This week's bookshelf is the penultimate of the four on this particular tiny white unit, upon the small shelves of which only the smallest of books can be held. The best represented publisher here is probably Top Shelf, but more so of their relationship with a particular cartoonist at the particular point of time these books mostly came from rather than anything else.If there is a cohesive organizing principle here, other than the small size of the books, it is probably that all of the books left of that Dennis the Menace collection there are works of comics as literature...or the cartoonists who make comics as literature having fun with genre silliness.To the farthest left, we have the 2005 Salamander Dream from AdHouse, which I believe is cartoonist Hope Larson's first published work, aside from appearances in anthologies and online. She's certainly come a long way since, with 2012's A Wrinkle in Time graphic novel adaptation seemingly being a particular milestone, after which her…
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