http://www.moonrover.com/picky/ 2006-06-27T14:18:41-05:00 http://www.moonrover.com/picky/archives/2006/06/subway_reading_97.html When it comes to comic art, I'm always on the lookout for something to add to my own bag of tricks. Not in a swipe-y way, I don't think, but in a "suck it up like a Hoover" kind of... jdonelson_nyc 2006-06-27T14:18:41-05:00 http://www.moonrover.com/picky/archives/2006/05/my_funny_valens_1.html Dear Pickytarian readers, this is Mrs. Pickytarian writing... I hope you won't mind too much that I have snuck on to the Pickytarian blog to post my own quick entry this week. I just felt a jones. Some might... jdonelson_nyc 2006-05-05T12:05:00-05:00 http://www.moonrover.com/picky/archives/2006/05/shameless_plugs.html That's right, the Pickytarian is back and so are his shameless plugs! I'll make this quick and painless. First and foremost, later today there will be a special guest blogger here on the site, with a review of a recent... jdonelson_nyc 2006-05-05T08:31:25-05:00 http://www.moonrover.com/picky/archives/2006/05/subway_reading_96.html Copyright 2006 Emmanuel Guibert and Joann Sfar. English translation copyright by First Second. Sardine in Outer Space is part of the initial wave of releases from the high-profile graphic novel imprint First Second. It's a kid's graphic novel, written... jdonelson_nyc 2006-05-02T19:25:22-05:00 http://www.moonrover.com/picky/archives/2006/04/whither_the_pic.html Whither indeed? It's been just over two months since I posted. In fact my last post (on February 7) begins with an apology for the lack of recent updates. Yikes! So what happened? Well, there are a handful of... jdonelson_nyc 2006-04-26T10:53:48-05:00 http://www.moonrover.com/picky/archives/2006/02/to_buy_or_not_t_26.html Howdy, true believers. Sorry about the spare posting lately. I could give you all sorts of excuses but then I'd be one of those people who blogs about why they aren't blogging, and who needs more of that? Of course... jdonelson_nyc 2006-02-07T13:59:16-05:00 http://www.moonrover.com/picky/archives/2006/01/subway_reading_95.html JLA Classified #16 - Legendary penciller Jose Luis Garcia-Lopez returns to the Justice League in this issue and the results, inked by Klaus Janson, are nothing short of spectacular. The page layouts are some of the most dynamic and... jdonelson_nyc 2006-01-31T10:32:38-05:00 http://www.moonrover.com/picky/archives/2006/01/let_me_break_it.html Always Remember... (To the 90% of you who have no idea what this is about, I'm sorry. To those of you that do... I'm still sorry.)... jdonelson_nyc 2006-01-27T15:46:39-05:00 http://www.moonrover.com/picky/archives/2006/01/internal_life.html Saturday I attended the Seth and Jaime Hernandez interview at Pratt's Manhattan Gallery. [You can see an extremely crummy photo below, taken with my cell phone camera.] The two cartoonists spoke at length about their work, discussing their approaches... jdonelson_nyc 2006-01-24T13:23:05-05:00 http://www.moonrover.com/picky/archives/2006/01/i_got_nothing.html Last week I had not one but TWO sightings of fellow subway comic readers. One evening I spotted a guy reading V For Vendetta. I was especially proud of my powers of observation because I was able to correctly identify... jdonelson_nyc 2006-01-19T15:44:34-05:00 http://www.moonrover.com/picky/archives/2006/01/crazy_in_the_he.html With the success of recent comic strip reprint packages like Calvin & Hobbes, Peanuts, and Dennis The Menace, etc, one has to imagine that similar collections will be forthcoming. I would like to submit my requests for Ernie Bushmiller's Nancy... jdonelson_nyc 2006-01-18T09:42:14-05:00 http://www.moonrover.com/picky/archives/2006/01/to_buy_or_not_t_25.html I had some unconscious time this morning, which was fun. I went to the doctor, who wanted to give me an injection. With a needle. A big scary needle (OK, not actually that big, probably regular size) that I made... jdonelson_nyc 2006-01-10T13:52:12-05:00 http://www.moonrover.com/picky/archives/2006/01/im_like_a_snipe.html Mike Watson, artist of the very funny and all-too-rarely-produced Gabagool!, is posting big chunks of Freddie and Me, his graphic novel about his adolescence as a Queen fan, for free on the internets. Dawson's art is developing beautifully; the... jdonelson_nyc 2006-01-06T16:14:08-05:00 http://www.moonrover.com/picky/archives/2006/01/cash_rules_ever.html Nothing like talking about a book I haven't read. Yesterday it was All-Star Batman and Robin, and today it's going to be Chris Ware's Acme Novelty Library #16. Eric Larsen made some semi-indecipherable comments about the book in his CBR... jdonelson_nyc 2006-01-05T11:41:17-05:00 http://www.moonrover.com/picky/archives/2006/01/back_on_the_sce.html Happy new year and welcome back, loyal Pickytarians! I'm back in New York, where I understand there was some sort of subway-related problem? Man, that must have been tough on everybody. Me, I was chilling next to the pool, reading... jdonelson_nyc 2006-01-04T12:41:47-05:00