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Year in Review (by way of books) 2023
Books and Comics/Graphic Novels 2023
January
The Doubtful Guest – Edward Gorey (illustrated book/graphic novel)
The Promised Neverland: Volume 6 – Kaiu Shirai, Posuka Demizu(manga)
The City and the City – China Mieville
Sandman Volume 6: Fables and Reflections – Neil Gaiman, various artists (graphic novel)
Sandman Volume 7: Brief Lives – Neil Gaiman, Jill Thompson, Vince Locke (graphic novel)
The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglas – Frederick Douglas, read by Charles Turner
The Sandman Volume 8: World’s End – Neil Gaiman, various artists (graphic novel)
The Bartimaeus Trilogy 2: The Golem’s Eye – Jonathan Stroud
The Man Who Fell To Earth – Dan Watters, Dev Pramanik (graphic novel)
The Carpet People – Terry Pratchett, read by Stephen Briggs
Hikaru no Go Volume 15: Sayanara – Takeshi Obata, Yumi Hotta (manga)
Hikaru no Go Volume 16: The Chinese Go Association – Takeshi Obata, Yumi Hotta (manga)
Witch Hat Atelier Volume 1 – Kamome Shirahama (manga)
February
The Sandman Volume 9: The Kindly Ones – Neil Gaiman, Marc Hemple, various artists (graphic novel)
Titus Groan – Mervyn Peake, read by Simon Vance
Paper Girls Volume 3 – Brian K. Vaughan, Cliff Chiang (graphic novel)
Beastars Volume 1 – Paru Itagaki (manga)
Revenge of the Librarians – Tom Gauld (graphic novel)
Lucifer Volume 1: Devil in the Gateway – Mike Carey, Peter Gross (graphic novel)
Saint Young Men Volume 1 – Hikaru Nakamura (manga)
The Sandman Volume 10: The Wake – Neil Gaiman, Michael Zulli, Jon Muth, Charles Vess (graphic novel)
Hikaru no Go Volume 17: A Familiar Face – Takeshi Obata, Yumi Hotta (manga)
Major Pettigrew’s Last Stand – Helen Simonson
Beastars Volume 2 – Paru Itagaki (manga)
Woman World – Aminder Dhaliwal (graphic novel)
Black Paradox – Junji Ito (manga)
Beastars Volume 3 – Paru Itagaki (manga)
March
Lucifer Volume 2: Children & Monsters – Mike Carey, Peter Gross, Ryan Kelly (graphic novel)
Doomsday Book – Connie Willis, read by Jenny Sterlin
Moonshadow – J.M. DeMatteis, Jon J. Muth, Kent Williams (graphic novel)
The Magic Fish – Trung Le Nguyen (graphic novel)
Sleepless Volume 2 – Sarah Vaughn, Leila Del Luca (graphic novel)
The Monkey Prince Volume 1: Enter the Monkey – Gene Luen Yang, Bernard Chang (graphic novel)
Unbroken – Lauren Hillenbrand, read by Edward Hermann
Thrawn: Ascendancy 2: The Greater Good – Timothy Zahn, read by Marc Thompson
Thud! – Terry Pratchett, read by Stephen Briggs
April
Operation Mincemeat – Ben McIntyre
Beastars Volume 4 – Paru Itagaki (manga)
Parasyte Volume 2 – Hitoshi Iwaaki (manga)
Major Pettigrew’s Last Stand – Helen Simonson
The Promised Neverland Volume 7 – Kaiu Shirai, Posuka Demizu (manga)
Parasyte Volume 3 – Hitoshi Iwaaki (manga)
The Wheel of Time Bk 4: The Shadow Rising – Robert Jordan
Twig – Skottie Young, Skyle Strahm (graphic novel)
Spring Rain: a graphic memoir – Andy Warner (graphic novel)
The Multiversity – Grant Morrison, various artists (graphic novel)
The Promised Neverland Volume 8 – Kaiu Shirai, Posuka Demizu (manga)
Goldie Vance Volume 2 – Hope Larson, Jackie Ball, Brittney Williams (graphic novel)
Team of Rivals (Abridged) – Doris Kearns Goodwin, read by Richard Thomas
Stretching the Heavens – Terry L. Givens
May
The Promised Neverland Volume 9 – Kaiu Shirai, Posuka Demizu (manga)
Parasyte Volume 4 – Hitoshi Iwaaki (manga)
Parasyte Volume 5 – Hitoshi Iwaaki (manga)
Conan Volume 1 – Robert E. Howard, L. Sprage De Camp, Lin Carter
Parasyte Volume 6 – Hitoshi Iwaaki (manga)
The Promised Neverland Volume 10 – Kaiu Shirai, Posuka Demizu (manga)
Penric’s Demon – Lois McMaster Bujold, read by Grove Gardner
Kamen Rider: The Classic Manga Collection - Shōtarō Ishinomori, translated by Kumar Sivasubramanian (manga)
Parasyte Volume 7 – Hitoshi Iwaaki (manga)
Shuna’s Journey – Hayao Miyazaki, translated by Alex Dudok de Wit (manga)
Parasyte Volume 8 – Hitoshi Iwaaki (manga)
Maggy Garrison – Lewis Trondheim, Stephane Oiry (graphic novel)
Double Cross – Ben McIntyre
The Promised Neverland Volume 11 – Kaiu Shirai, Posuka Demizu (manga)
June
The Promised Neverland Volume 12 – Kaiu Shirai, Posuka Demizu (manga)
The Promised Neverland Volume 13 – Kaiu Shirai, Posuka Demizu (manga)
My Hero Academia Volume 1 – Kohei Horikoshi (manga)
Think Again – Adam Grant
Adventure Game Comics Volume 1: Leviathan – Jason Shiga (graphic novel)
Ranma ½ Volume 35 – Rumiko Takahashi (manga)
Ranma ½ Volume 36 – Rumiko Takahashi (manga)
The Promised Neverland Volume 14 – Kaiu Shirai, Posuka Demizu (manga)
Thrawn Ascendancy Volume 3: Lesser Evil – Timothy Zahn, read by Marc Thompson
Leviathan Wakes – James S.A. Corey
The Man Without Talent – Yoshitsaru Tsuge (manga)
July
A Bride’s Story Volume 3 – Kaoru Mori (manga)
The Promised Neverland Volume 15 – Kaiu Shirai, Posuka Demizu (manga)
The Promised Neverland Volume 16 – Kaiu Shirai, Posuka Demizu (manga)
Almost American Girl – Robin Ha (graphic novel)
The Woman Who Smashed Codes – Jason Fagone
The Swamp – Yoshiharu Tsuge (manga)
The Wheel of Time Book 5: The Fires of Heaven – Robert Jordan
A Bride’s Story Volume 4 – Kaoru Mori (manga)
Pulp – Ed Brubaker, Sean Phillips (graphic novel)
Locke & Key: Small World – Joe Hill, Gabriel Rodriguez (graphic novel)
Breaking Cat News – Georgia Dunn (graphic novel)
August
Labyrinth Coronation Vol 1 – Ryan Ferrier, Simon Spurrier, Daniel Bayliss (graphic novel)
A Bride’s Story Volume 5 – Kaoru Mori (manga)
Worst Journey In the World Volume 1 – Sara Airress (graphic novel)
Best American Comics 2016 – various artists, writers, edited by Roz Chast (graphic novel)
Labyrinth Coronation Volume 2 – Ryan Ferrier, Simon Spurrier, Daniel Bayliss (graphic novel)
Hikaru no Go Volume 19: One Step Forward! – Takeshi Obata, Yumi Hotta (manga)
Hikaru no Go Volume 20: The Young Lions – Takeshi Obata, Yumi Hotta (manga)
Thirsty Mermaids – Kat Leyh (graphic novel)
Criminal: Coward – Ed Brubaker, Sean Phillips (graphic novel)
Parable of the Sower – Octavia E. Butler, read by Lynne Thigpen
Hikaru no Go Volume 21: Great Expectations – Takeshi Obata, Yumi Hotta (manga)
Hikaru no Go Volume 22: China vs. Japan – Takeshi Obata, Yumi Hotta (manga)
Hikaru no Go Volume 23: Endgame – Takeshi Obata, Yumi Hotta (manga)
Dead Boy Detectives Vol. 1: Schoolboy Terrors – Toby Litt, Mark Buckingham, Gary Erskine (graphic novel)
Dead Boy Detectives Vol 2: Ghost Snow – Toby Litt, Mark Buckingham, Gary Erskine (graphic novel)
Seek You – Kristen Radtke (graphic novel)
John Constantinte Hellblazer Volume 2: The Devil You Know – Jamie Delano, David Lloyd, Richard Piers Rayner (graphic novel)
September
Once & Future Volume 5: The Wasteland – Kieron Gillen, Dan Mora (graphic novel)
The Once and Future Witches – Alix Harrow
The Sandman Presents: The Deadboy Detectives – Ed Brubaker, Bryan Talbot, Steve Leialoha (graphic novel)
Batman: The Doom That Came To Gotham – Mike Mignola, Richard Pace, Troy Nixey, Dennis Janke (graphic novel)
Free Country: A Tale of the Children’s Crusade – Neil Gaiman, various writers, artists (graphic novel)
Man’s Search For Meaning – Victor E. Frankl, read by Simon Vance
John Constantine Hellblazer Volume 1: Original Sins – Jamie Delano, Mark Buckingham, Richard Piers Rayner (graphic novel)
Can’t We Talk About Something More Pleasant? – Roz Chast (graphic novel)
Edge of Spider-Verse – Dan Slott, Jason Latour, various artists/writers (graphic novel)
Spider-Gwen Volume 1: Greater Power – Jason Latour, Robbi Rodriguez (graphic novel)
John Constatine Hellblazer Volume 3: The Fear Machine – Jamie Delano, Alfredo Alcala, Mark Buckingham, Mike Hoffman (graphic novel)
Cosmic Odyssey – Jim Starlin, Mike Mignola, Carlos Garzon (graphic novel)
October
The Autobiography of Martin Luther King, Jr. –edited by Clayborne Carson, read by LeVar Burton
Spider-Women – Robbie Thompson, Jason Latour, various artists (graphic novel)
Spider-Gwen Volume 2: Weapon of Choice – Jason Latour, Robbi Rodriguez (graphic novel)
Gender Queer – Maia Kubata (graphic novel)
Black Orchid Book 1 – Neil Gaiman, Dave McKean (graphic novel)
Black Orchid Book 2 – Neil Gaiman, Dave McKean (graphic novel)
Black Orchid Book 3 – Neil Gaiman, Dave McKean (graphic novel)
Tombs – Junji Ito (manga)
Locke & Key: The Golden Age – Joe Hill, Gabriel Rodriguez (graphic novel)
Wraith – Joe Hill, Charles Paul Wilson III (graphic novel)
A Great and Terrible King – Marc Morris, read by Ralph Lister
The Birds and Don’t Look Now – Daphne du Maurier, read by Peter Capaldi
My Lesbian Experience With Loneliness – Nagata Kabi (manga)
Spider-Gwen Volume 3: Long-Distance – Jason Latour, Robbi Rodriguez (graphic novel)
The Birds & Other Stories – Daphne du Maurier
November
John Constantine Hellblazer Volume 4: The Family Man – Jamie Delano, Grant Morrison, various artists (graphic novel)
The Feng Shui Detective Agency – Nury Vittachi
Delicious in Dungeon Volume 1 – Ryoko Kui (manga)
The Saga of Swamp Thing Volume 1 – Alan Moore, Stephen Bisette, John Totleben (graphic novel)
Spider-Verse – Dan Slott, various writers/artists (graphic novel)
Breakfast With Socrates – Robert Rowland Smith
Harleen – Stjepan Sejic (graphic novel)
Spider-Gwen Volume 4: Predators – Jason Latour, Robbi Rodriguez (graphic novel)
Spider-Gwen Volume 5: Gwenom – Jason Latour, Robbi Rodriguez (graphic novel)
Flipped – Wendelin Van Draanen
American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer – Kai Bird, Martin J. Sherwin, read by Jeff Cummings
Spider-Man, Spider-Gwen: Sitting in a Tree – Brian Michael Bendis, Jason Latour, Sara Pichelli, Robbi Rodriguez (graphic novel)
December
John Constantine Hellblazer Volume 5: Dangerous Habits – Garth Ennis, Jamie Delano, various artists (graphic novel)
My Solo Exchange Diary Volume 1 – Nagata Kabi (manga)
Birds of Prey Volume 1 – Chuck Dixon, Jordan B. Gorfinkel, various artists (graphic novel)
My Solo Exchange Diary Volume 2 – Nagata Kabi (manga)
Shuna’s Journey – Hayao Miyazaki, translated by Alex Dudok de Wit (manga)
When Stars Are Scattered – Victoria Jemison, Omar Mohamed (graphic novel)
My Alcoholic Escape From Reality – Nagata Kabi (manga)
Dune Messiah – Frank Herbert, read by Simon Vance, Euan Morton, Scott Brick, Katherine Kellgren
Smoke Bitten (Mercy Thompson #12) - Patricia Briggs
Lore Olympus Volume 1 – Rachel Smythe (graphic novel)
Diary of a Young Girl – Anne Frank, read by Selma Blair
Lore Olympus Volume 2 – Rachel Smythe (graphic novel)
Spider-Gwen Volume 6: The Life of Gwen Stacy – Jason Latour, Robbi Rodriguez (graphic novel)
Hungry Ghosts – Anthony Bourdain, Joel Rose, various artists (graphic novel)
I read 156 books and graphic novels in 2023. 119 graphic novels, 37 books. 25 non-fiction, 131 fiction. 69 graphic novels, 50 graphic mangas. 15 re-reads.
Starting in March with Unbroken, I started reading a number of books about World War II. I think I had, as ever a goal to read more non-fiction and since there are so many books on the 2 World Wars, they are often the ones that I’m able to check out from the library without a super long wait list. Then Oppenheimer came out this summer so I was more intrigued and decided to read the basis for the film (which is atypical for me outside of comics). Following Unbroken I read a few spy books, Operation Mincemeat and Double Cross in May by Ben McIntyre that were super interesting.
I had previously read The Confidence Men about 2 British POWs from WWI who escaped a Turkish POW camp by (among other things) a Ouija board. I had started reading The Diary of Anne Frank/Diary of a Young Girl sometime this past year I think and finally finished it near the end of the year and Victor Frankl’s Man’s Search For Meaning in October. I started listening to The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich in November or December and read for my family’s book club The Woman Who Smashed Codes about Elizabeth Friedman and her husband who developed cryptology in the US between World War I and II and was treated pretty wretchedly by the US government for her efforts. This was in no small part due to J. Edgar Hoover, who seems to be more and more a villain every time I have the misfortune of encountering him in books and other media.
A manga series I had started last year, The Promised Neverland, I’m close to finishing (I believe there are 20 volumes, which isn’t super long for a manga series. Full Metal Alchemist is 20-something volumes if I remember correctly) and I finally finished Hikaru no Go about a teenager who accidentally finds himself competing in the Japanese game Go due to a haunted Go board in his grandfather’s attic. A web comic that my wife got me interested in, Lore Olympus, retells the story of Persephone and Hades with a combination of contemporary and antiquity culture. The comic is broken up into “seasons” and the second season was recently finished so I wanted to read up to that point while waiting for the end of the third season. Unfortunately, it was long enough ago that I had read up to the end of the first season I ended up having to start over. But this was good as there were a number of things I caught the second time through and appreciated more on a re-read.
I also read the 4th and 5th Wheel of Time books for the second time this past year, which was an interesting experience. There were a lot of things I remembered incorrectly because of the 25ish years since I read them initially. I don’t think I’m going to read the entire series all the way through again, but I might read book 6. I finished re-reading The Sandman (partly due to the release of the Netflix series) and went on a kick of other Vertigo (an imprint of DC Comics that focused on non-superhero books, more adult and more creator-controlled that is now largely if not entirely defunct) titles (the Dead Boy Detectives, Hellblazer, Swamp Thing). Don’t know where I’ll go with that. Also read a decent amount of Spider-Verse comics (mostly Spider-Gwen but one big crossover book that was sort of the culmination of the Spider-Verse storylines (I think?)) that was interesting. Spider-Gwen is a great comic that has yet to lead to the frustration I felt with the later Miles Morales books.
Nagata Kabi’s memoirs about self-esteem, her fraught relationship with her parents, alcoholism and eating problems is both interesting and very frustrating. I am very lucky to not have hardly any of her emotional, mental and health issues that are wound up together but reading her mangas it is hard not to want to shake her when she seems to recover from one life-threatening catastrophe only to work herself into another. I’m morbidly curious about her later volumes about pancreatitis.
Lastly, there were some books on Arthur and some non-fiction or books by African-American authors that I had intended to start or finish that I’m dragging my heels on. We’ll see what happens in the next year with that.
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More of the 20 years of Books and Graphic Novels
So, it took a long time to transcribe and tabulate the totals as a number of the years were hidden on Facebook and/or there were mistakes in the numbers I had originally come up with. Here’s what I came up with.
2003 17 graphic novels, 69 books
2005 35 graphic novels, 49 books
2006 35 Graphic Novels, 44 books
2007 26 graphic novels, 32 books
2008 15 graphic novels and 34 books
2009 17 graphic novels, 34 books
2010 47 graphic novels, 27 books
2011 35 graphic novels, 25 books
2012 58 graphic novels, 22 books
2013 31 graphic novels, 19 books
2014 131 graphic novels and 14 books
2015 62 graphic novels, 30 books
2016 122 graphic novels, 29 books
2017 97 graphic novels, 41 books
2018 73 graphic novels, 43 books
2019 50 graphic novels, 47 book
2020 77 graphic novels, 25 books
2021 60 graphic novels, 32 books
2022 71 graphic novels, 33 books
Starting in 2003, I read 1059 graphic novels, 649 books (not including 2002, 2004 for which I do not have sufficient information); an average of 58.83 graphic novels and 36 books per year. Since we don’t have complete information for 2002 and 2004 (and obviously I have read books and comics before those years I just don’t have exact or even rough ideas of when I read what), I can say for the data I do have that I only read more than 50 books once and that in 2003. I’ve come close a few times but never over. And that’s okay. People may remember the book collection social media site Shelfari that was the predecessor to Goodreads. It started in 2006 and lasted 10 years. I don’t remember exactly when I started using it, but it couldn’t have been too long after it started because I used it for several years before abandoning it for Goodreads. Unfortunately, I didn’t do a great job at transferring my shelves over to Goodreads so there are far too many books that I have yet to add to my Goodreads shelves. That is going to be an ongoing project I’ll need to keep at for a while but will probably be less intense than the 20 years of reading project has been.
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The Year in Books and Graphic Novels 2022 and an analysis of 20 years of books and comics
January
1. Temple Alley Summer – Kashiwaba Sachiko, illustrated by Miho Satake, translated by Avery Fischer Udagawa
2. Dreams From My Father – Barack Obama, audiobook read by the author
3. X-Men Grand Design Vol. 1 – Ed Piskor
4. Vera Kelly Is Not a Mystery – Rosalie Knecht
5. All Thirteen: The Incredible Cave Rescue of the Thai Boys' Soccer Team – Christina Soontornvat, illustrations by Karen Minot
6. X-Men Grand Design Volume 2: Second Genesis – Ed Piskor
7. Year of the Rabbit – Tian Veasna
February
1. Deadly Class Volume 1: 1987 Reagan Youth – Chris Remender, Wes Craig
2. The Eye of the World – Robert Jordan
3. Pattern Master – Octavia E. Butler
4. X-Men Grand Design Volume 3: X-Tinction – Ed Piskor
5. The Confidence Men: How Two Prisoners of War Engineered the Most Remarkable Escape in History – Margalit Fox
6. Deadly Class Volume 2: 1988 Kids of the Black Hole – Rick Remender, Wes Craig
March
1. Once and Future Volume 1: The King is Undead – Kieron Gillen, Dan Mora
2. Once and Future Volume 2: Old English – Kieron Gillen, Dan Mora
3. Dragon Hoops – Gene Luen Yang
4. Ringworld – Larry Niven
5. Once and Future Volume 3: A Parliament of Magpies – Kieron Gillen, Dan Mora
6. Princess Jellyfish Volume 8 – Akiko Higashimura
7. Princess Jellyfish Volume 9 – Akiko Higashimura
8. The Sheepfarmer’s Daughter – Elizabeth Moon
April
1. Planetes Volume 1 – Makoto Yurimura
2. The Library of the Unwritten – A.J. Hackwith
3. Doom Patrol Volume 1: Crawling From the Wreckage – Grant Morrison, Richard Case
4. ODY-C Volume 1: Off To Far Ithacaa – Matt Fraction, Christian Ward
5. Conan of Cimmeria – Robert E Howard, Sprague de Camp, Lin Carter
6. Doom Patrol Volume 2: The Painting That Ate Paris – Grant Morrison, Richard Case, John Nyberg
7. Doom Patrol Volume 3: Down Paradise Way – Grant Morrison, Richard Case
May
1. Doom Patrol Volume 4: Musclebound – Grant Morrison, Richard Case, Kelley Jones, Mark McKenna, John Nyberg
2. Eragon – Christopher Paolini
3. The Promised Neverland Vol 1 – Kaiu Shirai, Posaku Demizu
4. Deadly Class Volume 3: 1988 Snake Pit – Rick Remender, Wes Craig
5. Once and Future Volume 4: Monarchies in the U.K. – Kieron Gillen, Dan Mora
6. The Dark is Rising – Susan Cooper
7. The Forest – Thomas Ott
8. The Left Hand of Darkness – Ursula K LeGuin
June
1. Deadly Class Volume 4: 1988 Die For Me – Rick Remender, Wes Craig
2. Arthurian Legends – Wace and Layamon
3. Dune – Frank Herbert
4. The Left Hand of Darkness – Ursula K LeGuin
5. The Lost Years of Merlin – T.A. Barron
July
1. The Secret To Super-Human Strength – Alison Bechdel
2. The Promised Neverland Volume 2 – Kaiu Shirai, Posaku Demizu
3. The New World – Ales Kot, Tradd Moore
4. Super Sentai Himitsu Sentai Gorenger – Shotaro Ishinomori
5. Spider-Gwen Volume 0: Most Wanted? – Jason Latour, Robbi Rodriguez
6. The Deed of Paksenarrion: Divided Allegiance – Elizabeth Moon
7. Ultimate Miles Morales Spider-Man Volume 1 – Brian Michael Bendis, Sara Pichelli, Chris Samnee
8. Giant Days Volume 1 – John Allison, Lisa Treimann
9. Giant Days Volume 2 – John Allison, Lisa Treimann, Max Sarin
August
1. Lockwood & Co. Volume 1: The Screaming Staircase – Jonathan Stroud
2. Ultimate Miles Morales Spider-Man Volume 2 – Brian Michael Bendis, David Marquez, et al
3. Ultimate Miles Morales Spider-Man Volume 3 – Brian Michael Bendis, David Marquez, et al
4. The Wheel of Time Book 2: The Great Hunt – Robert Jordan
5. Howl’s Moving Castle – Diana Wynne Jones
6. A Study in Scarlet – Arthur Conan Doyle
7. French Medieval Romances from the Lais of Marie of France – Translated by Eugene Mason
September
1. Pyongyang – Guy Delisle
2. Destiny: A Chronicle of Deaths Foretold – Alisa Kwitney, Kent Williams, et al
3. The Dead of Paksenarrion: Oath of Gold – Elizabeth Moon
4. Brave Chef Brianna – Sam Sykes, Selina Espiritu
5. Fledgling – Octavia E. Butler
6. At Death’s Door – Jill Thompson
October
1. We – Yevgeny Zamyatin, read by Toby Jones
2. The Witch Boy – Molly Knox Ostertag
3. 20th Century Boys Vol. 7: The Truth – Naoki Urasawa
4. 20th Century Boys Vol. 8: – Naoki Urasawa
5. Isaac the Pirate Vol. 1: To Exotic Lands – Christophe Blaine
6. Dungeon Zenith: Volume 4: Outside the Ramparts – Joann Sfar, Lewis Trondheim, Boulet
7. The Wheel of Time Book 3: The Dragon Reborn – Robert Jordan
8. 20th Century Boys Volume 9: Rabbit Nabokov – Naoki Urasawa
9. The Haunting of Hill House – Shirley Jackson
10. Isaac the Pirate Volume 2: The Capital – Christophe Blaine
11. 20th Century Boys Volume 10: The Faceless Boy - Naoki Urasawa
November
1. Gotham Central Book 1: In the Line of Duty – Ed Brubaker, Greg Rucka
2. Komi Can’t Communicate Vol. 1 – Tomohito Oda
3. The Promised Neverland Volume 3 – Kaiu Shirai, Posuka Demizu
4. Sleepless Volume 1 – Sarah Vaughn, Leila Del Duch
5. R.U.R. – Karel Capek, translated by David Wyllie
6. 20th Century Boys Volume 11: List of Ingredients – Naoki Urasawa
7. 20th Century Boys Volume 12: Friend’s Face – Naoki Urasawa
8. 20th Century Boys Volume 13: Beginning of the End – Naoki Urasawa
9. 20th Century Boys Volume 14: The Boy and the Dream – Naoki Urasawa
10. The Sandman Volume 1: Preludes and Nocturnes – Neil Gaiman, Mike Dringenberg, Sam Ketih, Malcolm Jones III
11. Dodger – Terry Pratchett
12. The Promised Neverland Volume 4 – Kaiu Shirai, Posuka Demizu
13. 20th Century Boys Volume 15: Expo Hurray – Naoki Urasawa
14. 20th Century Boys Volume 16: Beyond the Looking Glass – Naoki Urasawa
15. 20th Century Boys Volume 17: Cross-Counter – Naoki Urasawa
16. 20th Century Boys Volume 18: Everybody’s Song – Naoki Urasawa
17. 20th Century Boys Volume 19: The Man Who Came Back – Naoki Urasawa
18. 20th Century Boys Volume 20: Humanity in the Balance – Naoki Urasawa
19. Thursday Next book 2: Lost in a Good Book – Jasper Fforde
20. 20th Century Boys Volume 21: Arrival of the Space Aliens – Naoki Urasawa
21. 20th Century Boys Volume 22: The Beginning of Justice
22. The Promised Neverland Volume 5 – Kaiu Shira, Posuka Demizu
December
1. Thrawn Ascension: Book 1: Chaos Rising – Timothy Zahn
2. Crucial Conversations: Tools for talking when stakes are high - Kerry Patterson,
Joseph Grenny, Ron McMillan, Al Switzler
3. Sandman Volume 2: The Doll’s House – Neil Gaiman, Mike Dringenberg, Malcolm Jones III
4. My Favorite Thing Is Monsters – Emil Ferris
5. Please Don’t Step On My JNCO Jeans – Noah Van Sciver
6. The Sandman Volume 3: Dream Country – Neil Gaiman, Kelley Jones, Malcolm Jones III, Charles Vess
7. Winterfair Gifts – Lois McMaster Bujold
8. Sandman Book 4: Season of Mists – Neil Gaiman, Matt Wagner, George Pratt, Dick Giordano, Kelley Jones, P. Craig Russell
9. Sandman Book 5: A Game of You – Neil Gaiman, Sean McManus, Bryan Talbot, Colleen Doran
105 books and graphic novels in 2022! 34 novels (and 1 novella) and 70/71 graphic novels. I read one book twice for a book club. That’s 13 more than I read last year.
Now for totals from 2002 to 2022.
Totals:
2002 20
2003 86 – 7.16/month
2004 9
2005 84 – 7/month
2006 79 – 6.58/month
2007 58 – 4.83/month
2008 49 – 4.083/month
2009 51 – 4.25
2010 72 - 6
2011 60 - 5
2012 80 – 6.66
2013 50 – 4.16
2014 144 - 12
2015 92 – 7.66
2016 151 – 12.58
2017 138 – 11.5
2018 116 – 9.66
2019 96 - 8
2020 102 – 8.5
2021 92 – 7.66
2022 105 – 8.75
Including the years that I have incomplete data for (2002 and 2004 I only have 3 months of data), I read 1734 books and graphic novels from 2002 to 2022, 86.7 per year. If we leave off 2002, and 2004, I read 85.25 per year and an average of 7.89 books per month. I’ll post the graphic novels and regular books break down shortly.
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Pickles! Hopefully these turn out. Not proper canning here, these are supposed to last for a few months I think and the brine is...not quite following the recipe. So here's hoping! If I'd not been a fool I would've photographed the cukes beforehand so you could see how many there were but we are where we are. #cucumba #cucumber #picklespicklespickles #forgotthejalapenos #andthegreenonions #indict45already #summerstoodamnhot https://www.instagram.com/p/Ch51mRNJGme/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=
#cucumba#cucumber#picklespicklespickles#forgotthejalapenos#andthegreenonions#indict45already#summerstoodamnhot
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Chompette designs. The colored one took a while, I’m still trying to get good at skin tones. Pretty happy with the results. The sexy, NSFW, Rule 34 stuff for Chompette and the other Power Crown Princesses are all well and good but I feel like not enough creativity is employed in their design. And it’s been fun doing something with no real stakes (for me). So, Princess Chompette on the bottom, Cap’n Chompette, cuz pirates. The Headless Chompette. No horses in Mario that I’m aware of, but there are Yoshis. And then Chompusa or Medusette. Used a photo of Tippi Hedron for reference.
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Also old, hopefully you can see some improvement but it’s still rough. The proportions are goofy.The face for Koga in this actually looks better than in a more recent drawing, which isn’t very encouraging.
Bassist F-Chopper Koga from the same band, Gacharic Spin. This one I did the face mostly in Krita instead of drawing and inking beforehand. Really liking this software, thanks for the recommend Scott! Still struggling with the faces, the features are so unlike what I'm used to drawing. Still don't love the arms, they're a bit too beefy and her shoulders are pretty broad, but it's a big improvement from the initial drawing. Instruments are HARD to draw, y'all.
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These are old, I’ve not been uploading anything for a while, which I apologize for. Getting back in the swing of things with fan art. A friend recommended Krita which I’ve been using instead of PS or Gimp and I mostly quite like it.
I've been working really slowly on this drawing for a few days. I'm not super happy with it. I've been using Gimp, which is...okay but not the best. Thankfully it's free so I can get rid of it if I find better software. But glad to be working on something again. One can only improve if one makes the initial attempt. This is Hana from the all-girl all-Japanese band Gacharic Spin. She's previously been the drummer and one of the main vocalists and band leaders. she's recently transitioned to guitars.
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Well...I think I'm going to leave it at this. At least for the time being. Usually I would work one of these to death, but I will try something different on this one. Some color, some more detail but still a finished work-in-progress type of thing. We have just finished watching Sylvester McCoy’s Doctor Who and I traditionally do a portrait at the end of that so here’s the last Doctor of the Classic series (I’m not including Paul McGann, who I like as an actor but the movie is its own bizarre thing). Haven’t decided if I’ll do the new series, I feel like they’ve already been covered pretty extensively already.
#Doctor Who#Classic Doctor Who#seventh doctor#photoshop#drawing#digital art#portrait#Slyvester McCoy
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Two new legendary creatures, Baubas and Baykok. Need to clean up Baykok but pretty happy with the background, it took for freaking ever to do. Baubas: Baubas, the Lithuanian boogey man. His design is partially based on the D&D version of a troll.
Baykok: a creature from the Great Lakes region and mentioned by the Ojibway nation. Wanted to try doing a more sketchy look for a change. Forests are hard, I don't know why I thought it would be a good idea to do two mythological creatures that live in them. This guy flies around shrieking and attacks hunters and warriors either with invisible arrows or beating them to death with a club and eating their livers.
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Inktober 2018 pt 3. Again, couldn’t fit everything all on the same page.
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Inktober 2018 pt 2, couldn’t fit all of them in the first one.
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Finished Colin Baker portrait. His outfit was described as “an explosion in a rainbow factory” so I thought I’d incorporate that into the portrait. Like how it turned out.
#colin baker#doctor who#sixth doctor#Classic Doctor Who#portrait#digital art#drawing#fan art#photoshop
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finished the 6th Doctor Who, Colin Baker, who is one of the most controversial. He had a measly two seasons and was fired between the 23rd and 24th season. I didn't hate him, but I certainly didn't enjoy him anywhere as much as Peter Davison and he wasn't at all helped by his awful companion, Peri.This is the underpainting, that may need to be adjusted before I start working on the actual colors. Pretty happy with the hand and the hair so far.
And above the underpainting, we have more work with color. I'm not sure what I'm going to do with his hair or the background yet. I feel like they should probably be similarly loud and busy but...not sure. I think I probably will go with the rainbow on the left instead of the more naturalistic on the right, not least because I suck at skin tones.
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OMAL(ette) 1: Town of Evening Calm, Country of Cherry Blossoms”
Long awaited first entry into the Obscure Manga and Anime Library (ette) or OMAL(ette): This book I read about in one of several books about manga and anime and I am really letting you all down by not remembering which one it was. I'm betting that it was Manga! Manga! The World of Japanese Comics by Frederik Schodt, but don't quote me on that. The manga in question is a one-shot, "Town of Evening Calm, Country of Cherry Blossoms" written and illustrated by Fumiyo Kuono. It was originally published in Japan in 2003/04 and by Last Gasp in English in 2006? I still need to read the second half of this book, but if it's anything like the first, it will be very impressive and incredibly depressing. If you enjoyed--ha ha--Grave of the Fireflies (the manga or the anime) or Barefoot Gen this will be familiar territory, though I think it's more like Grave of the Fireflies. Where Grave was about the firebombing of Tokyo, Town of Evening Calm is about the bombing of Hiroshima and its legacy more particularly. The first story is in 1955 about a Minami, a young survivor of Hiroshima trying to survive and make a better life for herself while struggling with feelings of hopelessness and loneliness. The second story takes place in 1987 and 2004 and deals with a descendant of Minami trying to explain Hiroshima to his granddaughter (this is from a summary here: https://www.teenreads.com/…/town-of-evening-calm-country-of…, I still have not read the second half.) The art is deceptive, not unlike some of Tezuka's more mature works, where it is cartoony and sweet, that often seems at odds with the actual events and dialogue. Where this often can be a little too distracting in Tezuka I think it works a bit better with Kuono's work. The simplicity and almost naivete of her art makes the story more palatable and more difficult at the same time. What qualifies this as obscure? It's fairly difficult to find, but that's true of even quite successful books or series. You may have some luck getting it through academic libraries, but in our (Salt Lake's) library system, it's only mentioned in other books, the work itself is unavailable. If you are looking to pick it up, I'd recommend ebay, where I believe the cheapest you can get it is $43? Or, biblio, a site that pulls from used bookstores throughout the nation and is not affiliated with Amazon. But it's still fairly expensive because it's not really in print anymore. https://www.biblio.com/9780867196658
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So, I think I'm done, or nearly so. Do people like the one on the left or on the right more?
#doctor who#Fifth Doctor#Classic Doctor Who#peter davison#photoshop#psychedelic#digital art#drawing#portrait
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LEFT: I'm very far behind on my drawings of Doctors after finishing all of the seasons/series with that Doctor. So here's a belated Peter Davison. Needs a lot of work but I'm happy with where it's going.
RIGHT: More work on Peter Davison/Doctor 5. I'd like to do some more interesting work on the psychedelic background, but just wanted to show the color work. Straw colored hair is tricksy work, fam.
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