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An inaction shot of our trusty– and duly labeled– “new arrivals” cart
One of the hazards of being both a comics enthusiast and a comics librarian is that your reading list soon becomes taller than you are. Check out some of the marvelous titles to be found among the recent donations we’ve received:
Not bad, right?
It’s always interesting to see the mix of brand-spanking-new titles, new editions of enduring material, and more seasoned releases that are just now filling holes in our collection. Long-running series can be difficult to track down in their entirety, but a handful have been freshly repackaged and republished for our ease of consumption: the enormous Alec hardcover by Eddie Campbell (from Top Shelf), the fat Queen & Country volumes by Greg Rucka and various (from Oni Press), and the Hopeless Savages “greatest hits” collection by Jen Van Meter and various (also from Oni). What a treat for we hungry comics readers! I’m hoping to get my mitts on a copy of the new Milk and Cheese collection— from Evan Dorkin (and Dark Horse)– sometime soon as well.
There are a number of heavy hitters on the production-values front, to boot: The ACME Novelty Library #16 by Chris Ware (self-published, distributed by Drawn & Quarterly), Strange Suspense and The Three Paradoxes by Steve Ditko and Paul Hornschemeier, respectively (from Fantagraphics), a lovely Tezuka volume from Vertical, Jim McCann and Janet Lee‘s Return of the Dapper Men from Archaia, that ludicrously swank Luke Skywalker tome from Dark Horse, the previously featured collections of Mark Schultz‘s work from Flesk Publications, and– in addition to Alec— handsome hardcovers of both Blankets (by Craig Thompson) and Lost Girls (by Alan Moore and Melinda Gebbie) from Top Shelf.
I would love to highlight both the second Finder library volume by Carla Speed McNeil (from Dark Horse) and Nursery Rhyme Comics by various (from First Second) as well, but they have been such hot-ticket reads among the CCS student body that they are currently checked out. Which I suppose makes for quite a collective recommendation for both of those titles!
On the prose side of things, there are three fantastic McSweeney’s volumes that have doubled our count of the celebrated quarterly. But that, dear reader, is a post for another day.
Katie Moody
Librarian, the Center for Cartoon Studies
