Notice anything unusual about the image on the cover of our local monthly rag? I sure didn’t. I gave it a cursory flip-through and then left it on the coffee table. My two year old daughter, though, is apparently far more observant than I; she looked at it and then presented it back to me with an emphatic, “Look, Daddy. It’s TinTin and his little dog Snowy!” Sure enough, in the back right corner of the room is some kind of weird stand-thing, and in it is a book with TinTin and Snowy on the cover.
I have no idea what that particular book is, but you can see just below it a French edition of The Blue Lotus. Sitting on the table front and center is the Essex County collection by Jeff Lemire. According to the picture credit, this some local person’s “comic book reading room.” Now I’m really intrigued. Winston-Salem’s not that big a place and most of the graphic novel-reading types here are known to one another. Anyway, now check out the bookshelf in the back and you can see that it’s stocked with some pretty good GNs. Here’s the ones I think I recognize from the spine:
1) Footnotes in Gaza – Joe Sacco
2) Volumes of Black Jack? – Osamu Tezuka
3) Volumes of the D&Q Yoshihiro Tatsumi collections
4) Black Hole? – Charles Burns
5) Asterios Polyp – David Mazzucchelli
6) Maybe Acme Novelty Library #14 – Chris Ware
7) More TinTin?
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