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Spinning | Tillie Walden

My August #BookSpin list! @TheAromaOfBooks

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Paris_Reads

Saga, Volume One | Brian K. Vaughan

About to reread one of my favorite series #saga. This graphic novel is the reason I came to love reading graphic novels 🥰

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Sarahreadstoomuch

Kindred: A Graphic Novel Adaptation | Octavia E Butler

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Woah. I gave my book group the option to read the novel or the graphic novel adaptation for our discussion…. It‘s been a few years since I read this novel but this brought it all back in a newly charged way. I‘m not sure I LOVE the style- some panels seemed messy but it really heightens the emotion of a tough tough story.

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Kitta

Heartstopper - Volume 5 | Alice Oseman

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⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

#hyggehour has me finishing this graphic novel series alongside Hazel. Apparently there‘s going to be a sixth one! I can‘t wait.

Really glad the #QueerBC turned me onto this series and author. I love it.

#catsoflitsy #lgbtqia2025 @Kenyazero @PuddleJumper

TheBookHippie 💚💚💚💚💚 14h

dabbe 🖤🐾🖤 13h

PuddleJumper ❤️❤️ Glad you've enjoyed it! 3h

kspenmoll 🩷🩷 1h

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Kitta

Heartstopper Volume Four | Alice Oseman

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Volume 4 of Heartstopper ❤️

Touches on mental health issues and coming out to family as a queer teen. Very heartwarming.

#queerBC @PuddleJumper

#lgbtqia2025 @Kenyazero

BarbaraBB You‘re on a roll 😀 11h

Kitta @BarbaraBB haha I am! It was so heartwarming. I also started tilt and have been loving that though. Being between jobs has meant for lots of reading time. 😂 6h

BarbaraBB Perfect for the time being! I do have a copy of the first heartstoppers and I wasn‘t drawn to it at all but now I feel I need to pick it up soon! 30m

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dabbe

Mutts | Patrick McDonnell

#julyjazz #kittens

My #1 favorite kitten: Mooch. 🖤🐾🖤

Aims42 💗💗💗💗 20h

dabbe @Aims42 🩷🩷🩷 19h

AnnCrystal 💝💝💝. 13h

dabbe @AnnCrystal 🩷🩷🩷 13h

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Chelsea.Poole

Beneath the Trees Where Nobody Sees | Patrick Horvath

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I kept hiding this from my 8 year old son, as he was convinced it was for him! The graphic murder scenes committed by these sweet looking fluffy creatures would be way too much! And the juxtaposition of this really makes this book tickle the brain. A one-sitting read with violence and gore but still a cozy vibe?? Pure entertainment!

BkClubCare Crepe myrtles! 1d

Chelsea.Poole @BkClubCare they are so good this year in my yard! 22h

BkClubCare @Chelsea.Poole yes! So many pretty colors 🌺 17h

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Robotswithpersonality

Marvel Comics: The Untold Story | Sean Howe

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A fascinating look at the endlessly renewing, creative, flawed entity that is Marvel comics.
Howe does a great job of moving the historical account from its first moments, through the decades, hitting on pivotal people, creations and events, offering a lot of context with details of the comic book industry throughout the years, and the company's restructuring along that path, how Marvel shaped and was shaped, 1/?

Robotswithpersonality 2/? by the market, trends and traditions, the evolving zeitgeist.
I appreciate the honesty inherent in acknowledging the 'he said, she said, they said' when speaking of the early years, filtered through acrimony, law suits, careers that went awry. Also the ongoing attention paid to the tension between artists and writers looking for fulfilling, creative work over which they retained creative control and maybe even ownership, which could be 1d

Robotswithpersonality 3/? leveraged for a fair share of the profits, versus a business working to manage, distribute, merchandise products, content, in order to ensure there were profits, even while dealing with 'artistic temperaments' and blown deadlines.
It's no secret at this point that the artists, for decades, and even to this day, struggle to retain ownership of their work, even creative control, but it turns out the reality is even messier, 1d

Robotswithpersonality 4/? given the Marvel method of early days, given the endless back and forth with editors and executives. The revolving door to DC and independent comics and back again of so many contributors who were exhausted and embittered by corporate responses to the seemingly unsolvable problems of remaining relevant and retail-able to the buying public.
What I 'Marvel' at is honestly how the company stayed in business long enough to become an IP farm for 1d

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Robotswithpersonality 5/? superhero movies.
Howe doesn't hesitate to lay out the dirty laundry in the text and the footnotes, but it doesn't feel salacious, rather that it is trying to honour the fact that amongst groundbreaking imagination and epic highs and lows of productivity, commercial success and critical acclaim, there was a constantly disorganized or constantly reorganized hierarchy trying to stay one step ahead of eternally toxic office politics and owner 1d

Robotswithpersonality 6/? expectations.
Aside from the truly wild moments excerpted from the psychedelic 60s, stoned 70s, and coked out 80s, what truly amused me were the times when Howe went direct to reader with the shade, no disgruntled intermediary required. There are evidently comic book moments known as just plain bad, and he does not hold back. 💅🏼
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Robotswithpersonality 7/7 I hope things continue to improve for the art and the people involved.
Now I really, really want to read a history of DC comics. 1d

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mariaku21

Cucumber Quest: The Flower Kingdom | Gigi D.G.

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This might be my favorite of the series!
All because I got more Nightmare Knight and a bit of his backstory which actually helps the overall story arc.
Overall D.G went deeper with the characters showing some growth and I'm going it continues into the next. I read what my library had so we'll see.

@Lauredhel #pantone2025

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Kitta

Heartstopper: Volume 2: A Graphic Novel (Heartstopper #2) | Alice Oseman

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Loving this series and probably going to power through all of them today 😂

Super cute coming out story.

#queerbc @PuddleJumper
#lgbtqia2025 @Kenyazero

Butterfinger I just got my copy from the library. 2d

Kitta @Butterfinger wahoo 🎉 2d

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