I just read this neat little graphic novel that I found at the book store today. It's called Clumsy and it was written and drawn by Jeffrey Brown. I always check the graphic novel section when I'm in a book store, though I really don't buy all that much. I don't care for the Japanime style that so many of them seem to love lately and I don't like black and white or poorly drawn comics either. Honestly, I just intensely well written superhero stories and pretty much anything Neil Gaiman's ever worked on. But, for whatever reason, Clumsy struck me as something I wanted to buy. It's black and white and poorly drawn-sorry, that's just the truth-but it's just so good. The guy cobbled together all these little snippets of his relationship with one girl, putting them achronologically and using abreviated storytelling techniques that make the whole book seem like a graphic poem. It's pretty neat and very honest. At times it's funny, cute, pathetic, sophmoric, juvenile, graphic, sad, and a little heartbreaking. So that was a nice little unexpected purchase. Maybe I'll have to expand my comic horizons a littel from now on.