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2020 Works Schedule

• February 20, 2020: Laura Dean Keeps Breaking Up with Me by Mariko Tamaki & Rosemary Valero-O'Connell

• April 16, 2020: Cancelled due to C-19.

• June 18, 2020: The Forbidden Harbor by Teresa Radice & Stefano Turcon

• August 20, 2020: Making Comics by Lynda Barry

• October 15, 2020: The Strange Tale of Panorama Island by Suehiro Maruo

• December 17, 2020: Glenn Ganges in The River at Night by Kevin Huizenga

2019 Works Schedule

• My Lesbian Experience with Loneliness by Nagata Kabi

• How to Read Nancy: The Elements of Comics in Three Easy Panels by Paul Karasik & Mark Newgarden

• On a Sunbeam by Tillie Walden

• Sabrina by Nick Drnaso

• Hellboy Omnibus vol. 3: The Wild Hunt by Mike Mignola & Duncan Fegredo

• The Smell of Starving Boys by Frederik Peeters & Loo Hui Phang

2018 Works Discussed

• The Flintstones (vols. 1 & 2) by Mark Russell & Steve Pugh

• Irmina by Barbara Yelin

• The Vision (vols. 1 & 2) by Tom King & Gabriel Hernandez Walta

• Roughneck by Jeff Lemire

• My Favorite Thing is Monsters (Book One) by Emil Ferris

• Wild's End (vols. 1, 2 & 3) by Dan Abnett & I.N.J. Culbard

2017 Works Discussed

• Something New by Lucy Knisley

• 5,000 km per sec by Manuele Fior

• A Distant Neighborhood by Jiro Taniguchi

• I Kill Giants by Joe Casey & JM Ken Niimura

• Last Look by Charles Burns

• The Art of Charlie Chan Hock Chye by Sonny Liew

2016 Works Discussed

• Black Jack Volume 1 by Osamu Tezuka

• Sandman Overture by Neil Gaiman & J.H. Williams III

• Leaf by Daishu Ma

• Blacksad: Amarillo by Juan Díaz Canales & Juanjo Guarnido

• The Swords of Glass by Sylviane Corgiat & Laura Zuccheri

• Awkward and Definition by Ariel Schrag

• Batman: The Doom That Came to Gotham by Mike Mignola, Richard Pace, & Troy Nixey

• Two Brothers by Fábio Moon & Gabriel Bá

• Planetes Omnibus Volume 1 by Makoto Yukimura

2015 Works Discussed

• Moon Knight, vol. 1: From the Dead by Warren Ellis & Declan Shalvey

• The Walking Man by Jiro Taniguchi

• Ode to Kirohito by Osamu Tezuka

• Here by Richard McGuire

• The Shadow Hero by Gene Luen Yang & Sonny Liew

• Tomboy by Liz Prince

2014 Works Discussed

• Battling Boy by Paul Pope

• Boxers and Saints by Gene Luen Yang

• Lone Wolf and Cub Omnibus vol. 1 by Kazuo Koike & Goseki Kojima

• The Property by Rutu Modan

• RASL by Jeff Smith

• Blue Is the Warmest Color by Julie Maroh

2013 Works Discussed

• Through the Walls by Jean-Luc Cornette & Stephane Oiry

• Paying for It by Chester Brown

• Are You My Mother? by Alison Bechdel

• Drama by Raina Telgemeier

• Building Stories by Chris Ware

• American Flagg by Howard Chaykin

2012 Works Discussed

• Criminal: The Last of the Innocent by Ed Brubaker & Sean Phillips

• Walt Disney's Donald Duck: "Lost in the Andes" by Carl Barks

• The Death Ray by Daniel Clowes

• daytripper by Fábio Moon & Gabriel Bá

• Big Questions by Anders Nilsen

• Habibi by Craig Thompson

2011 Works Discussed

• Age of Reptiles Omnibus by Ricardo Delgado

• Cancer Vixen by Marisa Acocella Marchetto

• Gogo Monster by Taiyo Matsumoto

• Batwoman: Elegy by Greg Rucka & J.H. Williams III

• Four Color Fear: Forgotten Horror Comics of the 1950s ed. by Greg Sadowski & John Benson

• Walt & Skeezix Book One by Frank King

2010 Works Discussed

• American Born Chinese by Gene Luen Yang

• Clover by CLAMP

• Asterios Polyp by David Mazzucchelli

• Logicomix by Apostolos Doxiadis and Christos Papadimitriou

• Parker: The Hunter by Darwyn Cooke & The Hunter: A Parker Novel by Richard Stark

• Masterpiece Comics by R. Sikoryak

2009 Works Discussed

• The Arrival by Shaun Tan

• Bottomless Belly Button by Dash Shaw

• The Essential Dykes to Watch Out For by Alison Bechdel

• Bookhunter and Fleep by Jason Shiga

• The Will Eisner Reader and The Best of the Spirit by Will Eisner

• Journey, vol. 1 by William Messner-Loebs

Notes from the Selection Meeting

2008 Works Discussed

• Global Frequency by Warren Ellis & various artists

• Fun Home by Alison Bechdel

• Yotsuba&! vols. 1 & 2 by Kiyohiko Azuma

• Mister O by Lewis Trondheim

• Palestine by Joe Sacco

• Get a Life and Maybe Later by Philippe Dupuy and Charles Berberian

Next Meeting

Meetings suspended until further notice due to COVID-19.

Upcoming Meetings

The group meets on the third Thursday of every even-numbered month, from 7-9pm in Room 3039 of the Shapiro Library (except as noted). Meeting dates for 2020 will be:

• January 16 (selection meeting)
• February 20
• April 16
• June 18 (via Zoom)
• August 20 (via Zoom)
• October 15
• December 17