Author and artist: Daniel Clowes Type: Fiction, comic Published: 1998 I read it: June 2017 After reading a string of fantastical modern comics, I figured I’d knock out the slim Ghost World, a classic of day-to-day realism. I had gathered that Daniel Clowes was a well-respected figure in this vein of comics, though I don’t…
Author: Kurt Busiek Artist: Benjamin Dewey Type: Fiction, comic Collects issues: 1-6 Published: 2015 I read it: June 2017 The Autumnlands rests on the resume of Kurt Busiek, he of Marvels renown. In that book he paired with Alex Ross, and the artwork was so wondrous that Busiek’s story was only part of the draw.…
Author: Joe Keatinge Artist: Leila del Duca Type: Fiction, comic Collects issues: 7-12 Published: 2014 I read it: June 2017 Something is off about that cover. Seems like the framing isn’t quite right. And unfortunately that tends to be the case for this book overall. In Volume Two, Kate Kristopher continues to be chased, captured,…
Author: Brian K. Vaughan Artist: Fiona Staples Type: Fiction, comic Collects issues: 25-30 Published: 2015 I read it: June 2017 Volume Five opens with an overarching summary about war in general and this story’s war in particular, explaining how it’s been going on so long that the original planets involved are hardly involved, while the other…
Author: Dave Eggers (series editor), Zadie Smith (introduction) Type: Fiction, non-fiction, short stories, essays, comics, humor (anthology) Published: 2003 I read it: May 2017 2003. The first year of the Iraq war. The release year of a bunch of my favorite albums before I turned more noticeably into new tastes. A full decade before my first…
Editor: Rachel Kushner (introduction) Type: Fiction, non-fiction, short stories, essays, comics, poetry, memoir Published: 2016 I read it: October 2016 The primary challenge of any anthology is deciding what to pick, so in this edition of the BANR series the curators tried to be explicit about their goals for the year. Daniel Gumbiner, on behalf…
Author and artist: Emily Carroll Type: Fiction, comic Published: 2014 I read it: October 2016 A coworker sent me a link to Emily Carroll’s site and for some reason I had forgotten that I actually read one of her stories (“Our Neighbor’s House,” from this collection) in BANR 2015. Either way, I enjoyed the online…
