Ramblings and webcomics from LeEMS
The Sketchbook Project 2013 is the most fabulous thing I have read about all year, maybe longer. A library in Brooklyn has a collection of artists sketchbooks. You can buy one of their specially made sketchbooks, fill it up, and they will keep it and tend it in true library tradition. It may even go on a gallery trip across the country. I finally have a terrible and driving reason to go to New York. I must see the sketchbooks. An article in the New York Times talks a little more about it.
Back in my first Indie Comics Etsy haul I also ordered Oleander & Mint. I had gone out in search of this after meeting the writer through my husband, and it deserves a post separate from the haul.
It reminds me of Faulkner, or more specifically of As I lay Dying. It is filled with beautiful desolate characters and an almost stream of consciousness narrative, and contrasted with lovely, graphic, and stylized illustrations. I very heartily recommend it.
The web site is fabulous as well. It will tempt you into spending oodles of time there. Buy the book at the Oleander & Mint Etsy Shop.
Ok, so you know how I mentioned that Hanna is Not a Boys Name was awesome and then disappeared and then I found it for sale. Well, did you get the message? HINABN volume 1 is for sale! Go buy it you dummies! Go make it the first link that shows up in that darn google search! Go: 4th Dimension Entertainment :: Product Details.
10/19/2012 – link correction
4/7/2014 – another link correction: http://shop.4de.com/franchises/hanna-is-not-a-boys-name
Le Tour Du Monde de Mouk by Marc Boutavant has been on my wish list forever! I am dying from cuteness. This is fantastic.