Get our your Sharpies and your calendars and prepare yourselves to draw circles. Because February 15th has just been officially declared National Comics Comics Day!
You will see what that means very soon. In the meantime, it is not too early to be excited.
His homicidal Santa Claus story from Vault of Horror (which I recommended for Holiday reading last year) has just been posted in three parts on Golden Age Comic Book Stories. It’s just as good a year later.
Here’s a few Halloween reading suggestions.
2. Greg Irons and Tom Veitch‘s “Legion of Charlies”
3. Jack Kirby’s The Demon
4. Hideshi Hino’s Hell Baby
5. Richard Sala‘s The Chuckling Whatsit
Bonus: Kelly Link recommends Lynda Barry‘s Cruddy for the holiday, a book I’m embarrassed to say I’ve never read, even though my wife recommended it to me years ago when we first started dating. I might give it a try tonight. Why am I more willing to take advice from a stranger on the Internet than from someone whose tastes I know and trust? That is a recurring thing with me, and it is seriously messed up.
Not recommended: The Nightmare Factory, a new collection of comics based on the work of horror writer Thomas Ligotti. Most of the art here is seriously ugly (and not in a good way). This recent interview with Ligotti is somewhat alarming Halloween reading, though. I think he needs to watch some Laurel & Hardy movies or something.
I’m going to Minnesota for the holidays, so there won’t be any posting from me for a week or so. Dan may pop in now and again, but just in case events intrude, please accept these Christmas reading recommendations to hold you over ’til Yuletide’s done.
Merry Christmas!
Again, “not comics”. But hey — it’s in the spirit of the holiday to cut corners a little. Let old Bill Lee explain.
(via Beware of the Blog)
