In no particular order and not terribly exhaustive…

Comics I’m Currently Reading:

– Saga (Fiona Staples & Brian K. Vaughan)
– Monstress (Marjorie Liu & Sana Takeda)
– Usagi Yojimbo (Stan Sakai)
– Head Lopper (Andrew MacLean)
– The Moon is Following Us (Daniel Warren Johnson and Riley Rossmo)
– Snotgirl (Bryan Lee O’Malley and Leslie Hung)
– Flavor Girls (Loic Locatelli)
– The Sacrificers (Rick Remender and Max Fiumara)
– The Hunger and the Dusk (G. Willow Wilson and Chris Wildgoose)
– The Abominable Charles Christopher (Karl Kerschl)
– Barbarous (Yuko Ota and Ananth Hirsh)
– Molly Knox Ostertag’s Sherlock Holmes stories
– Crow Time (Isa)
– Foxes in Love (Toivo Kaartinen)

Comics I Like:

– Vattu (Evan Dahm)
– Anything by Becky Cloonan
– Daniel Warren Johnson (Murder Falcon, Beta Ray Bill, Wonder Woman: Dead Earth, Do A Powerbomb!…)
– Catwoman Lonely City (Cliff Chiang)
– Finder (Carla Speed McNeil)
– No Mercy (Alex DeCampi and Carla Speed McNeil)
– Kaijumax (Zander Cannon)
– Paper Girls (Brian K. Vaughan & Cliff Chiang)
– Coda (Simon Spurrier and Matias Bergara) – an acid-trip, candy-colored sci-fi fantasy romp with the bard/thief Hum and his warrior wife Serka. It’s always so weird and so good.
– The Unbeatable Squirrel Girl (Ryan North and Erica Henderson)
– Jill Thompson’s Scary Godmother and Beasts of Burden (with Evan Dorkin)
– Bone (Jeff Smith)
– The Autumnlands (Kurt Busiek and Benjamin Dewey)
– Devil’s Candy (Ren and Bikkuri)
– Hooky (Míriam Bonastre Tur)
– Kill Six Billion Demons
– Gunnerkrigg Court (Tom
– Love and Rockets (Los Bros Hernandez)
– Paul Pope (THB, Escapo, The One Trick Rip-Off, Heavy Liquid, 100%, Batman: Year 100)
– Elektra Assassin (Frank Miller and Bill Sienkiewicz)
– Frank Miller (Elektra Lives Again, Ronin, Sin City, The Dark Knight Returns)
– Hellboy (Mike Mignola)
– Craig Thompson’s Blankets, Habibi, Ginseng Roots…
– Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles since the days of Eastman and Laird. My favorite storyline is the first City at War story arc from the late 90s.
– Wolverine was the first comic book I became obsessed with as a new reader. I loved John Buscemi’s artwork in the early issues, Marc Silvestri’s run with Jubilee, and Mark Texeira’s gorgeous painterly inks. I also loved Barry Windsor Smith’s Weapon X. Snikt4ever.

Favorite Books

I’m currently reading Ardent Violet and the Infinite Eye (book 2 in Alex R. White’s Starmetal Symphony series). I really loved his Salvagers series and this one is not disappointing so far.

– Ray Bradbury is my all-time favorite author. Dandelion Wine might be my favorite book of his but I love them all so much.
– Lynda Barry’s Cruddy is probably my second favorite book and her 100 Hundred Demons is pretty fantastic too.
– Alex R. White’s Salvagers Trilogy
– The Locked Tomb Series (Tamsyn Muir)
– The Broken Earth Trilogy (N.K. Jemisin)
– The Chronicles of Prydain (Lloyd Alexander)
– Terry Pratchett’s Discworld Series, especially Thud! and Going Postal
– The Kingkiller Chronicle by Patrick Rothfuss
– Things the Grandchildren Should Know by Mark Everett Oliver
– The Once and Future King, The Book of Merlyn (T.H. White)

Games I Like and Play

– Magic the Gathering. Bloomburrow hits me just right – cute animals, wielding ridiculous weapons and powers aw yiss
– Flamecraft – fantastic, deep gameplay for all ages (easy enough for kids, complex enough for experienced players) and adorable dragons by Sandara Tang, one of my favorite artists.
– The Small World series of games, especially Underground and the Necromancer’s Island expansion
– Wyrmspan – great art and great game mechanics
– Munchkin Adventure Time – my all-time favorite flavor of Munchkin
– Fire Emblem: Three Houses (Switch)
– Xenogears, Xenosaga & Xenoblade series (Playstation & Switch)
– The Untitled Goose Game (Switch)
– Ultimate Chicken Horse (Switch)
– Lovers in a Dangerous Spacetime – quite possibly the best couch coop game I’ve ever played. (Switch)

I play Quordle and Octordle daily with a small group of friends. I also love Movie Pyramid, Movie Grid, Movie Reveal and Movie Snake. I guess I like movies, huh?

Movies

My favorite movie of all-time might be The Iron Giant or maybe Wes Anderson’s Fantastic Mr. Fox? I do love animated films, especially if they’re not typical 3D movies.

– Miller & Lord’s Spiderverse movies – can’t wait for the 3rd one!
– Tarsem Singh’s The Fall and The Cell.
– Loads of Coen Brothers films (Burn After Reading, Fargo, No Country for Old Men, Raising Arizona, The Hudsucker Proxy, The Big Lebowski, O Brother Where Art Thou?, True Grit, Hail Caesar!)
– Tarantino’s Jackie Brown and Once Upon a Time in Hollywood
– Wes Anderson’s Isle of Dogs, Moonrise Kingdom, The Royal Tenenbaums, Asteroid City
– Robot Dreams
– Wall-E, of course
– Marcel the Shell with Shoes On
– Everything Everywhere All At Once
– Wong Kar Wai’s 2046, In the Mood for Love, Chungking Express
– Jim Jarmusch’s Only Lovers Left Alive, Ghost Dog,
– Guy Ritchie’s Sherlock Holmes films
– The Black Stallion – a masterclass on how to tell a story with perfect camera work and minimal dialogue
– Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves – if you haven’t seen it, you should. The only thing this movie lacks is a sequel.
– The Guardians of the Galaxy trilogy – there’s a moment in Vol 3 that will hit your heart so hard, you will remember what it is like to really love something
– Whip It – a coming of age story plus roller derby and an amazing soundtrack
– The Triplets of Belleville
– Anything by Satoshi Kon (Millenium Actress, Perfect Blue, Paprika and my favorite Tokyo Godfathers)
-Japanese animation: Cowboy Bebop, Tekkonkinkreet, Voices of a Distant Star (and pretty much anything by Makoto Shinkai), Spriggan, Akira, Ghost in the Shell, Princess Mononoke, Metropolis, Memories …

Music

My musical heart will forever belong to my favorite turntablists (Cut Chemist, DJ Shadow, Kid Koala, Dan the Automator, DJ Rap) but I work mostly to film, tv and game soundtracks. Current rotation includes:

-Johannes Bornlof – moody, achingly beautiful instrumental music
– The Pillows. Famous for the FLCL soundtracks, which are great. All of their other music is pretty great too.
– The Umbrella Academy seasons 1-4 complete playlist
– Yasunori Mitsuda’s brilliant soundtracks for Chrono Trigger, Chrono Cross, Xenogears and more.
– Yoko Kanno – composer of Cowboy Bebop, Ghost in the Shell, Vision of Escaflowne, Arjuna and more…
– Whip It soundtrack
– Woodkid
– Scores from Into the Spiderverse, Guardians of the Galaxy and pretty much any Tarantino film
– Keith Mansfield
– Songs You Know but Can’t Identify – Spotify playlist full of catchy screen music