Go, Listen: Bloomerland Song

Like the joys to be had in a seasonal viewing of Santa With Muscles, one thing you can count on during the holidays is that there are usually a few books of which little is expected that slip out in November and December that make a strong case for inclusion on comics best-of-year lists. This may be because of a mini-glut that happens in the Fall as books that didn't make it out during convention season join the holiday lists, but I could be totally wrong about that.

This year's late-arriving jaw-droppers are about as different as comics come -- Typocrat's beautiful-looking, wonderfully-paced, and appropriately oversized portrait of fantastic dementia, Six Hundred and Seventy Six Apparitions of Killoffer; and Carol Tyler's unassuming collection of comics that hit like an iron wrapped in a pillowcase, Late Bloomer. Although it's the comics themselves that rip you apart in Tyler's work, the presentation of this latest volume has been really charming -- the review copies came with seeds from Tyler's garden. And now if you go through the picture of the book to the front page and find the appropriate link, you can listen to Tyler's web site's theme song.
 
posted 7:01 am PST | Permalink
 

---

 
Daily Blog Archives
November 2019
October 2019
September 2019
August 2019
July 2019
 
Full Archives