This previously published post from my older, now deleted series ON THE COFFEE TABLE, has been edited, updated and transferred to the new FROM MY LIBRARY series as the Seventh Reading. It documents items from my comics art library and research collection. This post focuses on Hergé and his comics art creation Tintin. I have collected an edition of the complete set of the albums plus a copy of the Tintin magazine Le Journal Des Jeunes De 7 A 77 Ans. I have also read some related scholarly works, viewed the complete Adventures of TINTIN DVD set, back in the day before Blu-ray, written ..read more

This previously published post from my older and now deleted series ON THE COFFEE TABLE, has been updated, extended and suitably transferred to the new FROM MY LIBRARY series as the seventh posting. It documents items from my library and research collection and comes with a tip of the Doctor Comics hat to Hergé and his comics art creation Tintin. I have collected an edition of the complete set of the albums plus a copy of the Tintin magazine Le Journal Des Jeunes De 7 A 77 Ans. I have also read some related scholarly works, viewed the complete Adventures of TINTIN DVD set, written and pub ..read more

UPDATE  15 APR 2024: This previously published post from my older and now deleted series ON THE COFFEE TABLE, has been updated and transferred to the new FROM MY LIBRARY series as the seventh posting. It documents items from my library and research collection and comes with a tip of the Doctor Comics hat to Hergé and his comics art creation Tintin. I have collected an edition of the complete set of the albums plus a copy of the Tintin magazine Le Journal Des Jeunes De 7 A 77 Ans. I have also read some related scholarly works, viewed the complete Adventures of TINTIN DVD set, written ..read more

UPDATE  15 APR 2024: This previously published post from my older and now deleted series ON THE COFFEE TABLE, has been updated and transferred to the new FROM MY LIBRARY series as the seventh posting. It documents items from my library and research collection and comes with a tip of the Doctor Comics hat to Hergé and his comics art creation Tintin. I have collected an edition of the complete set of the albums plus a copy of the Tintin magazine Le Journal Des Jeunes De 7 A 77 Ans. I have also read some related scholarly works, viewed the complete Adventures of TINTIN DVD set, written ..read more

UPDATE  12 APR 2024: This previously published post from my older, now deleted, series ON THE COFFEE TABLE, has been updated, edited and transferred to the new FROM MY LIBRARY series as the seventh posting. It documents items from my library collection and research materials and comes with a tip of the Doctor Comics hat to Hergé and his comics art creation Tintin. I have collected an edition of the complete set of the albums and a copy of the Tintin magazine Le Journal Des Jeunes De 7 A 77 Ans. I have also read some related scholarly works, viewed the Adventures of TINTIN DVD set, wr ..read more

This previously published post from my series ON THE COFFEE TABLE, has been transferred to the new FROM MY LIBRARY series as the seventh posting. It documents items from my library collection and research and comes with a tip of the hat to Hergé and his comics creation Tintin. I have collected an edition of the complete set of albums, a copy of the Tintin magazine Le Journal Des Jeunes De 7 A 77 Ans, read some scholarly works, acquired some items of similar clothing and accessories, an Adventures of TINTIN DVD set and written a previously published bande dessinée franco-belge exhibit ..read more

This previously published post from a different, now discarded series, has been transferred to the new FROM MY LIBRARY series. It refers to items from my library collection and comes with a tip of the hat to Hergé and his creation Tintin. I have collected an edition of the complete set of albums, a copy of the Tintin magazine Le Journal Des Jeunes De 7 A 77 Ans, read some scholarly works, acquired some items of similar clothing and accessories, a DVD set(remember DVDs) and written a previously published, bande dessinée franco-belge exhibition review. Tintin stuff (Art direction and ..read more

RESEARCH PUBLICATION PRESENTATIONS (New Post currently under construction…coming soon ..read more

UPDATE  3 FEB 2024: This previously published post has been updated, name changed and transferred from the old COFFEE TABLE series, which is being discontinued, to the current FROM MY LIBRARY series of posts, as the Sixth Reading. It was looking likely that I was going to have a yōkai Xmas with master mangaka Shigeru Mizuki material on my reading list  for December, however, the reading did not get underway until after the New Year period. In any case it was a wonderful read. This industrious creator of both autobiographical and fantasy manga with the gekiga approach to graphic story ..read more

Welcome to another visit to my modest library collection of comics, books, postcards and associated paraphernalia related to my research, study and enjoyment of the comics medium. In this series of posts I focus on a particular book or selection of books from my shelves and associated material, and take a closer look. For this post there is no image of a section of books on the shelves as I would normally provide but instead I have taken a couple of books from off the shelves and merged them with related art works (painting and sculpture) to incorporate the HALLOWEEN theme, that takes place ar ..read more