Via The Beat, Dan Shaw’s comic Love Eat Brains is a zombie romance comic that “chronicles a photographer torn between his pregnant wife and the memory of a dead, teenage librarian. One night all hell breaks loose. Dash’s art varies as the story weaves in and out of memories, horror and romance. This beautiful, […]

I had a day of human resources type training today, followed by an evening reference shift. Verrrrrrrrrrrrry long day. I left my apartment a little after 8 am and got home a little before 11 pm. The training was designed to teach people how to work in a team environment. I just find it curious […]

Every semester it always takes me a little while to get adjusted to all the public speaking I do once the classes I work with start coming to the library. Today I spoke at a meeting and taught 2 classes in a row this evening, and I am totally drained. I gave out my aim […]

via Trish Wilson, a woman has been dressing up in a catsuit and handing out flowers and cake in Leicestershire.

I finished the banned books display for my library earlier today. A good portion of it is old E.C. comics covers. Why? Because I can!!!!!
Here are some web sites with cover scans:
http://costa.lunarpages.com/ec/
http://www.samuelsdesign.com/comics/ahorror_crime.html
http://www.sci.fi/~karielk/ec_art.htm

So when Neil Gaiman posted about the offer from Dave Sim to send anyone a signed copy of one of the Sandman parody issues of Cerebus, I decided to write and request an issue. I got it today!!! Mothers & Daughters 14, signed by Dave and Gerhard. And it came with a form letter where […]

This is old news, but I hadn’t realized that an ad on georgewbush.com features a very bad modification of an image of Nicholas D. Wolfwood as a “yakuza” (via anime news network
If you go to the audio and video section and look for the yakuza clip, you can see the ad. Way to go with […]

I always have to renew my ALA membership in October, because I joined ALA as a student member a month after I started library school. Every time I renew, I fill out the form to change the “area of work”, “type of responsibility” and “type of library”, because even though I have been out […]

I love getting packages in the mail. Even better is getting TWO packages in the mail. The collected edition of Bone arrived today. I’d read a few single issues of Bone midway through the series, but then I concluded that it was just better to read it in trade paperback form and I had […]

The trailer for Lemony Snicket’s A Series of Unfortunate Events was playing in front of Sky Captain. Jim Carrey looked like a suitably scary Count Olaf, and the set design captures the creepy feeling of the books. I loved the shot of Violet tying her hair back with a ribbon, ready to start inventing her […]