Thank ...

[Dave Monroe]

--- pynchonoid <pynchonoid at yahoo.com> wrote:
> 
> FYI, while I was in that independent book store I
> bought three graphic novels to give as Xmas gifts:
> American Born Chinese by Gene Luen Yang (which won
> the National Book Award, I think); Action
> Philosophers by Fred Van Lente & Ryan Dunlavey,
> collecting issues 1-3 of a fun comic series; and
> The Filth by Grant Morrison, Chris Weston, Gary
> Erskine....

Speaking of graphic, novels and/or filth ...

Lost Girls by Alan Moore & Melinda Gebbie

For more than a century, Alice, Wendy and Dorothy have
been our guides through the Wonderland, Neverland and
Land of Oz of our childhoods. Now like us, these three
lost girls have grown up and are ready to guide us
again, this time through the realms of our sexual
awakening and fulfillment. Through their familiar
fairytales they share with us their most intimate
revelations of desire in its many forms, revelations
that shine out radiantly through the dark clouds of
war gathering around a luxury Austrian hotel. Drawing
on the rich heritage of erotica, Lost Girls is the
rediscovery of the power of ecstatic writing and art
in a sublime union that only the medium of comics can
achieve. Exquisite, thoughtful, and human, Lost Girls
is a work of breathtaking scope that challenges the
very notion of art fettered by convention. This is
erotic fiction at its finest. 

http://www.topshelfcomix.com/catalog.php?type=12&title=219

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lost_Girls

... though maybe not so much Christmas.  On perhaps a
Pynchonian tip, even, though, perhaps see ...

David Boring by Daniel Clowes

Meet David Boring: a nineteen-year-old security guard
with a tortured inner life and an obsessive nature.
When he meets the girl of his dreams, things begin to
go awry: what seems too good to be true apparently is.
And what seems truest in Boring's life is that, given
the right set of circumstances (in this case, an
orgiastic cascade of vengeance, humiliation and
murder) the primal nature of humankind will come
inexorably to the fore.

http://www.randomhouse.com/pantheon/graphicnovels/boring.html

http://www.randomhouse.com/pantheon/graphicnovels/flash.html

And ...

Yossel by Joe Kubert

Everyone knows the end result - the horror, the pain,
the deaths and destruction. The Holocaust was one of
the most terrible events ever to occur. The Polish
town where Joe Kubert's family came from, Yzeran,
doesn't even exist now. Kubert considers himself
fortunate because a few short years before the
Holocaust, his father, Jacob and mother, Ettie moved
to the United States. He's always wondered what if,
though. What if we never moved? What if we were there?
Those thoughts echoed in Kubert's mind for years and
became "reality" in the October iBooks release Yossel.


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