Just when I’d gotten into the habit of cranking out one substantive post every week or so, I’ve now pretty much ground to a halt. Why? Because, as some of you might know, the deadline for submissions to the 2009 Eisner Awards was a couple of days ago… which means that Eisner nomination time is looming near and now, with every book in, the pressure is really on for us judges to get up to speed reading-wise. Of late, my studio shelves, which are usually at least semi-organized, have become a massive “in/out” box for reading material from 2008 and any time I get the inclination to do a little writing on something of interest, a little voice in my head starts with, “The SHELF, think of the SHELF!”
The photo above is just a small sampling of the constantly-rotating stock of comics and graphic novels I’ve been making my way through. (A note on the books that are headed for the library or my own personal collection: stuff that’s submitted to the Eisners of course stays with the Eisner folks after reading, but some publishers will also send comps to individual judges–and it’s these that one’s free to do whatever with, once they’ve been read. I’ll be passing what ones I can on to the public library.)
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