{"id":8,"date":"1997-04-01T15:44:41","date_gmt":"1997-04-01T20:44:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/eacottdesign.com\/combo\/?p=8"},"modified":"2016-01-30T15:21:34","modified_gmt":"2016-01-30T20:21:34","slug":"terry-moore-is-no-stranger-to-quality-reads","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/eacottdesign.com\/combo\/terry-moore-is-no-stranger-to-quality-reads\/","title":{"rendered":"Terry Moore is no Stranger to quality reads"},"content":{"rendered":"

By Terry Moore – Everybody\u2019s got a list of books they love and remember. I can\u2019t begin to tell you everything I love in 600 words or less, but I can<\/em> give you a primer. And to make it look of\ufb01cial, I stayed up all night alphabetizing<\/em> it! You\u2019re welcome.<\/p>\n

Anything (that starts with an \u201cA,\u201d see?) by Milo Manara. Like Butterscotch, Click!,<\/em> or the Fellini book. Manara is known for his erotic tales and beautiful art done with a single pen, but oh, God, it is so beautiful. Nobody draws like Manara. His women are sexy, with tiny noses and long legs. His linework is deceptively simple, de\ufb01ning a world of space and magni\ufb01cent architecture without heavy blacks or shading. This is a technique similar to that found in work by Carl Larsson, Aubrey Beardsley, and somebody else I can\u2019t think of right now. I adore this kind of art. If it had gone to my high school, I would have tried to ask it out, I adore it that much. Anyway, be warned: Manara\u2019s work can be very explicit, so don\u2019t try giving one of his books to your mother for Christ\u00admas. On the other hand, if your love life\u2019s gone a little stale lately\u2026<\/p>\n

By God (see, that\u2019s a \u201cB\u201d), pay any price asked for a copy of Idyll<\/em>, by Jeffrey Jones. Inside it are some of the most gorgeous pen-and-ink drawings of women you will ever \ufb01nd. I stared at this book for years. Then I lost it and haven\u2019t seen a copy since, but I still remember it. It\u2019s that good. If you get a copy, can I borrow it?<\/p>\n

Certainly, I can\u2019t leave out Nat\u00adional Lam\u00adpoon<\/em> magazines from the 1970s. This was the decade that made that magazine\u2019s reputation. P.J. O\u2019Rourke was the head edit honcho. The writers were incredibly funny. (NL\u2019s <\/i>Family Vacation<\/em> was originally a wickedly funny article from this period.) But one of the best things was in the back\u2014the comics! (Yay! The crowd goes crazy.) Two that really made an impact on me were Trots And Bonnie<\/em> and Two-Year Affair<\/em>. Two-Year Affair<\/em> was just that: the ongoing story of a couple\u2019s relationship and how they broke up. Sound familiar? It was drawn very realistically. I\u2019d never seen anything like it before. And Trots and Bonnie <\/i>was about girls and their friendship. (Hey! There\u2019s an idea, huh? Why doesn\u2019t anybody write about stuff like that nowadays? Oh, wait\u2026) T&B<\/em> also showed their most private and embarrassing moments, like the time Bonnie tried to masturbate in the bathroom while her dog made sarcastic remarks. I mean, how many times has that happened to you, y\u2019know? That\u2019s why a lot of people have cats, I think.<\/p>\n

Do I ever read anything besides comics? Have I read anything done since 1985? Sure. I read the back of my Lucky Charms box every morning. I read the cable TV guide. I\u2019ve also read and recommend everything by Robert Heinlein and Roger Zelazny. Time Enough For Love<\/em>, by Heinlein, is a masterpiece of science \ufb01ction that should be read only while listening to Beethoven or Garbage, either one\u2014but never both at once. Actually, go ahead and try it. And when your mom or girlfriend comes into the room and tells you to turn that crap down, just hand her your Manara books and shut the door. When you hear screaming from the other side of the door, you can rest assured they are squeals of delight and gratitude from another grateful convert to the world of imagination.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By Terry Moore – Everybody\u2019s got a list of books they love and remember. I can\u2019t begin to tell you everything I love in 600 words or less, but I can give you a primer. And to make it look of\ufb01cial, I stayed up all night alphabetizing it! You\u2019re welcome. Anything (that starts with an \u201cA,\u201d see?) by Milo Manara. Like Butterscotch, Click!, or the Fellini book. Manara is known for his erotic tales and beautiful art done with a single pen, but oh, God, it is so beautiful. Nobody draws like Manara. His women are sexy, with tiny noses and long legs. His linework is deceptively simple, de\ufb01ning a world of space and magni\ufb01cent architecture without heavy blacks or shading. This is a technique similar to that found in work by Carl Larsson, Aubrey Beardsley, and somebody else I can\u2019t think of right now. I adore this kind of art. If it had gone to my high school, I would have tried to ask it out, I adore it that much. Anyway, be warned: Manara\u2019s work can be very explicit, so don\u2019t try giving one of his books to your mother for Christ\u00admas. On the other hand, if your love life\u2019s gone a little stale lately\u2026 By God (see, that\u2019s a \u201cB\u201d), pay any price asked for a copy of Idyll, by Jeffrey Jones. Inside it are some of the most gorgeous pen-and-ink drawings of women you will ever \ufb01nd. I stared at this book for years. Then I lost it and haven\u2019t seen a copy since, but I still remember it. It\u2019s that good. If you get a copy, can I borrow it? Certainly, I can\u2019t leave out Nat\u00adional Lam\u00adpoon magazines from the 1970s. This was the decade that made that magazine\u2019s reputation. P.J. O\u2019Rourke was the head edit honcho. The writers were incredibly funny. (NL\u2019s Family Vacation was originally a wickedly funny article from this period.) But one of the best things was in the back\u2014the comics! (Yay! The crowd goes crazy.) Two that really made an impact on me were Trots And Bonnie and Two-Year Affair. Two-Year Affair was just that: the ongoing story of a couple\u2019s relationship and how they broke up. Sound familiar? It was drawn very realistically. I\u2019d never seen anything like it before. And Trots and Bonnie was about girls and their friendship. (Hey! There\u2019s an idea, huh? Why doesn\u2019t anybody write about stuff like that nowadays? Oh, wait\u2026) T&B also showed their most private and embarrassing moments, like the time Bonnie tried to masturbate in the bathroom while her dog made sarcastic remarks. I mean, how many times has that happened to you, y\u2019know? That\u2019s why a lot of people have cats, I think. Do I ever read anything besides comics? Have I read anything done since 1985? Sure. I read the back of my Lucky Charms box every morning. I read the cable TV guide. I\u2019ve also read and recommend everything by Robert Heinlein and Roger Zelazny. Time Enough For Love, by Heinlein, is a masterpiece of science \ufb01ction that should be read only while listening to Beethoven or Garbage, either one\u2014but never both at once. Actually, go ahead and try it. And when your mom or girlfriend comes into the room and tells you to turn that crap down, just hand her your Manara books and shut the door. When you hear screaming from the other side of the door, you can rest assured they are squeals of delight and gratitude from another grateful convert to the world of imagination.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[5,4,6],"class_list":["post-8","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-recommended-reading","tag-april-1997","tag-issue-27","tag-terry-moore"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/eacottdesign.com\/combo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/eacottdesign.com\/combo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/eacottdesign.com\/combo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/eacottdesign.com\/combo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/eacottdesign.com\/combo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"http:\/\/eacottdesign.com\/combo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":411,"href":"http:\/\/eacottdesign.com\/combo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8\/revisions\/411"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/eacottdesign.com\/combo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/eacottdesign.com\/combo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/eacottdesign.com\/combo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/eacottdesign.com\/combo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}