“And what better way to ease into comic escapism than with Jean Grey, aka the sexiest X-Man (X-Lady?)”: Wait, is that a serious question?
I’m going to start reading about Asterios Polyp again now, aren’t I?: The St. Louis Post-Dispatch listed what they considered 50 of their best books from ’09, and David Mazzucchelli’s was the only graphic novel on the list. Oh, and speaking of a graphic novel appearing admist a bunch of prose books in a newspaper round-up article, Hanna Berry’s excellent Britten and Brülightly ended up on Marilyn Stasio’s list of “Notable Crime Books of 2009” for the New York Times.
“In what may be one of the more involved graphic novels to date since Joe Sacco’s Palestine…”: This reviewer of One Model Nation doesn’t really seem to know what he’s talking about—he freely admits he hasn’t touched a comic book in ten years and is ashamed to admit reading a graphic novel at all—but it’s a positive one nonetheless. Plus, “May be one of the more involved graphic novels to date since Joe Sacco’s Palestine…” isn’t a bad blurb to have.
The dumbest conspiracy theory ever: Why did the president of the United States of America decide to give an important speech on the day the Peanuts Christmas special was going to air? To attack the Christian values espoused in that cartoon special, duh. President Obama probably didn’t even need a new strategy for the war in Afghanistan…that was all just an excuse to preempt the annual Charlie Brown special. So says some dumb mayor somewhere, anyway. Here’s a news story on his Facebook comment about Obama’s nefarious plot, here’s a blog post mocking him, here’s another, and here’s one in which the author just sort of sadly shakes his head about the state of the country.
As long as I’m posting links to liberal/progressive/communist blogs…: Josh Fruhlinger’s Cartoon Violence column was particularly savage this week, as it dealt with some particularly terrible political cartoons.
How Christopher Butcher’s getting in the holiday spirit: The retailer/blogger would like to remind you that Harper Collins has a trio of very nice looking holiday themed books illustrated by three very talented artists.
