Due Comics; New Yorker Frog

[maribou]

Due Considerations, by John Updike
It still amazes me that I can always pick up a book of Updike's nonfiction and LOVE it, and yet with his novels the odds are heavily slanted that I will be very irritated the entire way through ... so, um, hurray for new gargantuan non-fiction collection!
(241/250)

Best American Comics 2006, edited by Anne Elizabeth Moore and Harvey Pekar
Were these really the best comics made in North America that year? *Really*?? There were definitely some excellent pieces in here though, so I'm glad I picked it up. Interested to see how the series evolves.
(242/250)

Frog, by Linda Nobles and Hazel Spencer
Cute kid's book about a frog who is determined to stand up for himself. Charming enough.
(243/250)

Christmas at the New Yorker, compiled by the editors of the New Yorker
Man, a lot of the New Yorker's Christmas stories are depressing. It's a wistful depressing, though, which somehow makes it better. Excellent choice for today, when the snow is on the trees.
(244/250)

Comments

[howland.livejournal.com]

I don't know for sure, but I'm guessing the pool of what can realistically be reprinted in a Best American Comics collection is much, much smaller than the pool of what was published in that year -- to a degree that isn't true for the Year's Best SF and other non-illustrated anthologies. Magazines don't routinely reprint their own material for a large part of their revenue; comics publishers do. Reprint rights of short stories almost always revert to the creator; reprint rights of comic books almost always don't, except when the creator is also the publisher.

[maribou]

That would make sense ... but in this case I suspect it also has to do specifically with Pekar's taste. I *like* the guy, and his work, but I think he has some chips on his shoulder that significantly skew his opinions of other people's work (who doesn't, eh?) ... I'm curious to see what this year's collection was like.

But I bet you're right.

[raisinbottom.livejournal.com]

You have six more books.
I have four more dreams.

[raisinbottom.livejournal.com]

I can only do one a day ;____;

[maribou]

Yes, and now I only have 5 more books!

Have you considered powernaps;)?

[manintheboat.livejournal.com]

Wants to borrow New Yorker!

[maribou]

Sadly, it is not only a library book, but an interlibrary loan book which Must Go Back Tomorrow. But if it helps, it came from Jefferson County Libraries originally ...

I don't know how I manage to always have the books you & random want to borrow be liberry books! I do read my own books too, I swear!

[unselko.livejournal.com]

Re: John Updike--I can't stand his fiction, but I have saved a few of his poems that I like very much. Strange man, he must be.

[maribou]

Indeed.