Selected Reading List, 2010
It occurs to me that even if I'm too busy to make notes about *everything* I read, there are still some things worth remembering. So...
Lasko-Gross, Miss - A Mess of Everything - Apparently a semi-autobiographical GN; certainly a painful and honest look at adolescence. Melissa wrestles with what one should do when a friend is self-destructing, with attempted romances and with being confident and opinionated. Why is it honest? Because most of the time she doesn't do 'the right thing'. Language and sexual situations probably make this suitable for my younger daughter when she's around 14, although she'd probably love it now at 12.
Pope, Paul - Heavy Liquid - The art is like Los Bros Hernandez but darker and grimmer; the story reminds me most of Neal Stephenson's 'Snow Crash'. 'S' is a pretty competent but human hero, but his addiction to drug/art form/explosive Heavy Liquid has him involved in all kinds of spy-movie fights and escapes. Villains wear Picasso-style masks. Cooler than I expected.
Doxiadis, Apostolos and Christos Papadimitriou - Logicomix: An Epic Search for Truth - My transformation is complete. I actually liked a comic about math and logic. But it's because they made it into a story, primarily involving the life of Bertrand Russell but covering the history and concepts of logic. The writers and artists and the visual researcher are also characters! It's very interesting to see Wittgenstein, Godel and Boole as characters, and to follow the course of logical/philosophical thought.
Lasko-Gross, Miss - A Mess of Everything - Apparently a semi-autobiographical GN; certainly a painful and honest look at adolescence. Melissa wrestles with what one should do when a friend is self-destructing, with attempted romances and with being confident and opinionated. Why is it honest? Because most of the time she doesn't do 'the right thing'. Language and sexual situations probably make this suitable for my younger daughter when she's around 14, although she'd probably love it now at 12.
Pope, Paul - Heavy Liquid - The art is like Los Bros Hernandez but darker and grimmer; the story reminds me most of Neal Stephenson's 'Snow Crash'. 'S' is a pretty competent but human hero, but his addiction to drug/art form/explosive Heavy Liquid has him involved in all kinds of spy-movie fights and escapes. Villains wear Picasso-style masks. Cooler than I expected.
Doxiadis, Apostolos and Christos Papadimitriou - Logicomix: An Epic Search for Truth - My transformation is complete. I actually liked a comic about math and logic. But it's because they made it into a story, primarily involving the life of Bertrand Russell but covering the history and concepts of logic. The writers and artists and the visual researcher are also characters! It's very interesting to see Wittgenstein, Godel and Boole as characters, and to follow the course of logical/philosophical thought.
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