Give Up Ghost (2/4)
It’s the end of 2020. It’s finally giving up the ghost. In celebration, I figured I’d do an end of year special for the newsletter.
I set out to read 100 books this year, and am 84 deep atm – 🤞I make it lol
Here are books 26 – 50 (April -June)
26. Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic / Alison Bechdel
Dad never leaves hometown, tragedy slowly unravels
#doesitpassthebechdeltest #dad #hecticfamilydrama
27. Ninth House / Leigh Bardugo
This isn’t an astrology book, my bad
#occultoncampus #yalemfa #passthesalt
28. Inappropriate / Gabrielle Bell
It’s funny because it’s true
#1-800-CATS #RealRedRidingHood #SpiderSnackAttack
29. Coyote Doggirl / Lisa Hanawalt
Not sure how to read the whole dog-wolf binary here
#somegutpunches #prettyponies #nicesunsets
Some strong stuff in this collection
#nodisneyhere #airconditioning #hecticfamilydrama
31. Are You My Mother? A Comic Drama / Alison Bechdel
Call your mom, she’d love to hear from you
#doesitpassthebechdeltest #mom #hecticfamilydrama
33. The Art of the Graphic Memoir / Tom Hart
Examples of comic memoirs
#writingcomics #memoirwriting #overview
34. A Shining Beacon / James Albon
Jagged little police state
#London #artprizedystopia #policestate
35. Blackbird Days / Manuele Fior
Cartoonist draws buffet of vignettes
#collection #randomrange #gorgeous
36. Beautiful Darkness / Fabien Vehlmann
Gangs of New York but with tiny people, and tiny knives
#gardenvariety #housingcrisis #lushhh
Lil’ Nemo historical murder mystery
#redrum #theupsidedown #maninthemirror
40. Cannabis: The Illegalization of Weed in America / Box Brown
We can’t have nice things because white supremacists ruin everything
#USHistory #WarOnIntegration #EloquentEssay
41. Swimming in Darkness / Lucas Harari
Magic mountain water portals
#swissbliss #architecture #mysteryholes
42. My Friend Dahmer / Derf Backderf
High school is rough, but shit
#yearbook #hindsight #thatonefriend
44. Krazy Kat and the Art of George Herriman / Craig Yoe
Formative American cartoonist passing as white, non-binary character in love with hater
#blackcat #whitemouse #brickthrowing
46. Let My People Go Surfing / Yvonne Chouinard
Wish all CEOs planned 7 generations ahead
#environmentaldestruction #clothingwaste #latestagecapitalism
48. Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World / Jack Weatherford
Started on the steppes, now we here
#beforeamazon #hecticfamilydrama #partialglobaldomination
49. One Hundred Years of Solitude / Gabriel GarcÃa Márquez
Behavioral inheritance rhythms
#byanyothername #morphicresonance #hecticfamilydrama
Writing is all about image to brain transfer
#keepthepenmoving #writeanimage #sharinghallucinations
Until next Saturday… Byeee