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Post by Reptisaurus! on Sept 1, 2017 18:17:39 GMT -5
Since I probably spend about a third of my comic reading time reading prose about comics. Just finished this big, honking thing, which has been delayed for years - and I never noticed when it came out.  It read like one of those 40 page Comics Journal interviews. Not very focused and covered the same ground more than it needed to, but exhaustive and talking about comics in more depth than anyone else ever did. The first 500 pages were for sure worth reading. (And then it got kind of boring at the end!) I wonder how hard it would be to collect and read all of TCJ and Amazing Heroes? |
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Post by Rob Allen on Sept 1, 2017 19:12:23 GMT -5
I'm in the middle of this:  |
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Post by Reptisaurus! on Sept 1, 2017 19:17:18 GMT -5
Huh. Neat. The Iowa City library has that! I will get it! (I hope it doesn't make people feel sad when I brag about my library. If it makes you feel any better I can't actually afford new comics right now.  |
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Post by berkley on Sept 1, 2017 21:00:10 GMT -5
Since I probably spend about a third of my comic reading time reading prose about comics. Just finished this big, honking thing, which has been delayed for years - and I never noticed when it came out. It read like one of those 40 page Comics Journal interviews. Not very focused and covered the same ground more than it needed to, but exhaustive and talking about comics in more depth than anyone else ever did. The first 500 pages were for sure worth reading. (And then it got kind of boring at the end!) I wonder how hard it would be to collect and read all of TCJ and Amazing Heroes? hmmm, looks like something I might want to try. Be nice to have a look through it first, though. I'll have to see if the library here has it. |
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Post by MDG on Nov 7, 2017 10:42:58 GMT -5
I had an Amazon credit and was looking for something to read, so downloaded the Kindle version of Last Girl Standing by Trina Robbins last weekend.  I hate to say that I was pretty disappointed with it. The woman undoubtedly had an interesting and eventful life, but the book just comes off as a list of them. Things are related, but it all pretty much stays on the surface. And only a few people come off looking good in it (including Trina who comes off as having several axes to grind). On the plus side, it's a quick read, but there's enough story there that it could've been a lot more satisfying. |
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Post by Deleted on Nov 7, 2017 15:35:02 GMT -5
I recently reread all three books by Scott McCloud about comics-Understanding Comics, Reinventing Comics, and Making Comics. I am partway through rereading Will Eisner's Comics and Sequential Art (reading my margin notes from the first time I read it circa '99ish is almost as interesting to me) I recently read the Cartoon History of Comics by Fred van Lente and Ryan Dunleavy (and gave my thoughts on it in the What Modern Comics have you read lately thread)  and am a couple of chapters into Slugfest by Reed Tucker  -M |
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