July 2006 Pre-Orders

This month’s pre-orders for books in coming out in October (I think):

Mother’s Mouth by Dash Shaw (Alternative): I have yet to find the right words to say about Shaw’s previous book Goddess Head, but his unique comics are worth reading, and they should only improve as his work matures. He is an experimentalist, playing with the form and kind of stories to be told in comics.

Tokyo is My Garden and Yukiko’s Spinach by Frederic Boilet (the former written by Benoit Peeters) (Fanfare/Ponent Mon): Boilet’s work is photorealistic and an interesting mix of French and Japanese influences. You really can’t miss with books from Fanfare/Ponent Mon. The latter is a new edition (printing?), but regardless I missed it the first time around.

Ode to Kirihito by Osamu Tezuka (Vertical): I can’t pass up another Tezuka manga. I don’t read much manga, but Tezuka is generally worth reading and rereading.

Mome #5 (Fantagraphics): I’ve been sticking with this anthology. Despite my annoyance and boredom with many of the contributors, enough of them are worth reading (Gabrielle Bell, Anders Nilsen, and lately David B) to keep up. Nilsen’s contributions, in their minimalism and abstraction, have been particularly enjoyable.

Daredevil #89 by Brubaker and Lark (Marvel): My guilty pleasure. So far Brubaker is creating an interesting and exciting follow-up to Bendis’ long run on the book.

Others I didn’t pre-order but might pick up in the store (or at least one’s I want to take a look at first or might get quicker in a normal bookstore):

First Second’s fall line: Having not been thrilled by any of the spring line, I’m holding off on the fall line until I can page through them. I already have Sfar’s Klezmer in French and it is a very pretty book (though ultimately not much of a story). Missouri Boy by Leland Myrick has angular simple art that appeals, but the sample up on the publisher’s webpage shows a story that is lacking. I’m starting to see First Second as bringing traditional popular literary genres to comics, as if they are filling the “literary fiction” niche. This makes sense though in the end doesn’t make for comics that appeal greatly to me.

Popeye Vol. 1 and Terr’ble Thompson from Fantagraphics. I’m not sure I’m all that interested in Popeye more than what I’ve already read, ditto for the Thompson which is excerpted in Dan Nadel’s Art Out of Time.

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