Welcome to another visit to my modest library collection of titles related to comics where I hone in a small section of books on my shelves, select a book or two or three or more from that section and take a closer look…and, as I stated in the previous post on this topic, the books are not shelved following normal library rules i.e. detailed categorisation…they are stacked instead more by size than specific subject…however they generally all have something to do with comics, being either comics, collections of comics or histories and critiques of comics.
And now for a brief visit to the field of manga, from a British perspective this time, with a detailed publication based on an exhibition of manga staged at the British Museum from 23 May to 26 August 2019 and I just happened to be in London that month. Oh joy! Cited as “the modern graphic art of storytelling” by the Museum’s Director Hartwig Fischer in this book of 350 pages manga is both celebrated and studied in this volume.
And to finish this post the Ivan Brunetti book, Misery Loves Comedy. The dust jacket was missing from this book when I bought it…probably stolen according to the bookshop staff…but I bought it anyway. I wasn’t going to deprive myself of his brutal humour over a cover…and being a collection of his work it had three covers in it in any case!
My LIBRARY posts form part of my graphic based material that includes the fields of painting, printmaking and cartooning including artwork for my comic and graphic novel BLOTTING PAPER: The Recollected Graphical Impressions of Doctor Comics, plus my scholarly research and study of the comics medium.