Graphic novels
No, no, not that kind of "graphic" novel! The ones I like are comics that are (sort of) novel length. This has been a factor in quite a few movies lately such as GHOST WORLD and AMERICAN SPLENDOR. But I like to read the books and look at the drawings. I really have enjoyed GHOST WORLD and DAVID BORING by Daniel Clowes, also SLEEPWALK and OPTIC NERVE by Adrian Tomine. Harvey Pekar's HERO: THE STORY OF ROBERT MCNEILL is the only AMERICAN SPLENDOR novel that I have read, but I want to look for THE CANCER YEAR and several others. To save money, I borrow what I can from the library. The Dewey number seems to be 741.5.
A recent read is DREAMTOONS by Jesse Reklaw. People send descriptions of their dreams to Reklaw and he draws four panel comic strips about them. He has a web page with many examples:
http://www.slowwave.com
1 Comments:
Hi Mary,
Dreamtoons looks interesting. I'll be checking out his website this evening.
Glad to see that your iMac problems haven't slowed down your blogging. (People will use a downed computer as an excuse for just about anything!!)
I just finished converting my blogs to use the new style comments (and post pages) that blogger now supports. The conversion was a real hassle -- but now that I finished the converting them, I can see that they're easy and fun to use. So I hope people start leaving comments for me on my blog, too.
Mike
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