The organizing principle here shouldn't be too hard to suss out. At least, that for the small collection of books on the left should be immediately obvious. These are all Dark Horse books.
While there are a couple featuring characters/creatures I like, like a pair of Aliens books (a big, fancy 2015 collection of Dave Gibbons, Mike Mignola and Kevin Nowlan's 1993 Aliens: Salvation and James Stokoe's Aliens: Dead Orbit) and a pair featuring Rober E. Howard's badass pilgrim Solomon Kane (both written, I see, by the now extremely problematic Scott Allie), most of these books were purchased because I liked the creators who made them, including Mike Mignola (The Quarantine Sketchbook, Mr. Higgins Comes Home), Stan Sakai (47 Ronin...featuring human beings!), Peter Bagge (Founding Father Funnies), Evan Dorkin and Sarah Dyer (the charmingly named Calla Cthhulhu) and so on.
There are a lot of great comics on this shelf, but probably the one I was most excited to get my hands on was 2015's Frank Frazetta's The Adventures of the Snow Man, as I had long been fascinated by that particular character, one of those from the Golden Age who I had only known from the glimpses of him on a cover and thus had to imagine what his stories might have actually been like. I wrote about it here when it first came out; it's worth noting that parts of it are more than a little racist.
Oh, and if you're wondering why on Earth I have volumes 7, 8 and 9 of Adam Warren's Empowered on the shelf, and none of the first six volumes, rest assured those are on a shelf upstairs. Somewhere.
To the right are my Oni Press books from this particular time period (with one exception, which will make sense in a moment). The first of these are Corey S. Lewis' Sharknife. If you haven't read it before, and find it in the wild anywhere, do snap it up. Actually, do so for anything by Lewis. He's a really brilliant comics creator, and his every page radiates with energy and excitement.
Then there are volumes 2 through 7 of Sophie Campbell's Wet Moon series. If you look closely (don't look closely), you'll see I had many of these for quite a while, before Campbell had changed her name. I really should update to the more recently published volumes, those with her real name on them.
Between Sharknife and Wet Moon is the non-Oni book here, 2006's The Abandoned, a done-in-one tankobon-style digest, which I believe was Campbell's first published work. It's certainly where I first saw her work, and when I became a fan of hers.
