― Casuistry (Chris P), Wednesday, 7 September 2005 15:51 (eighteen years ago) link
The Dreamer reads like fucking Molesworth* wrote it! "and then JACQUES KIRBEE came to work for me he is pretty good but much shorter than me he thinks he's so tough but look at my muscles *hem hem* the comics in WALLY RENSIE's head are better than what all these other legends what I employ draw o I AM GRATE chiz chiz"
*ie not Willans
― kit brash (kit brash), Thursday, 8 September 2005 04:43 (eighteen years ago) link
Goon: Heaps of RuinationFinder: TalismanHellboy: Weird Tales 2100 Bullets: Six Feet Under the GunScott Pilgrim Vols. 1 & 2Mary Jane: Circle of Friends
― Leeeeeeeee (Leee), Saturday, 17 September 2005 23:02 (eighteen years ago) link
― mullygrubbr (bulbs), Sunday, 18 September 2005 05:20 (eighteen years ago) link
Over the weekend I got Birth of a Nation, Rose (the Bone prequel), the Goon vol. 1 & 2, and 100 Bullets vol. 3. Maddie got Cerebus: High Society, Epileptic, and some other stuff.
I'm extremely happy to have finally read BoaN and Goon, and 100 Bullets and Cerebus are perfect examples of "I would read it but don't want to spend twenty bucks to do it".
― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 7 November 2005 17:33 (eighteen years ago) link
― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Monday, 7 November 2005 21:44 (eighteen years ago) link
― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 7 November 2005 22:15 (eighteen years ago) link
Also French nouvelle vague! Alphaville & Le Samourai
And that new autechre. :(
― c(''c) (Leee), Wednesday, 28 December 2005 01:02 (eighteen years ago) link
w00t! I've been watching some public library Godard lately myself. The last public library comic I got out was probably Jimmy Corrigan, but that was a while ago. I wish my PL had Finder.
― Chris F. (servoret), Wednesday, 28 December 2005 09:06 (eighteen years ago) link
i gotjimmy corriganthat frank cho book wosname meadows (ouch! how crap is it?)burn's black holeclowe's ice havenorbiter (ellis)the bone telephone bookand an acme novelty hardcover
yipes!
― mullygrubbr (bulbs), Friday, 24 February 2006 10:56 (eighteen years ago) link
I understand that if you want antropomorphic animals and soft-core cheesecake in the service of non-humour-based jokes, then Liberty Meadows hits the spot, though if so you may wish to consider killing yourself for the good of everyone.
― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Friday, 24 February 2006 13:13 (eighteen years ago) link
― kit brash (kit brash), Friday, 24 February 2006 13:54 (eighteen years ago) link
yet to read orbiter (weren't you singing the collen doran praise to me?)
― mullygrubbr (bulbs), Friday, 24 February 2006 13:57 (eighteen years ago) link
― kit brash (kit brash), Friday, 24 February 2006 21:37 (eighteen years ago) link
I started reading this at uComics.com for the pulchritude, but I'm starting to hate myself for it. The animals aren't funny and the humans all need a punch in the face.
But in the meantime, my library got the copy of Comics Between the Panels that I requested in nine days, so big ups to them.
― pixel farmer (Rock Hardy), Friday, 24 February 2006 23:00 (eighteen years ago) link
― mullygrabber, Thursday, 16 March 2006 00:36 (eighteen years ago) link
― Special Agent Gene Krupa (orion), Thursday, 16 March 2006 03:43 (eighteen years ago) link
in other news, I bought the Flaming Carrot colour photo-comic and it is shit, your suspicions were totally founded.
― kit brash (kit brash), Friday, 17 March 2006 05:22 (eighteen years ago) link
I've been getting some decent stuff from the YA section of my local library as of late-- reread Sandman, the collected Supernatural Law turned out to be entertaining and well done, and I reread Chester Brown's autobiographical comics too. That scene in I Never Liked You where he sits in the row behind the girl who's trying to take him out on a date at the movie theater is great-- so honest about what being an adolescent is actually like in all its idiotic foot-shooting glory.
― Chris Freiberg (Chris F.), Wednesday, 29 March 2006 05:02 (eighteen years ago) link
― mullygrubbr (bulbs), Wednesday, 29 March 2006 06:08 (eighteen years ago) link
Errrr...... is this for real???!?
All Free Library of Philadelphia Customers,We deeply regret to inform you that without the necessary budgetary legislation by the State Legislature in Harrisburg, the City of Philadelphia will not have the funds to operate our neighborhood branch libraries, regional libraries, or the Parkway Central Library after October 2, 2009.
We deeply regret to inform you that without the necessary budgetary legislation by the State Legislature in Harrisburg, the City of Philadelphia will not have the funds to operate our neighborhood branch libraries, regional libraries, or the Parkway Central Library after October 2, 2009.
― Fetchboy, Monday, 14 September 2009 20:14 (fourteen years ago) link
err, didn't notice this was on ILC, will try an ILE thread
― Fetchboy, Monday, 14 September 2009 20:18 (fourteen years ago) link
Yeah, I think it's for real; been making the rounds today.
― EVERYBODY WANNA BOOOOO ME BUT I’M A FAN OF REAL POP CULTURE! (forksclovetofu), Monday, 14 September 2009 21:31 (fourteen years ago) link
i will probably never write the your content filtering policy is technologically flawed & socially irresponsible irate-patron-letter i occasionally get the impulse to write. it would be super depressing to find out that it isn't just that they're confined by the technology, but that they're okay with cutting off access to valuable resources because they have swears.
so much stuff coming up under 'occult'.
― inimitable bowel syndrome (schlump), Thursday, 18 November 2010 13:31 (thirteen years ago) link
if it's filtered it's occult by definition
― progressive cuts (Tracer Hand), Thursday, 18 November 2010 13:33 (thirteen years ago) link
Queens Central and Mid-Manhattan libraries: I kiss you both for all the great comics you've lent me.
Currently reading Macedonia by Pekar, Roberson and Piskor.
― RR, Friday, 19 November 2010 08:32 (thirteen years ago) link
Not comics related, but the publisher Penguin is planning on making its tiles available as e-books:
http://www.nypl.org/press/press-release/2012/06/21/penguin-group-usa-launches-library-lending-pilot-program?utm_source=eNewsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_content=NYPLNews201207&utm_campaign=NYPLNews
― calstars, Thursday, 5 July 2012 20:45 (eleven years ago) link
So I went to the Public Library last night, and they had a decent selection of "graphic novels"! The librarian looked at me like I was a moron when I brought an armload of "graphic novels" to the check-out desk, particularly when I said "They're for my kid."Shame makes me lie.― The Huckle-Buck (Horace Mann), Tuesday, 4 May 2004 14:12 (8 years ago) Permalink
Hahaha. I did the same thing a few weeks ago, finding several dozen hardback trades at the local library that I hadn't read. Walked out with a 7" stack of trades - good one stop catch-up.
― the body of a spider... (scampering alpaca), Friday, 6 July 2012 17:43 (eleven years ago) link
i like this place. mine has giant windows that look out over an old cemetery.
― très hip (Treeship), Sunday, 23 March 2014 20:32 (ten years ago) link
http://yearlongphotos.files.wordpress.com/2012/11/october-17-2012-boise-library.jpg?w=600
― fit and working again, Sunday, 23 March 2014 22:25 (ten years ago) link
today they told me i qualify for a free membership even though i'm not a borough resident because i work for the school district.
!!!
― très hip (Treeship), Sunday, 23 March 2014 23:45 (ten years ago) link
The reading room at the ny pubic library is closed.
― calstars, Friday, 17 October 2014 22:42 (nine years ago) link
My old library in Round Rock had "The Death Ray" and "Locas Vol 2," making me very, very happy indeed.
― RAP GAME SHANI DAVIS (Raymond Cummings), Tuesday, 21 October 2014 01:09 (nine years ago) link
QBPL has changed their logo, color scheme and website.
― Theorbo Goes Wild (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 6 April 2019 02:14 (five years ago) link
What comics did you get, though?
― blokes you can't rust (sic), Saturday, 6 April 2019 17:22 (five years ago) link
Ha, sorry, realized that later.
― Theorbo Goes Wild (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 6 April 2019 17:36 (five years ago) link
"Well, I'll be glad to help - on one condition. Give me a chance to show you that the library isn't some kind of prison or torture chamber."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=35pSI-HOirM
― Hans Holbein (Chinchilla Volapük), Wednesday, 14 April 2021 04:43 (three years ago) link