Believe it or not, here at First Second we've been known to dip our collective nose into a picture-illustrated funnybook now and then.
Right now, Gina, First Second Marketing Guru, is reading:
Cecil and Jordan in New York: Stories
Calista, First Second Editor:
Whiteout: Melt
Colleen, First Second Designer:
And Mark, First Second Editorial Director:
(I’m also in the middle of rereading the original run of Love and Rockets, but that’s pretty much my permanent state…)
Trésor by Lucie Durbiano. Hoping there’ll be an English translation somewhere soon.
I’ve been devouring the first two volumes of Pluto from Viz. It’s a darker, more adult retelling of Osamu Tezuka’s Astro Boy story “The Strongest Robot on Earth” and it’s amaaaazing whether you’re familiar with the storyline or not.
Thanks for the recs, guys!
well, with Daisy Kutter and Scott Pilgrim already up there, what could I add?
I just read The Magical LIfe of Long Tack Sam, and liked it a lot, a kind of hybrid history-memoir-GN-photo album thing. Lots on the Asian American immigrant experience, too, would be an intersting pair with American Born Chinese…