Graphic Arts

This may be a good thing, it may be a bad thing, but I find that these days, I am even more of a geek than I have ever been. Beyond getting the random sci-fi references and spending most Saturday nights glued to a television screen - devouring the latest version of a British import of fabulousness (whether it is time lords or prehistoric anomalies, I am your girl!) - I am now drawn to all things comic. Not fall down, slapstick comic. Rather, graphic novels or what we used to call back in the day simple "comic books".

I have always been a fan of comic books - having grown up with two older brothers, especially one who was a big fan of the adventures comics, I know most of the back story (up to about the early nineties) for most of the heroes of the DC and Marvel Universe. But these days, almost every new idea seems to come from graphic novels. I seemed to fall into it when I found out that one of my favourite authors also had a graphic series. So, boom, I was off to the library and ordering copies of the Sandman series. Next, it was following my television series of all time - Buffy, of course - into the realm of the comic world in order to see what the new season held.

From there, it was a short jump into other interesting story lines that grabbed my attention and would have, whether the format had been comic or otherwise. Bone, Fables, reinterpretation of the classics - you name it, I am reading it. I also have family members who are introducing me even further into the world. Someone like me who likes to read, who would sometimes choose to veg with a good book rather than be out and about with the real world. And so I am learning about the Living Dead (also a television series now) and AtomicRobo (part of a rather wonderful christmas present that tied together my love of books, the comic arts and all things Fortean). So, hello geek girl. Welcome to the world of "oh, wow! We thought she was cool"