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Comics, comics, yay!
Feb. 19th, 2006 05:56 pmI had a shopping day today.
Bought the first collection of the comic "Ex Machina" by Brian Vaughan, the author also of "Y: The Last Man". Good stuff so far, but I haven't finished the first collection. I'm thinking that it might make a nice PG/PG13 political comic alternative for a youth services collection... My favorites, like Transmetropolitan, are pretty unashamedly R rated (all those naked drug addicted prostitutes and cursewords littering the page...), and I'm trying to broaden my knowledge of current comics that I could shelve in a teen section without shuddering in fear of challenges.
Trying to just understand so much of the world that I don't understand naturally. When I was a pre-teen, my mom let me read Savage Sword of Conan and (though she didn't really *like* that I did) her collection of Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers comics (I didn't really *get* Li'l Orphan Amphetamine, but I loved Fat Freddy's Cat). Of course I also read Archie comics digests by the fistful, and had my very own subscription to Wonder Woman from when I was 9 on. So I didn't just like grown up stuff, but I didn't distinguish very clearly. And my experience was that all the weird sex and drug stuff was over my head, and I just focused in on the parts I did get, like the talking cockroaches and their war on Fat Freddy's cat.
Anyway, I also found a copy of the Settlement Cookbook, a really excellent cookbook that my mom had that's out of print. It's got great basic recipes, and I used to use it all the time in high school. And we bought another Moosewood cookbook, I think this one is "Sundays at Moosewood"... we've got so many of their cookbooks on our shelves that a casual observer would think we were getting a kickback from them.
I read the first volume of "Inu-Yasha" from the library. After reading four manga in rapid succession that were printed the new, more authentic back-to-front way, reading one that was flipped was actually hard. I liked the story all right. I think I may need to get cable as a YA librarian, so I know what's on Cartoon Network, which really seems (from email I read) to drive teen manga reading tastes - if they see the anime, that's when they want to read the manga.
Thank goodness for these 3 day weekends this month - without them I don't know how I could have gotten caught up on homework. Tomorrow will probably be another 12 hour homework day. When I graduate, me and a pile of books are hiding somewhere for a weekend. A big pile, a box of tasty snacks, some coffee or cola, and lots of pillows. Maybe on a picnic.
Bought the first collection of the comic "Ex Machina" by Brian Vaughan, the author also of "Y: The Last Man". Good stuff so far, but I haven't finished the first collection. I'm thinking that it might make a nice PG/PG13 political comic alternative for a youth services collection... My favorites, like Transmetropolitan, are pretty unashamedly R rated (all those naked drug addicted prostitutes and cursewords littering the page...), and I'm trying to broaden my knowledge of current comics that I could shelve in a teen section without shuddering in fear of challenges.
Trying to just understand so much of the world that I don't understand naturally. When I was a pre-teen, my mom let me read Savage Sword of Conan and (though she didn't really *like* that I did) her collection of Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers comics (I didn't really *get* Li'l Orphan Amphetamine, but I loved Fat Freddy's Cat). Of course I also read Archie comics digests by the fistful, and had my very own subscription to Wonder Woman from when I was 9 on. So I didn't just like grown up stuff, but I didn't distinguish very clearly. And my experience was that all the weird sex and drug stuff was over my head, and I just focused in on the parts I did get, like the talking cockroaches and their war on Fat Freddy's cat.
Anyway, I also found a copy of the Settlement Cookbook, a really excellent cookbook that my mom had that's out of print. It's got great basic recipes, and I used to use it all the time in high school. And we bought another Moosewood cookbook, I think this one is "Sundays at Moosewood"... we've got so many of their cookbooks on our shelves that a casual observer would think we were getting a kickback from them.
I read the first volume of "Inu-Yasha" from the library. After reading four manga in rapid succession that were printed the new, more authentic back-to-front way, reading one that was flipped was actually hard. I liked the story all right. I think I may need to get cable as a YA librarian, so I know what's on Cartoon Network, which really seems (from email I read) to drive teen manga reading tastes - if they see the anime, that's when they want to read the manga.
Thank goodness for these 3 day weekends this month - without them I don't know how I could have gotten caught up on homework. Tomorrow will probably be another 12 hour homework day. When I graduate, me and a pile of books are hiding somewhere for a weekend. A big pile, a box of tasty snacks, some coffee or cola, and lots of pillows. Maybe on a picnic.
