Rolling comic books 2021

they ended up changing the headline and more aggressively changing it in print, but it's stupidly clickbaity and willfully ignorant

But rather than discovering highbrow arts, many are choosing mass media they already love.

"highbrow" derives from phrenology, right?

sighted on tabs: confused guy buys a pile of manga, mistaken believes it is worth the price shown on ebay when it is actually worth more or less what he paid for it
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RdZd6z9BmL4

context: https://onposting.substack.com/p/me-and-gary-vee-down-by-the-schoolyard

can't believe i watched all of that. weirdly compelling because I know a few guys like this, classic east coast affable/sleazy hustler/grifter, though this guy seems even heavier on the sleazy side than normal

(of course, I'm a little jealous that he did get all those books. i would've happily paid that to read and collect them! where does it say he didn't turn a profit, though?)

though fuck this guy for the bootstraps-positivity / "people spend their money from the govt on nikes" comment and that he is performing this clown show with a personal net worth of $200 MILLION, jesus fuck what is wrong with this world

I’m just opining that there is no fucking way he made even a thousand bucks on that haul on eBay, no one is buying manga at those prices and I speak from experience

He got 1,001 books! Supposedly sold at $6,396.12 (let's say $7K before fees) It's slightly possible he could get $7 a book over enough time, especially if many of those were runs were OOP as it looked...and he had some luck. I paused the video and the sell dates listed are in May and June of this year. Think he definitely made a profit - one worth traveling to 32 garage sales (if that's even true)... well, I don't know.

Saying as someone who unfortunately recently returned to collecting manga again, it is often bad. (Do you know much a full run of Goodnight PunPun costs now? oof..)

But yeah, it could be an exaggeration or lie. Still, buying that big a haul for only $270 is unbelievable or heinous. Like did the owner believe these books were worth only 27 cents each? Maybe bitter revenge from an empty nest?

He's making money on chumps like us keep streaming the video and arguing over how much of a chump this dude seems to be too.

Some days I just look at the world and say, bring on the sun going nova and wipe this grease stain of a planet out of the heavens.

http://cdn.quotesgram.com/small/47/54/1466503358-tumblr_me2piotOhX1rur0aro1_1280.jpg

Ha! Exactly. I have definitely thought in the last few years that I would love to be a super-villain.

Still the underwritten message of all the good comics where the bad guy finally wins is in the end, it all still kinda sucks.

https://gizmodo.com/batman-writer-james-tynion-iv-is-moving-from-dc-to-subs-1847449770

Surprised by this. He seemed to have strong support from DC the past couple of years, they put him on Batman after Tom King's run. Question is, is he popular enough to make money on... Substack? Or maybe Substack gave him some kind of incredible deal.

I think he's an average DC house writer (his Batman/Detective work was decent), but he's churning out so much stuff, possible I just haven't read his best material

Substack is just giving massive deals to (esp right-wing) comics writers (in line with them giving good-to-massive deals to rightish-or-openly-transphobic essay writers)

writer/artists or artists get jack doodley

https://aiptcomics.com/2021/08/12/chip-zdarsky-substack/

none of the comics writers I'm seeing in the list are particularly right wing, unless we're doing the Nick Spencer political dissection thing again

Yeah, pls flesh out your thoughts on this one a lil, sic. I want to understand.

I may have just logged that opinion when Spencer was announced as being in charge of the whole thing, and not bothered to follow up tbh - I thought there was at least one more but dnrc who

At the very least, a cursory glance suggests that this may be a deal of the 'too good to be true'/'...with the devil' variety, particularly given the unsavory right-wing associations.

i think it's just a decision made upstairs to break off a mill or two and corner the market for comic nerds

Hiring Spencer to head it at the same time as yr paying (and otherwise platforming) a solid grip of anti-trans ranters might be a total coincidence but it says SOMEthing about the decision-making process

maybe they're trying to cover more bases, like a "neutral" book publisher would

I did hear similar rumblings to sic's initial post amongst some comics ppl but can't find the tweets anymore

maybe they're trying to cover more bases, like a "neutral" book publisher would

“we hired middle-aged male superhero writers from DC and Marvel!”

They're giving Molly Ostertag money, an unequivocal good imo

yeah, forever happy to see her succeed

Having suscribed to 2000AD for enough months now, I gotta say: I lack the historical knowledge to know whether the phase it's currently in is good or bad by the mag's standards, but I am falling in love w/ the weekly comics anthology format. I love the variety and the certainty that if something's not up to snuff, well, something else will come along in a couple of pages, and the thing itself will be replaced by something else in a month or two.

― Daniel_Rf, Friday, July 9, 2021 3:43 PM (one month ago) bookmarkflaglink

It has its peaks and troughs certainly, but generally speaking Matt Smith's 20+ years run as editor has been amazingly consistent (especially considering he handles the monthly title as well). All the more remarkable when compared to the doldrums of the early nineties, when it was obvious the editorial didn't give a shit and the quality went down the toilet as a result. Spot on that the anthology format is a huge strength, the possibility of something amazing and unexpected turning up is always around the corner. Except for Pat Mills' interminable decades-long sagas that never seemed to get anywhere, but he seems to've got his coat and left recently, so...

Speaking of 2000ad - just been re-reading all the extant chapters of The Order and it really is wonderful stuff, a complex and intricate narrative on a vast scale which also has ton of great action whilst managing to be humane and moving at the same time, what more could you ask from a comic.

I assume the substack deal is going to flop, people who give enough of a shit about comics to follow certain writers really seem invested in having them in print.

Really depends how much these subs will cost imo. If it's $20-30 a month as one of them hinted at (from their Patreon dues) forget it. If it's like $5-10 a month I might even bite.

Substack has such a strong “failure waiting to happen” vibe

Like, it’s hard to see it not going the way of medium, I think? I.e. paying big money to, then stiffing, creators when the returns are only moderate or non-existent

https://www.naokiurasawa.com/season-0/

Documentary series, lots of famous artists. Some of the episodes have abridged "highlights" versions.

Whoa, great find!

The one with Daijiro Morohoshi was a little disappointing, he seemed really shy and didn't talk much. Ryoichi Ikegami is so embarrassed about being old he has his drawings covering his face

Takes a bit of clicking around (each cover is a series) but Morohoshi has some really great cover art
https://www.manga-news.com/index.php/auteur/oeuvres-vo/MOROHOSHI-Daijiro

Agreed, amazing discovery!

Well it's not a secret, all of it has been very carefully subtitled so I think Urasawa was probably aiming at a big audience for this. I mentioned the Archipel youtube channel before and that has some great interviews with manga authors and other japanese artists.

Just read Under-Earth by Chris Gooch. Fantastic work, gritty sci-fi noir adventure.

Old news but still hilarious
https://superdickery.com/lois-and-luthor-off-superman/
http://platypuscomix.com/otherpeople/perilsoflois.html
Last link is 3 pages

Coming in November...

https://images.booksense.com/images/823/122/9781681122823.jpg

Wondering if the new reissues are being published at the original size... doubt it, but it would be nice

Hopefully this means we'll be past the days of Amazon listing the out-of-print books for £736 or whatever

Huh, I assumed they would be but I guess they aren't. Dimensions on this and the recently solicited Zenith 1+2 bundle are bigger than standard comic book size. Well, that's annoying, as I already have the original smaller Zenith volumes.

The second Superman link badly needs a browser extension to turn images on, but text off.

fucking YEAH on new dungeon; it's one of the few books I will continue to buy paper copies of as long as they make them. Complete collection ovah heah

https://www.gamesradar.com/horror-manga-icon-kazuo-umezu-comes-out-of-retirement-after-26-years/

Pleased about Orochi Blood but Fourteen and that one with God and Devil in the title are my biggest hopes. I hope his hands coped well. I seen him do a drawing showdown with Hideshi Hino a few years ago on television, or a screenshot.

Can anyone tell me much about about the color designs of old superheroes? I'd generally think that the penciller decides the colors but I'm not sure I've ever seen color notes on any such design sheet. I heard there was some editorial advice/wisdom to sometimes color villains green and/or purple at Marvel when Stan Goldberg was coloring.
Seen a Tor article about X-Men a while ago and it talked about the appeal of the color designs and I do think more and more these days that sometimes the color combinations had more appeal than the cut of the costumes.

There seem to be various, slightly conflicting anecdotes regarding Martin Goodman and Stan Lee's preference for or aversion to certain colours, particularly on covers (in the latter half of the 60s, both DC and Marvel began to pay particular attention to their covers in terms of subject matter, layout, design as well as colour, with even Kirby cover images fairly frequently rejected, or substantially redrawn). There are exceptions - the colourblind Alex Toth springs to mind - but I've rarely seen original art containing colour notes or indications from the penciller as to the colour of costumes etc.

I remember that Ditko was unhappy with how purple the blue parts of Spiderman's costume were beginning to look later on.

I've rarely seen original art containing colour notes or indications from the penciller as to the colour of costumes etc.

I've seen this in a few Marvel retrospective books.

Title and cover reveal!
Dear mother and other stories will be out soon by @strangers_zine . More updates very soon! pic.twitter.com/JkYTOxrvCg

— Bhanu Pratap (@Bhanu_pootrap) September 20, 2021

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5nD4q_p0mDk
Really enjoyed this interview