Sacred Hunger
by Barry Unsworth

Bumperhead
by Gilbert Hernandez

Today is the Last Day of the Rest of Your Life
by Ulli Lust
-Great cartooning. Loved the 2nd color in this—it's a thing I notice.

Dynamics in Action
by Alicia Juarrero

Buddhism Plain and Simple
by Steve Hagen
-Interesting to me that this revolved so much around the metaphor of "seeing" and vision and optical illusions. I'm sure I'll write more about that some time.

Heck
by Zander Cannon

Infomaniacs
by M. Thurber

Beautiful Darkness
by Fabien Vehlmann and Kerascoet

School Spirits
by Anya Davidson

The Amazing, Enlightening and Absolutely True Adventures of Katherine Whaley
by Kim Deitch

Couch Tag

by Jesse Reklaw

-In this book there's a lot of pain and chaos in his memory and in Jesse's family. He uses an ironic scheme to organize the story of instability--playful, peaceful objects like games and animals and toys. On another level, in the book there's the thing where you try to figure out who you are in relation to the Others you bounce off--family, friends--and who shape you, and it feels like he's trying to triangulate himself in relation to these other people but it's a difficult process, especially when your family has troubles. As you grow older you try to figure out yourself in relation to abstract ordering schemes you read about--comics, philosophy, being an "artist." In the "Fred Robinson story" the friendship and creative collaborative relationship between him and a friend grows organically around some arbitrary organizing devices and it seems like good times. Late in the book he twice tells anecdotes in which there are organizing schemes which lead to him taking the position of “nothing” (in psychological testing + Greek numerology) or adopting the nickname "Nothing." This instinct to sublimate life into metaphors and symbols is responsible for the book itself, and is a recognition of new possibilities for coping. In the final story he uses the alphabet and his calm, quiet—almost too quiet—cartooning style gets noisier and frantically layered. There's this feeling like the manic energy is straining to break through the ordered arrangement of the comics grid and the storytelling devices. I'm not sure how to read that change in style, in terms of what it is an expression of. It threatens to bring the whole house down around it, or become something other than an orderly comics page. It’s a fun style to look at, in the sense that there’s a lot of new psychelelic levels through which to look at the panels, but I don’t think you want to go too far down that path, or else the comic as a readable balance of mark-making and symbol will start to break down. There’s a lot of energy hidden, pent up, in Reklaw’s older normal “square” cartooning style, and it’s starting to bust out and become unpredictable, more like he is in person. 

Sibyl-Anne vs. Ratticus
by R. Macherot
-This was fun to read even if sometimes the story logic and panel compositions went pretty limp (we can probably blame deadlines, and anyways it's just a goofy kids' story). This book is a great reference for cartooning trees, grasses, bushes, etc. as panel decoration.

Fran
by Jim Woodring

Couch Tag
by Jesse Reklaw

-I wrote a long review of these, but I forgot to save it. I'll try to write them again sometime when I get some free time.

The Song of Roland
by Michael Rabagliati

Paul Joins the Scouts
by Michael Rabagliati

Black Paths
by David B

Captain Easy Vol. 3
by Roy Crane

Captain Easy Vol. 2
by Roy Crane

The Voyeurs
by Gabrielle Bell
-I really enjoyed reading this.

1-800 Mice
by Matthew Thurber
- re-read.

Dungeon Quest 3
by Joe Daly

Building Stories
by Chris Ware

Journalism
by Joe Sacco

The Man Who Grew His Beard by Olivier Schrauwen
- yes
The Understanding Monster by Theo Ellsworth
- hmm

(my version of TheJMaqExperience's "One Word Or Less Comic Reviews")

Also, good comics from SPX:
White Clay by T. Herpich
Lose #4 by DeForge
Team Society League by et.al
Pompeii by Santoro
White Mountain by Dakota McFadzean

Athos in America
by Jason

Annie Sullivan and the Trials of Helen Keller
by Joseph Lambert

Prison Pit 3
by Johnny Ryan

After School Special
by Dave Kiersh

The Furry Trap
by Josh Simmons