Bookshelf #38

This week's bookshelf is my original First Second shelf, and, indeed, most of the books here are from the publisher. 

On the furthest left are the bigger format books, like Aaron Renier's The Unsinkable Walker Bean, a couple of George O'Connor's Olympian books, a couple of Lewis Trondheim and Fabrice Parme's Tiny Tyrant books and, turned sideways to better fit the shelf but thus hiding their spines, the first of James Sturm and company's Adventures in Cartooning books and Gene Luen Yang's Prime Baby. 

Then comes more standard-sized First Second books, including Richard Sala's Cat Burglar Black, Trondheim's Vampire Loves, Dong Hwa Kim's The Color of... trilogy and more. 

There's no real rhyme or reason to the other, non-First Second books on the shelf; I seem to have just stuck the wherever they fit.

So, laying across the top of the First Seconds are Hope Larson and Rebecca Mock's two-book adventure series Compass South and Knife's Edge and a couple of Papercutz's Smurfs collections. 

And stacked up on the right, we have the second and third volumes of Sekihiko Inui's superhero manga Ratman (Is volume 1 around here somewhere? Or did I borrow it from the library, and then decide to buy the second and third volumes for some reason?), the final five volumes of Hiromu Arakawa's Full Metal Alchemist (In this case, I do remember that I had read all the volumes of the series that my local library had somewhere around 2010 or so, and then, too impatient to wait once I was caught up, I started buying the new volumes as they were released) and my copies of Scott Pilgrim, which I guess I decided neither to shelve with my Oni books nor on one of the manga shelves, where these tankobon-style graphic novels would fit perfectly. 

At the very top and the very bottom of that stack are two books so thin you won't be able to read their spines. On the top is the collection of the "What if Henry Rollins and Gleen Danzig were a couple?"  cartoons from Igloo Tornado entitled Henry & Glenn Forever and an Oh, Comics! anthology built around the theme of food (and labeled Vol. 1 No. 16). 

If you're not from Columbus, you may not be familiar with Oh, Comics!, but it was (Is? I am no longer in Columbus!) an annual anthology series published by cartoonist Bob Corby, who runs SPACE (The Small Press And Alternative Comics Expo, which is where I first became aware of the work of Jeffrey Brown, Tom Scioli, Ed Piskor, Paul Hornschemeier and, in 2000 or 2001, bought a self-published comic called Street Angel from Jim Rugg and Brian Maruca). Flipping through it now, I see lots of names and art I recognize—Max Ink, Matt Dembicki, Craig Bogart, Mike Carrol, Pam Bliss.