Happy Holidays!

Image from this T-shirt that you can order all for your very own..

Taking today and tomorrow off to hang with the family. Hope you're having a great holiday season.

Elsewhere... The Best of 2010

Five for Friday | Comics 2010



Last week's Five for Friday assignment was to Name Five And Only Five Comics Publications From 2010 You Liked. Mine were:

1. Warlord of Io, James Turner (SLG)
2. Beasts of Burden: Animal Rites, Evan Dorkin and Jill Thompson (Dark Horse)
3. Zeus: King of the Gods, George O'Connor (First Second)
4. Almost Silent, Jason (Fantagraphics)
5. Solomon's Thieves Book One, Jordan Mechner, LeUyen Pham, and Alex Puvilland (First Second)

This is probably as close to a Best of 2010 article that I'm going to do.

What Are You Reading? | Graphic Classics, Vol. 19: Christmas Classics



A not-so-short review of Graphic Classics' Christmas anthology. You can bet you'll be hearing more about this on Old Sinner.

Gorillas Riding Dinosaurs | Brian Clevinger and What Looks Good for February



I didn't do an "Elsewhere..." post last week, so there are two GRD columns I need to tell you about. First, I asked Atomic Robo writer Brian Clevinger a bunch of really personal questions.



Then, this week I went through Previews and found a bunch of cool adventure comics coming out in a couple of months.

Something Embarrassing in My Room

For this next item from Calvin's List, I found this candy cane. It's not embarrassing because I have a candy cane and it's only November. I'm unashamed of my early Christmas celebrations. David and I have been watching Christmas specials for a couple of weeks now and started on the Christmas music this past weekend when we got our first snowfall. This is to the great chagrin of everyone I know, but I'm okay with that.

What's embarrassing about this particular candy cane is that it's from last Christmas and I can't explain why I've neither eaten it nor thrown it away.