This is the thread where we talk about regular wordy-books that are ABOUT comics

I will write something about Give My Regards To The Atomsmashers when I have had my post-holiday sleep.

I read the B. Meltzer essay in this yesterday, how cringingly embarrassing.

I thought there was a thread on this inspired by Junot Diaz (and Lethem's Fortress of Solitude to a lesser extent), but can't find it, but wanted to mention Lee Henderson's The Road Narrows As You Go, which sits still unread on my pile, but will probably get read before the end of the year. It's about a comic strip artist in San Francisco in the 80s. Was reviewed in the Globe & Mail by a sometimes ILCer. Globe and Mail site is down at the moment, but a relevant tweet by Sean: https://twitter.com/goodmanbeaver/status/515586670247555072

(found it)

Sean Rogers's review of The Road Narrows As You Go
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/arts/books-and-media/the-road-narrows-as-you-go-a-rambunctious-new-novel-that-follows-the-life-of-a-cartoonist-in-the-1980s/article20805395/

Wait, Sean is an ILC-er??? I know Sean!

he was circa 2006 at least

that's funny. i haven't seen him in about five years tho'

wondering if anyone read the new book about Marvel in the 1970s or as Esquire put it Marvel on LSD, sounded like could be fun - attaching cpl links

https://www.esquire.com/entertainment/books/a43918564/70s-marvel-comics-lsd/

https://www.hoganmag.com/blog/2023/5/12/when-the-house-of-ideas-really-was-talking-with-author-eliot-borenstein

might be nice to keep this thread going as originally planned as repository for recommendations or discussion

waving my trotters in delight at how every successive chapter of According To Jack Kirby confirms my sour teenage 90s impressions

That Stan Lee was full of shit?

no spoilers!