What we're reading

Believe it or not, here at First Second we've been known to dip our collective nose into a picture-illustrated funnybook now and then.

Right now, Gina, First Second Marketing Guru, is reading:

Cecil and Jordan in New York: Stories

Calista, First Second Editor:

Whiteout: Melt

Colleen, First Second Designer:

Daisy Kutter: The Last Train

And Mark, First Second Editorial Director:

Scott Pilgrim Vs The Universe

Recommendations? Don't hesitate to share!

Comments

[Hollis]

well, with Daisy Kutter and Scott Pilgrim already up there, what could I add?

I just read The Magical LIfe of Long Tack Sam, and liked it a lot, a kind of hybrid history-memoir-GN-photo album thing. Lots on the Asian American immigrant experience, too, would be an intersting pair with American Born Chinese...

[Calista]

Thanks for the recs, guys!

[Zack]

I've been devouring the first two volumes of Pluto from Viz. It's a darker, more adult retelling of Osamu Tezuka's Astro Boy story "The Strongest Robot on Earth" and it's amaaaazing whether you're familiar with the storyline or not.

[David]

Trésor by Lucie Durbiano. Hoping there'll be an English translation somewhere soon.

[Calista]

(I'm also in the middle of rereading the original run of Love and Rockets, but that's pretty much my permanent state...)