2014 what are you reading thread

Why was his first name censored?

weird. but yeah that guy is pretty damn talented

k*ll*an

ha, that's a weird artifact from a past ilx clusterfuck

board invader?

Yesterday in another forum Yoshitaka got censored because it has a curse word in the middle.

50% off the online D&Q catalog for purchase. I may blow some cash.
https://www.drawnandquarterly.com/shop

Ooh, I'd get the Moomin collection but it's not that much diff once postage is included.

Any other recommendations here? I might pick up a book by Seth, Tomine or Tatsumi's A Drifting Life from several years back. Maybe support that Kate Beaton book.

the kate beaton is fantastic tho i don't remember if there's anything new on it that she didn't post online

Would recommend the Paul books by Michel Rabagliati - Canadian-set autobiographical comics drawn in a lovely 'clear line' style; they're like the sunshiney opposite of Joe Matt's stuff.

pyongyang is good

My favourite D&Q books are Nonnonba by Shigeru Mizuki and Beautiful Darkness by Kerascoet.

If I had to get more I'd go for Brecht Evens and Michael DeForge.

A Drifting Life is imo not a great read all the way through. There are standout elements, but it drags badly in places.

i just bought the newest Gilbert Hernandez book, 'Bumperheads'; the 1600 page three-volume Shigeru Mizuki wartime history of Japan, 'Showa' (i love nonnonba too); the early days of Frank King collection 'Walt Before Skeezix; and 'Woman Rebel, The Margaret Sanger Story' by Peter Bagge. With postage, about 15 bucks per book which feels very fair for that stack.

As far as recommendations, I daresay I own/have read a good quarter of their catalog and you go right more than you go wrong.
It's really terribly organized on their site tho!

sorry: "own a quarter of their catalog and have read more than half"

actually i suppose that's overstating it. Anyways fuck it: good stuff there.

Matt Fraction's new feminist space epic Odyssey adaptation ODY-C is trippy and the huge double sided gatefold cosmic map & timeline are ridiculous and awesome. The Humans, new Image thing that's sort of "gonzo biker gangs on Planet of the Apes" is seedy (funeral blowjobs!) and fun to look at.

thanks for the recs everyone - i should probably crosscheck them with my local library first before i snag some stuff before the 7th

I posted above last week that I wished for an LB Cole collection, well Fantagraphics is doing one called Black Light. Great!

maybe biased due to geography but Aaron/Latour's Southern Bastards is the only thing I'm really excited about at the moment. well that and Multiversity.

Yeah, it's great. In fact, although Aaron's been around for a while, he's kind of been my great comic find for 2014 -- Thor is incredibly fun, and even his hackier stuff is just really well written. Just tons of good one-off issues on Marvel Unlimited. He's like Ennis without the juvenilia.

Really surprised Alan Moore is doing Crossed. Apparently Moore and Ennis are friends but I thought they wouldn't like each other's type of work.

What? I do not want to read that.

He's doing Crossed+100 i.e. a hundred years after the outbreak.

how many rape scenes can Alan Moore write

has he done zombie rape yet?

Apparently Moore and Ennis are friends

Have they ever met?

Don't know, it doesn't really say much about their relationship.
http://www.crossedcomic.com/2014/09/15/crossed100-a-new-monthly-series-from-alan-moore-and-gabriel-andrade/

In Kickstarter updates; LOVED The Will of Captain Crown, a pirate treasure story by Tristan Roulot and Patrick Henaff. Also got the two volumes of Sex And Violence by Gray & Palmiotti, the first was very good but the second a little formulaic.

He’s the most talented individual the medium’s ever seen or ever will;

lol

Yeah, I don't get it when fans make statements like that, even when said about my favourite comic creators it seems a bit pessimistic to say things will never surpass that level.

music hit its peak in the 1600s and it's been downhill ever since

Its a ridiculous statement even without the "ever will" imo

My current reading stack:

The Incal
The Techopriests
Judge Death: Death Lives (just finished)
Six from Sirius I & II (re-reading)
The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch (novel, re-reading)

The original Crossed was really good, possibly the best single story Ennis has ever written, but I don't have much trust in Moore's capabilities as a comic writer anymore... When was the last time he did a truly good comic book? I think the Smax mini was the last thing by him that I really enjoyed, and that was 10 years ago. And yeah, given the horribly, offendingly gratuitous depiction of rape in Neonomicon, I fear to think what he'll do with zombies... Ennis has actually been surprisingly sensitive on the subject of sexual violence in his recent comics (The Boys, Crossed), addressing it without exploiting it.

i didn't actually read the original Crossed, but one of the spinoffs, which featured several zombie rapes and gangbangs. one had a nun in a canoe!
definitely don't want to see what Moore does with that

When was the last time he did a truly good comic book?

Books 2 and 3 of Century were really fun and well-done, if we're using Smax as the benchmark. Promethea finished after Smax, too, iirc.

I liked Albion, but I guess he only did plotting for that (and I'm not sure I wouldn't rather read Jack Staff tbh).

I doubt he did very much plotting on it at all.

From A List Of Characters Alan Moore Sort Of Remembered.

Well so do I, but the narrative says he did. I'm also unsure how much his input was to any of the Avatar titles.

Masterful Marks: Cartoonists Who Changed the World

Avatar: he wrote Neonomicon for a tax bill, disavowed it years before it came out (or got drawn), then decided he quite liked it once he read it. Everything previously, he just had a chat or two to Johnston on the phone if Johnston had questions.

It's a shame I've always found the Avatar artists a bit sterile because they're the only publisher who has been around the last decade that consistently does horror titles.
Fangoria made a brief entry into comics and they looked much the same, which isn't surprising but I wonder why they were so short-lived? I've heard the company has had really bad management for several years.

Not really fond of "horrorcore" as I've heard some call it. I think "hedonistic horror" might be a better name.

Just ran through Crumb's four issues of "Hup!"
boy that guy is something

http://comicsbeat.com/dover-to-publish-a-new-edition-of-secret-teachings-of-a-comic-book-master-the-art-of-alfredo-alcala/

Nice to have a new Alfredo Alcala book coming out.

There's been a good few new things I want to buy in recent times. The comics industry is catering to me again, wheeeee!

east of west

newest humble bundle is a pile of potentially interesting comics from Dynamite...
anybody want Bob's Burgers #1?
https://www.humblebundle.com/?gift=5W2EywFvrvrRCGby