http://www.moonrover.com/picky/ Copyright 2006 Tue, 27 Jun 2006 14:18:41 -0500 http://www.movabletype.org/?v=3.2 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 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... http://www.moonrover.com/picky/archives/2006/06/subway_reading_97.html http://www.moonrover.com/picky/archives/2006/06/subway_reading_97.html Tue, 27 Jun 2006 14:18:41 -0500 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... http://www.moonrover.com/picky/archives/2006/05/my_funny_valens_1.html http://www.moonrover.com/picky/archives/2006/05/my_funny_valens_1.html Fri, 05 May 2006 12:05:00 -0500 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... http://www.moonrover.com/picky/archives/2006/05/shameless_plugs.html http://www.moonrover.com/picky/archives/2006/05/shameless_plugs.html Fri, 05 May 2006 08:31:25 -0500 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... http://www.moonrover.com/picky/archives/2006/05/subway_reading_96.html http://www.moonrover.com/picky/archives/2006/05/subway_reading_96.html Tue, 02 May 2006 19:25:22 -0500 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... http://www.moonrover.com/picky/archives/2006/04/whither_the_pic.html http://www.moonrover.com/picky/archives/2006/04/whither_the_pic.html Wed, 26 Apr 2006 10:53:48 -0500 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... http://www.moonrover.com/picky/archives/2006/02/to_buy_or_not_t_26.html http://www.moonrover.com/picky/archives/2006/02/to_buy_or_not_t_26.html Tue, 07 Feb 2006 13:59:16 -0500 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... http://www.moonrover.com/picky/archives/2006/01/subway_reading_95.html http://www.moonrover.com/picky/archives/2006/01/subway_reading_95.html Tue, 31 Jan 2006 10:32:38 -0500 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.)... http://www.moonrover.com/picky/archives/2006/01/let_me_break_it.html http://www.moonrover.com/picky/archives/2006/01/let_me_break_it.html Fri, 27 Jan 2006 15:46:39 -0500 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... http://www.moonrover.com/picky/archives/2006/01/internal_life.html http://www.moonrover.com/picky/archives/2006/01/internal_life.html Tue, 24 Jan 2006 13:23:05 -0500 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... http://www.moonrover.com/picky/archives/2006/01/i_got_nothing.html http://www.moonrover.com/picky/archives/2006/01/i_got_nothing.html Thu, 19 Jan 2006 15:44:34 -0500 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... http://www.moonrover.com/picky/archives/2006/01/crazy_in_the_he.html http://www.moonrover.com/picky/archives/2006/01/crazy_in_the_he.html Wed, 18 Jan 2006 09:42:14 -0500 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... http://www.moonrover.com/picky/archives/2006/01/to_buy_or_not_t_25.html http://www.moonrover.com/picky/archives/2006/01/to_buy_or_not_t_25.html Tue, 10 Jan 2006 13:52:12 -0500 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... http://www.moonrover.com/picky/archives/2006/01/im_like_a_snipe.html http://www.moonrover.com/picky/archives/2006/01/im_like_a_snipe.html Fri, 06 Jan 2006 16:14:08 -0500 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... http://www.moonrover.com/picky/archives/2006/01/cash_rules_ever.html http://www.moonrover.com/picky/archives/2006/01/cash_rules_ever.html Thu, 05 Jan 2006 11:41:17 -0500 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... http://www.moonrover.com/picky/archives/2006/01/back_on_the_sce.html http://www.moonrover.com/picky/archives/2006/01/back_on_the_sce.html Wed, 04 Jan 2006 12:41:47 -0500