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Reading list, October to December 2009 [Dec. 31st, 2009|08:23 pm]
The Condition of Muzak by Michael Moorcock [10/04]
The 80s: A Look Back at the Tumultuous Decade, 1980-1989 ed. by Tony Hendra, Christopher Cerf, and Peter Elbling [10/05]
Improv Comedy by Andy Goldberg [10/10]
The Penguins Book of Gaslight Crime ed. by Michael Sims [10/12]
From the Atelier Tovar: Selected Writings by Guy Maddin [10/16]
Plays by George Bernard Shaw (Mrs. Warren's Profession [10/18], Arms and the Man [10/20], Candida [10/22], Man and Superman [11/02])
Dumbheart: A Get Fuzzy Collection by Darby Conley [10/31]
The Naked Civil Servant by Quentin Crisp [11/04]
National Lampoon's That's Sick! [11/07]
Children at Play: A Cul de Sac Collection by Richmond Thompson [11/12]
Nightlight: A Parody by the Harvard Lampoon [11/14]
Last Words by George Carlin with Tony Hendra [11/16]
Visionary in Residence: Stories by Bruce Sterling [11/22]
Digesting the Child Within and Other Cartoons to Live By by John Callahan [11/23]
Tomorrow Stories, Book 2 by Alan Moore, et al [12/03]
In Persuasion Nation by George Saunders [12/11]
Are you Loathsome Tonight? by Poppy Z. Brite [12/12]
Everybody's Favorite Duck by Gahan Wilson [12/19]
The Complete D.R. & Quinch by Alan Moore and Alan Davis [12/19]
Voluptuous Panic: The Erotic World of Weimar Berlin by Mel Gordon [12/20]
SkyMaul: Happy Crap You Can Buy from a Plane by the Kasper Hauser Comedy Group [12/21]
Bone, Volume 1: Out from Boneville by Jeff Smith [12/28]
Death: The High Cost of Living by Neil Gaiman, et al [12/29]
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Reading list, August-September 2009 [Nov. 1st, 2009|05:39 pm]
Gloriana by Michael Moorcock [08/03]
No Applause, Just Throw Money: The Book that Made Vaudeville Famous by Trav S.D. [08/09]
Amphigorey by Edward Gorey [08/10]
The Collected Drawings of Aubrey Beardsley ed. by Bruce S. Harris [08/11]
A Comick Book of Sports by Arnold Roth [08/13]
Wired: The Short Life and Fast Times of John Belushi by Bob Woodward [08/21]
Psycho Beach Party by Charles Busch [08/24]
Belushi by Judith Belushi Pisano and Tanner Colby [08/27]
Neighbors by Thomas Berger [09/02]
Boys' Life by Howard Korder [09/03]
Sex, Drugs, Rock & Roll by Eric Bogosian [09/07]
Buddy Holly is Alive and Well on Ganymede by Bradley Denton [09/08]
Talk Radio by Eric Bogosian [09/09]
The Bright Spot by Dennis Danvers (as Robert Sydney) [09/10]
Marvel 1602 by Neil Gaiman, et al [09/11]
A Cure for Cancer by Michael Moorcock [09/14]
Extraordinary Engines ed. by Nick Gevers [09/19]
The English Assassin by Michael Moorcock [09/21]
Spy: The Funny Years by Kurt Anderson, Graydon Carter, and George Kalogerakis [09/24]
Halting State by Charles Stross [09/28]
Lost Girls by Alan Moore and Melinda Gebbie [09/29]
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What I've read, July through August 2009 [Sep. 19th, 2009|10:04 pm]
And Here's the Kicker: Conversations with 21 Top Humor Writers on Their Craft by Mike Sacks [07/03]
The Big Book of Porn by Seth Grahame-Smith [07/04]
The New Rules of Lifting: Six Basic Moves for Maximum Muscle by Lou Schuler and Alwyn Cosgrove [07/05]
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas by Hunter S. Thompson [07/07]
The Will to Whatevs by Eugene Mirman [07/10]
The Invisibles Vol. 4: Bloody Hell in America by Grant Morrison, et al [07/12]
Tom Strong's Terrific Tales: Book Two by Alan Moore, Steve Moore, et al [07/13]
Little Murders by Jules Feiffer [07/18]
Cat by B. Kliban [07/18]
Never Eat Anything Bigger than Your Head & Other Drawings by B. Kliban [07/19]
The Art of Mara McAfee [07/20]
Dark Delicacies II: Fear ed. by Del Howison and Jeff Gelb [07/21]
Erotic Comics 2: A Graphic History from the Liberated '70s to the Internet by Tim Pilcher with Gene Kannenberg, Jr. [07/25]
Deep Thoughts by Jack Handey [07/26]
Movies Movies Movies ed. by S. Gross [07/30]
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What I've Read in 2009 (April through June) [Jul. 3rd, 2009|09:32 pm]
The World of Charles Addams [04/05]
Hellboy: Odder Jobs ed. by Christopher Golden [04/07]
Consider Phlebas by Iain M. Banks [04/27]
Top 10, Book 1 by Alan Moore, Gene Ha, and Zander Cannon [04/29]
Top 10, Book 2 by Alan Moore, Gene Ha, and Zander Cannon [04/30]
Top 10: The Forty-Niners by Alan Moore and Gene Ha [05/01]
Get Thee to a Punnery by Richard Lederer [05/03]
The Return of the Bunny Suicides by Andy Riley [05/12]
Moebius 2: Arzach by Jean "Moebius" Girard [05/17]
The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, Century: 1910 by Alan Moore and Kevin O'Neill [05/20]
Tales of Neveryon by Samuel R. Delany [05/21]
The National Lampoon's Encyclopedia of Humor ed. by Michael O'Donoghue [05/31]
Murder of Angels by CaitlĂ­n R. Kiernan [06/01]
The Elements of Style (The Original 1918 Text) by William Strunk [06/02]
Mome, Vol. 1 (Summer 2005) ed. by Gary Groth [06/06]
National Lampoon Sunday Newspaper Parody ed. by P.J. O'Rourke and John Hughes [06/06]
Playboy: 50 Years - The Cartoons [06/07]
The Spiders of Allah by James Hider [06/15]
Danse Macabre by Stephen King [06/19]
20 Jazz Funk Greats (33 1/3) by Drew Daniel [06/21]
Against Nature (A Rebours) by Joris-Karl Huysmans [06/27]
The R. Crumb Handbook by Robert Crumb and Peter Poplaski [06/30]
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Snipped from LibraryThing... [Apr. 1st, 2009|05:11 pm]
What I've Read in 2009 (January through March):
Anansi Boys by Neil Gaiman [01/04]
Night Shift by Stephen King [01/10]
Across the Universe: The DC Universe Stories of Alan Moore by Alan Moore, et al [01/11]
The Book of Bunny Suicides by Andy Riley [01/12]
David Boring by Daniel Clowes [01/16]
Waking Up in the Studebaker by Kevin L. Gray [01/17]
Mister B. Gone by Clive Barker [01/19]
America's Best Comics by Alan Moore, et al [01/20]
Tomorrow Stories, Book 1 by Alan Moore, et al [01/24]
Lesbian and Gay Richmond by Beth Marschak and Alex Lorch [01/25]
Batman: Year One by Frank Miller, David Mazucchelli, and Richmond Lewis [01/27]
Smax by Alan Moore, Zander Cannon, and Andrew Currie [01/29]
Neil Gaiman's Coraline by P. Craig Russell [01/29]
Orbiter by Warren Ellis and Collen Doran [01/30]
Let the Right One In by John Ajvide Lindqvist [01/31]
Batman: The Dark Knight Strikes Again by Frank Miller and Lynn Varley [02/04]
The Books of Magic by Neil Gaiman, et al [02/06]
Transmetropolitan, Vol. 0: Tales of Human Waste by Warren Ellis, Darrick Robertson, Rodney Ramos, et al [02/07]
The Living and the Dead by Jason [02/07]
Top 10: Beyond the Farthest Precinct by Paul Di Filippo and Jerry Ordway [02/09]
Portnoy's Complaint by Philip Roth [02/11]
Doom Patrol: Musclebound by Grant Morrison, et al [02/16]
Locke & Key, Vol. 1: Welcome to Lovecraft by Joe Hill and Gabriel Rodriguez [02/18]
The Rising by Brian Keene [02/23]
Comics & Sequential Art by Will Eisner [02/25]
Joker by Brian Azzarello and Lee Bermejo [02/26]
City Come A Walkin' by John Shirley [03/01]
Batman: The Long Halloween by Jeph Loeb and Tim Sale [03/02]
Watchmen by Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons [03/04, re-read]
Shortcomings by Adrian Tomine [03/05]
Sex Collectors: The Secret World of Consumers, Connoisseurs, Curators, Creators, Dealers, Bibliographers, and Accumulators of "Erotica" by Geoff Nicholson [03/09]
The Argyle Sweater: A Cartoon Collection by Scott Hilburn [03/11]
La Perdida by Jessica Abel [03/13]
Breakdowns: Portrait of the Artist as a Young %@&*! by Art Spiegelman [03/15]
The Demolished Man by Alfred Bester [03/20]
The Saturday Evening Pearls: A Pearls Before Swine Collection by Stephan Pastis [03/23]
The Player of Games by Iain M. Banks [03/29]
Ignorance, Thy Name is Bucky: A Get Fuzzy Collection by Darby Conley [03/31]
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Reading list dump 2008 (second half) [Dec. 29th, 2008|10:15 pm]
What I Read in 2008 (July to December):
The Complete Peanuts: 1953-1954 by Charles M. Schulz [07/06]
The Yiddish Policemen's Union by Michael Chabon [07/06]
Comedy at the Edge by Richard Zoglin [07/13]
The Far Side Gallery 5 by Gary Larson [07/15]
Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking by Malcolm Gladwell [07/20]
Nerve: Literate Smut ed. by Genevieve Field and Rufus Griscom [07/24]
The Howling Man by Charles Beaumont [08/11]
Little Girl Lost by Richard Aleas [08/15]
The Warlord of the Air by Michael Moorcock [08/18]
Frazz 3.1416... by Jef Mallett [08/25]
Silent But Deadly: Another Lio Collection by Mark Tatulli [08/25]
Steampunk ed. by Ann and Jeff Vandermeer [08/28]
Seeds of Fear (Hot Blood series) ed. by Jeff Gelb and Michael Garrett [09/01]
Supersized: A Zits Treasury by Jerry Scott and Jim Borgman [09/04]
Snuff by Chuck Palahniuk [09/21]
Macho Macho Animals: A Pearls Before Swine Collection by Stephan Pastis [09/25]
National Lampoon Songbook ed. by Sean Kelly [09/28]
It by Stephen King [10/05]
The Punch: One Night, Two Lives, and the Fight That Changed Basketball Forever John Feinstein [10/18]
Out by Natsuo Kirino [11/02]
Da Crockydile Book o' Frendsheep: A Pearls Before Swine Gift Book by Stephan Pastis [11/02]
National Lampoon Presents French Comics (The Kind Men Like) ed. by Peter Kaminsky [11/02]
Cat's Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut [11/06]
Transmetropolitan, Vol. 1: Back on the Street by Warren Ellis and Darick Robertson [11/08]
Transmetropolitan, Vol. 2: Lust for Life by Warren Ellis and Darick Robertson [11/09]
Transmetropolitan, Vol. 3: Year of the Bastard by Warren Ellis and Darick Robertson [11/09]
Transmetropolitan, Vol. 4: The New Scum by Warren Ellis and Darick Robertson [11/09]
League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, Vol. II by Alan Moore and Kevin O'Neill [11/16]
Transmetropolitan, Vol. 5: Lonely City by Warren Ellis and Darick Robertson [11/20]
Transmetropolitan, Vol. 6: Gouge Away by Warren Ellis and Darick Robertson [11/22]
Transmetropolitan, Vol. 7: Spider's Thrash by Warren Ellis and Darick Robertson [11/23]
Cul de Sac by Richard Thompson [11/27]
Horror: 100 Best Books ed. by Stephen Jones and Kim Newman [11/27]
Vertigo: First Cut [11/29]
The Mystic Arts of Erasing All Signs of Death by Charlie Huston [12/02]
Cold Comfort Farm by Stella Gibbons [12/05]
Zodiac by Neal Stephenson [12/11]
Fantomas by Marcel Allain and Pierre Souvestre [12/18]
Transmetropolitan, Vol. 8: Dirge by Warren Ellis and Darick Robertson [12/20]
Transmetropolitan, Vol. 9: The Cure by Warren Ellis and Darick Robertson [12/21]
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle [12/26]
Transmetropolitan, Vol. 10: One More Time by Warren Ellis and Darick Robertson [12/27]
The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman [12/29]
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Read in 2008, through June [Jul. 20th, 2008|11:26 am]
I'm dumping this here to de-clutter my LibraryThing profile:

The Best American Erotica 1997 ed. by Susie Bright [01/03]
Born Standing Up: A Comic's Life by Steve Martin [01/05]
The Superior Person's Book of Words by Peter Bowler [01/10]
Lio: Happiness is a Squishy Cephalopod by Mark Tattulli [01/11]
20th Century Ghosts by Joe Hill [01/12]
The Sandman, Vol. 7: Brief Lives by Neil Gaiman, et al [01/13]
The Sandman, Vol. 8: Worlds' End by Neil Gaiman, et al [01/14]
Off Season by Jack Ketchum [01/19]
All the Rage: The Boondocks Past and Present by Aaron McGruder [01/20]
Unspeakable Acts by Peter Bond [02/03]
Krazy Kat: The Comic Art of George Herriman by Patrick McDonnell, Karen O'Connell, Georgia Riley De Havenon [02/05]
Tales of Hoffman by E.T.A. Hoffman [02/10]
Money Shot by Christa Faust [02/14]
I Am America (and So Can You!) by Stephen Colbert, et al [02/18]
The Sandman, Vol. 9: The Kindly Ones by Neil Gaiman, et al [02/19]
The Sandman, Vol. 10: The Wake by Neil Gaiman, et al [02/21]
The New! Improved! Bob & Ray Book by Bob Elliot and Ray Goulding [02/26]
The Resurrectionist by Jack O'Connell [02/29]
The PreHistory of The Far Side: A 10th Anniversary Exhibit by Gary Larson [02/29]
The Far Side Gallery by Gary Larson [03/03]
Scientific Progress Goes "Boink": A Calvin and Hobbes Collection by Bill Watterson [03/06]
Smoke and Mirrors: Short Fictions and Illusions by Neil Gaiman [03/07]
Fragile Things: Short Fictions and Wonders by Neil Gaiman [03/16]
A Study in Scarlet by Arthur Conan Doyle [03/17]
The Hellbound Heart by Clive Barker [03/18]
Dark Delicacies ed. by Del Howison and Jeff Gelb [03/25]
The Sign of Four by Arthur Conan Doyle [03/30]
National Lampoon's Truly Tasteless Cartoons [03/30]
Heart-Shaped Box by Joe Hill [04/04]
The Tipping Point by Malcolm Gladwell [04/06]
In Stitches: A Patchwork of Feminist Humor and Satire ed. by Gloria Kaufman [04/13]
Rewired: The Post-Cyberpunk Anthology ed. by James Patrick Kelly and John Kessel [04/18]
Peace Out, Dawg!: Tales from Ground Zero (A Doonesbury Book) by G.B. Trudeau [04/19]
Death: The Time of Your Life by Neil Gaiman, et al [04/20]
Got War? (A Doonesbury Book) by G.B. Trudeau [4/24]
The Plague by Albert Camus [04/27]
Fevre Dream by George R.R. Martin [05/04]
Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom by Cory Doctorow [05/09]
Miami Purity by Vicki Hendricks [05/21]
The Neal Pollack Anthology of American Literature by Neal Pollack [05/24]
Everything's Eventual: 14 Dark Tales by Stephen King [05/29]
Wacky Packages by the Topps Company [05/31]
Best Erotic Comics 2008 ed. by Greta Christina [06/01]
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight [06/02]
Take Our Cat, Please! (A Get Fuzzy Collection) by Darby Conley [06/03]
Is Nothing Sacred? by Gahan Wilson [06/06]
"...And Then We'll Get Him!" by Gahan Wilson [06/06]
Gahan Wilson's America by Gahan Wilson [06/08]
Bluebeard's Egg and Other Stories by Margaret Atwood [06/08]
Spoon River Anthology by Edgar Lee Masters [06/14]
Zombie by Joyce Carol Oates [06/15]
The Revelation by Bentley Little [06/21]
Dr. Firesign's Follies by David Ossman [06/22]
From A to Zippy by Bill Griffith [06/26]
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[info]50bookchallenge [Jun. 9th, 2007|04:15 pm]
I've decided to move my [info]50bookchallenge entries to my Library Thing profile. Makes more sense, don't it?

And, if I may be allowed the indulgence--Happy Birthday to me! I have one more year of your trust, hippies.
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[info]50bookchallenge [Jun. 5th, 2007|10:07 pm]
29-1/2. Impollutable Pogo by Walt Kelly
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[info]50bookchallenge [Jun. 3rd, 2007|11:48 am]
29. 334 by Thomas M. Disch
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[info]50bookchallenge [May. 12th, 2007|04:32 pm]
28. A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving
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[info]50bookchallenge [Apr. 26th, 2007|09:38 pm]
27. The Sandman, Vol. 3: The Dream Country by Neil Gaiman, et al
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[info]50bookchallenge [Apr. 24th, 2007|09:02 pm]
26-1/2. The Solaris Book of New Science Fiction ed. by George Mann
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[info]50bookchallenge [Apr. 14th, 2007|11:56 pm]
25-1/2. The Real Animal House by Chris Miller
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[info]50bookchallenge [Apr. 11th, 2007|04:49 pm]
24-1/2. John and Faith Hubley's A Doonesbury Special by Garry Trudeau
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[info]50bookchallenge [Apr. 7th, 2007|06:43 pm]
24. The Road by Cormac McCarthy
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[info]50bookchallenge [Apr. 5th, 2007|04:38 pm]
23. The Doonesbury Chronicles by Garry Trudeau
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[info]50bookchallenge [Apr. 1st, 2007|02:26 pm]
22. Neuromancer by William Gibson
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[info]50bookchallenge [Mar. 21st, 2007|10:11 pm]
21. The Sandman, Vol. 2: The Doll's House by Neil Gaiman, et al
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[info]50bookchallenge [Mar. 19th, 2007|09:12 pm]
20. The Sandman, Vol. 1: Preludes and Nocturnes by Neil Gaiman, et al
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