My oldest daughter bought 2 Serenity gns last week. The first one – which was a hard cover – was mediocre at best. It was supposed to fill in the storyline somewhat between the end of the series and the movie that was made. The other gn was much better. When I remember what the titles were for these, I’ll post them.

have got Tank Girl vol 1 & THe Gifting
also the Kurt Cobain graphic novel

I will try & get some R Crumb, more Daniel Clowes & underground comix.

i don’t really know about any Japanese comic artists, but i like Miyazaki/Ghibli movies a lot, & Ghost In The Shell, Akira…

my graphic novel collection;

City OF Glass- Paul Auster/David Mazzuchelli
Watchmen- Alan Moore/Dave Gibbons
Batman, The Killing Joke- Alan Moore/Brian Bolland
V For Vendetta- Alan Moore/David Lloyd
Ghost World- Daniel Clowes

I’m really into Alan Moore & Underground Comix Artists- especially Robert Crumb. Haven’t found any decent collections of Crumb yet but i love his work. Have bought the documentary ‘Crumb’ by Terry Zwigoff, and the film adaptation of Ghost World, also directed by Zwigoff.

I’m a film maker but i also write & illustrate my own comix- i’ll put some of my work online when i can find the time

I found a bunch that I very much enjoyed

Fun House

A bunch of stuff I found by Marjane Satrapi including Persepolis which they made a movie of. Read the graphic novel & let your imagination do the animation.

It’s ok so far. I like the story itself, a bit, but there seems to be these things spread through that are supposed to be funny little literary in-jokes (just like what you’d expect for LoEG), but it’s like they’re scraping the bottom of the barrel or something. It’s actually pornographic in some spots, which was really contrived. Some of the stories inserted into the main thing are pretty cool. All in all, I’m pretty disappointed.

Top 10 Ongoing Series

Best Monthly Books Of 2007

Y-The Last Man
Fables
Elephantmen
T-Wasteland
T-Godland
Casanova
Invincible
Ex Machina
Powers
Criminal
100 Bullets

Top 10 Mini-Series

Best Minis Of 07

Highwaymen
T-Cover Girl
T-Left On Mission
New Avengers: Illuminati
Nightly News
Atomic Robo
Silver Surfer: Requiem
Umbrella Academy
2 Guns
Samurai: Heaven and Earth volume 2
Phonogram

Top 10 New Series

Best New Books Of The Year

T-The Spirit
T-Scalped
The Order
Dynamo 5
The Immortal Iron Fist
Ramayan 3392 AD
Nova
The Killer
Crossing Midnight
Welcome To Tranquility
Brave And The Bold

Top 10 Graphic Novels

Original Top 10

Super Spy
Exit Wounds
Cairo
The League Of Extraordinary Gentlemen: The Black Dossier
Postcards: Stories That Never Happened
T-The Plain Janes
T-Good As Lily
Scott Pilgrim Vol 4
Sentences: The Life Of M.F. Grimm
Macedonia
Alice In Sunderland

Collected Top 10

The Dark Tower: The Gunslinger Born HC
All-Star Superman Vol 1 HC
The Escapists HC
Mouse Guard Volume 1: Fall 1152 HC
T-Godland Celestial Edition HC
T-Elephantmen Volume 1: Wounded Animals HC
Shazam!: The Monster Society of Evil HC
Shortcomings HC
Elk’s Run TPB
Meltdown: The Definitive Collection TPB
The Damned: Three Days Dead TPB

cleaning up, making room for other goals…

In the few short weeks that I’ve been using the library, I’ve already picked up and read 6 graphic novels that I’ve either 1) been wanting to read, or 2) am familiar with the artist. The main branch of the Pgh library has a huge graphic novel collection and I’ve been picking a couple up each time I go there. Here’s what I’ve read so far (minus Blankets which I read a while back).

I swear, reading L&R is like having some good friends over, getting pleasantly drunk with them, and wishing they never had to leave.

I read “My New York Diary” by Julie Doucet over the last week. It was cool, in a Raw kind of way; but it just wasn’t what I was looking for. I wish I had Black Hole, but it would cost a fortune for me right now.