April 2006 Orders
Pre-orders for… June/July, I guess, though knowing how the things I usually order come out, more like… next year.
Morlac by Leif Tande (La Pasteque): From French Canada, an oubapian work that, according to my previous oubapo readings, that should be a kind of circular, endless, you can enter it anywhere comic. Though this description would indicate that it is a kind of choose your own adventure type thing. Either way… Sold!
Concrete Vol. 6: Strange Armour by Paul Chadwick (Dark Horse): Yet another volume in the reprint of this long running series. This should be the last reprint volume as the Human Dilemma reprint is Vol. 7 (out this month) and the most recent of issues of the series. Vol. 5 (Think Like a Mountain) out in May. Which I guess means, look for a Concrete review sometime in late summer.
Drowners by Nabiel Kanan (Image): I discovered Kanan’s Exit long ago being serialized in a magazine and have followed his work through the NBM published Lost Girl and Birthday Riots. Drowners was originally self-published as four issues. I ended up missing the first and never really caught on to the rest of the series. I’m excited to read this in its entirety. Kanan has a powerful graphic style that I’ve always much admired.
Sloth by Gilbert Hernandez (DC): Something non-Love and Rockets from this brother Hernandez. Gilbert is not my favorite of the brothers, but this promises to be interesting.
Bardin the Superrrealist by Max (Fantagraphics): Spanish cartoonist Max’s book that is aid to be inspired by both Surrealism and Herge. A collection of strips, gags, and stories that follow the same character in a strange dimension.
A few things I did not pre-order because I’ll probably be able to get them quicker and cheaper from a normal bookstore (Amazon linked for covers and descriptions):
Art Out of Time : Unknown Comics Visionaries 1900-1969 by Dan Nadel (Abrams): An anthology/history of under-recognized outsider/underground comics. Should be great.
The Art of Russell Patterson: Top Hats and Flappers (Fantagraphics): The cover of this book makes it very attractive a purchase. Nice line work.
Monsieur Lambert by Jean-Jacques Sempe (Phaidon): Another classic Euro-comic that sounds interesting.
The Comics: An Illustrated History Of Comic Strip Art by Jerry Robinson (Dark Horse): A new edition of this class comics history. The recent Comics Journal interview with Robinson was interesting enough to make me want to read this.
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