Lewis Trondheim's "Little Nothings"

It's cause for celebration that NMB has just announced that volume 2 of Lewis Trondheim's "Little Nothings" series will be out in january. This must mean that volume 1 has sold well enough for them to continue publishing this series, which is good timely news, considering that volume 3 is already out in France.

"Little Nothings" is a series of daily strips originally published in Trondheims own online blog in French. They are about little fun or strange things that happen during his day, or about little trains of thoughts he has. In themselves they aren't much, as the title "Little Nothings" also suggests, but when you collect them together in a book, they paint a quite a fun and colorful portrait of Trondheim's daily life, little moments with his family, his geek obsessions (like playing with his kids' toy Star Wars light sabre when noone is looking) and little neuroses. It's just a great collection of little everyday moments that everyone will be able to relate to, especially semi-neurotic geeks.

NMB have started online publishing strips from the forthcoming book in a daily blog - you can go take a look. However they've degraded the strips quite badly before putting them online, so you can't get a sense of how beautiful Trondheim's penmanship and watercolors look in book form. To get a sense of that you can visit his original French blog .

"Little Nothings" is one of the best works from one of the world's leading comic book artists, and I'd suggest jumping aboard this series.