Let’s take a quick look to see what’s arrived in the mail here at the Geek Compound.
Dodgem Logic edited by Alan Moore
Promo copy:
this new underground magazine has a comic strip drawn by Alan Moore, his first for 20 years! Plus his written history of ‘underground’ publishing from the 13th century to now. Also contains comics by Kevin O’Neill and Savage Pencil along with the musings of Farher Ted creator Graham Lineham and stand-up Josie Long. Articles on guerilla gardening, making clothes, living on no money, women’s pages and a CD of 50 years of music from Northampton.
I’m about 1/3 of the way through this odd ‘zine. While I’ve enjoyed everything so far, Moore’s lengthy exploration of underground publishing is more than worth the price of the magazine. Full review to come.
The Color of Earth by Kim Dong Hwa
Promo copy:
First love is never easy.
Ehwa grows up helping her widowed mother run the local tavern, watching as their customers – both neighbors and strangers – look down on her mother for her single lifestyle. Their social status isolates Ehwa and her mother from the rest of the people in their quiet country village. But as she gets older and sees her mother fall in love again, Ehwa slowly begins to open up to the possibility of love in her life.
In the tradition of My Antonia and A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, from the pen of the renowned Korean manwha creator Kim Dong Hwa, comes a trilogy about a girl coming of age, set in the vibrant, beautiful landscape of pastoral Korea.
Promo copy:
Charlyne Yi does not believe in love. Or so she says. Well, at the very least, she doesn’t believe in fairy-tale love or the Hollywood mythology of love, and her own experiences have turned her into yet another modern-day skeptic.
Follow Charlyne across America as she and her good friend (and director) Nicholas Jasenovec search for answers and advice about love, by talking with friends and strangers, scientists, bikers, romance novelists, and children. They each offer diverse views on modern romance, as well as various answers to the age-old question: does true love really exist? Charlyne’s pursuit to discover the nature of love takes on a fresh new urgency when she meets a boy after her own heart: Michael Cera. As their relationship develops on camera, her pursuit risks losing the person she finds closest to her heart.
Combining elements of documentary and traditional storytelling, reality and fantasy, Paper Heart brings a fresh perspective to the modern romance and redefines the classic love story.
The Eternal Smile: Three Stories by Gene Luen Yang & Derek Kirk Kim
Promo copy:
A fantastical adventure through the worlds we live in and the worlds we create.
From two masters of the graphic novel — Gene Luen Yang (American Born Chinese) and Derek Kirk Kim (Same Difference and Other Stories) come three magical tales –
The story of a prince who defeats his greatest enemy only to discover that maybe his world is not what it had seemed.
The story of a frog who finds that just being a frog might be the way to go.
The story of a women who receives an e-mail from Prince Henry of Nigeria asking for a loan to help save his family – and gives it to him.
With vivid artwork and moving writing, Derek Kirk Kim and Gene Luen Yang test the boundaries between fantasy and reality, exploring the ways that the world of the imagination can affect real life.