As a comics aficionado, whats Dave Gibbons reading now?
DG: Ah, another one of those on-the-spot questions which if I’d done my research, I’d have half a dozen really worthy things that I could say. But I’m sitting here, looking at my bookshelf and as I’ve recently tidied up my studio, I can actually see the books that are on it. I’ll just reel a few of the recent ones that I’ve been reading off, if you like. I really love a graphic novel called Alan’s War, by Emmanuel Guibert, which is kind of a biographical memoir of World War II, published by First Second. I’m looking forward to reading his next book, called The Photographer, which I’ve got on the shelf but haven’t read yet. And I greatly enjoyed David Mazzucchelli’s Asterios Polyp, which was out a month or so ago. It’s an incredible book. It’s something I’m going to have to read a couple of times because it’s so dense and it really is a great graphic novel in the true sense of the word. I’ve also got some collections of old British war comics, these little war digests they used to do. T
