Book Reviews

Same Sex in the City (So Your Prince Charming is Really a Cinderella): By Lauren Levin and Lauren Blitzer, 250 pgs., $14.95 By Maddy

This book combines the writing style of a women’s fashion magazine (one of the authors used to work for Teen Vogue), with the “I’m so crazy! I work a corporate job and have a lot of sex!” mentality of, say, The Real World.

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Complete Peanuts: 1959-1960, The: By Charles Schultz, 323 pgs., hardcover, $28.95 By Maddy

Peanuts: 1959-1960 is the latest in a twenty-five-book collection, published by Fantagraphics. When they’re done, Fantagraphics will have reprinted, in order, every single Peanuts strip, starting with 1950, in beautiful hardcover editions.

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Booked: The Last 150 Years Told Through Mug Shots: By Giacomo Papi, 205 pgs. By Aphid

While I would hesitate to label Booked “ingenious”—as they do in the press release that came with the book—it is without question a voyeuristic treat.

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Panda Meat: Source Book 1: Foreword by Frank Kozik, 120 pgs. By Keith

Kozik, in his ten-sentence foreword, hopes that the reader will consider Panda Meat a healthy alternative to “normal” design bibles

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Man without a Country, A: by Kurt Vonnegut, 145 pgs. By Aphid

like a Whitman’s Sampler of classic Vonnegut-isms

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I, A Me-ist or The Portable Board: By Mykel Board, 382 pgs. By Keith

I generally thought he was usually just trying to talk his way out of being a shithead.

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Enchanters Vs. Sprawlburg Springs, The: By Brian Costello, 193 pages. By Megan Pants

The Enchanters, though drunk on cough syrup when they’re above legal drinking age, and wearing orange face paint and football helmets, actually come off as believable and relatable, which is no easy feat.

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Fury’s Hour: A (Sort of) Punk Manifesto: by Warren Kinsella, 282 pgs. By Ty

I just think that the author needed to spend less time quoting Pennywise songs (in their entirety) and more time working on a more level-handed and fact-checked book.

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Comic Book Artist #6: A Tribute to Will Eisner: Edited by Jon B. Cooke, 256 pgs. By Keith

He honestly seems to be one of those mythical, near guru-like figures who managed to have a kind word of encouragement to say to everyone...

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Will You Still Love Me if I Wet the Bed?: by Liz Prince, 71 pgs. By Megan Pants

It’s hard to describe it as anything but cute.

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One Hand Jerking: by Paul Krassner, 318 pgs. By Aphid

This guy is like the Dick Butkus of Team Anti-Establishment

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Panda Meat: Source Book 1: Foreword by Frank Kozik, 120 pgs. By Keith

As it stands now, Panda Meat’s a pretty decent coffee table for me and a nice bit of portfolio work for the artists involved.

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