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Wednesday, August 11th, 2004
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9:17p - Me Me Meme
I loathe memes but I like the idea behind this one, Lieber's Eleven. Basically, list eleven graphic novel titles that libraries should shelve. And since I'm all about following the cool kids, here is my list.
1. A Chance of Sunshine by Jimmy Liao. (Creative Editions) Beautiful watercolors and minimal text tell the story of a couple who keep missing each other by feet and inches.
2. One! Hundred! Demons! by Lynda Barry. (Sasquatch Books) My favorite book of hers. Classic Lynda, 'cept in color!
3. Why I Hate Saturn (DC) by Kyle Baker. It's the book I give to people who show an interest in comics but fear that they're all about superheroes. And it's funny as all heck.
4. Dear Julia, by Brian Biggs. (Top Shelf) One of my all-time favorites. Beautiful drawing and intriguing writing. Elegant in it's simplicity of a story about a man and his fascination with flying like the birds do.
5. Ethel & Ernest by Raymond Briggs. (Knopf) It's Raymond Briggs, fer crying out loud! A lovely telling of his parent's life together.
6. Gemma Bovery by Posy Simmonds. (Jonathan Cape) It's Posy Simmonds, fer crying out loud! And I love her. Seriously. Posy, honey? You single, baby? If all classics I read in high school were like this, I'd be getting my doctorate in literature right about now. Good thing they're not, eh?
7. Starry Night by Michele Lemieux. (Kids Can Press) I found this in a small bookstore in Milwaukee. It's a nifty little tale of all the questions about life that run through a little girl's head when she can't sleep. Very Feiffer-esque.
8. Secret Language by Molly Barker. (City Lights) A very arty kind of book.Think along the lines of the comics the really pretentious all-in-black poetry-spewing art student that was in all of your classes would have made had he/she deemed comics worthy of their talent. And then imagine that they were actually pretty good.
9. Die Augen der Angst by LGX Lillian Mousli. (JOCHEN Enterprises) Creepy, colorful, and stunning. The book that got me thinking about making comics without words again.
10. Can of Worms by Catherine Doherty. (Fantagraphics) One of the best "silent" comics that tells the tale of a woman searching for her birth mother.
11. Understanding Comics by Scott McCloud. You know what? Even though I own these books, I ain't never read them. Shame, shame, shame on me. But I still ain't gonna read 'em.
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