Congratulations to Top Shelf for the one-year anniversary of its webcomic anthology Top Shelf 2.0! The site is posting a new comic every day from Monday through Friday, a huge endeavour considering it's got some of the most eclectic and interesting material, ranging from kids' stuff to adult fare. Go there and be sure to check out Kagan McLeod's Infinite Kung Fu series, a fun ride with gorgeous art to boot.
June 2009
This is one of those months where so many great things are going on that I am not quite sure what to share first. And there is lots to hear...literally.
In the past six months, have you been browsing in bookstores as much as you had in the past?
June 1, 2009, 344 voters
I recently managed to get around to a book I've had for a while: Locke & Key: Welcome to Lovecraft. It's by Joe Hill and Gabriel Rodriguez and published by IDW, and aside from being a nice little tribute to H.P. Lovecraft, it's got some of the most genuinely chilling and creepy moments in comics in a long time. The second and third pages alone were just plain frightening, and the book is made even scarier by the little nuances the creators throw in along the way.
May 29, 2009
Peonies are my favorite flowers. I have four bushes of them at the house, and they typically come out the week of the Book Expo America (BEA) conference, so I get to see them maybe for a day or two. By the time I get back they are usually just massive clumps of petals on the ground. This weekend the weather at the house was glorious, and the peonies went from buds to full blossoms like they were on steroids. I cut a few lush flowers and put them in a vase and plopped that on my desk in New York, then moved it to the hotel in the city where I am staying. At least I can enjoy some peonies since I know rain, cold and wind will scatter the petals by Sunday afternoon. Between those and the lilacs, the weekend did smell lovely.
