I am rereading The Book of Atrix Wolfe.

Ah! My finger is not on the pulse of things as it was back in the melbournecomics days – another wonderful book that’s crept out of nowhere. Not all comics, but a fair chunk – and the other writers look good too.

Anna Funder, Pat Grant, Lisa Dempster, Luke You, Ula Majewski, Shaun Tan, Tuppy McIntosh, Cristin O’Keefe Aptowicz, James Stuart, George Dunford, Max Barry, Krista Berga, Tim Parish, Aoise Stratford, Tai Snaith, Alicia Sometimes, Amelia Walker, Amelia Walker, Benjamin Gilmour, Steve Smart, Mandy Ord, Julian Novitz, Tom Keily, Laura McKay, Geoff Lemon, Jo Waite, Eddy Burger, Nick Earls, Jo Waite, Kate Crawford, Justin Heazlewood, Gabrielle Everall, Doug Hendrie, Krissy Kneen, Andrew Slattery, David Blumenstein, Kami, Tom Civil, Sophie Cunningham, Benito Di Fonzo, Lisa Greenaway, Shaun Tan, James Phelan, Josephine Rowe, Lou Smith, Lee Tran, Lam, Richard Watts, Keg de Souza, Tom Doig, Henry Feltham, Tobias Manderson-Galvin, Bravo Child, Jennifer Mills, Anna Krien, Chay-Ya Clancy, Linda Jaivin, Nicolas Low, Bec Giggs, Vanessa Berry, Chris Flynn, Daniel Watson, Anna Westbrook, Andrew Lowenthal, Luke You, Romy Ash, Ianto Ware, Augusta Supple, Shaun Tan, Leigh Redhead, Charles Firth and Fiona Katauskas

I got my copy of this wonderful book yesterday, not even knowing it was out until I visited Brunswick Bound. I haven’t had a chance to read more than the first 10 pages yet, but it is fabulous so far.

I might have to get the US edition also, for this lovely cover:

Even lovelier in the flesh. And only $10 each!

Especially pleased that Jane Eyre doesn’t come with an introduction, just the novel. There’s a few more I want, and I’ll be interested to see what else they come out with…

I want them all.

Oh, more?

This is one of those childrens books that has a timeless, ageless quality. Mark Macleod’s text is bright and simple, but also remarkably deep. Kirrily Schell’s artwork is delightfully both clear and muddy (in a good sense), and bursting with life. It illustrates the text in every sense of the word – bringing light, embellishing, clarifying and teaching.

I liked it heaps.

Thanks Anthony!!!

I am currently re-reading Kim Newman’s excellent Anno Dracula, which has proved to be the antidote I needed to Richard K. Morgan’s Black Man. The Morgan was eminently readable, but my god… the long didactic dialogues about genetics and gender… you could have snipped ALL of them out to the benefit of the book. And a small note for Morgan: Hunter-Gather societies did not die out 20, 000 years ago. They still exist, and none of them have a common history of sociopathic supermen as their leaders.