ABQ Graphic Novel Book Club discussion

Nine members rated the book from 1 to 10 and gave it an average rating of 5. Here are the individual scores: 3, 5, 5, 6, 5, 6, 5, 4, and 6.

Comments included:
There were cool back ground details in the signs. Some felt the exaggerated artwork was better than the writing; it was amusing but a bit formulaic. The tongue in cheek humor didn’t always land. There were too many jerks and not enough people to root for. Some were bothered by the man eating the dog. The art style reminded some of us of “Invader Zim” and “I Hate Fairyland”. A story with a similar idea of eating memories, but we thought was better executed was “I, Zombie” The concept of "food being outlawed" was also done in Kim Harrison's Hollows Series, and one of us thought she did it better. We could see why the Chew comic series would have been more engaging during the swine flu of 2009.


Other things mentioned during discussion:
Okja
Kim Harrison's Hollows Series
Junji Ito's Cat Diary: Yon & Mu
Pushing daisies
I hate fairyland
iZombie show
iZombie ebook
Iron Circus
Cheech & Chong's The Corsican Brothers


Possible titles to discuss this summer
Fun home
Making comics

We also talked about “ Paperbacks from Hell ” and other book covers

A days after we talked about those horror novel covers, I ran into this collection of art that turns songs into horror paperback covers:

http://2dnd.tumblr.com/post/163892932...

Thanks for sharing. These are amazing!