comic books
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Memorial Ride Sampler
Check it: cool little flip book PDF for Memorial Ride (also here). Coming at you live from UNM in the land of October: [3d-flip-book mode=”fullscreen” id=”17483″][/3d-flip-book]
My first full-length graphic novel
I mean, not counting My Hero, which I also consider a graphic novel, albeit a fast one. But this is more long-form — kind of four issues, eight-some-odd pages: More links &etc at my landing page for it, here on DT.
Best of 2021 so far: for January
(sorry for the lead-in ad, and this being clipped — not sure why it’s getting clipped, exactly : )
Best Stuff I Found in 2020
Gonna do this fast, here, as, when I take time and mull, this annual post just gets longer and longer—me, trying to include everything. So, before I can think too much, dig back too much, and probably including stuff I should have caught in 2019, or 2002: Novel(s) of the Year Comic Book of the
Some elk-heady, um, people
That I’ve stumbled onto the last couple weeks. The Bottom — who actually has a horse-head that, in the dark, could maybe be a cow elk — is from the manga A Midsummer Night’s Dream done by Kate Brown, and the deer-woman’s from Carmen Maria Machado’s The Low, Low Woods. Presumably she wrote something like
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Panels
Most of the camera roll on my phone is either dead animals I find out in the world, trucks I cruise real slow by in parking lots, or comic panels I want to keep close forever. Here’s the latest, from Old Man Logan, by Andrea Sorrentino and Jeff Lemire: The layers of this moment, right?