Comments on: 2008…And so it goes… http://blueloungebookgroup.wordpress.com/2008/11/23/2008and-so-it-goes/ Books and biscuits in the Boro Tue, 22 Dec 2009 15:12:49 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 By: AJ Garrett http://blueloungebookgroup.wordpress.com/2008/11/23/2008and-so-it-goes/#comment-34 AJ Garrett Tue, 25 Nov 2008 00:31:49 +0000 http://blueloungebookgroup.wordpress.com/?p=72#comment-34 'Amy and Jordan' by Mark Beyer. Probably won't be in the January sales but there's some of Beyer's co-dependent dysfunctional couple of cursed jerks in a book called 'Graphic Fiction'. That's a big hardback book packed full of awesome artistic and underground comics. I've read two books by Beyer. 'Agony' is one long, dreamlike series of truly unfortunate events (at least none of Lemony Snickett's protagonists get fired, decapitated, and eaten by a fish within the first 5 pages). 'Amy and Jordan' is da bomb though, a compendium of exquisitely weird stand alone comic strips that explore character and form within their tiny spaces. There are some genuinely desperate elements but the main effect is charming and astonishing gloom-fun. ‘Amy and Jordan’ by Mark Beyer. Probably won’t be in the January sales but there’s some of Beyer’s co-dependent dysfunctional couple of cursed jerks in a book called ‘Graphic Fiction’. That’s a big hardback book packed full of awesome artistic and underground comics.

I’ve read two books by Beyer. ‘Agony’ is one long, dreamlike series of truly unfortunate events (at least none of Lemony Snickett’s protagonists get fired, decapitated, and eaten by a fish within the first 5 pages). ‘Amy and Jordan’ is da bomb though, a compendium of exquisitely weird stand alone comic strips that explore character and form within their tiny spaces. There are some genuinely desperate elements but the main effect is charming and astonishing gloom-fun.

]]> By: D.B. http://blueloungebookgroup.wordpress.com/2008/11/23/2008and-so-it-goes/#comment-33 D.B. Mon, 24 Nov 2008 09:42:10 +0000 http://blueloungebookgroup.wordpress.com/?p=72#comment-33 Make everyone read Isaac Deutcher's 3-volume biography of Trotsky. Go on. Pleeeeeeeeeeeeeeeease Make everyone read Isaac Deutcher’s 3-volume biography of Trotsky. Go on. Pleeeeeeeeeeeeeeeease

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