Steph! Meg! You fucking HAVE to watch Sigur Ros! They’re playing New York in November! Go here! Putangina naiinggit ako!!!! GRRAH!

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Wow, mehn. I’ve only recently finished off my 200-plus page reading list and am about to embark on reading every Andrew Arnold article written for Time. Apparently Time.com has a comics column, that’s been going on for almost two years now, so that’s maybe 100 articles. Wish me luck. Sadly, though it’s nice to see Time.com actually having a comics column, it’s not in the print magazine, just online. Not even the top 10 list of the year got into the magazine. Still, it’s a step in the right direction. Entertainment Weekly, for example, are going to have a comics section to go with their other sections as well, though infrequently. And Barnes & Noble in the US are considering opening a chain of stores selling only graphic novels, which, as opposed to normal comic issues, or pamphlets, are thicker and perfect-bound. One of the reasons is it’s kind of tricky stocking graphic novels in bookstores. Virgin Megastores in the US generally have pretty good graphic novel sections, but the thing is, comics is a medium, not a genre. So under the graphic novels section, the Archies are sitting beside the horror stuff and the crime books and the relationship stuff and the biographical stuff and the European erotic comics. So the graphic novel section itself has to be partitioned. You could scatter the books into their respective genres (frustratingly, before bookstores ever got it into their heads to have sections for comics or graphic novels, comics would almost always be in either the humor or science fiction sections), but there are some people who like having all the comics in one area (like me).

Bookstores in this country don’t know what to do with their comics sections, though Not Page One in Rockwell Power Plant is at least trying. They’ve got a section showing some promise in their variety: some superhero stuff, but mostly books anyone can appreciate: science fiction epics and books on understanding comics and crime stuff. Check it out if you’re in the area.

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E putangina 20 pesos lang pala yung tickets sa Spanish Film Festival e! Bye!