It's interesting that there was a whole book of modern alternative comics guys doing Savage Dragon stories. Some of it looked pretty crazy.
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Monday, 24 November 2014 02:55 (nine years ago) link
Druillet's 6 Voyages comes out in March and Delirious in June. But Titan's site doesn't list any of it. I hate it when official sites of publishers don't display all their catalogue. They're very slim books. I wish they'd put out a big compilation of his classic era in one book because it wouldn't even be that big. A couple of the old Druillet English editions had two books in them.
I'm quite happy today because Yoe Books are doing a Tom Sutton book dedicated to his 70s Charlton horror comics with extra unseen art. It's called Tom Sutton's Creepy Things. I really love this stuff, I think it was generally his best work. I hope it's fairly comprehensive of his cover art.
Yoe Books are also doing a Howard Nostrand horror collection, I might get that too. I just wish the Yoe horror collections were a bit thicker because that Bob Powell book could have had a few more stories and it would have been perfect. I think there was mentioned a possibility that there might be more books for each artist. LB Cole and Rudy Palais seem like natural next choices to me.
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Monday, 24 November 2014 17:35 (nine years ago) link
finished the first vol of G Moz's Action comics run which was... ok I guess. As usual there were a couple panels/points where I was totally lost although there were a bunch of good ideas. Rags Morales not my favorite artist. I do find Moz's trope of having characters mumble asides to themselves every few word balloons kind of tiresome.
also read the Watchmen/Multiversity issue which looked amazing. I'll probably buy the trade of all of them when it comes out but man he really isn't working hard to endear himself to Alan Moore is he lol
― Οὖτις, Monday, 24 November 2014 19:02 (nine years ago) link
Is Frank Quitely drawing that one? If so, I might give it a look.
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Monday, 24 November 2014 19:19 (nine years ago) link
yeah it's Quitely, great work as usual
― Οὖτις, Monday, 24 November 2014 19:28 (nine years ago) link
Sutton book sounds great! His tcj interview is all-time.
― a drug by the name of WORLD WITHOUT END (Jon Lewis), Monday, 24 November 2014 21:03 (nine years ago) link
I've got a bunch of his Dementia porn work and its just as uneven as a lot of his general comics work. You'd think this was him finally getting free reign (and I'm sure he was) but some of it is really hacked out. Some of the rendering techniques don't quite gel together and it always annoyed me how high he placed nipples on breasts (it just didn't look right). A lot of it lacks something or other. But I like the cheeky faces he drew and he had a knack for detailed complex morbid S&M imagery. And "Vault Of Whores" is a hilarious title.
Of all my favourite comic artists, I think Sutton had done more hack work than any of them. And he didn't mind admitting a lot of his work was no good.
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Monday, 24 November 2014 21:48 (nine years ago) link
Another thing; Sutton changed his style (and his name to Sean Todd) quite a lot for his Skywald work and he genuinely manages to seem like a totally different artist. He did this to some extent for various titles, especially anything superhero related and it was always awkward. He clearly didn't care for a lot of the material he was working on. He tried a more cartoony style on Vampirella and it didn't work well.
I'd like a Warren collection of Sutton but I don't think it's likely. I wonder if Dark Horse are ever going to do artist focused Warren collections again.
Another unlikely Sutton collection I'd like is his Man-Thing work with Steve Gerber on Marvel Comics Presents. That was weird and fascinatingly ugly stuff.
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Monday, 24 November 2014 22:12 (nine years ago) link
Just gonna post so no one feels like they need to weigh in on cartoon nipple placement in order to keep the thread going.
As you were.
― the farakhan of gg (DJP), Monday, 24 November 2014 22:58 (nine years ago) link
Well it was pornography and getting nipple placement right in that context seems important to me. There are tumblr pages dedicated to these type of anatomy screwups.
Anyway, over the years I always keep coming back to Gene Colan's official commission page. It always inspires me how far he taken these and I really think a lot of this stuff is the best art he ever did. There really should be a book of these. The Dracula and Dr Strange sections are particularly amazing. It's great how he maintained his peak until death.http://comicartfans.com/GalleryDetail.asp?GCat=4158
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Monday, 24 November 2014 23:22 (nine years ago) link
I gave up on GMoz's Action Comics around the Obama issue, so I could read the whole run in one sitting - but that didn't help much. It's a weird run - bad art, bland writing, godawful backups. Some parts have unnecessary longeurs and others have the action telescoped to meaninglessness. Lois and Jimmy just stand around commenting on things without contributing to the plot. There are things Morrison's done lately that weren't so great (Joe the Barbarian, Happy) but he's never been quite as half assed as this before.
― Chuck_Tatum, Tuesday, 25 November 2014 00:57 (nine years ago) link
...anhillator is more of the same but a lot more fun.
― Chuck_Tatum, Tuesday, 25 November 2014 00:59 (nine years ago) link
Yeah, the AC run was a big disappointment, it really showed what's bad about Morrison's writing: half-assed plotting, focus on pointless details instead of the big picture, etc. And it didn't help that the artist was pretty bad at comic book storytelling, which just served to magnify the problems in the scripting. I think Happy and Joe the Barbarian were disappointing in an opposite way: the art was good and the story was mostly easy to follow, but there simply wasn't that much into it, Morrison was just rehashing ideas he's done a million times in an uninteresting way.
― Tuomas, Tuesday, 25 November 2014 08:33 (nine years ago) link
i would call them less interesting than past efforts, but still entertaining and worth reading. the quality of art pushed Joe pretty far for me, and Happy was a short, less ambitious story
― Nhex, Tuesday, 25 November 2014 14:03 (nine years ago) link
http://vimeo.com/111690998^20 minute documentary on Richard Thompson. I still haven't read any of his collected work, think i'm gonna hit amazon and alleviate that.
― Face facts poptimism hacks, your a scam. (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 27 November 2014 18:57 (nine years ago) link
http://www.fright.com/edge/HorrorGraphicNovels.htm
I've only heard of a third of these! I'm a big fan of Pigeons From Hell and Toadswart D'Amplestone.
I often link to this site but Groves is a first rate treasure hunter and cultural justice warrior.
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Saturday, 29 November 2014 21:12 (nine years ago) link
yeah, wow - that's new to me too.
― Face facts poptimism hacks, your a scam. (forksclovetofu), Saturday, 29 November 2014 21:13 (nine years ago) link
http://dwdesign.tumblr.com/
This guy k*l*an Eng is amazing. He does the Druillet and Heavy Metal thing better than any artist in many years.
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Sunday, 30 November 2014 04:02 (nine years ago) link
Why was his first name censored?
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Sunday, 30 November 2014 04:03 (nine years ago) link
weird. but yeah that guy is pretty damn talented
― Nhex, Sunday, 30 November 2014 04:17 (nine years ago) link
k*ll*an
― Face facts poptimism hacks, your a scam. (forksclovetofu), Sunday, 30 November 2014 05:37 (nine years ago) link
ha, that's a weird artifact from a past ilx clusterfuck
board invader?
― Nhex, Sunday, 30 November 2014 06:37 (nine years ago) link
Yesterday in another forum Yoshitaka got censored because it has a curse word in the middle.
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Sunday, 30 November 2014 20:01 (nine years ago) link
50% off the online D&Q catalog for purchase. I may blow some cash.https://www.drawnandquarterly.com/shop
― a stupid red mute juggalo (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 2 December 2014 09:08 (nine years ago) link
Ooh, I'd get the Moomin collection but it's not that much diff once postage is included.
― Chuck_Tatum, Tuesday, 2 December 2014 14:12 (nine years ago) link
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.
― Nhex, Tuesday, 2 December 2014 14:22 (nine years ago) link
the kate beaton is fantastic tho i don't remember if there's anything new on it that she didn't post online
― Mordy, Tuesday, 2 December 2014 14:32 (nine years ago) link
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.
― sʌxihɔːl (Ward Fowler), Tuesday, 2 December 2014 14:33 (nine years ago) link
pyongyang is good
― Mordy, Tuesday, 2 December 2014 14:36 (nine years ago) link
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.
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Tuesday, 2 December 2014 14:43 (nine years ago) link
A Drifting Life is imo not a great read all the way through. There are standout elements, but it drags badly in places.
― the bowels are not what they seem (aldo), Tuesday, 2 December 2014 16:22 (nine years ago) link
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.
― a stupid red mute juggalo (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 2 December 2014 16:47 (nine years ago) link
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!
― a stupid red mute juggalo (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 2 December 2014 16:48 (nine years ago) link
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.
― a stupid red mute juggalo (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 2 December 2014 16:49 (nine years ago) link
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.
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Tuesday, 2 December 2014 17:04 (nine years ago) link
thanks for the recs everyone - i should probably crosscheck them with my local library first before i snag some stuff before the 7th
― Nhex, Wednesday, 3 December 2014 14:06 (nine years ago) link
I posted above last week that I wished for an LB Cole collection, well Fantagraphics is doing one called Black Light. Great!
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Wednesday, 3 December 2014 17:18 (nine years ago) link
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.
― GM, Friday, 5 December 2014 20:01 (nine years ago) link
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.
― Chuck_Tatum, Monday, 8 December 2014 13:34 (nine years ago) link
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.
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Monday, 8 December 2014 16:22 (nine years ago) link
What? I do not want to read that.
― Nhex, Monday, 8 December 2014 16:32 (nine years ago) link
He's doing Crossed+100 i.e. a hundred years after the outbreak.
― the bowels are not what they seem (aldo), Monday, 8 December 2014 16:42 (nine years ago) link
how many rape scenes can Alan Moore write
― Οὖτις, Monday, 8 December 2014 17:23 (nine years ago) link
has he done zombie rape yet?
― Nhex, Monday, 8 December 2014 17:26 (nine years ago) link
Apparently Moore and Ennis are friends
Have they ever met?
― the incredible string gland (sic), Monday, 8 December 2014 21:21 (nine years ago) link
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/
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Monday, 8 December 2014 23:16 (nine years ago) link
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.
― the bowels are not what they seem (aldo), Monday, 8 December 2014 23:23 (nine years ago) link
He’s the most talented individual the medium’s ever seen or ever will;
lol
― Οὖτις, Monday, 8 December 2014 23:34 (nine years ago) link