Rolling 2015 Reading Funnybooks Thread

maybe ilx mail me to discuss that

Happy to hear about the Moebius reprints. Feels like his stuff is perpetually out of print...

http://www.themarysue.com/diversity-comics-industry/

I just quickly rummaged through the first 20 chapters of District 14 and it is HIGHLY recommended for anyone who is into Dungeon or was a fan of funny aminal Fantagraphics series "Critters".
Really great, maybe the best thing I've read lately; amazing art and amazing story.
http://www.humanoids.com/book/294
http://www.amazon.com/District-14-Pierre-Gabus/dp/159465056X
http://www.tcj.com/reviews/district-14-season-1/

New Amazing Spider-Man, thoroughly meh.

Well, it is still Dan Slott.

Thanks, I'll definitely pick up District 14, love Dungeon.

(In fact Dungeon's so good I've stopped reading it because I don't want to run out.)

Only 2 quid for Amazon ebook. Done. Thanks!

you'll love it. and yes, dungeon is basically my favorite book at the moment.

Happy to hear about the Moebius reprints. Feels like his stuff is perpetually out of print...

that's because Is4b3ll3 G1r4ud has kept it out of print for the last couple of decades

lol was it really necessary to googleproof that. i know nothing of this, though

RIP Dennis Eichhorn
http://www.thestranger.com/blogs/slog/2015/10/09/22985836/sad-stuff-underground-comics-giant-dennis-eichhorn-is-dead

I'll be damned if there's a better drawn American comic this year than the Cursed Pirate Girl annual.

i just got my first exposure to that book; the art is an interesting blend of Tony Millionaire and Geoff Darrow

You mean the collection or the new annual?

the books. it's new to me.

Box Brown guys! He's really good!

hell yeah he is! got a print of the cover of Number 2 at spx this year

I hadn't heard of Cursed Pirate Girl but I do buy Box Brown comics, so I googled and this is not by Box Brown

Kate Beaton signing in London last night. Queues round the block for three hours!

Had a look at Cursed Pirate Girl online, seemed like a lot of noodly oodly overworked filigree

http://jeremybastian.blogspot.co.uk/

Lots of his drawings here.

Cursed Pirate Girl art / Box Brown are two different thoughts

Chuck, what did you think of District?

here's the print i got

https://instagram.com/p/70538vBHm_/

Grr, I had to refund District on Amazon, it was only the first issue, not the first volume (as it was billed).

Saw a copy in Gosh last night, though, so I might just grab a print copy. New editions of Corto Maltese looked good, too.

I just finished reading Jillian Tamaki's "Supermutant Magic Academy", and liked it a lot. It's basically a collection of one-page strips (it was originally a webcomic) that gradually becomes a sort of a larger story; I guess you could say it's like Peanuts, if Peanuts took place in a high school that's a combination of Charles Xavier's School for Gifted Youngsters and Hogwarts. Awesome stuff, deep and funny and moving, I can't imagine reading a better new comic this year. I guess I'll now have to delve into Tamaki's other comics, which I weren't familiar with before this.

Her graphic novel 'This One Summer' with her sister, Mariko Tamaki, is just a lovely piece of work.

(Cousin.)

Skim, their other collaboration, is great too.

whoops, cousin

i'll stan for Skim, i need to read more of her stuff

Read Supermutant Magic Academy on your rec, pretty good. Like you said, it was an ongoing webcomic and the effort varies wildly, but overall very charming

someone compared s1ocki's new film to Tamaki's Sex Coven on twooter the other day #toomuchtimeonilx

aw yeah
https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.207954002578217.59091.207950722578545&type=3

that link requires a facebook account

How odd - I don't have a facebook account, this computer has never been used by anyone with a facebook account, but I can see the page.

That's rad. I'd be more psyched if it was Marvel, but still rad.

maybe a zing issue?

If you can't open it, it's Jose Luis Garcia-Lopez's 1982 DC Comics Style Guide, page by page.

http://scontent-yyz1-1.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xaf1/v/t1.0-9/525448_547992328574381_625728319_n.jpg%3Foh%3Da4bd92e3496611d9adb252908be328bf%26oe%3D56F66685

bah.

The Divine by Boaz Lavie, Asaf and Tomer Hanuka. Great linework and color, arresting magical violence.
Personal interest specifically that two Israelis would draw a story with Southeast Asian roots, and they did a decent job!

The hanukas are really talented, would love to read that

I have new comics to read! A friend loaned me tpbs for Saga (book 1), Gotham Central, and Ex Machina. Beyond knowing who Vaughn and Brubaker are idk anything about these. (Well, I flipped through an issue of Saga at the shop once and it looked promising)

All good stuff!

oh, saga is ~very~ promising...

I love saga, gotta get the latest one. Hoping Christmas will bring wicked & divine, bitch planet, and hip hop family tree

i guess i haven't discussed this anywhere on ilx but i have gotten on a few private trackers and the amount, complexity and range of what's out there in the wild has inspired me to get rid of a big chunk of my 14 bookshelves worth of stuff and go digital. I have less and less affinity to paper these days; reading the books on a big screen imac or on the run on a tablet feels, after three or so years of indoctrination, natural. and i am SO TIRED of lugging these literal tons of paper pulp from apartment to apartment. so maybe i'll start selling the trades and hardbacks on amazon and start farming out the floppies to ebay.
I keep running into files that even a few years ago would've made my ears pop and they're still kinda hard to believe. Last night someone posted a complete Uncle Scrooge run. I don't even know how to respond to that.

I don't think Don Rosa or Carl Barks are going to be threatened by your piracy, so have at it!

Don has some opinions iirc.
tbh, at this point i have to have paid well into the six figures for the collection i have and, like a new car now used, it's probably worth ten grand total. I sleep soundly.