantagraphics : Distributed in the U.S. by W.W. Norton, c2008.

Morrison, Grant. Doom Patrol vol. 6 : Planet love. / New York, NY : DC Comics/Vertigo, c2008.

Muth, Jon J. M / New York : Abrams, 2008.

Naraghi, Dara, 1971- Lifelike / San Diego, Calif. : IDW, c2007.

Neufeld, Josh. A few perfect hours and other stories from Southeast Asia & Central Europe / Gainesville, FL : Alternative Comics, c2004.

Nowak, Naomi. House of clay / New York : NBM, 2007.

Peeters, Frederik. Blue pills : a positive love story / Boston : Houghton Mifflin, 2008.

Pekar, Harvey. Students for a Democratic Society : a graphic history / New York : Hill and Wang, 2008.

Plessix, Michel. The wind in the willows / New York : Papercutz, 2007.

Road, Christy C. Indestructible / Portland, OR : Microcosm Pub., c2006.

Robinson, Alex, 1969- Alex Robinson's Lower regions. / Marietta, GA : Top Shelf Productions, c2007.

Robot : super color comic / Carson, CA : Digital Manga Pub., 2005- vol. 4

Runton, Andy. A time to be brave / Marietta, Ga. : Top Shelf ; [London : Diamond distributor], 2007.

Schmidt, J. Marc. Eating Steve : a love story / San Jose, CA : SLG Publications, 2007.

Seth, 1962- It's a good life, if you don't weaken : [a picture novella] / Montréal : Drawn & Quarterly ; New York, NY : Distributed by Farrar, Straus and Giroux, c2007.

Shirow, Masamune. Dominion / Milwaukie, Or. : Dark Horse, 2007.

Shojo beat : manga sampler. / [San Francisco, Calif.] : Viz Media, 2005- vol. 2

Shonen Jump graphic novels : a compilation edition / [San Francisco, Calif.] : Viz, 2003- vol. 4

Shoujo. / San Antonio, TX : Antarctic Press, 2004. vol. 1

Siku. The Manga Bible / New York : Doubleday, c2007.

Skinn, Dez. Comix : the underground revolution / New York : Thunder's Mouth Press : Distributed by Publishers Group West, 2004.

Steinberger, Aimee Major. Japan ai = Nihon ai : a tall girl's adventures in Japan / by Aimee Major Steinberger. [Agoura Hills, Calif.] : Go! Comi, c2007.

Stevens, Karl, 1978- Whatever / Gainesville, Fla. : Alternative Comics, 2008.

Sturm, James, 1965- Satchel Paige : striking out Jim Crow / New York, N.Y. : Jump at the Sun : Hyperion, c2007.

Taniguchi, Jirō. The ice wanderer and other stories / Wisbech, England : Fanfare ; [Rasquera, Spain] : Pontent Mon, 2007.

Tezuka, Osamu, 1928-1989. MW / New York : Vertical , 2007.

Towle, Ben. Midnight sun / San Jose, Calif. : SLG, 2007.

Uderzo. Asterix and the actress ; Asterix and the class act ; Asterix and the falling sky / London : Orion Children's, 2007.

Vasquez, Jhonen. Jellyfist / San Jose, Calif. : Slave Labor Graphics, 2007.

Vollmar, Rob. The castaways / New York : ComicsLit, c2007.

Watson, Andi. Princess at midnight / Berkeley, Calif. : Image, 2008.

Watson, Andi. Slow news day / San Jose, CA : SLG Pub., 2007.

Wilson, Seán Michael. Iraq : Operation Corporate Takeover / London, UK : War on Want : Boychild Productions, 2007.

Yuri monogatari / [United States] : ALC, c2004- vol. 5


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Friday, August 15, 2008

Friday Night Fights: Catwoman vs. Repro



From Catwoman #79 (2008). Story by Will Pfeifer. Art by David Lopez & Alvero Lopez. Click pic for larger.

Ladies Night? Definitely.

Wednesday, August 13, 2008

Blogging About Not Blogging blah blah blah...

Yeah, it's going to be a while more before this blog resumes regular posting. Among other joys, I've been summoned for jury duty next week.

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Monday, August 04, 2008

New Library Comics: Week of July 28, 2008

Here's a list of the comics we added to our library collection last week:


Jansson, Tove. Moomin : the complete Tove Jansson comic strip vol. 2 / Montréal : Drawn & Quarterly ; New York, NY : Distributed in the USA and abroad by Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2006-

Mignola, Michael. Jenny Finn : doom messiah / Los Angeles, Calif. : Boom! Studios, c2008.

Umezu, Kazuo. Cat Eyed Boy vols. 1-2 / San Franciso, CA : Viz Media, 2000-

Umezu, Kazuo. The drifting classroom vols. 2-3 / San Francisco : Viz Media, 2006-

Ware, Chris, 1967- The Acme novelty library number 18. / Chicago, Ill. : Acme Novelty Library : distributed in the U.S. by Drawn and Quarterly Books and Farrar, Strauss and Giroux, 2007.


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