I honestly wasn’t sure what to expect when I picked up a copy of Push the Wall, the new autobiography by comics artist Frank Miller—he of Batman: The Dark Knight Returns and Sin City fame. Would the book be full of pointless, juvenile observations, like his book-length co-interview with Will Eisner? Would it be replete with self-aggrandizing rants, perhaps sprinkled with some of the fascist rhetoric that has increasingly crept into his work? Or would it be a, uh … sober look back at his life and achievements?
In short, how much bullshit would I have to put up with? » More... »
Another quick update: I’ve decided to expand my Chrome extension beyond the San Francisco Public Library, to be able to lookup books at libraries all across the Bay Area. I think it covers most of them, with some exceptions (for example, Berkeley). More may be added in the future. For now, the full list is:
In the spring of 1942, George Takei and his family were forcibly removed from their home in Los Angeles, subject to internment as people of Japanese descent living in the United States during World War II. George was five years old. Their next stop was a literal horse stable, where they would spend months before being moved to a series of camps, little better than prisons, where they would be surrounded by barbed wire fences and watched by armed guards.
I don’t read a lot of memoirs. None, really. I can get behind a good biography, and maybe even an autobiography, sometimes. But the idea of slogging through a few hundred pages of the self-important reminisces of someone gazing through the lens of their own nostalgia appeals to me about as much as being FedExed the plates from whatever they ate for dinner last night. But when I heard famous NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden had published such a book, my curiosity got the better of me and I picked up a copy. For the most part, it was worth it. 
When Netflix released Devilman Crybaby last year, I enjoyed the anime, but it made me realize that although I was cursorily familiar with the character, I had never really gone back and read Go Nagai’s original manga from the early 1970s. When I found out that Seven Seas Entertainment had released Devilman: The Classic Collection in two volumes the same year, I decided to check it out. And what a ride it is.