Rolling 2015 Reading Funnybooks Thread

Yeah I got 3 of his art books, they're good but I'm just not into his pure cartoon style. I prefer it when he keeps some level of organic realism and caricature.

upto book 16 of usagi and still not tired of it. so great. glad i gave it a chance (despite its overwhelming quantity)

I've been on a Kieron Gillen binge and decide I like him a lot more than I thought I did. The first Phonogram is still rubbish and irritating. But everything after I've enjoyed A LOT, even the Phonogram sequel. (X-Men and Iron Man, I haven't read, and the Nazi/3 stuff looks awful and might skip).

― Chuck_Tatum, Sunday, March 1, 2015 9:46 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

yeah i can't put my finger on what i dislike about the first phonogram except that i know it gave me a headache

have you done young avengers yet? its ace

also the new WicDiv takes place in part at a rave and i adored how they handled it

i have mixed feelings about this http://comicsalliance.com/joe-casey-jim-mahfood-miami-vice/

just read a scanlated copy of atar gull, that's a helluva piece of work there
http://siguealconejoblanco.es/comics/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/Atar-Gull-011.jpg
http://www.avant-verlag.de/comic/atar_gull_oder_die_geschichte_eines_modellsklaven

I got Jojo's Bizarre Adventure part 1/book 1 and Celestial Bibendum. Kinda itching to get those Koike omnibuses but should hold back.

I feel like there's been a huge increase in hardcovers for comics over the past few years and although it looks nicer I'd prefer cheaper books.

This is a problem for me too, kind of a big one. I basically can't afford comics anymore.

How much does it typically add to the cost?

I still don't understand why hardcovers are such a big deal. The only disadvantage for me is that softcovers curl up in the winter cold.

I remember Steve Ditko Space Wars being £10 extra in hardcover. I thought that was nuts.

How much does it typically add to the cost?

...?

If a new cartoonist's debut is a US$35 hardcover rather than a $3 pamphlet, then this adds $32 to the price, plus $15-20 to postage, all before the exchange rate. This is p obviously a barrier to sampling new artists

I understand the priciness of hardcovers is not good, but on the other hand I have so many old paperback comics where the pages have started falling out because the glue tends to weaken with age, so these days I'm always buying bound/hardcover versions of comics if they're available.

But most of the comics I read I borrow from the library, I only buy the ones that I really want and/or that aren't available in local libraries.

http://www.darkhorse.com/Books/14-170/The-Dead-Rider-TPB

Surprised to see this. This series started ages ago and it was called Dead Lander but there was something else called that, so the name had to be changed. There might have even been a third name that was advertised. After all these years the series is finished in book form.
Anyway, Kevin Ferrara is very talented. He's done a lot of the best work for the Creepy revival.

Also
http://www.darkhorse.com/Books/25-034/Creepy-Presents-Alex-Toth-HC

That Toth volume looks a bargain at $20.

I was looking at that recent Howard Nostrand horror comics hardcover the other day, and thinking that was a bit of a bargain too, until I saw how lousy some of the repro was. Shame.

tons of the transformers issues, pay what u want:
https://www.humblebundle.com/books

Getting back to Shigeru Mizuki, did anyone read the Kitaro compilation? I might have passed on that and Cat Eyed Boy because I thought Oninbo was the weakest of the Hideshi Hino horror series. They all look quite similar.

http://www.paulgravett.com/articles/article/sothebys_comics_art_auction
produced almost 4 million euro in sales
http://www.paulgravett.com/articles2/article_images/TintinStatueSOthebys.jpg
^sold for 261k Euros!
http://www.paulgravett.com/articles2/article_images/TezukaSothebys.jpg
^24k euro!
http://www.paulgravett.com/articles2/article_images/StevensSothebys.jpg
^60k euro!

ah well, just go to the link.

I haven't read this new Howard the Duck, but I did just snort at this new tagline
"Trapped in a world he's grown accustomed to"

https://storify.com/debaoki/do-you-have-to-be-japanese-to-make-manga

A series of Twitter posts. It starts off about one webcomic then gets more interesting, with anecdotes about general perceptions of comics from different places, styles, cultures.

lol fucking tumblrettes

in less psychotic news: Archie Is Doing A Digital Collection Of Stories About Wrestling

Woo!

Hats off to Vic Fluro for bringing Nextwave into 616 continuity.

everyone in 616 pretends the events didn't happen.... but they did

you're gonna have to clarify that for me! how did that happen?
but it's a weird time for Marvel. I just found about that X-Men '92 series that puts that animated series into the Secret Wars multiverse. sadly it seems to be written by an asshole who has quickly apologized for years of online abuse

that's an interesting story

Monica Rambeau has been in Mighty Avengers for a while as Spectrum, behaving like a fairly new character and drawn in a Greg Land style. She turns up in Secret Avengers this week and creates a very bright flash while talking about the Beyond Corporation and after she steps out of the light that stops you from seeing her... She looks like she's drawn by Stuart Immonen and is wearing her Nextwave uniform again. Plus she uses the skull asterisks from The Captain's name.

heh nice

hah! She did mumble something in a previous Mighty Avengers issue about having done all this shit in the midwest no one seems to remember

did this get conversation on a different board?
https://storify.com/debaoki/do-you-have-to-be-japanese-to-make-manga

I can't even begin to understand what's happening

Kind of glad I just try to read The Walking Dead and some crime comics and shit, the DC Convergence event and THE END OF THE MARVEL UNIVERSE and trying to parse what's happening over 50 different titles would drive me insane.

what's happening with the Marvel Secret Wars event*

that stuff about chris sims harrassing valerie d'orazio is really disappointing. i've been reading and enjoying his comics blogging for years and i was intrigued by his x-men project. i had no idea he was such a fucking asshole :(

weird that a grown man known for his astonishing breadth of knowledge about comic books and children's television is an inept creep when dealing with women

true, but i never got that impression from the stuff of his i've read - he works for comics alliance which is pretty good at supporting diversity in comics afaik - which makes it all the more shitty.

he can be a reasonably engaging writer for sure. still one time i saw a picture of him wearing a my little pony tshirt and it was like, oh ok just because this guy is more coherent than most of his peers doesn't mean he's not a creep.

He's also guested a few times on Rachel and Miles, and they're hella progressive, thoughtful, don't seem like they'd hold much truck with misogynist bullying. I have no doubt that Rachel has weighed in on this, but I haven't had the time to check her twitter or blog.

http://postcardsfromspace.tumblr.com/post/113923434118/do-you-have-any-advice-thought-on-processing-the

did this get conversation on a different board?
https://storify.com/debaoki/do-you-have-to-be-japanese-to-make-manga

― Maybe in 100 years someone will say damn Dawn was dope. (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 19 March 2015 03:27

Don't know.

Quite funny but also terrifying, that guy who says he could get 20 years jail in Indonesia for what he draws.

I don't think the negative reactions to a lot of typical modern angular Japanese style stuff are totally unreasonable, any more than people not liking the Pixar or 90s superhero style. I don't think it's a good thing that mainstream Japanese styles tend to be treated so separately.
I remember being told by art teachers to broaden my horizons for art and it hurt at the time but it's what a good teacher should do. It should be a cause for concern when a student places themselves firmly in a narrow, already established style with all the solutions ready for them; some kids will grow out of it by themselves but some will need more encouragement.

sims has posted a piece on comicsalliance: http://comicsalliance.com/ask-chris-being-part-of-the-problem/

about as mature and reasoned a self-examination as you could hope for, i guess, but that's not going to cure valerie d'orazio's ptsd.

jesus, that backlash in what forks posted is ridiculous. american tumblr youth screaming at fellow americans for doing anime/manga wrong because they aren't japanese seems very tumblr, though

"I have PTSD—post-traumatic stress disorder. I have specifically been diagnosed with it because of cyberbullying that I experienced between 2007-2010."

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

care to elaborate on that?

¯\_(ツ)_/¯ ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

okay, then i guess i'll continue to assume that you're consciously choosing to disbelieve a woman's claims that bullying led to mental health problems

i think mordy believes her, his stance is more tough shit/deal with it

at least that's how i read those runes

i guess we'll never know

imo there are definitely shitty parts of the web that are worth avoiding, especially if they're places where you've been repeatedly harassed, but when it comes down to it you can't really be a successful person in the comics world without any sort of engagement in the news/forum/social network realm. and if those areas are full of harassment, it hinders your professional career.

there's a bunch of macho shit-talk that is completely unnecessary and some forums and websites should probably be shunned, but if some asshole writer is specifically calling you out, repeatedly, for no reason other than the fact you're a woman and a convenient target, it's bullshit.

the shrugging-off of her concerns might be intended to read like "well, if it bothers you when these communities are shitty, don't engage in them!" but the real message is "if if bothers you, I guess comics aren't for you!"

otm