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Flippo Snakepit Gets Old: Daily Diary Comics 2010- 2012 by Ben Snakepit In his most recent collection (with a seventh, Manor Threat, coming soon), our baby boy's all growned up! I've read through all his comics about his daily life starting all the way back in 2001 so I feel like we're friends! Oh...wait.....Anyway, HIGHLY RECOMMENDED, … Continue reading #2015ComicBookRenaissance: Staff Selections (7.29.15)
Someone asked at random to name one fact about Iceland would probably be able to remember that Bjork is from there. A true devotee of international culture may recall that Iceland is also the home of The Sugarcubes – a band that Bjork was in. It may then come as a surprise that this seemingly … Continue reading The Stand Up Sit Down Book Club Has Read GNARR! And Now It Wants To Be Mayor Of Austin!
So, as a fully paid up member of Austin's bus riding community, I have hours of time each week to kick back and enjoy some four colored mayhem. Here is a brief selection of some of the books I've read this month as I travel to and from downtown Austin. Enjoy! - Joe T. B.P.R.D. … Continue reading #2015ComicBookRenaissance: Reading On the Bus!!!
Welcome to our Book Club Corner, where each month we highlight books new to paperback we think would make perfect picks for your next book club discussion. If you’re looking to join a book club, we host a wide variety of free, bookseller-run book clubs right here at BookPeople. Join us! We love to talk books. Featured … Continue reading Book Club Corner Picks – July
Demi Batgirl v01 the Batgirl of Burnside by Cameron Stewart, Brenden Fletcher, & Babs Tarr With a new look (leather jacket! snap-off cape! COMBAT BOOTS!) and a new creative team, The Batgirl of Burnside marks a great new style for everybody's favorite Barbara Gordon. The first arc of Fletcher & Stewart's revamp definitely has a … Continue reading #2015ComicBookRenaissance: What We’re Reading this Week (7.8.15)
So, not be overshadowed by their older sibling, The Kids and Teen Graphic Novel sections want you to know that they themselves are also experiencing a comic book renaissance. So just as we did last week, here are the top 10 bestsellers for June 2015. ENJOY! - Joe T. BookKids Top 10 Bestselling Kids & … Continue reading #2015ComicBookRenaissance: BookKids’s Top 10 Best-Selling Graphic Novels for June 2015
2015 has been a phenomenal year for graphic novels at BookPeople. It seems that I'm not the only one experiencing a comic book renaissance these days. To celebrate the continuing relevance of the 4 colored page, I'm going to be running a hopefully weekly column covering graphic novels. To kick things off, here are our … Continue reading #2015ComicBookRenaissance: Top 10 Best-Selling Graphic Novels for June 2015
A scant few weeks ago, Nick Offerman graced us at BookPeople with his robust presence, descending from a helicopter he carved out of granite on a rope ladder he wove from snakeskin to present his new book Gumption, which he built out of words and letters. This Monday June 29th at 7:00 p.m., the Stand … Continue reading The Stand Up Sit Down Book Club Paddles Their Own Darn Canoes!
Artie Lange should be dead. With the sheer volume of heroin he's shoveled up his nose, hydrocodone he's gobbled, and scotch he's waterfalled down his throat, the ratio of his overall cellular composition must heavily favor poison over human DNA at this point. Any one of his overdoses, crashed cars, or nervous breakdowns should have … Continue reading At Long Last! The Stand Up Sit Down Book Club Crashes And Burns!!!!!!!
In 1986, Clive Barker got his hooks into the fabric of our reality and ripped our fragile, human world to ribbons, revealing a gruesome order of otherworldly, psychosexual monks known simply as the Cenobites. Since their initial appearance in The Hellbound Heart, their scarified and ecstatic visages have haunted the world's nightmares through the Hellraiser … Continue reading Steve(n) W. Has Studied The Scarlet Gospels, Soul Is Lost (A Review)
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