(b)logophile

Good news: Waterstones (Amsterdam branch) has a pretty fair selection of “graphic novels” (read: comics). Bad news: Waterstones (Amsterdam branch) is fairly pricey. Good news: Said “graphic novels” are on a 3-for-2 sale. Bad news: In fact only about half of said “graphic novels” are on a 3-for-2 sale. Good news: One that I want [...]

I went into Scheltema this morning. I wasn’t even looking for a book… but I got sidetracked (it’s a five-storey bookstore, in retrospect it was inevitable). I got caught by this. That’s Moomin: The Complete Tove Jansson Comic Strip. (It’s actually “Volume 1″ of “The Complete…”, projected to run to five volumes, which to my [...]

Next week it’s Brendan Adkins’ birthday, and he’s giving us a present. Ommatidia, the first Anacrusis book, already exists. Wow. And in a week or so we’ll be able to order it. That gives you about a week to trawl through the archives and discover that that’s exactly what you’re going to do. Update: It’s [...]

The supercool Small Beer Press are publishing a collection of short stories by John Kessel, and alongside the print release they’re offering non-DRM, free downloads (pdf/html/rtf/txt) released under Creative Commons license. There’s a Kessel story in The Best of Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet (“The Red Phone”) and it’s very short, very odd and very funny. [...]

Over at my LibraryThing reviews account I just posted my review of Shaun Tan’s beautiful story-in-pictures The Arrival. I can’t recommend it highly enough. You can see some images on the artist’s website (I’ve linked a few from the review also). After posting the review I started wandering through other people’s reviews (the perils and [...]