In a heartwarming gift book, more than fifty couples share their personal rituals of romance, including private nicknames, loving gestures, and other forms of endearment, accompanied by a look at how such rituals help create an enduring bond between partners. Sex was Sean Patrick's not-so-secret weapon, but sometimes it backfired. This long, cold caper started in London, led to Manhattan's Greenwich Village, and wound up in Berlin.
Patrick's orders were to find a scientist named Niflheim - whose research into the secrets of ultra-cold warfare were for sale to the highest bidder - and literally bring him back alive. Patrick's immediate chief on this mission was a sexy woman.
His co-agents were sexy women. In fact, the landscape abounded with. And what is it for anyway? Along the way, little Yasmine discovers just how connected she is to her mom and all her new. In the s, the authors were involved in a college occupational and academic counseling-teaching assignment, dealing with the aftermath of the previous era of changes in society and integration of.
For Nikhil : I love pouring myself out into you, into words, into content. This is a compilation of every journal entry that revolved around you and our disparate adventures across the United States. We have lived and grown together more than most people do in a lifetime, and for that, I am eternally grateful. The Bottomless Belly Button. Bottomless Belly Button is a comedy-drama that follows the dysfunctional adventures of the Loony Family.
After some years of marriage, Maggie and David Loony shock their children with their announcement of a planned divorce. The things that Shaw does with light, with water, with sand will confound your eyes and uproot your mind. There is detail here. Shaw has paid attention to it and so should you. Note the coming of dusk.
Note the one "true" glimpse of Peter. Note how the "x" marks the "spot. Shaw offers up a cacophony. A melodic cacophony. His is a noisy book.
Floor plans. Cinematic scenes. I felt like I was watching a movie directed The things that Shaw does with light, with water, with sand will confound your eyes and uproot your mind.
I felt like I was watching a movie directed by the protege of Wes Anderson. Aug 15, Lars Guthrie rated it it was amazing. I've been having extraordinary luck hitting on extraordinary examples of graphic novels recently. Here's another one. The semi-primitive drawing and confessional tone put me in mind of David Heatley's 'My Brain is Hanging Upside Down,' although this is a full-blown, even epic narrative if a week with a dysfunctional family reuniting to inaugurate the parents' divorce can be epic in scope.
The weightiness reminded me of Yoshihiro Tatsumi's 'A Drifting Life'--some plus pages--a format that i I've been having extraordinary luck hitting on extraordinary examples of graphic novels recently.
The weightiness reminded me of Yoshihiro Tatsumi's 'A Drifting Life'--some plus pages--a format that is pure joy. If you want to go to another world for a few hours and learn more about your own, read this. I especially liked the use of language connected to image. For example a two-tone sunset popping with words--'purples,''pinks,''pinks,''purples,''pinks,' etc.
The angle that we perceive from is hardly objective. It's a function of language and culture, what is said and what is not said. This fits in with the revelations about brain plasticity found in Norman Doidge's 'The Brain That Changes Itself,' and studies conduced by Standford psych prof Lera Boroditsky which suggest 'that the grammar we learn from our parents, whether we realize it or not, affects our sensual experience of the world' quote from an April 6 NPR story.
A provocative, revolutionary work based in the everyday and ordinary. Highly recommended. Dec 25, Andrew rated it liked it Shelves: alternative-comics , comics. This is alt-comics by the numbers. Fortunately, Dash Shaw knows how to entertain. The dialogue is uniformly sharp, and a few bits are even laugh-out-loud funny. Some favorites of mine include Chill Jill meeting "the n This is alt-comics by the numbers. Some favorites of mine include Chill Jill meeting "the nicest person" on a bus, only to have them hit her up for money and walk away, Peter's desperate struggle to get out an unfortunate t-shirt stain, Aki's battle against a sheet that just won't fit right on the bed this happens to me always , and the one-date "Top Three Reasons We Didn't Work Out" note that Peter receives.
Best of all, Shaw captures the hazy, lazy feeling of beach houses and boring family vacations perfectly with his sand-toned artwork and his breezy, shambling pacing. It may be derivative as all hell, but "Bottomless Belly Button" is a lot more fun than most of the stuff it rips off, and hey, the ending even affected me a bit emotionally. I liked it. Thanks, Alece!! Nov 02, Jeff rated it liked it Recommends it for: comix aficionados. Most people who like comix will probably like this more than i did and i found it mostly satisfying.
As much as i simply enjoy reading comic books, i'm still frequently disappointed that i don't get as much pleasure from the illustrations as from the stories and language. I haven't read anything else by Shaw so maybe this book's style is deliberate. If Most people who like comix will probably like this more than i did and i found it mostly satisfying. If so, he gave himself quite a challenge because simple line work fails to convey subtleties such as sunsets, beaches at high tide, or even the experience of going through a car wash.
Other reviewers praised Shaw's drawings, so maybe my visual acumen is too weak to appreciate his art. My favorite part was waiting for the penny to drop regarding Peter's peculiar appearance.
I trusted that Shaw had a good reason for it and he validated that trust. I also quite liked breaking the father's love letter code. But that doesn't make this a better than average book for me.
May 09, Raina rated it liked it Shelves: adult , graphicnovel. The story of one family - including elderly parents, three adult children, one daughter in law, and two children - as the kids come home for a visit after the news that the parents are getting a divorce. Everyone reacts in their own ways. For one thing, this seemed pretty blatantly autobiographical. The title infers self-inspection, and one character and only one is depicted as having the head of a frog in all but one frame where he is asking a love interest if he looks like a frog.
I admire The story of one family - including elderly parents, three adult children, one daughter in law, and two children - as the kids come home for a visit after the news that the parents are getting a divorce.
I admire the fictionalized autobiography as a rule, and I loved how Shaw was able to pick out this one short period of time for his piece. Also, the craft here is truly notable. Shaw is an innovator, playing with the number of frames per page, placement, including maps, picking out mundane acts I could go on. Truly admirable and affecting, even though the drawings themselves aren't particularly accessible or beautiful at first glance.
Jun 03, Mary Overton added it. The book starts s-l-o-w-l-y, but stay with it, because in part 2 what began with isolated pieces weaves a compelling picture of how families fragment and regather. By the end, both the reader and the characters have experienced alchemical changes. Self-indulgent metafictional navel-gazing with literal interstitial exp The book starts s-l-o-w-l-y, but stay with it, because in part 2 what began with isolated pieces weaves a compelling picture of how families fragment and regather.
Self-indulgent metafictional navel-gazing with literal interstitial exploration. Did I include enough buzzwords? And it works. At least it worked for this reader, partly because of the slow burn it ignited in the back of my brain. Sep 20, Tom Mayer rated it really liked it. A friend had recommended I read everything Dash Shaw had ever done. This is by far the best graphic novel I've read in several years, impressionistic, textured, synechdotal? It's incredible. I've been putting this book, at once cosmic and deeply personal, in the hands of everyone I know who likes graphic novels.
If it hadn't been for that I would have ruined a nights sleep finishing it in one go. Feb 28, John Isaacson rated it it was amazing. Genius east coast family drama. Comics wizardry. It was pit 2 stars The art of this graphic novel is interesting at points. Except Aki. The dad is The story meanders. It felt a bit pointless overall, I guess. CW: drug abuse, alcohol abuse, homophobic comments, infidelity Jan 23, Kirk rated it it was amazing.
This was fucking solid. It reminded me of The Royal Tenenbaums, a little bit. Mome Vol Mome Vol 16 Book Description:. Mome Vol.
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