I agree — it's a disappointment not to see Barry on this list. One! Hundred! Demons! is a great autobiographical work & the autobiographical elements woven into Picture This and What It Is are fantastic.
I agree — it's a disappointment not to see Barry on this list. One! Hundred! Demons! is a great autobiographical work & the autobiographical elements woven into Picture This and What It Is are fantastic.
I'm glad to see Gloeckner on this list, but bummed out that Lynda Barry's One! Hundred! Demons! wasn't included. It also would have been nice to see some mention of John Porcellino — his work with King Cat comics is tremendous & his graphic novel Perfect Example is one of the best "suburban coming of age stories" I've…
Yuletunes: A Collection of Alternative Pop Christmas Songs (1991) is one of the best Christmas compilations I've come across — amazing originals from Material Issue, Matthew Sweet, & a bunch of dudes that have since been long forgotten. Remarkably, most of the songs on this have held up very well over the last 20…