Friday, January 01, 2021

Titles read in 2020

January 

The Fury of Firestorm: the Nuclear Man, #1 - 22 and annual #1 (1982-83)

Gerry Conway, writer; Pat Broderick, et al, artists


When Brooklyn Was Queer

by Hugh Ryan


The Tranquilized Tongue

by Eric Baus


Jon Sable, Freelance, #1 - 24 (1983-84)

Mike Grell, writer/artist


Two Lines: Landmarks

2013

eds. Susan Bernofsky and Christopher Merrill


Animal Man: 30th anniversary deluxe edition, vol. 1

Grant Morrisson, writer


February


The Best American Poetry 2016

Edward Hirsch, editor


The Mysteries Within

by Sherwin B. Nuland


Fear of Dancing: Red Moon anthology 2013

Jim Kacian, editor


The Animal Man Omnibus

Grant Morrisson, writer


Working Stiff: two years, 262 bodies, and the making of a medical examiner

by Judy Melinek and J. Mitchell


The Field-Ingersoll Discussion: Faith or Agnosticism

Henry Field & Robert G. Ingersoll


Nigger: the strange career of a troublesome word

by Randall Kennedy


The Hive

by Charles Burns


My Terza Rima 

by Michael Gizzi


March


On Haiku 

by Hiroaki Sato


Twilight of the Gods: a journey to the end of classic rock

by Steven Hyden


Life of a Counterfeiter & other stories

by Yasushi Inoue; translated by Michael Emmerich


Sugar Skull

by Charles Burns


Finding Them Gone: visiting China’s poets of the past

by Bill Porter / Red Pine


How It Happens

by Joyce E. Young


X-Men: Grand Design, vol. 3: X-tinction

by Ed Piskor


Unrelated Individuals Forming a Group Waiting to Cross

by Mark Yakich


The Best American Poetry 2017

Natasha Trethewey, guest ed.; David Lehman, series ed.


Reflections of the Empty Flagpole

by Eileen S. Tabios


New Shoes

by Kathleen Fraser


Married to the Demon King: Sri Daoruang and Her Demon Folk

edited/translated by Susan F. Kepner


XII Moon Poems, ’64 - ’89

by Pagan Neil


Theater of Terror: revenge of the queers

edited by Justin Hall and William O. Tyler


I’m Special & other lies we tell ourselves

by Ryan O’Connell


Under the Rock Umbrella: contemporary American poets from 1951 to 1977

edited by William Walsh


April


Slashed to Ribbons in Defense of Love & other stories

by Felice Picano


Folk Songs of the United States

California State Department of Education, 1951


Poetry

July/August 2015, v. 206 n. 4


Frogpond

2009, v. 32 n. 1


A Century of South African Poetry

edited by Michael Chapman


Slaughterhouse Five

by Kurt Vonnegut


Walking Shadows: a novel without words

by Neil Bousfield


Cyclone Fence

by Dale Jensen


Ubiquity: why catastrophes happen

by Mark Buchanan


I Paint What I See

by Gahan Wilson


Decade Dance

by Michael Lassell


Playboy’s Gahan Wilson

by Gahan Wilson


Quipu

Arthur Sze


“… and then we’ll get him!”

by Gahan Wilson


In a Spring Garden

edited by Richard Lewis; pictures by Ezra Jack Keats


The Twelve Caesars

by Suetonius


Pacific Presentss #1 & 2: The Rocketeer; The Missing Man

and The Rocketeer Special Edition #1

Dave Stevens; Steve Ditko


Blue Unicorn

Fall 2018, v. XLII n. 1


Namesake: book one

by Isabelle Melancon and Megan Lavey-Heaton


May


Surviving Through the Days: translations of Native California stories & songs

edited by Herbert W. Luthin


The Ziggy Treasury

by Tom Wilson


Blue Unicorn

Spring 2019, v. XLII n. 2

John Hart, editor

includes my poem “Customer Service”


Poetry 

Feb 2012, v. CCI n. 5

Christian Wiman, editor


Namesake: book two

by Isabelle Melancon & Megan Lavey-Heaton


Poetry 

April 2013, v. 202 n. 1

Christian Wiman, editor


Master Snickup’s Cloak

by Alexander Theroux; illustrated by Brian Froud


Poems for the Millennium, v. 4: The University of California Book of North African Literature

edited by Pierre Joris and Habib Tengour


The Uninhabitable Earth: life after warming

by David Wallace-Wells


Shake the Kaleidoscope

edited by Milton Klonsky


Encore! Encore! a new collection of Ziggy favorites

by Tom Wilson


Tintin in America

by Herge


The Portable Dante

edited by Mark Musa


Poetry

Nov 2017, v. 211 n. 2 

Don Share, editor


Jessica Farm, vol. 2

by Josh Simmons


Tender is the Night

by F. Scott Fitzgerald


The Cigars of the Pharaoh

by Herge


Nuts

by Gahan Wilson


June


Multi-America: essays on cultural wars and cultural peace

edited by Ishmael Reed


Fence

Fall-Winter 2007-08, v. 10 n. 1 & 2

R. Wolff, editor


Bridge Eight Literary Magazine

c. Spring 2008, issue 07

includes my poem “Fare for Passage”


Hanging Loose

2014, #104

eds. Hershon, Lurie, et al


White Christmas: the story of an American song

by Jody Rosen


Hanging Loose

2015, #105

eds. Hershon, Lurie, ed al


Poetry

Jan 2018, v. 211 n. 4 

Don Share, editor


The Invitation-Only Zone: the true story of North Korea’s abduction project

by Robert S. Boynton


The Rescuers

by Margery Sharp


Tales of Magic Land, vol. 1: The Wizard of the Emerald City and Urfin Jus and His Wooden Soldiers

by Alexander Volkov; translated by Peter L. Blystone


Flight

vol. 4

edited by Kazuo Kibuishi


Blue Unicorn

Fall 2019, v. XLIII n. 1

John Hart, editor


Poetry 

Feb 2018, v. 211 n. 5

Don Share, editor


Children of the Days: a calendar of human history

by Eduardo Galeano; translated by Mark Fried


July


Haiku World: an international poetry almanac

by William J. Higginson


Me 

by Elton John


Planet on the Table: poets on the reading life

edited by Sharon Bryan and William Olsen


bottle rockets 

#43 (v. 22 n. 1)

Stanford Forrester

includes one of my haiku


The Understanding Between Foxes and Light

the 2013 great weather for media annual


Poetry

March 2018, v. 211 n. 6

Don Share, editor


Slowly

by Lyn Hejinian


Who We Be: the colorization of America

by Jeff Chang


Mannequin Haus

rm. 2

Zachary Scott Hamilton, editor

includes four of my poems


Before Passing 

2015 great weather for media annual


Monastic Living

by Vernon Small


Lens

by Grace Marie Grafton


Over the Transom

2012, #22

Jonathan Hayes, editor


August


The First Treasury of Herman

by Jim Unger


The Comics Journal, special edition v. 1: Cartoonists on Cartooning

2002; Gary Groth, editor


The Blue Lotus

by Herge


Blue Unicorn

Sp 2020, v. XLIII n. 25

John Hart, ed


Poetry

Jan 2019, v. 212 n. 4

Don Share, editor


Cometbus #57

2016 

by Aaron Cometbus


The Land of Little Rain

by Mary Austin

as an ebook download from Project Gutenberg


The Broken Ear

by Herge


Poetry

Mar 2019, v. 213 n. 6

Don Share, editor


Starlight: 150 poems

by John Tranter


Cracks in the Iron Closet: travels in gay & lesbian Russian

by David Tuller


Becoming an Ancestor

by Lucille Lang Day


Hot Stuff: disco and the remaking of American culture

by Alice Echols


Black Hole

by Charles Burns


One Side Laughing: stories unlike other stories

by Damon Knight


September


The Black Island

by Herge


The Children of Harvey Milk: how LGBTQ politicians changed the world

by Andrew Reynolds


Parallel Worlds

by Michio Kaku


Legendary Children: the first decade of RuPaul’s Drag Race and the last century of queer life

by Tom Fitzgerald and Lorenzo Marquez


The Sirens of Mars: searching for life on another world

by Sarah Stewart Johnson


Poetry 

June 2019, v. 214 n. 3

Don Share, editor


The Pink Line: journeys across the world’s queer frontiers

by Mark Gevisser


Miss Bianca

by Margery Sharp


Caught in Fading Light: mountain lions, Zen masters, and wild nature

by Gary Thorp


Full-Metal Indigiqueer

by Joshua Whitehead


October


The Turret

by Margery Sharp


Black Bolt

2019 collection of a 12-issue series

by Saladin Ahmed & Christian Ward


Thrown in the Throat

by Benjamin Garcia


Jack Kirby: the epic life of the king of comics

by Tom Scioli


King Kojo

by Ruth Plumly Thompson; illustrations by Marge


Starslayer: the log of the Jolly Roger, #1 - i

created by Mike Grell, includes Rocketeer episodes


Miss Bianca in the Salt Mines

by Margery Sharp


Miss Bianca in the Orient

by Margery Sharp

as an Open Library ebook


Wallflower

by Peter Thomas Bullen


The Neanderthals Rediscovered: how modern science is rewriting their story

by Dimitra Papagianni and Michael Morse


November


Miss Bianca in the Antarctic

by Margery Sharp


Rin Tin Tin: the life and the legend

by Susan Orlean


King Ottokar’s Sceptre

by Herge


Miss Bianca and the Bridesmaid

by Margery Sharp


The Vivisection Mambo: 125 poems of the new neo-realist school

Lolita Lark, editor


Blow-drying a Chicken: observations from a working poet

by Molly Fisk


This Is Not a Novel

by David Markson


Underland: a deep time journey

by Robert MacFarlane


December


The Complete Poems of D. H. Lawrence

edited by Vivian de Sola Pinto and F. Warren Roberts


Orphan Black: Helsinki

writers: John Fawcett, Graeme Manson, Heli Kennedy; artists: Alan Quah, Wayne Nichols, Fico Ossio


A House for Mr. Biswas

by V. S. Naipaul


Sapiens: a brief history of humankind

by Yuval Noah Harari


The Crab with the Golden Claws

by Herge


The Measure of a Man

by Sidney Poitier


The Shooting Star

by Herge


Spillway

2020, #28

edited by Marsha de la O and Phil Taggart

includes my poem “Personal Testimony”


Chaser: unlocking the genius of the dog who knows a thousand words

by John W. Pilley with Hilary Hinzmann


Black Dog, Black Night: contemporary Vietnamese poetry

edited by Nguyen Do and Paul Hoover


Antidote for Night

by Marsha de la O


The More Difficult Beauty

by Molly Fisk


Avis

by Michael Gizzi


Chasing New Horizons: inside the epic first mission to Pluto

by Alan Stern and David Grinspoon

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