BIP’s Snips: Thoughts on three books

2020-05-21T16:09:05-04:00

Marguerite Abouet and Clément Oubrerie's Aya de Yopougon 4 Gallimard, 2008 Read: At the table, because I said that I would use my dictionary to look up all the French words that I don't know (of course I always say that, but I never do) Warning: As the fourth book in

BIP’s Snips: Thoughts on three books2020-05-21T16:09:05-04:00

Drawing Conclusions: A Serial Reader, Plague Stories

2022-06-14T15:04:53-04:00

What does Captain Trips mean anyway? NY: Marvel Publishing Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa, Writer Mike Perkins, Artwork Laura Marin, Colourist If you could ask General Bill Starkey he would NOT say 99.4% communicability, 99.4% excess mortality. He can't say that: he works for the government. But that's what it means.

Drawing Conclusions: A Serial Reader, Plague Stories2022-06-14T15:04:53-04:00

Jeff Lemire’s Sweet Tooth Series

2014-03-17T14:18:13-04:00

Jeff Lemire's style is immediately recognizable. The colours are sombre, earthy. Faces are often smudged with shadow. Sometimes entire pages appear to be shadowed. The lines are raw, sometimes inexact. Details in the background are sometimes perfectly drawn, like expertly squared tiles, and other times they are hasty cross-hatchings, a

Jeff Lemire’s Sweet Tooth Series2014-03-17T14:18:13-04:00

Once Upon a Time Fragments

2014-03-17T14:03:27-04:00

In which I chatter about Rick Riordan's The Lightning Thief, the Mythlopedia series, the third in Bill Willingham's Fables series, and make hasty notes about my other reading for the un-challenge. The Lightning Thief is intended to be larger than life. Percy Jackson is not a normal boy. He is

Once Upon a Time Fragments2014-03-17T14:03:27-04:00

Drawing Conclusions: A Serial Reader

2014-03-17T14:02:36-04:00

We want that "paradoxical search for familiarity combined with strangeness; want more of the same – but with a difference," says Victor Watson in Reading Series Fiction. Watson's book considers series written for children, but it still applies, doesn't it? There's nothing like reading a series. Robert Kirkman's The Walking

Drawing Conclusions: A Serial Reader2014-03-17T14:02:36-04:00
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