Rolling SERIOUS GRAPHIC LITERATURE Thread for Comics in 2016

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Zackly.

Has everybody read Rosalie Lightning?

no

Just the excerpt in Best American Comics, but it looked devastating.

it hasn't been published here

Guys go see the Gary PAnter zines show at Printed Matter if you are in the NYC area. It's wonderful and some/most of the editions on exhbit are for sale. Very reasonable ,too, for such rare stuff. i walked away with three beautiful old books -- and I met Charles Burns as well as GP!

rosalie lightning's excerpts ARE devastating

http://www.darkhorse.com/Books/28-756/Giganto-Maxia-TPB

There's a preview. Hope this is self contained.

I realize it is not from 2016 but "Weapons of Mass Diplomacy" is great stuff.

yeah, definitely a big fan of Blain's

the subject material hit close to home for about 200 reasons but most of all it was very nice to know that bureaucratic boiler rooms are basically the same everywhere

I felt really bad for the lady in charge of the MENA desk - whatever the french is for thrown under the bus, yeesh, and then (as is true IMLE) that character just kind of goes POOF

picked up a copy of beverly by nick drnaso yesterday after reading this endorsement by chris ware

Nick Drnaso’s Beverly captures such a recognizable, raw feeling of the “now” that if it was a film Drnaso would be heralded as a “stunning new directorial voice.” If it was a novel, he would be a “literary sensation.” But Beverly’s chilled windowpane views into the fogged American psyche are not cartoon copies of film or literature. They’re something completely new.

read a few pages this afternoon, pretty standard d&q style but quite good

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wow, i'm old enough now to see a generation influenced by ware, kinda scary.
i will wanna read that though.

I like some of their books and respect that they're one of the best publishers for creators but I've never liked the style of most of Drawn And Quarterly's stuff.

Re: that music thread about music you admire but don't love. There's hundreds of comic artists like that for me. Melinda Gebbie, Sue Coe, S Clay Wilson, Robert Crumb.

Really like some of Frank Quitely's work, but I wish the faces were a lot more expressive.

Used to be a big John Romita fan but now I just find his work quite pleasant. Romita Jr is quite solid too but never loved him.
My appreciation of Gil Kane's art has diminished too.

Makoto Kobayashi (What's Michael?, Club 9 has a really charming style but I've never given it a proper go.
Nell Brinkley has serious skills, really lovely stuff but I'm still a bit hesitant about something.
Toying with getting their books someday.

you can't love everything!

I've also never responded super strongly to the DQ 'house style'

The D&Q house style of Joe Matt, Julie Doucet, Tom Gauld, Rutu Modan, Michael DeForge, Lynda Barry and Lisa Hanawalt

wow, i'm old enough now to see a generation influenced by ware, kinda scary

Top Notch came out 18 years ago!

julie was always an exception

and in tom devlin era their aesthetic opened up a lot more, v true

(early '90s Seth and any period Maurice Vellekoop is the one case you can make for a house style, and Chet & Joe were influencing each other at that time - but the latter two had established voices already, and Julie's always in there rattying it up - and still, that's a quarter of a century ago)

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actually '90s Oliveros does look like a mix of Chet, Joe, Seth, Maurice AND Julie!

it's taken me a while but I'm reading sic's response posts with a touch of humor instead of the pedantry I was attributing to them and it's much better

sorry for the long-term misreading of affect, sic!

D&Q is great, everything i've read that they've published was great and everything i haven't read seemed great. btw is there anywhere reliable to t0rr3nt alt-comix stuff? or am i just a horrible person for even asking that. i know there is a huge machine for superhero comics. i live around the corner from D+Q store and buy stuff p frequently but sometimes i wanna take stuff for a spin on my ipad first u know

They've definitely become more varied but in the decade that I bought Previews (about 98-08) there seemed a clear preference for simple clean flat stillness, which is fine because if I could publish anything I wanted it would definitely be narrow compared to Fantagraphics (most publishers are though).

I'm glad I don't like everything, I have incredibly narrow taste in comics these days but I'm not really bothered about it.

just stand in the store and read things until they kick you out xp

I generally appreciate Sic's pedantry, I like to think of him as Pedantus The Korrector!

how can an ilxor named sic not be correct-y? Cmon now.

a spoonful of humour makes the pedantry go down

obviously good, but i'll mention it anyway - really, really dug those MARCH books about John Lewis

Elsewhere in the jo(h)n lewis nomensphere-- if you are in the sea-tac (or hell even the bain-belle-poulsb-rent-issq) area come say hi to me tomorrow at this!

http://blog.seattlepi.com/seattlearts/2016/03/01/in-the-story-room-5-seattle-cartoonists-opening-march-10-at-dendroica-gallery/

Tbh I have no idea which ilxors are seattleites... But I'll be in town til Sunday night so feel free to shout.

Reading "Invisible Republic" from Image, which is an attempt to do a Eurocomix-style epic science fiction story, a bit more adult and much less reliant on pop culture tropes than the usual Image stuff. Surprised there's so little other stuff like this - i.e. adult(ish) novelistic narratives. The art is *really* great, kinda Michael Lark-ish, wish the main characters were slightly less boring, but think I'll stick with it - supposed to be 30 issues or so.

I liked the premise of that one, but will probably wait until it's finished

book six of antares is out and all i can find is the preview...

It's available on Amazon UK and Cinebook's own site, at least. Thanks for reminding me that it's out, I ordered it immediately! Leo's comics have been pretty much the best sci-fi comic released in English in recent years, they have a such a lovely, old-school approach to science fiction, with heavy doses of sense of wonder and freakiness.

Oh, glad to hear they're worth reading, my local library has the set.

yeah, definitely get those! they're awesome!

I'm pathetic, I've got like six Dungeon books in the house I haven't read, but I can't bring myself to do it because I don't want to finish them.

In other news I read The Sculptor and it is *terrible*. I don't know what I was expecting. I like seeing McCloud speak and the Comics books are good fun. But this was Bad, and it made me feel guilty because it's clearly a labour of love. I should know by now to avoid books that come with Neil Gaiman quotes on the back cover.

Read Ales Kot's series Zero. Pretty interesting, maybe more thoughts later

McCloud has not drawn an even "okay" comic since 1992

mmmmaybe that infinite-scroll format Zot revival reached "okay," but has anyone ever re-read it?

come to think of it, i don't think i've read any McCloud since Making Comics. my library does have The Sculptor, i may give it a shot

there's a new Dungeon out now I think!
and chuck, you should finish Dungeon. The ending is lackluster but the path there is special.

come to think of it, i don't think i've read any McCloud since Making Comics.

the only other thing he's done since then was the Chrome instruction booklet afaik

Yeah someone wrote a Dungeon reading order a while back on ILC which was totally invaluable. I will finish it! Have also been saving Simonson's Thor and Miller's Daredevil runs.

I fell off on buying Dungeon, and I know that some of the ones I do own are fetching exorbitant amounts so I'm wary about seeking out the ones that I don't own.

Are you in the UK, Old Lunch? I could always send 'em to you when I'm done. Or, alternately, Gosh occasionally get them in and sells them at cover price, and they do fluctuate back to actual affordable prices on Amazon eventually.

didn't even know Dungeon ended. let's get an omnibus

Wonder how many pages that would be? Could it fit in one book.