i've been reading foucault's "history of sexuality vol.1" and "discipline and punish" for school...and quite frankly, even after revisiting it, they both hold up like whoa. foucault is THE BOOM-BOOM.
i've also been reading lots of comics:
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just finished reading this collection of comics by joe sacco. i'm kind of in love with joe sacco. reading "palestine" and his series on bosnia and serbia pretty much changed my life. he also has this comic in "notes from a defeatist" about working in a library, which is the truest depiction of library page drudgery that i've ever seen, and a perspicacious comment on the client base. this particular book is a collection of pieces loosely based around rock and roll. so it includes a previously published collection documenting a time when he sold t-shirts for his friend's band on their european tour, an homage to the rolling stones, an homage to the blues, various grunge and alt-rock posters and ephemera.
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i read yoshihiro tatsumi's "abandon the old in tokyo" yesterday. it's a collection of short comics collected together and edited by adrian tomine for drawn and quarterly. tatsumi created the manga sub-genre gekiga, which is a darker more realistic style of cartooning. and boy, oh boy, were they dark. one of the stories culiminated in an old, unemployed man, the former president of a company who'd written a bad cheque and consequently went bankrupt and lost his business, finding sexual fulfillment with a dog. i understand the point, but it was still pretty uncomfortable subway reading (i'm always paranoid that people are reading over my shoulder).
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i also finished reading richard sala's "peculia", a collection of comics featuring the title plucky heroine, meandering her way through sala's particularly macabre world, populated by creeping monsters, masked villians, and other things with questionable intents. the characters are all very unique and quirky (peculia starts every day with a bowl of cereal, fetched by her faithful and extremely capable butler, ambrose) and i adore the drawing style, which has been compared to edward gorey. it's a slightly simplified and more stark edward gorey, with a blockier composition.
i've also been reading lots of comics:
just finished reading this collection of comics by joe sacco. i'm kind of in love with joe sacco. reading "palestine" and his series on bosnia and serbia pretty much changed my life. he also has this comic in "notes from a defeatist" about working in a library, which is the truest depiction of library page drudgery that i've ever seen, and a perspicacious comment on the client base. this particular book is a collection of pieces loosely based around rock and roll. so it includes a previously published collection documenting a time when he sold t-shirts for his friend's band on their european tour, an homage to the rolling stones, an homage to the blues, various grunge and alt-rock posters and ephemera.
i read yoshihiro tatsumi's "abandon the old in tokyo" yesterday. it's a collection of short comics collected together and edited by adrian tomine for drawn and quarterly. tatsumi created the manga sub-genre gekiga, which is a darker more realistic style of cartooning. and boy, oh boy, were they dark. one of the stories culiminated in an old, unemployed man, the former president of a company who'd written a bad cheque and consequently went bankrupt and lost his business, finding sexual fulfillment with a dog. i understand the point, but it was still pretty uncomfortable subway reading (i'm always paranoid that people are reading over my shoulder).
i also finished reading richard sala's "peculia", a collection of comics featuring the title plucky heroine, meandering her way through sala's particularly macabre world, populated by creeping monsters, masked villians, and other things with questionable intents. the characters are all very unique and quirky (peculia starts every day with a bowl of cereal, fetched by her faithful and extremely capable butler, ambrose) and i adore the drawing style, which has been compared to edward gorey. it's a slightly simplified and more stark edward gorey, with a blockier composition.