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Saturday, February 7, 2009

Books Too Many Comics: Moresukine

Posted by Paul Constant on Sat, Feb 7, 2009 at 12:17 PM

4d1f/1233969635-moresukine.jpg Every couple of months, I like to do a Funny Book Review Revue in the book section. This week's book section wasn't big enough for all the comics we've gotten in the last month or so, though, and so I'm going to review the excess here on Slog.

Moresukine is a great idea: In 2006, Dirk Schwieger moved to Tokyo. He created a blog, asking people to tell him what to do in his new city. He then illustrated the assignments in his Moleskine (or Moresukine, in Japanese) notebook and posted them to his blog.

This is a really interesting way to do a travel memoir, but unfortunately it's more fun to read the comics on the blog, in all their lovely sketchy glory—Schwieger would just scan the books directly into each post, and the effect was charming. There's some additional material in the book, mainly comics by other cartoonists about Japanese stuff, but I'd have to say go with the blog on this one.

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how about a 25 things meme of things you like without reservation?

Posted by facebook on February 7, 2009 at 1:09 PM

Did anyone else think the object going towards the mouth on the cover was rather, well, phallic? Maybe, ok, not maybe, I am the seer of pervy things where there are non, but this really does!

Posted by Lara on February 7, 2009 at 3:23 PM