Showing posts with label love. Show all posts
Showing posts with label love. Show all posts
Saturday, June 25, 2022

Mr. Boop

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Mr. Boop collects the four books of a webcomic about a man who is married to Betty Boop , works at Subway with Bugs Bunny , and is roommat...
Sunday, December 20, 2020

Moms

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Moms is a unique book, a look at the lives that are not often highlighted in popular culture or media. The main characters in this book are ...
Wednesday, January 15, 2020

Come Again

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In my last post I noted the death of Tom Spurgeon , a huge figure in contemporary comics. Today I start a series of remembrances about my f...
Wednesday, May 15, 2019

Kiss Number 8

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Kiss Number 8 is set in 2004, but I feel that the story is also very relevant and contemporary. It stars a 17-year-old named Amanda who g...
Saturday, December 15, 2018

I Am Young

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I Am Young is a dazzling collection of short stories that use music as a springboard to explore people's relationships to others and ...
Saturday, November 10, 2018

On a Sunbeam

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On a Sunbeam was originally published as a webcomic (still available to read online in its entirety here ), and it is a fantastic science...
Sunday, September 30, 2018

The Story of My Tits

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I have had this book on my shelf for a long time now, and I finally got to it after listening to a brief interview with its author on The...
Wednesday, July 25, 2018

Monkey Chef: A Love Story

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I first became aware of this book from a Kickstarter campaign for Kilgore Books and Comics , where I did pitch in to buy a bunch of issue...
Saturday, May 5, 2018

My Boyfriend is a Bear

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My Boyfriend is a Bear is graphic novel take on a magic realism romance tale. It stars a 28-year-old woman named Nora who's got cool ...
Friday, January 5, 2018

The One Hundred Nights of Hero

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The One Hundred Nights of Hero might be the most subversive graphic novel I've ever read, and I LOVED IT. It is a feminist retelling ...
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Saturday, April 30, 2016

Patience

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Dan Clowes is one of the most respected graphic novelists in the US, with such past successes as Ghost World , Wilson , and Mr. Wonderful...
Thursday, July 30, 2015

Sshhhh!

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Sshhhh! is a peculiar and fascinating look at love and life. It is a wordless graphic novel starring an anthropomorphic crow in ten diffe...
Tuesday, May 5, 2015

Exquisite Corpse

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Exquisite Corpse was released in France in 2010, and it was a huge success there. 5 years later, we Anglophones are finally getting to se...
Sunday, April 5, 2015

Loverboys

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Loverboys is a return to a certain sort of story for Gilbert Hernandez . The story here takes place in the small town of Lágrimas, which ...
Wednesday, April 25, 2012

Paying For It: A Comic-Strip Memoir About Being a John

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Paying for It is a provocative book, which may be a given concerning its subject matter, but it presents arguments and stories in a docume...