Bookshelf #2

This the top shelf of the first bookshelf one sees when entering my house, just beneath all of the books I have lined up and stacked up atop it, is devoted to NBM/Papercutz graphic novels (on the left), and AdHouse books (on the right), from around the time I was in Mentor.

All the blue on the furthest left part of the shelf are the little Smurfs collections Papercutz was releasing for a while...and maybe they still are...? I was enjoying them, and buying each new one when it came out, but I lost track of them at some point and am now far enough behind that I've kinda given up on them, unsure about whether I'll be able to figure out exactly where I left off and if I'll be able to catch up again. 

Among these AdHouse books are American Barbarian (2012), which I believe was the first Tom Scioli book I had ever actually read, despite having seen him and his comics around at conventions in Columbus in the past, and a pair of early Katie Skelly books, Nurse Nurse (2012) and Operation Margerine (2014). 

As for the books laying on their backs, so that you can't see their spines, the stack to the right consists of my Bible, Steve Murphy and Michael Zulli's Puma Blues: The Complete Saga in One Volume (Dover Publications, 2015) and Batman: No Man's Land Omnibus Vol. 1 (DC Comics; 2022). I have yet to completely read any of these all the way through (I attempted the Bible a couple time in my life, but always get stuck around Leveticus). 

The smaller stack to the left consists of two prose books: Paul Hawkins' Bad Santas and Other Creepy Christmas Characters (Simon & Schuster; 2013) and Al Ridenour's The Krampus and the Old, Dark Christmas: Roots and Rebirth of the Folkloric Devil (Feral House; 2016). I have many fewer prose books than I do graphic novels, and so they tend to just be placed wherever I have open space, although I do try to keep them grouped together by subject.