Whoo, Tired Today
Late night with a dude in crisis in EMT-land. Couple quick items before I try to make up for being six hours short on sleep.
- Tillie Walden is a particular favorite here at Fleen. We’ve talked about her modern books (Spinning, On A Sunbeam, Are You Listening?) at some length, and have made oblique references to her earlier work, published by Avery Hill as the result of a cold-call email and a decision on Walden’s part that it probably wasn’t a scam. She some Ignatzen for them, but they’ve been difficult to track down since the print runs were small and overseas¹.
So let’s all be glad that Avery Hill have compiled those earlier, hard-to-find works into a single omnibus edition called Alone In Space. The bookplate editions are sold out, but the hardcover is still available and will cost you less than individually tracking down The End Of Summer, I Love This Part, and A City Inside, as well as adding various short pieces from print and the web. Tillie Walden is a staggeringly skilled cartoonist and this should be on your shelf.
- Lots of other stuff should be on your shelf, and now it a terrific time to make that happen. Via the twitterfeed of George:
Graphic Novels went from 9.3% of adult fiction to 20%. Making it the 2nd largest category. Like dang.
He goes on to note that it’s all lumped together, regardless of genre and a lot of it is manga, but it’s still comics, it’s still fiction, and it’s only going to grow. We live in good times for comics.
Spam of the day:
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Nope. Deleting that one unread. Don’t wanna know.
Pervs.
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¹ I’d never seen a copy of any of the three until I met Walden at Comics Camp 2019 and she had two of them at her Mini-Con table.
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