Rolling SERIOUS GRAPHIC LITERATURE Thread for Comics in 2016

k that Demon preview 100% sold me, will buy

RIP Steve Dillon.

WTF?

whoa, that's abrupt isn't it? RIP.

as reported on the ILX obit thread, Jack Chick apparently died yesterday.

I'm less taken aback about Jack Chick's death than I am by my sudden discovery that Jack Chick is an actual person.

My being surprised by the existence of such extreme people is becoming increasingly common.

https://www.chick.com/reading/tracts/0046/0046_01.asp

and lest we forget the man was an explicit bigot
http://www.chick.com/reading/tracts/1052/1052_01.asp

Here's a PDF of The Imp #2, Dan Raeburn's tract-format biography of Chick.

sic, that was a phenomenal bio. thanks!

http://www.tcj.com/reviews/my-favorite-thing-is-monsters/

A review/preview of the aforementioned Emil Ferris book.

that looks really really good.

For those of you not reading Strong Female Protagonist, i STRONGLY recommend it. Likely my fave webcomic.
You could start at the start but if you wanna jump in when Ostertag's art hits stride, I'd recommend here: http://strongfemaleprotagonist.com/issue-5/chapter-5-cover/

roll call on Brooklyn Comics Festival attendees this weekend?

is that the same as CAB? Cause I'll be at CAB

That's CAB, yes. See you there! You selling anything new Jon?

Nothing new from me until the hardback collecting the 2000-2001 true swamps, for spring 2017 publishing season. Which is not new work anyway. I'm still limited to prose and music bc of my nerve injury unfort

ulysses - wow halfway through the chapter is EXACTLY where i stopped reading it years ago (for reasons unrelated). thanks for reminding me about this comic

it's great! it was great! it got better though i think.

Mickey's Inferno is available in early December; I found an online scan and it's AWESOME
https://www.amazon.com/Disney-Graphic-Novels-Parodies-Mickeys/dp/1629915920

what is that?

it is a for real retelling of dante's inferno starring mickey and goofy as dante and virgil that's been translated from Italian and you can buy it!
http://67.media.tumblr.com/ba01a6cb5365d5edfa1aa60d9b66e26b/tumblr_nd6hqqd8X21sp3y55o1_500.jpg

wow! must find.

$8 in hardcover via that amazon link up there!

bob dylan discussing his painting
http://media.vanityfair.com/photos/581a602f784cf8ac089e6930/master/w_900%2Cc_limit/bob-dylan-paints-exhibit-03.jpg

There was a conscious attempt to dismiss consumer culture or popular culture, including mass media, commercial art, celebrities, consumer or product packaging, billboard signs, comic strips, magazine advertising. “The Beaten Path” works represent a different subject matter from the everyday imagery of consumer culture. There is nothing to suggest these paintings were inspired by the writings of Sigmund Freud or that they were based on any mental images that occur in dreams, no fantasy worlds, religious mysticism or ambiguous subject matter. In every picture the viewer doesn’t have to wonder whether it’s an actual object or a delusional one. If the viewer visited where the picture actually existed, he or she would see the same thing. It is what unites us all.

Bob Dylan, frustrated photographer.

Bob Dylan, frustrated photographer.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jjPxlzjuLww
Great looking cast; Harrelson is absolutely perfect based on the clips and I would follow Laura Dern into a forest fire.

Seemed kinda off to me, honestly. But the original book didn't exactly have much of a plot, so I can see how they'd have to come up with more material for a film.

the original book is garbage but I am v favorably inclined to that cast

http://scroll.in/article/737262/graphic-novel-what-if-the-british-had-never-left-india

I'm a fan of Alcatena but I haven't read much of his comics.

In case that link does someday it's Empire of Blood, by Arjun Raj Gaind/Enrique Alcatena from Graphic India

interesting

http://www.tcj.com/kerascoet-interview-by-alex-dueben/

Includes the news that Kerascoet are doing a kids book with Malala Yousafzai

rad. highly underrated duo in us for my money.

Beautiful Darkness was kinda incredible but also so fucked up I kinda never want to read anything else they ever make

I don't think the other ones are as bad/nasty.

Their work on Miss Don't Touch Me, Beauty and Dungeon is just excellent

Benjamin Bin Zhang anyone? I've heard mixed things about his writing but his art can be impressively shoegazey though I'm not completely sold on his style. I only just found out his name but I'd seen his work when his earlier books were out.

Can't believe Kevin Smith still dresses like he does.

he'll be buried in skorts

Reading through those Comics Journal magazine history pieces on the site right now. I feel quite grateful they were raking people over coals for lousy comics and practices.

Ditto -- I want a copy of that book.

As many critics as there are online it's tough to find someone unforgiving and difficult to please without being too dismissive and reductive in their elitism.

http://www.solomonenos.com/work#/vii/

Very impressed by the art of Solomon Enos from Hawaii (although the lettering is a bit off). You can download his comic here.

dope

Just spotted the Harvey Horrors Best Of vol1 today and bought it. It's a pretty good selection, some of Rudy Palais' best work.
I'm still mulling over getting the new Ditko art book, it's really damn expensive and I've seen most of the stuff.

Saw Harvey Kurtzman's Trump. Wonder if they chosen a cover character that could glacingly be mistaken for a cartoon Donald.

Christmas swag:

Agony by Mark Beyer (from that interesting new New York Review Comics line) - sold my original copy in a previous purge, glad to have one of my fave ever comics back. It would be a good game to play find the bleakest/funniest dialogue balloon (flipping through, "There are worse things than being in prison. Just being alive is worse. Maybe if we're really lucky someone will strangle us in our sleep!" is def a strong contender)

Young Romance: The Best of Simon & Kirby's Romance Comics - really adore Joe Simon's inking over Kirby's pencils, he adds such a beautiful rough texture to things

The Arab of the Future 78-84 by Riad Sattouf - possibly an ILC recommendation, somewhere? Anyway, looks great on a quick (so far) skim - cute cartooning and I really like the limited palette colouring

Messages in a Bottle: Comic Book Stories by B. Krigstein - this passed me by at the time (it came out in 2013), but a v solid selection of B Krig's greatest hits and a few rare b-sides etc. Still not totally sold on the Marie Severin re-colouring on the EC stories (first used by Fantagraphics for their B.Krigstein Comics hardcover volume, also put together by Greg Sadowski, and which duplicates quite a lot but not all of the contents here), but it's not disastrous and prob works better in this slightly smaller paperback format. Sadowski's notes are excellent, and very sad in a way - so many missed opportunities.

Simon is my favourite Kirby inker for the reasons you mention.

Another thing I got was the Alexander Goudie illustrated Tam O' Shanter by Robert Burns. It's laid out just like a graphic novel, but some images are just sketches. The large paintings are really impressive.

Got Hip Hop Family Tree vol 4 and Charles Burns' Last Look for Christmas. Both excellent.