Rolling Comic Books 2020 Visions

The Invaders was Roy's first extended foray into retro-necro continuity - it was set during WW2 and featured the original Captain America, Sub-Mariner, Human Torch etc.

https://womenwriteaboutcomics.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/07eee32bc373a77c2e360818760b8ec0.jpg

retro-necro continuity

lol

(the late comics writer Martin Pasko once joked in an interview, "I was up at the DC offices, petting Vinnie Colletta's guide dog...")

this is a fucking quality burn btw

It's hard to know if the mob rumours are just Italian stereotyping or basically true - the definitive history of comics and organised crime still needs to be written. It is a fact that Charlton Comics had mob connections (and Colletta got a lot of work out of Charlton in the 1950s) - and the mafia certainly had an interest in magazine distribution.

― Ward Fowler, Tuesday, September 22, 2020 12:47 AM

I vaguely remember there being a book about this, or maybe it was just part of the book?

I can't confirm it but there was a story claiming that the first Batman + Superman teamup was done for the mafia.

explains a lot

Glad to find out that Neal Adams's expanding Earth/Philadelphia Experiment conspiracy theorist side hasn't made him a Q/COVID/MAGA psycho. (I would still give most of the money I have to not have to spend a day driving him around again.)

Lol. I can only imagine how crazy he is from his recent Batman work. A likeable sort of crazy, though.

Ann Friedman, Ira Glass, & Tim Heidecker are each hosting an Online Screening + Live Stream Q&A of the 2020 Sundance-Award winning doc Feels Good Man this weekend Sept 25-27th! Only 250 tickets available per showtime at https://t.co/JPwTdcqnUx pic.twitter.com/1F8YGdku9v

— Floating World Comics (@floating_world) September 23, 2020

"For the love of Asgard, keep your Oversword sheathed!"

Every so often Stan puts down a line that gives me a chuckle.

i thought this was good
https://thenib.com/cryptozoology-conference/

Separately, Action Bronson has a song out called Golden Eye that includes the lyric "Twenty Kawasakis looking like wild horses on stampede / I look like a character that was drawn by Stan Lee" which is the oddest self-own

a presentation of comics that does not permit you to read any entire panel at a time is desperately incompetent imo

that doesn't? its your standard vertical scroll

in both firefox and chrome, at full-size or ILX-reading-size browser expansion, it takes three browser "pages" to read each panel. the speech balloon or narration in the top of the panel is frequently talking about a part of the panel that literally cannot be read without scrolling or pig downing

i'd rather have blown up images that can be easily shrunk down in the browser than lower-res files

if we're throwing that binary on it, sure, but that adds three clicks for viewing each panel to the three clicks it takes to progress to each panel

standing by this being an incompetent way of asking someone to read a sequence of drawings

rotate yr screen bruh

and what is this clicks, you gotta scroll the wheel

let's talk more about the formatting and not the actual comic please, this is fascinating

send us all $5,000 for a computer that has a rotating screen so we can read it, apparently, and we can talk about the comic

My crappy Dell monitor, date of manufacture January 2004, can do it.

I have not owned a desktop computer since 2002

I'm not sure what that has to do with anything - a monitor is not a computer (except in the most general sense that, say, a Tamagotchi is)

send everyone one of those setups where you plug an external keyboard and an external monitor (with a rotate function) into a laptop, with all the requisite cables, and a monitor stand thingy that sits over the laptop and behind the external keyboard, then, I guess? it's still an inconvenient way to read a comic whether you're shipping one box or four boxes of computer equipment to dozens of people around the planet in order for them to be able to read a whole panel at a time tbh!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BHGJEdjCoeU

looked fine on my phone, fwiw

I was being kind of tongue in cheek, but the comic looked good on my phone and tablet. looks fine on my laptop if I change the scaling and they probably should set the scaling for computers so it fits better if they run a lot of comics!

to take ulysses' point and paraphrase

They tell me about families they're trying to start and real estate that they're trying to buy, and I tell them about comics on The Nib and what devices they display in while maintaining panel integrity -- one per screen. I'm posting about it on message boards. The exchanges left me feeling that the chickens I had set free when I was 23 were coming home to roost. I could have chosen to do anything I wanted, and this is what I chose to do.

loved the comic, especially the twists and turns and expressions as the narrator's stand-in reacts to the even-keeled scientific explorers as they explain their methodology and reject woo-woo claims and show more interest in big cats than the more esoteric examples. going out to listen to what you hope is weird stuff and finding a group of very methodical and, relatively boring, investigators. special guest appearance by Steve Bissette!

yeah, i liked that it went to some surprisingly personal places. somehow i did not know that bissette did gojira!
https://www.jimkeefe.com/archives/5585

The Bissette Godzilla comic also includes a pin-up page by Alan Moore

best thing about pinups is you don't have to scroll

steady

That pinup page looks crap on my knackered ipad, to whom should I complain?

Scans_Daily Artisanal Lithography

Been looking looking at Michael Deforge and Beatrix Urkowitz for the first time in years and I'm more impressed now than I was back then, so much good design. I remember the name Lale Westvind but jeezhus fookin' christ, some of this is amazing
https://www.instagram.com/lalewestvind/
There's a compilation book out in november called Grand Electric Thought Power Mother!

Did anyone ever read any Loic Locatelli books? It slightly annoys me that some of his characters look jarringly more manga than others but he's really good at drawing and design. Persephone and Pocahontas are both in english.

Loving the Tardi/Manchette collection, hard boiled Paris noir with a background hum of radical politics.

Also read Tom King's Mister Miracle, kinda dumb Vertigo fan fiction? Felt like a very surface level grappling with philosophy, and the winks to Kirby pretty cheap. But I'll admit I'm biased against ex-CIA agents.

Forgive some film talk for the subject matter
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d7MpVdZ9SXU

Tokiwa: The Manga Apartment - This lovingly wallows in sentimental nostalgia for 50s japan and the manga artists of the time who either worked in this apartment or passed through it. Period music, shots focused perhaps more on the settings than the characters, manga authors huddled together discussing their successes, insecurities, failures and the audience and business, and they sumo wrestle in their garden in one scene.

I had heard this was mostly a biopic of Hiroo Terada (he did baseball manga) but it's actually more spread out than that. Terada is quite happy being a slightly old fashioned storyteller for kids, Shotaro Ishinomori (Kamen Rider, Super Sentai) despairs and hasn't yet found his thing yet (his sister is a prominent character), Hideko Mizuno seems to have been the only woman there but didn't stay long term, Tezuka leaves the place quite early and quickly becomes an important figure, babies cry in the presence of Tsuge, Suzuki leaves for animation, Fujimoto's mother asks why everyone wears berets.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tokiwa-s%C5%8D

That looks really cool, thanks!

I initially found the nostalgia too gooey but eventually it won me over. I don't know how it has managed to stay so under the radar, I first heard about it when the star Masahiro Motoki was being discussed in the Tsukamoto book by Tom Mes.

http://www.magnetic-press.com/toppi/
Didn't know this series was happening. Publisher is new to me.

I believe they work as lion forge

Lion Forge bought Magnetic in 2016 (and Oni last year)

did not know about Oni!

any idea where their money comes from?

the owner's dad is the 745th richest man in the US, so it's anyone's guess rly


* (nb: second-richest black man)

huh, wild (some pun intended)

We never expected this to become a trend, but David Steward II is now the third son of a billionaire to launch his own animation studio, following in the footsteps of Travis Knight’s Laika and David Ellison’s Skydance Animation.

buy all the cinemas and make them $2 entry

the laika story is a huge bummer btw
https://priceonomics.com/how-the-father-of-claymation-lost-his-company/

Does anyone else remember a comic set in a graveyard or castle with superhero-esque characters, drawn in a Kirby style, probably from within the last decade and maybe from Image?

Re: Corben's death in the obituary thread. I think his last appearance in Heavy Metal should have been on the shelves by now, thankfully he got that finished. I gave up on the serialization and am waiting for the collected edition.
Dimwood was to be his next thing, his facebook says that he was working on the last page a while ago.
https://muuta.net/wp/dimwood/

He always experimented with animation and put them online occasionally (but nothing ever stays up for long on his official site) there's a video here of some recent works
https://www.facebook.com/Corben-Studios-Inc-193240777737358/

I heard several years ago that Fantagraphics offered to print his underground era work but Corben already had plans for that stuff.