Nah, rilly. Like, I've enjoyed the hell out of some. Went on a thorough dive of John Smith's work, majorly got my Neal Adams on, had a coffee & chat with Blaise Larmee, caught up with ev-er-y-thing the south's public library system denied me, and added new Al Columbia to my collection for the first time in years...! And then there's the li'l free libraries of Chicago, gifting me Raymond Briggs' 'When The Wind Blows' and 'The Sky Is Blue With A Single Cloud' by Kuniko Tsurita. What else?
I finally got to read the concluding issues of some Unfinished Symphonies that've been hanging fire in my mind for the greater part of thirty to forty years. Like, I have every issue of 'night life' by Derek McCulloch & Simon Tristam now. Read all of 'Exquisite Corpse' by the Pander Brothers. Completed reading 'The Puma Blues' by Stephen Murphy & Michael Zulli.
There's a lot of stuff rolling into my In stack. A lot of Corben coming. Some new manga, some ancient. Doing a few best-of-the-year books from various lists-- Lee Lai's 'Cannon' is SHARP stuff.
Gave away quite a few, too. All of 'Kaijumax' by Zander Cannon went to a co-worker. 'Tis the season! Passed my singles of 'Rare Flavours' along to a fellow comicker I'd like to jam with, one day. And I've plain lost track of everything I donated to l'il free libraries, but there were goodly comix scattered & sown in the fertile plains of Chi, O my bruddahs. This is a Pulp Towne.
Did I accomplish any of my personal goals? Not as such. I'm hackin' at comix. Got some projects ready for the next stage. Got some brewing. Planning & penciling, planning & penciling. You know how it is.
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