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Seth T. Hahne@sethhahne.bsky.social |
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Hahne rhymes with bonny || Graphic novel critic || Artist/Comics || Formerly an insufferable ass, sometimes relapsing, sorry. linktr.ee/sethhahne
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Seth T. Hahne
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Yeah, I'm very glad that First Second provides good books for younger readers but it was the first five years that I fell in love with for myself as a reader. It'll be cool to see that focus and energy return.
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Seth T. Hahne
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I can draw perfectly jagged straight lines with a bit of unpredicted curve to them. It might surprise you how good I am at that.
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Seth T. Hahne
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I think it's every five weeks
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Seth T. Hahne
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Haha that's slated for the big montage sequence that'll be a callback to the big montage sequence from book 1, which also has a tandem bike!
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Seth T. Hahne
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Drew and inked three more pages for Monkess 2. Trying to figure out MORE things for them to do can be tough.
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Seth T. Hahne
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Reading Dexter Palmer's Dream Of Perpetual Motion, got to the phrase "gruel salesman," and cackled. What a picture.
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Seth T. Hahne
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One more in the doodle series I started a year ago. Only five more pages in this book that I got for a dollar.
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Seth T. Hahne
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This was 30 years ago and I still remember it.
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Seth T. Hahne
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One of my all time favorite things is my friend who used context clues to decide that Emily Post was another word for an extended pinky finger. He'd seen 3 Stooges and they're drinking tea all high society and Moe says "Don't forget your Emily Post!" so they all extend their pinky - like a post.
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Seth T. Hahne
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Yeah, that's part of our hope! :)
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Seth T. Hahne
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As a comics creator making a sequel to a self-published children's graphic novel that came out 9 years ago, I'm of course wondering whether it's worth making a sequel. After all, so many of those enthusiastic early readers are older. But I get notes like this that help.
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Seth T. Hahne
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Holy crap.
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I'm going to have a hard time ranking the best of what I've read this year, but this is gunning for a top spot.
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Seth T. Hahne
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The True Deceiver is somewhat a heist story, but where in the heist movie where we get the putting-the-crew-together montage, in the True Deceiver it's just Katri rolling up her sleeves and saying, "Welp, here we go."
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Seth T. Hahne
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And it is with her knowledge of people, her security of What Is Just Between People, that powers the engines in the game she plays, that allows her to launch her scheme.
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Seth T. Hahne
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That attention to nature is largely gone from The True Deceiver because that realm is not as much in the attention of Katri as it is a companion to Sophia and her grandmother. Katri is attendant to people, knowledge of them the coin of her realm.
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This is a different Jansson than we got in The Summer Book. There she exulted in her descriptions of nature. Certainly there were cranky odd folk, but The Summer Book is notable for how well we get to know the island and its feel and smell and haunted demeanor.
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What a joy to spend time in another world of Jansson's mundane weirdos. There is nothing magic at work here, just the enchanted mystery of the human spirit and how weird and inadequate and transcend ant being a person can make you feel.
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A couple books ago, I was mulling over how I wanted more from Jansson's short stories - as in I wanted them to be longer. I wanted them to grow into novels or novellas so their mood could truly wash over me. What I wanted, in short, was The True Deceiver.
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This was fantastic. It's got that nervous sinister energy of a thriller but it turns out to be the nervous sinister energy of life in a world inhabited by people. I was on edge for the entirety.
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Book 13 of 2024: The True Deceiver (1982) by Tove Jansson, translated by Thomas Teal (2009), narrated by Michelle Hahne (2024).
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Jeremy Doan
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You heard from Seth and also @zeets.bsky.social and also me, this is a book that's well worth your time
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Seth T. Hahne
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Oh interesting! I never considered that it might go the magical route (and now I wonder why I didn't!), but I did immediately consider that it might be doing some tall tale stuff. And while that was only a small part of it, it does weave that throughout even up to the end with Blue Tooth.
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Seth T. Hahne
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Yeah, it was never a drag at all. I did always feel the weight of its length but I ALWAYS feel that with longer books. Really it only started out weaker because it hadn't built up the history - like moving to a new town, you're not yet invested in its stories but then gradually... you are.
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... Only on those close to its heart!
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Seth T. Hahne
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Thanks to @jeremymdoan.bsky.social for the hot stuff recommendation.
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Seth T. Hahne
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The gradual inertial build of the reader being smothered in layers of history and layers of history turned an aural doorstop into a colossal avalanche of narrative bulk. In case that didn't hit you right, let's put it into the lingua popula: We, The Drowned was a real banger.
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It was a strange reading experience. I began thinking, "This is long and alright." Later, "This is long and pretty good." Then, "This is long and I like it!" When I had three hours left, "I thought, man this is long..." and those three hours turned out the be the best yet.
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Read aloud, this book was 25 hours long. By the end it was referencing characters from thirty years ago whom I had forgotten why I knew. Like, "I know that guy was, I think, the son of the schoolteacher, but I don't remember if he was good or bad or innocuous or what."
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It's about the monsters that men can be and about how war can make monsters worse than the monsters that men can be. It's about how to destroy a life, a heart, a town, a world. It's about what happened before and what happens next.
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Seth T. Hahne
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We, The Drowned is about *thematically a lot of things. Life and death, of course, but also family and community and the boundaries of morality and freedom and love and loss and sex and war and oblivion and trauma and trauma and trauma. And, yes, the sea.
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These men are not heroes, are not particularly good, are not even particularly bad. They do good things, they do bad things. They are not valorized - save perhaps for their momentary feats such as dying while standing and remaining upright even in death.
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There are principal figures, certainly. (Principally, the family by blood or bond of the now legendary Laurids Madsen, who flew up to heaven and came back after St. Peter showed him his bare saintly ass.) By way of focusing on this handful, we come to know much of the town.
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Narrated in the plurally first-person past tense by the titularly drowned "we," Jensen's novel follows the lives and deaths and lives and deaths etc over 100 years of the Danish seafaring town of Marstal on the Danish isle of Æro, culminating in the close of WWII.
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Book 12 of 2024: We, The Drowned (2006) by Carsten Jensen, translated by Charlotte Barslund and Emma Ryder (2010), narrated by Simon Vance (2015). Damn. That was long and good and good and long. Absolutely worth all the time I put into reading it.
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5 years actually sounds ideal for 250 pages of ART. Maybe even 150 pages of ART.
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Nice ride for these guys
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Seth T. Hahne
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Maybe that's it. In Letters From Klara I enjoyed each story but wanted more from each - or maybe not more *from* each but more *of* each. That's a good, I think, in that it shows there's good in there, but it's also tough on the reader who wants and wants and wants.
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Samanta Schweblin's "Headlights" is perfectly taut. I could see it blossoming into a wonderful feminist horror novella, but it doesn't need it - save for that it might then garner some of the acclaim her Fever Dream snapped up.
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There are certainly stories that are fine on their own. I'm not wholly immune to the charm of the quick in-n-out. "The Second Bakery Attack" is exactly all it should ever be. "They're Made Out Of Meat" is a great idea that would deflate if poked at any longer.
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Seth T. Hahne
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Other stories were hints of what might be more mysterious, more full, ripened to something I could sink my teeth into. I don't need my stories to last forever, but several of these present in this collection felt like a small part of a whole that will never exist.
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A case! Jansson's title-granting story "Letters From Klara" is wonderful, a series of letters to an assortment of recipients, each written from Klara. A fun excursion, but I wanted a whole novella of these letters, meandering their way to a more robust and tangled vision of Klara and her world.
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I posted about this a little bit back (inspired by this read, actually). I just actually want more than a short story can provide. I find myself accidentally siding with 2666's Amalfitano, and perhaps ironically Bolaño, whose fiction was mostly short fiction.
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Seth T. Hahne
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Potato, potato. 😁
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Book 11 of 2024: Letters From Klara (1991) by Tove Jansson, translated by Thomas Teal (1991), narrated by Indira Varma (2024). This was a good selection of stories but in it I discovered something I knew about myself but never really voiced to myself: I don't love short stories.
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Spondule is hilarious and reminds me of someone who's always just a fair bit drunk. Like, he's got an inside into what's going on but wildly overestimates his ability to interact in social sphere in remotely acceptable ways 😅
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Seth T. Hahne
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I love when FB reminds me of art I've made. Very often, I'm surprised by how little time has passed between now and what feels like stuff I did ages ago (the first two pics). Conversely stuff from a decade ago can feel like just a couple years old. Time is weird.
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I like this 4-color set and found the white/black set visually disorienting (having seen them in no context outside these two posts).
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We haven't watched Elementary in years but a) we still know it's the best Sherlock adaptation, b) still call it The Joan Watson Show (this started around halfway thru season 2), and c) still remember that our burning question was "What awesome tie will Lucy Liu wear in this episode?"
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I stumbled across this incredible game show from New Zealand and had to share.
youtu.be/wN8bCoyehtc?...
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