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1 In the “Pet Peeves” comic strip collection “More Social Than Distant,” the Peeves family of anthropomorphic dogs grapples with masking, quarantine, and social distancing. – Courtesy/Dave London When Boston-area artist Dave London and I first created the comic strip “Pet Peeves” in 2016, our main goal was to elicit some relatable chuckles telling a story beyond “family of dogs does funny stuff” wasn’t really on the agenda. Then we found ourselves in a pandemic. That’s when we decided that maybe it was time to take a cue from some of the comics artists we admired who’d really elevated the art form artists like Alison Bechdel, whose graphic memoir “The Secret to Superhuman Strength” is the latest pick in the Boston.com Book Club. Hence “More Social Than Distant,” the new Pet Peeves book, which collects the adventures of three generations of the Peeves family as they deal with such atypical comic strip subjects as masking, s ....
How Alison Bechdel’s latest novel tackles ‘what it means to be a human being’ Tod Gross of Phoenix Books talks author Alison Bechdel, the transcendence of reading, and coming of age in the disco era. Phoenix Books Tod Gross will host a live virtual event with special guest author Alison Bechdel to discuss her latest novel, The Secret to Superhuman Strength on Wednesday, May 26 at 6 p.m. Courtesy of Tod Gross Email Tod Gross got into the book business when he was fresh out of college in 1982. A buddy of his got a job at the Philadelphia-area outpost of the late Encore Books and hired Gross part time. “It was back before any Internet, so the little town I was in had probably eight bookstores,” he said. “I just really fell in love with putting the right book in someone’s hand.” ....
By: White Fang by Jack London is a classic outdoor adventure story about a wild wolf-dog s struggle to survive in the Yukon Territory during the 1890 s Gold Rush. Writer Quan Barry read it for the first time at age 11 and learned just how powerful a book can be. My name is Quan Barry, and I m the author of “We Ride Upon Sticks.” And the book that I d like to talk about, that affected me quite a bit as a writer is “White Fang” by Jack London. I have to admit, I haven t read White Fang probably since I read it when I was in seventh grade. I was 11 years old. I have this memory of sitting in the house that I grew up in as a child. I had my own bedroom, it was tiny. It had a red rug, and I have this memory of lying on the floor, on my stomach, reading White Fang for seventh grade English. ....