2014 what are you reading thread

she's so good
"you alone walk this path"

as the self-proclaimed ILX #1 dungeon fanboy, I am super excited by the last volume of twilight and plan to reread the whole goldurn thing from scratch.

I'm pissed they're not releasing the six OTHER volumes of Monsters and Parade that have already dropped in Europe and would desperately love to find scanlated copies

If Dungeon is popular enough to get a reprint, I wish they'd print it in the original size too. I don't really like reading those NBM and Cinebook half-size editions where you have to squint your eyes to see the details.

I never really felt I had to squint, they are pretty small though. The only time the shrinking was a reading problem for me was The Incal.

Does Forbidden Planet UK or Waterstones do NBM books because I never see them in shops?

don't like the smaller size either. didn't realize that they were shrunk, but you could sort of tell given the detail in the artwork

Picked up julia wertz's "the infinite wait" yesterday and plowed through it. Love her so much. Also got the first couple issues of transformers vs g.i. joe which are maybe the first floppies I've gotten in a decade.

those look crazy good but i think i'm waiting for the trade.
feel so nerdy even thinking that

nah, it's much nerdier to buy the floppies

I feel stupid just saying the title but it is good, really!

...from the creator of FART PARTY

i think we were talking about transformers vs gi joe but yes, we are saying we are more embarrassed by being into transformers vs gi joe than the new work from the creator of FART PARTY

The Infinite Wait was cool, but it felt like a bit of an intermediate work, I would've liked for her to continue her life story from where she left it in Drinking at the Movies. Though IIRC she herself says that writing about that period was hard (Drinking at the Movies hints she went through some dark times), so she did The Infinite Wait in between. That said, I loooved the part in TIW where she illustrates every job she's ever had, anyone who's had a shitty job could totally relate to that.

Agree Industry is the best of the three pieces in TIW. I havent read Drinking at the Movies yet but am planning on getting Museum of Mistakes when it comes out.

I love when people do comics about their jobs. The issue of Lucky Gabrielle Bell did about her day jobs was all-time.

carol tyler's the job thing is worth a peek
i kinda love carol tyler

Cant remember if I've posted Kurokawa John's Tumblr. Quite offbeat horror art, I think he has some stuff published in small press.

http://www.darkhorse.com/Books/24-792/Jaybird-HC

This looks quite interesting. Not familiar with the creators.

Deadpool #34 you guys.

really adore those deadpool era flashback issues.

Hip Hop Family Tree Vol 2 by Ed Piskow

I seem to be one of the few who have found Deadpool to be nothing but irritating and unnecessary, but Posehn-scripted Deadpool has me intrigued.

The latest issue might as well be subtitled 'Marvel, what were you thinking giving Rob Liefeld a job' or 'Jesus Christ, we published some seriously shitty comics in the 90s'.

loved this page of a recent deadpool

http://photos-c.ak.instagram.com/hphotos-ak-xap1/10474965_304689906376106_1843784386_n.jpg

applauso

I really liked the Cable & Deadpool series. I thought it was one of the better self-contained Marvel comic runs I have read since I started again. I've got a bunch of the new series but haven't read but the first 4-5 when he was going after the dead presidents.

Deadpool can be a really fun comic, he gets to fight guys like this sometimes.

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_FPAetrvLhD4/S9wn7OmslcI/AAAAAAAAAIc/Ho05SA_jS2c/s1600/dp_22_009.jpg

Fabian Nicieza is actually kinda underrated as a writer, for a such a steadfast Marvel company man

Anyone attend/buy any cool shit at SPX?

i bought these things

http://photos-c.ak.instagram.com/hphotos-ak-xfa1/10706762_1473433086260714_722527514_n.jpg

note here 2 ilx related items by famous gif artist "barry lutz" and a certain scissor eating baby drawn by an abbbot

abbz was there? nice!

jason shiga's "demon" rules and he was genuinely stoked to meet someone excited about his lil book

as opposed to i suppose big shot box brown whose work i adore but who was pretty workmanlike in his signing and moving on

also got a nice yumi sakugawa print in the lower left there, she was was p cool and like nice and pleased to meet a fan

"queen kirby's drag race" in mid-right is a pretty lol lil zine of kirby characters drawn in drag and renamed as, for ex, "miss thing." full support behind this.

also got a THE HUMANS patch for forthcoming Ape Motorcycle Gang book from image about which i am stoked

abbs was not there tbh it was rubyredd & husband who in tandem are 'chance press' which published abbs drawings & the fantastic z_s book

Ooo that Andre the giant looks good

yah its extremely good and our friend underrated aerosmith albums has a blurb on the back cover

...see by saying that, doesn't it sort of defeat the point of changing user... ah whatever

lol

fair, sorry mick

shiga is awesome

that's so cool that abbs thing was on sale there! Seems like it was a really good show this year.

http://www.tcj.com/fantagraphics-goes-underground/

I'm quite interested in this line. Second book looks interesting. The other book is a controversial choice because that artist received quite a backlash for his work(detailed in the article). And you can see some are unhappy with the choice to publish him.

Really hope some good books come out of this. Just hope I won't have trouble getting a hold of anything that looks good.

Also, I really don't get why people took such offense at Fantagraphics using Kickstarter. My understanding is that they were in trouble, and if that's what they needed to do to survive then fine. I'd be sad to see them go, they're the best American comics publisher of the last 20 years.

But I've always wondered why they never published more current artists who straddle mainstream and alternative fanbases. My assumption is that they can't afford those artists.

fukitor looks like a blast

Karns is awesome! This is good news

'the 42nd parallel' which is really good

I could swear somebody pointed me in the direction of The Undertaking of Lily Chen here, not bad.

anybody reading 'pretty deadly'? i hear good things

i bought a bunch of fukitors from the artist; they're fun and stupid and well drawn.

why they never published more current artists who straddle mainstream and alternative fanbases.

such as?

Richard Corben springs to mind first. I heard Fantagraphics offered to reprint all his underground era work but he said he already had plans for it (presumably Dark Horse or his own Fantagor).

They did publish some Barry Windsor Smith, Tom Sutton, Steve Ditko and Frank Thorne books.

I think they wanted to give Gil Kane something when he was alive but he couldn't find a passion project and it was unlikely they could compete with Marvel and DCs pay.

Guys like Mike Kaluta, Mike Ploog, Bernie Wrightson and Alex Nino are probably doing fine on a mixture of illustration, concept art, commissions and a few comics here and there. I doubt that most of them have a burning desire to tell their own stories but just enjoy drawing.
In a fantasy world I'd love to see what they'd do if they were paid a comfortable salary to just draw whatever they like, even if it was splash page books (which is what an increasing amount of small press artists are doing). But I'm sure Kaluta does take Starstruck seriously.

The new Barry Windsor Smith and Ditko (one issue of Strange Avenging Tales) books were very brief but Sutton (going under the Dementia name) and Thorne were getting a few years work from Fantagraphics.