Like A Velvet Glove and David Boring I think are great. Ghost World is okay. Those are the only ones I'd ever want to revisit.
― EZ Snappin, Wednesday, 25 January 2017 21:28 (seven years ago) link
I've never read David Boring maybe I should give that one a shot. Everything else apart from LAVG I've thought varied from boring to actively irritating
― Οὖτις, Wednesday, 25 January 2017 21:42 (seven years ago) link
well, of his long pieces. There's a bunch of shorter bits in 8ball that I love to death (Sensual Santa, On Sports, Pussey! etc.) and LAVG is great.
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Ice Haven is peak Clowes for me but I think Wilson is the only thing of his I've read since then.
― Transformed From The Norm By The Nuclear Goop (Old Lunch), Wednesday, January 25, 2017 1:28 PM (twenty-one minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― Οὖτις, Wednesday, 25 January 2017 21:50 (seven years ago) link
I read and enjoyed Patience a while ago - definitely one of the best things Clowes has done, though I thought the art was a little slapdash in places. He seems to be inking with a brush a lot more these days - I miss the sharpness and accuracy of his pen line.
Never really understood the love for Velvet Glove, which feels too much like refried David Lynch to me. Ghost World remains his masterpiece.
― Bongo Herbert (Ward Fowler), Thursday, 26 January 2017 07:13 (seven years ago) link
Not quite comics, but just watched Very Semi-Serious, the documentary about New Yorker cartoonists, which you'll enjoy if it's the sort of thing you enjoy - I did. Surprising number of LOLs, too, although me and my partner are both twee bastards.
― Chuck_Tatum, Friday, 27 January 2017 11:03 (seven years ago) link
There is zero stuff about cartooning style, or even trying to anatomize the jokes, it's mostly just "lol cartoonists are weirdos", here's a good one about bagpipes. But fun nonetheless. Remnick remains impossibly oily.
― Chuck_Tatum, Friday, 27 January 2017 11:05 (seven years ago) link
i started watching the JoJo's Bizarre Adventure anime which is good, but it's really the manga artwork that is blowing my mind. i'm looking to pick up some books, should i go for the new viz reissues? is rohan goes to the louvre worth getting?
― just another (diamonddave85), Friday, 27 January 2017 19:05 (seven years ago) link
also i think i'd prefer color over black and white.. i was under the impression that the viz reprints were in color? but in the amazon preview they're b&w
― just another (diamonddave85), Friday, 27 January 2017 19:09 (seven years ago) link
They're black and white with some colour pages. Worth getting but the earliest stuff isn't the best. You might want to start on the second or third part.
Some of Rohan looks quite nice, it's full colour but the story is not Araki switched on, sadly.
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Saturday, 28 January 2017 01:19 (seven years ago) link
Went to Brussels for the weekend and made a trip to the bande dessinée museum. At the store I picked up an anthology of Péyo's Poussey (very charming comic strip about a cat) and that Trondheim Mickey Mouse thing which I think hasn't been released in English yet?
― Daniel_Rf, Monday, 30 January 2017 14:02 (seven years ago) link
it has!
The conceit of the Trondheim "Mickey's Craziest Adventure" is that it's a reprint collection of one-page-per-issue Paul Murry style Donald'n'Mickey adventure strips, complete with printing errors and water stains but that author and artist "found" an incomplete stack of old issues so we get installment 2, 4, 7, 8, 10, 11, 14 and so on through "page 82". It's remarkably clever and fun.― A big shout out goes to the lamb chops, thos lamb chops (ulysses), Thursday, January 19, 2017
― A big shout out goes to the lamb chops, thos lamb chops (ulysses), Monday, 30 January 2017 16:54 (seven years ago) link
I am really enjoying this Gene Colan Batman collection I got from the library, all early 80s stuff, inked by Klaus Jansen. Colan draws amazing hands.
― Οὖτις, Tuesday, 7 February 2017 20:02 (seven years ago) link
I'd forgotten Janson had inked Colan on Batman...googling brought me to this nice original page. You can see that Klaus is doing a lot of the heavy lifting here, but his bold finishing really gives Colan's pencils a solidity they sometimes lacked at this stage in his career.http://www.comicartfans.com/gallerypiece.asp?piece=249492
― Bongo Herbert (Ward Fowler), Tuesday, 7 February 2017 20:13 (seven years ago) link
yeah it's not v far from the art in those Battlestar Galactica or Daredevil runs Jansen was on
― Οὖτις, Wednesday, 8 February 2017 16:30 (seven years ago) link
er Janson
Janson deserves even more credit than he gets for all the great work he's done
― Nhex, Wednesday, 8 February 2017 16:54 (seven years ago) link
I still remember the feeling as an 11-year-old, reading Marvel UK reprints of his Punisher work, when I suddenly went from "this guy is terrible and can't draw!" to "wait - this is... art?'
― Chuck_Tatum, Wednesday, 8 February 2017 23:34 (seven years ago) link
feel like there's a bit of Ditko in his style but more expressive, bolder
― Οὖτις, Wednesday, 8 February 2017 23:40 (seven years ago) link
Well Janson started out as an assistant to Dick Giordano, and you can see quite a lot of similarities between their inking styles. They're also both part of that 'superb inkers/middling pencillers' club (see also: Dan Adkins, Joe Sinnott, Chic Stone, Frank Giacoia, Tom Palmer etc).
― Bongo Herbert (Ward Fowler), Thursday, 9 February 2017 09:23 (seven years ago) link
http://www.chicagomag.com/Chicago-Magazine/February-2017/Emil-Ferris-The-Bite-That-Changed-My-Life/
An exclusive
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Wednesday, 15 February 2017 02:35 (seven years ago) link
that book is only looking better and better
― removed from the rain drops and drop tops of experience (ulysses), Wednesday, 15 February 2017 03:01 (seven years ago) link
also YOW at Jesse Jacobs' "Safari Honeymoon"http://koyamapress.com/projects/safari-honeymoon/http://www.tcj.com/reviews/safari-honeymoon/http://www.newyorker.com/uncategorized/eyeball-kicks-a-surreal-safari-honeymoonhttp://www.brokenfrontier.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/Safarihoneymoon3_0714.jpghttp://https%3A//cdn.bleedingcool.net/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/Safari-Honeymoon_1.jpg
― removed from the rain drops and drop tops of experience (ulysses), Thursday, 16 February 2017 18:01 (seven years ago) link
on the second volume of Silver Age JLA collection and man this book is mostly garbage, so formulaic - not nearly as fun as the Superman/Supergirl/Flash stuff
― Οὖτις, Thursday, 16 February 2017 18:05 (seven years ago) link
the current state of newsstand comics is such a clusterfuck that marvel is contracting with archie comics to publish and market newsstand digest versions of marvel superheroes: http://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/newsbrief/index.html?record=1210
― mh 😏, Thursday, 16 February 2017 19:04 (seven years ago) link
So, uh...why didn't they do that decades ago? Seems like such a no-brainer.
― Likely? No. Possible? Absolutely. Iffy? Can't say. Doubtful? Maybe. (Old Lunch), Thursday, 16 February 2017 19:08 (seven years ago) link
because decades ago they still acted like a publisher of newsstand periodicals instead of the current direct market-only, single distributor, no returns mess they've now got going
― mh 😏, Thursday, 16 February 2017 19:10 (seven years ago) link
pretty sure we've covered this elsewhere, but: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Direct_market
by the end of the 90s the newsstand market was almost completely gone and all of the different distributors collapsed into Diamond
― mh 😏, Thursday, 16 February 2017 19:14 (seven years ago) link
I was just wondering the other day what happened to all those spinning racks at 7-11 or whatever.
― how's life, Thursday, 16 February 2017 19:25 (seven years ago) link
They've already been publishing these tiny little digest comics for years, usually under the Marvel Adventures line
― Nhex, Thursday, 16 February 2017 19:33 (seven years ago) link
xp - I had three of them at one point, but gave 'em all away
― scattered, smothered, covered, diced and chunked (WilliamC), Thursday, 16 February 2017 20:31 (seven years ago) link
xpost Yeah, they've put out digest-sized tpbs but afaik the distribution has been basically the same as with their regular reprints. It felt like they were aiming more for the manga market than the casual 'eight-year-old bored at the grocery store with his mom' demographic.
I was super-psyched the other day when I saw some of those $5 bags of random-ass fifteen year old comics at Target. Those mysterious, context-free, random-ass issues of Micronauts: The New Voyages and Kull the Conqueror were what got me into comics in the first place.
― Likely? No. Possible? Absolutely. Iffy? Can't say. Doubtful? Maybe. (Old Lunch), Thursday, 16 February 2017 20:41 (seven years ago) link
Whoa - Target? What section?
― how's life, Thursday, 16 February 2017 20:42 (seven years ago) link
When I do encounter a comics rack (at an actual newsstand), I notice it has only DC and Archie titles.
― morrisp, Thursday, 16 February 2017 20:43 (seven years ago) link
xpost There was just a small pile of those bags in the weird little trading card/vinyl figure keychain ghetto next to the registers. It's nice to see that someone out there is still engaged in packaging that stuff, however little respect it may be afforded. Kinda makes me want to go buy a ton of quarter bin stuff and do it myself.
― Likely? No. Possible? Absolutely. Iffy? Can't say. Doubtful? Maybe. (Old Lunch), Thursday, 16 February 2017 20:59 (seven years ago) link
I distinctly remember picking up a bag collecting Alan Davis's first solo storyline on Excalibur and being like...yeah, okay, now that I'm reading a whole story instead of just disconnected single issues of whatever's lying around, I can say that this comics thing is totally for me.
― Likely? No. Possible? Absolutely. Iffy? Can't say. Doubtful? Maybe. (Old Lunch), Thursday, 16 February 2017 21:02 (seven years ago) link
i really need to see book one first but this is strangely temptinghttps://www.gofundme.com/beinagraphicnovel
― removed from the rain drops and drop tops of experience (ulysses), Sunday, 19 February 2017 08:37 (seven years ago) link
http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/inpictures/2017/02/jeddah-sci-fi-fans-flock-comic-con-expo-170219150013781.htmlFirst Comicon in Saudi Arabia.
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Tuesday, 21 February 2017 15:19 (seven years ago) link
Mads Mikkelsen, Charles Dance and a bunch of others were there. Oddly the entrances were gender segregated but the actual event wasn't.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jPtF4YnDaUw
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Tuesday, 21 February 2017 16:12 (seven years ago) link
Shit, that's two different cons, one from 2014. Silly me.
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Tuesday, 21 February 2017 16:23 (seven years ago) link
Klaus Jansen's pencil work is a bit under appreciated. I think the last big project he penciled was the Death of the Maidens Batman/Ra's Al Ghul story with Greg Rucka. I know Jansen was doing some inks on some of JR Jr's last Marvel work, which looked a bit odd as Romita's been going with a bit more Kirby looking artwork, which seemed different with Jansen's looser inking.
― earlnash, Wednesday, 22 February 2017 04:19 (seven years ago) link
Only read a few, but this French guy is pretty good and French: http://english.bouletcorp.com/2017/01/19/your-comment-here/
― Chuck_Tatum, Tuesday, 14 March 2017 13:49 (seven years ago) link
Love Boulet. My gf owns a bunch of his sketchbooks.
― Daniel_Rf, Friday, 17 March 2017 10:37 (seven years ago) link
Finished Junji Ito's "Tomie". Definitley impressive, though could have been a bit shorter. I liked the bit with the photographer girl best - having an actual three dimensional protagonist to fight the threat gave it more oomph. Great art throughout, with some grody body horror.
― Daniel_Rf, Friday, 17 March 2017 10:39 (seven years ago) link
Yikes, that looks creepy as shit. I'll check it out!
Just read The Nao of Brown by Glyn Dillon, which is gorgeous and funny, but the ending is a bit shit. And Shigeru Mizuki's Onward Towards Our Noble Deaths, which is technically incredible but so, so depressing.
― Chuck_Tatum, Friday, 17 March 2017 15:00 (seven years ago) link
the Vol. 2 hardcover of True Swamp is at the printer and Uncivilized tells me there's about even odds that advance copies will make it in time for MoCCA fest. Trying not to get my hopes up. I'll be at the Uncivilized table regardless, of course. Anyone else going?
― chip n dale recuse rangers (Jon not Jon), Friday, 17 March 2017 15:45 (seven years ago) link
Probably, yay you!
― removed from the rain drops and drop tops of experience (ulysses), Friday, 17 March 2017 17:39 (seven years ago) link
My Favorite Thing is Monsters is quite something. It's enormous and epic, and so big I don't quite see where it's going. There are moments of genius in it. I have to say I was INCREDIBLY FRUSTRATED when I got to the end and saw this was only Volume 1. Dying to know how this story concludes!Forks, in particular I think you will dig it, if you haven't read yet
― Nhex, Saturday, 18 March 2017 23:07 (seven years ago) link
i ended up giving her a hundred bucks and expect to be IN the second book as a character so yeah, i'm pretty into it! My copy has been held up on amazon for weeks.
― removed from the rain drops and drop tops of experience (ulysses), Sunday, 19 March 2017 04:42 (seven years ago) link
anyways, i just finished all four volumes of Manu Larcenet's 800 page investigation into psychosis, BLAST. Boy, it's good! like stupidly good. beautifully beautifully realized.
― removed from the rain drops and drop tops of experience (ulysses), Sunday, 19 March 2017 05:07 (seven years ago) link