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Like you, we love books... and the next best thing to reading books is reading about books! Below you'll find an assortment of reviews for titles that we regularly stock. Also, be sure to check out our online catalog.

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June 8th, 2011 Graphic Novels

The Listener

The Listener , a new graphic novel by Canadian artist David Lester, is a good deal better than its sprawling synopsis makes it sound. Bridging two periods in time—the present and the early 1930s—and numerous countries (Canada, Germany, the Czech Republic, the Netherlands, etc.), the plot follows an artist named Louise as she travels across Europe, trying to come to terms with a...

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May 3rd, 2011 Graphic Novels

Bleak frames and guilt

LIT From the first page, an anonymous manifesto denouncing the pharmaceutical industry, to a bronze sculpture of a suppressed anti-Nazi headline from the Lippische Tages-Zeitung weighted down by a giant hammer and nails on the last, David Lester's graphic novel The Listener (Arbeiter Ring Publishing, 304 pages, $19.95) explores how words often fail their intended purpose, precipitating...

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April 21st, 2011 Graphic Novels

Dan Clowes' Mister Wonderful

Daniel Clowes' comic books are often about misfits. Ghost World was about a couple of teenage girl outcasts. Pussey was about an arrogant, self-deceiving cartoonist. The more recent Wilson (reviewed here) was about a lonely, unemployed, self-loathing, passive-aggressive sad-sack who goes through life making himself and the people around him miserable. There's not a lot of action...

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March 31st, 2011 Graphic Novels

Elephantmen: Dr Moreau meets apocalyptic noir science fiction comic

I'm late to the party on Elephantmen -- the comic has been running since 2006 and there've been three collections to date. I've just read the first one, Wounded Animals and I've got that happy, warm feeling that comes from discovering something great, finishing it, and realizing there's plenty more where that came from (I discovered the series on a visit back to LA's...

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August 1st, 2010 Graphic Novels

Do-It-Together Screenprinting

This 192-page book collects what appears to be three issues of Isaacson's zine of the same name, plus some bonus material. Actually, the first two issues carried the same name, the third one was changed to Do It Together Screenprinting, but we'll get to that later. The first issue provides a wealth of information about low budget screen printing at home in your bedroom, living room, or...

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