If you liked Persepolis, you may also enjoy:

Maus: A Survivor's Tale, by Art Spiegleman
"Aren't comics just for kids?" Maus won a Pulitzer, discussion over. Spiegleman recounts the parallel stories of how his father Vladek survived the Holocaust, and how he survived his father. Most direct analogue (precursor) to Persepolis.

Fun Home: A Family ( Read more... )

Biked into Georgetown today for Big Planet Comics' 4th of July 20%-off sale. You'll get the play-by-play when LoudTwitter autoposts tomorrow*, but suffice to say it was fun despite my tragic out-of-shape-ness. Would bike again.

Anyhow, I was tweeting little reviews of some of the comics I bought. When that started becoming "all the comics I bought ( Read more... )

My Cage: "I only believe in the kind of honesty that hurts other people."

In response to what was my last unprotected post for so long a time that I thought that it still was, to this day.

So. Spider-Man 3.

The Washington Post hated it. The New York Times hated it. Michael Danko at the Apple Store compared it explicitly to the leavings of domestic canines.

I LOVED IT.

I thought Spider-Man 3 was delicious, but please consider yourself forewarned: you need to go into that theater ready for Spider-Man Three Through About Five-and-a- ( Read more... )

This evening, I sacked up and took some time away from my beloved (and recently replaced) Nintendo DS Lite to start bagging & boarding my comic book collection, a project I've been putting off for almost a month, while listening to the latest Penny Arcade podcast on my beat-up ol' 4th-gen iPod. I made a deal with myself that when the podcast was ( Read more... )

Waiting for the rest of the family to get home so we can have waffles and celebrate Jack's birthday (I hate being held hostage to other people's plans), I decided to crack open the Washington Post's Sunday supplement, which we get on Saturdays 'round these parts. Zits and Doonesbury are about par for the course. Opus (remember when that was going ( Read more... )

It's possible that immersing myself in so much spectacular (in the sense of not-realistic) fiction for so long (my life to date) has skewed my world perception somewhat ( Read more... )

This song, Creepy Doll? I love this song. Don't read the lyrics until you've listened to it, though. If you want to download it for free, it's available at the blog of the fellow who wrote it, a fellow named Jonathon Coulton. He also wrote Code Monkey, Re: Your Brains, Skullcrusher Mountain, and Mr. Fancy Pants, and arranged an excellent samples- ( Read more... )

Etiolated: pale, withered, or unhealthy, due to lack of sunlight (as of a plant). Courtesy Wicked p. 110.

Plus, don't forget, tomorrow, May 6th, is the Fifth Annual Free Comic Book Day. Fifth annual! It seems like only yesterday I was in Toronto on a chorus trip, awaiting the opening of the Spider-Man movie with slobbering impatience, playing the ( Read more... )

I'm reading the WhoClix bios for the characters in the new HeroClix set, "Icons". What is it with DC Comics and strong female characters? Every single one has to be evil, a lesbian (GASP & SHOCK!!!), a crazy man-hater, dead or otherwise punished for the crime of being a strong female character, a raging slut, or some combination of the above ( Read more... )