{"id":2215,"date":"2010-07-31T11:56:43","date_gmt":"2010-07-31T15:56:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/?p=2215"},"modified":"2010-07-31T14:19:03","modified_gmt":"2010-07-31T18:19:03","slug":"local-comic-book-reading-room","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/?p=2215","title":{"rendered":"Local “Comic Book Reading Room”"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Notice anything unusual about the image on the cover of our local monthly rag?\u00a0 I sure didn’t.\u00a0 I gave it a cursory flip-through and then left it on the coffee table.\u00a0 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.\u00a0 It’s TinTin and his little dog Snowy!”\u00a0 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.<\/p>\n

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I have no idea what that particular book is, but you can see just below it a French edition of The Blue Lotus<\/em>.\u00a0 Sitting on the table front and center is the Essex County <\/em>collection by Jeff Lemire. According to the picture credit, this some local person’s “comic book reading room.”\u00a0 Now I’m really intrigued.\u00a0 Winston-Salem’s not that big a place and most of the graphic novel-reading types here are known to one another.\u00a0 Anyway, now check out the bookshelf in the back and you can see that it’s stocked with some pretty good GNs.\u00a0 Here’s the ones I think I recognize from the spine:<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>1) Footnotes in Gaza<\/em> – Joe Sacco<\/p>\n

2) Volumes of Black Jack<\/em>? – Osamu Tezuka<\/p>\n

3) Volumes of the D&Q Yoshihiro Tatsumi collections<\/p>\n

4) Black Hole<\/em>? – Charles Burns<\/p>\n

5) Asterios Polyp<\/em> – David Mazzucchelli<\/p>\n

6) Maybe Acme Novelty Library<\/em> #14 – Chris Ware<\/p>\n

7) More TinTin<\/em>?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Notice anything unusual about the image on the cover of our local monthly rag?\u00a0 I sure didn’t.\u00a0 I gave it a cursory flip-through and then left it on the coffee table.\u00a0 My two year old daughter, though, is apparently far more observant than I; she looked at it and then presented it back to me … <\/p>\n

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