comics, comics, comics
I love me some comics! I tend to gravitate more to autobio stuff… or life-inspired stories… which is why Craig Thompson and EmiTown are faves. Keith Knight also fits into this category. Keith has a few different comic strips (The K Chronicles, The Knight Life, & thINK). He had a complilation there on his APE table that I just could NOT pass up…. once I saw the strip about the puking cat and the toilet, I slapped my twenty on the table.
Aidan Casserly offered up his new comic Scapula: Sinister Monster Doom Legion (It truly is sinister and dark). If you like sock puppets and juvenile poop humor (I mean that in a nice way), this one’s for you! Besides, the mad-cap humor, the loverly drawings and eerie coloring’s really nice. Aidan “Graced” the front page of my copy with a drawerin’…. hee hee. (Aidan kinda digs Grace… like I dig Hypnausia… it’s just weirdo-ness).
Side b: the music lover’s comic anthology was another purchase. This powerhouse comic includes pages by Lucy Knisley (French Milk), Jeffrey Brown, Jim Mahfood, Warren Wucinich (Flight), Todd Webb, Lars Brown and soooo many others… So if you like music and variety… you’ll dig this one!
Awww, she likes it! She likes it!
…but I didn’t include any “poop humor” in this book (unless, of course, the term applies to the fact that my humor is worth poop). Grace would be inducted into the Sinister Monster Doom Legion if those bastards allowed women to join (they have a big “No Gurlz Allowed” sign on the door…hey, they’re bad guys! You expect fairness?).
Thanks for the shout-out!
PS: Glad you met Keef. Did you call him “Aaron McGruder”? He gets that a lot.
Wait, correction: there is a poop joke (Babirus in the factory). Guess I’m never gonna’ grow up.
Your poop humor is charming, Aidan… and I would be sorely disappointed if you grew up. I’d hate to be the only 8 year-old in the room.
And, no… I didn’t call Keef, McGruder… because I’ve meet Keith before… in Vegas. I will say no more.
… except that you are welcome for the shout. … oh, and that Grace ought to go in drag so she could be part of that stupid Doom Club… (no girls allowed… sheesh!)