Video Sunday: Miss Hoover? I Glued My Ear to My Shoulder.

Speaking of Sfar, I’m pretty sure Mark Siegel slipped in a Little Vampire or two of his own when he illustrated Boogie Knights.  This video’s sound quality is lamentable, but if you can get through that and ignore the music it has a lot of great things to say.  I’m particularly fond of illustrator (and First Second guru) Siegel talking about the sexiness of Marc Simont’s The Philharmonic Gets Dressed.  

Poor sound quality continues in yet another book trailer.  This one is for the rather amusing Unite or Die, coming out this year.  I have a distinct impression that there is a Ralph Wiggim reference in here.  Not only does the kid complaining about the guard look like Ralph but he talks in a very "Ms. Hoover, I ate my red crayon" kind of way.

And just to round off the book trailers, I’m feeling a little disappointed that I didn’t hear about this title until now.  You would think that a book with a title like Independent Dames would have caught my attention last year.  No such luck.  Looks good, though.

I was informed no long ago that the YA novel The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya was a comic so popular in Japan that it inspired its own dance craze.  I had a hard time believing this until I YouTubed it and found that, yes, there are many many incarnations.  As far as I can determine, the books were turned into a movie or a tv show, and that this dance was part of that.  Here’s a side by side comparison of, what I believe to be, the best of them.