anything new on the graphic novel scene lately?

Apparently someone has written an autobiographical graphic novel about their life.

I hear they're writing comics for grown-ups these days.

Sounds ludicrous to me.

All you need to do is write them, you know. Any old artist will do. I hear most of them will work for free, too!

Apparently there are writers who scratch out their own art themselves now.

I think they should make some comics into films.

also, there are "moving graphic novels" these days, where images are "animated" using futuristic technology (possibly developed by the Soviets) to give the illusion of "life". You can watch them on the Moving Graphic Novel Box on Saturday mornings.

That is just crazy... what do they do with the speech balloons?

Recycled as ploughshares and shipped out to the collective farms.

POW! BIFF! Comics aren't just for kids anymore!

Have you guys read the one about the insecure teenager who grows up and gets laid but has to abandon some youthful illusions?

Graphic novels! So simple, even a caveman can do it!

.... you are all bastards.

...but thanks to this thread I love you...

In the distant future graphic novels will be as enjoyable as superhero comics to strictly comic book fans.

It would be genuinely great if in the future you started getting magazine articles with titles like "Graphic Novels - they are not all just family memoirs!"

"hush! hmm! err!"

anything new

I just got into AGE OF BRONZE

thanks, nyt review of books

I am reading the 80s Question reprints. They're a great counterpoint to O'Neill's 70s GL/GA stuff in terms of how, um, tactfully he'd learned to write socially relevant superhero FITE.

Age of Bronze is pretty dope.
I have a 310 dollar amazong order, should i hit buy, circle one Y or N:

Education of Hopey Glass
Terry and Pirates v. 3
Dick Tracy v. 4
Orphan Annie v. 1
Cat Eyed Boy v. 1 + 2
Dororo v. 2
Y The Last Man v. 10
Jason's Pocket Full of Rain
Tezuka's Phoenix v. 2 through 12

340 if I throw in the 63-66 Peanuts box set; I really need to get some new bookshelves before i do this.

And the answer is I don't drink or smoke weed; this is where the money goes.

The correct answer is "start drinking and/or smoking weed".

(joeks)

But tru!

...but have you ever read Love and Rockets, on weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeed?

actually, no. I don't think I've ever read comix whilst altered.

L&R doesn't really benefit from it. But stuff with wacky art or concepts (Morrison/Quitely to thread!) can be even funner.

Just read "Education of Hopey Glass" overandover, Forks. Save money, have more fun...

Already have! This is just an ownership thang.

You can probably get a chunk of that stuff from the NYPL, forks.

and use the money you save to have a nice dinner out, or go on a binge at the new(ish) Picturebox shop in Gowanus.

Wait wait wait - 12 volumes of Phoenix are out!? When did this happen? Last I checked they only had maybe 4 volumes, and it was totally out of order and crap and I thought they gave up on it or something.

http://www.amazon.com/s?ie=UTF8&tag=mozilla-20&index=blended&link_code=qs&field-keywords=tezuka%20phoenix&sourceid=Mozilla-search

Volume 1 is out of print, the rest is all in and accessible.