Books Read in Jan. 2009(In order from most recent...)
( Books, comics and art books... )

Best Books of 2008

The Final Five
As I said, my computer is still down, so instead of scanning things in and making them pretty in Photoshop, I have to take photos and post them straight to goddamn Facebook.

Grace Paley's The Little Disturbances of Man

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Best Books of 2008

The First Five
As I said, my computer is still down, so instead of scanning things in and making them pretty in Photoshop, I have to take photos and post them straight to goddamn Facebook.

Anyway, this was a good year for books - for me at least. I read a lot of great stuff, and coming up with a top ten was hard to do.

Roberto ( Read more... )

A Pictorial Review of
Anti-Oedipus

by Gilles Deleuze and Felix GuattariAgain, another quasi-/pseudo- book review. I was reading a ton of books until I got to this book. I read about 10 pages a day on this book; constantly re-reading, and re-reading again, looking up references and allusions, pondering exactly what it is they claim and how it ( Read more... )

A Pictorial Review of
Empire of Light

by Jill Jonnes
Again, this isn't much of a book review. I'm getting back into the swing of things. I'm drawing a couple of projects until the book is going full steam. I'd like to get back to doing a full book review once a week.


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A Pictorial Review of
Empire of Light

by Jill JonnesThis isn't really a book review; more of a sketch for one, but the book is really weighing me down, so I thought I'd go back to doing at least one book review a week. I'm going to keep posting a sketch a day, and hopefully a couple of finished pages of comics a week, but I need some diversion ( Read more... )

A Pictorial Review of
The Shock Doctrine

by Naomi Klein
by Troy Swain, sort of in Aaron Cometbus' style

Page 1, 2 (more to come)


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A Pictorial Review of
The Shock Doctrine

by Naomi Klein
by Troy Swain, sort of in Aaron Cometbus' style

Page 1, 2 (more to come)


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A Pictorial Review of
The Plot Against America

by Philip Roth
by Troy Swain, in the style of Charles Schulz

Page 1, 2, 3, 4


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Robespierre, or the 'Divine Violence' of Terror
by Slavoj Zizek
Review by Troy Swain

Page 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8


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