#wuvable oaf: blood & metal

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it's my day off, so i am chillin after too much shoveling and doing lame grownup stuff. on tap is a buncha classic thrash metal and an overdue re-read of the brilliant @wuvable_oaf BLOOD & METAL! metal, wrasslin, romance and of course.....kitties! evil wrasslin kitties too! this book has it all. here's a few excerpts from this sequential art slobberknocker, including the rad evil flying kitty sketch Ed did for me @tcaf a few years back. we have both of @fantagraphics WUVABLE OAF collections in store, for your moment of need. musics pictured: Raging Violence,and Assassins of War by HIRAX, Show No Mercy, and Haunting The Chapel by SLAYER, Kill em All, and Ride the Lightning by Metallica. #fantagraphics #edluce #goteblud #wuvableoaf #hirax #thrashmetal #bayareathrash #slayer #pushead #shownomercy #decibelmagazine #damageink #damageinc (at Gnarnia) https://www.instagram.com/p/Cn7wXCnpoW6/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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Wuvable Oaf: Blood & Metal (2016)

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Wuvable Oaf Blood & Metal Art Exhibit and Release Party this Thursday

Wuvable Oaf Blood & Metal Art Exhibit and Release Party this Thursday #comics

Still the same wuvable Bay Area bear searching for love in the big city, Blood & Metal collects a number of Oaf short stories focusing on his involvement in the local metal and wrestling scenes. Luce celebrates his love of all things wrestling/metal/queercore with his love for his cast of characters to create an immersive environment recalling Scott Pilgrim, Love and Rockets, and Archie. Also…

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ICYMI -- Small Press Comics Criticism and Whatnot for 1/16/17 to 1/22/17

ICYMI — Small Press Comics Criticism and Whatnot for 1/16/17 to 1/22/17

Highlighting some great small press comics criticism being published, as well as other random things that have caught my eye over the past week. COMICS CRITICISM

* Andy Oliver writes about David Biskup’s SEAGRAM, “a comic of deliberate contradictions.” * Megan Purdy reviews WUVABLE OAF: BLOOD AND METAL by Ed Luce, immediately calling it “probably the raunchiest non-fuck comic I’ve read in recent…

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Books In the News

Here Comes the Sun, by Nicole Dennis-Benn (Liveright), is a finalist for a Lambda Literary Award!

Wuvable Oaf: Blood and Metal, by Ed Luce (Fantagraphics), is also a finalist for a Lambda Literary Award.

Jane Kamensky’s A Revolution in Color: The World of John Singleton Copley (Norton) has won the New York Historical Society’s 2017 American History Book Prize.

Ruth Franklin’s Shirley Jackson: A Rather Haunted Life (Liveright) has won the NBCC Award for Biography.

The Gustav Sonata, by Rose Tremain (Norton), and Do Not Say We Have Nothing, by Madeleine Thien (Norton), are both on the long-list for the Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction.

Dwight Garner recently praised The Virginia State Colony for Epileptics and Feebleminded: Poems, by Molly McCully Brown (Persea), in the New York Times, calling it "part history lesson, part séance, part ode to dread. It arrives as if clutching a spray of dead flowers. It is beautiful and devastating."

Neil Gaiman, author of Norse Mythology (still on the bestseller lists!), was interviewed on PBS Newshour on 3/17.

Paul Watson was on NPR's Morning Edition on 3/21 and is scheduled to be on NPR's 1A on 3/27 to talk about Ice Ghosts: The Epic Hunt for the Lost Franklin Expedition (Norton). The book is also being reviewed in the New York Times Book Review on 4/9.

Robert Gottlieb called Mary Astor's Purple Diary, by Edward Sorel (Liveright), "endearing...told in throbbing words and glorious color" in the 3/23 edition of the New York Review of Books.

Lizzie O’Leary will interview Zoe Fraade-Blanar, author of Superfandom: How Our Obsessions are Changing What We Buy and Who We Are (Norton), on NPR's Marketplace on 3/31.

Being Elvis: A Lonely Life, by Ray Connolly (Liveright), got 3 out of 4 stars in USA Today.

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  The finalists for the 29th annual Lambda Literary awards were announced on March 14th. As always, I find myself perusing the nominees and ending up with plenty of great books to add to my TBR shelf on Goodreads. Below, you will find a handful of the contenders (plucked from Lambda Literary’s website, where you can find the full list). These are books that I read or listened to last year (or, in the case of Building Fires in the Snow: A Collection of Alaska LGBTQ Short Fiction and Poetry, finally got my hands on last night after two months of round-and-round mail service).

I’m always interested in how a committee selects finalists out of a huge pool of incredible voices. What mixture of style, substance, judges, awareness, etc, produces the award list? Of course, many books that we love and appreciate for a variety of reasons will never make an award list. I tend to view awards as more a tool to help build library collections or create a base from which to grow my awareness of the world around me. I’m so thankful for the wider world of LGBTQIA+ literature discussions. If not for folks on Twitter liking a kickstarter campaigns for incredibly cute graphic novels or sharing a resource; or Tumblr folks reblogging a booklist or poems, my world would be that much smaller. 

The winners will be announced on June 12, 2017 during the organizations gala event in New York City. Are there any books that you feel deserve that extra award bump? Please share then with me in the comments below!

***Click on the link (reviewed or blog) next to select titles for reviews I posted here and at The Lesbrary.***

Lesbian Fiction

A Thin Bright Line, Lucy Jane Bledsoe, University of Wisconsin Press (reviewed)

Here Comes the Sun, Nicole Dennis-Benn, Liveright Publishing Corporation (reviewed)

Bisexual Fiction

Marrow Island, Alexis M. Smith, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Transgender Fiction

If I Was Your Girl, Meredith Russo, Flatiron Books (reviewed)

Lesbian Poetry

You’re the Most Beautiful Thing That Happened, ArisaWhite, Augury Books (reviewed)

Transgender Poetry

Reacquainted with Life, Kokumo, Topside Press

Lesbian Mystery

Collide-O-Scope, Andrea Bramhall, Ylva Publishing

Lesbian Memoir/Biography

I‘m Just a Person, Tig Notaro, Ecco

Indomitable: The Life of Barbara Grier, Joanne Passet, Bella Books

Gay Memoir/Biography

When We Rise, Cleve Jones, Hachette Books (blog post)

Lesbian Romance

Loving Eleanor, Susan Wittig Albert, Persevero Press (reviewed)

The Liberators of Willow Run, Marianne K. Martin, Bywater Books (reviewed)

LGBTQ Anthology

Building Fires in the Snow: A Collection of Alaska LGBTQ Short Fiction and Poetry, Martha Amore and Lucian Childs, Editors, University of Alaska Press / Snowy Owl Books Imprint

LGBTQ Children‘s/Young Adult

Girl Mans Up, M.E. Girard, Harper Teen (reviewed)

Symptoms of Being Human, Jeff Garvin, Balzer + Bray

LGBTQ Graphic Novels

Wuvable Oaf: Blood & Metal, Ed Luce, Fantagraphics Books

Lambda Literary Awards 2017 The finalists for the 29th annual Lambda Literary awards were announced on March 14th. As always, I find myself perusing the nominees and ending up with plenty of great books to add to my TBR shelf on Goodreads.

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ICYMI -- Small Press Comics Criticism and Whatnot for 1/16/17 to 1/22/17

ICYMI — Small Press Comics Criticism and Whatnot for 1/16/17 to 1/22/17

Highlighting some great small press comics criticism being published, as well as other random things that have caught my eye over the past week. COMICS CRITICISM

* Andy Oliver writes about David Biskup’s SEAGRAM, “a comic of deliberate contradictions.” * Megan Purdy reviews WUVABLE OAF: BLOOD AND METAL by Ed Luce, immediately calling it “probably the raunchiest non-fuck comic I’ve read in recent…

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Fri 1/20 - Wuvable Oaf Blood & Metal Signing with Ed Luce!

Join us in welcoming local cartoonist Ed Luce and his newest Wuvable Oaf collection BLOOD & METAL. Get a free Goteblud enamel pin with purchase of a book!

Friday, January 20 at 6 PM - RSVP on Facebook "Hot on the heels of 2015’s wildly popular Wuvable Oaf debut comes this fullcolor sequel! Still the same wuvable Bay Area bear searching for love in the big city, Blood & Metal collects a number of Oaf short stories focusing on his involvement in the local metal and wrestling scenes. Luce celebrates his love of all things wrestling/metal/queercore with his love for his cast of characters to create an immersive environment recalling Scott Pilgrim, Love and Rockets, and Archie. Also featuring tales of Oaf ’s formative childhood years, and much more!"

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Podcast: Megan Purdy of WWAC reads Wuvable Oaf: Blood & Metal

Podcast: Megan Purdy of WWAC reads Wuvable Oaf: Blood & Metal

The Reboot Comic Book Club is back in action with a reboot of our own.

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This week Chase Magnett joins Joe Schmidt as co-host. Together they will be offering new segments and expanded coverage. Don’t worry though, the heart of this show isn’t changing and they’ll continue to host guest from…

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Podcast: Megan Purdy of WWAC reads Wuvable Oaf: Blood & Metal

Podcast: Megan Purdy of WWAC reads Wuvable Oaf: Blood & Metal

The Reboot Comic Book Club is back in action with a reboot of our own.

Download the MP3 | Subscribe on iTunes | Subscribe on Stitcher | Subscribe on iHeart Radio | View Archives

This week Chase Magnett joins Joe Schmidt as co-host. Together they will be offering new segments and expanded coverage. Don’t worry though, the heart of this show isn’t changing and they’ll continue to host guest from…