Rolling comic books 2021

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

I was trying to remember what this was called for a long time. Very Kirby derivative but I still liked the look of it when I picked it up years ago.
https://comicvine.gamespot.com/nightworld/4050-76269/

on libgen:
http://libgen.li/series.php?id=122433

Is that all legal? I'll probably get the paper version some day, which has extra art but thanks.

Nice thread. Always wanted a Miyanishi collection

Keizo Miyanishi is a manga artist born in 1956. He is known mainly for his euro-guro and sexual manga, all carrying extremely detail drawings.

Following pics contain images of sex and nudity. R18, NSFW. 🔞#宮西計三 pic.twitter.com/iFwnUDCJvH

— choolete_manga (@ChooleteManga) July 6, 2021

"One of the biggest gekiga artists to me whose name is Keizo Miyanishi [...] If you have a sense of drawings, you can easily find that Maruo borrowed Miyanishi's style in his lines and the most 'delicious' point of Maruo's drawings is originally from Miyanishi style." pic.twitter.com/sQ4Ec9gKoc

— choolete_manga (@ChooleteManga) September 28, 2021

Good luck to the Ditko family on the copyright battle

Recent raves:

Djeliya, Juni Ba - Senegalese comic. Author says he's influenced by 2000's Cartoon Network, and indeed Samurai Jack might be the closest reference point I can think of, though it's much more baroque and colourful. The story's fine - protagonists learn to emancipate themselves from negative circumstances and overcome oppressive traditions, "fantasy" setting but it's obviously a metaphor for Africa - but the art is totally mind blowing, had to stop at times because it's so maximalist and you're so likely to miss things. Really dope.

The Children Of Mu Town, Jushichi Masumura - Indie manga from new publisher Glacier Bay Books, which are doing alternative Japanese stuff. Downbeat story about a low level yakuza guy trying to help out a high rise community whose population is basically dying out, all old salarymen. Lot of political context involving immigration and demographics. Interesting how even though the characters are drawn in a very deliberately rough style, some mainstream manga tropes still shine through - like say, the main character, who is obviously Japanese, is portrayed as blonde.

And Now Sir? Is THIS Your Missing Gonad?, Jim Woodring - First Frank comic I've encountered that has text...kinda. It's in that old timey gag cartoon format where you have an image and then a slice of dialogue underneath it. As can be expected, the text only has very vague relation to the images, which are textbook Frank stuff. Some juxtapositions made me laugh.

Djeliya is absolutely gorgeous. Read it this summer.

I'm quite surprised just how much the Ditko family have opened up their archives, all these photos and videos. There's a biography, a letters book, an essays book and Mr A book in the works and they want a documentary too. I've only seen one new-to-me piece of art so far (a Konga drawing for his nephew) but there are woodcuts that were at the first DitkoCon and presumably his studio has unpublished things. Really hoping those pieces only seen in old photos still exist (Melting faced woman, lizard man and bug monster).

Hope you single issue Marvel collectors don't care about condition, the new distributor packing is embarrassingly bad.

Superman is queer now btw

'now'

it's clark and lois' son so Superman III? IV? I've lost track.

Jay Nakamura, Superman's new boyfriend, has powers of his own -- and they'll play a key role in the pair's relationship.https://t.co/so6alRFPJH pic.twitter.com/BOrSrOu6lG

— Comic Book Resources (@CBR) October 11, 2021

^ aw, two people without mouths who found each other <3

Bastien Vives doing the new Corto Maltese book and I didn't realize fantagraphics were putting out some of his stuff

I didn't know Corto Maltese was still going! Tbf so is Asterix, but I'd have thought Corto would be seen as such an auteurist work...

I think Vives is getting another movie adaptation too

http://chromefetus.thecomicseries.com/
I havent seen Hans Rickheit's stuff in 12 years or so

Snagged copies of some of the Dark Horse softcover EC reprints, still love this shit like I'm 11. Never understood why there have only been reprints and no one has tried making new Tales From The Crypt/etc. comics.

Papercutz (?) made a new series several years ago and it didn't seem very good but it ran a few years. Of course lots of other people have done their own thing in a similar style but the problem always becomes clear that it's really difficult to write lots of punchy horror stories issue after issue.

https://www.comics.org/series/25315/covers/
https://www.comics.org/series/46996/covers/
https://www.comics.org/series/109885/covers/

Rolling comic books 2022, but Juni Ba has a new series coming out in January through Image. As mentioned above, his Djeliya was very impressive and gorgeous.

In January your local comic shop could get you the first of five issues of my mini series MONKEY MEAT, a fun action packed dystopia with magic and monsters, on an island owned by a corporation that sells cans of monkey meat. Join the safari by preordering at your LCS https://t.co/BJgjJHU33n pic.twitter.com/NWeI0VJQfy

— Juni Ba (@juni_ba) November 12, 2021

Oooh that's cool. Hope it'll get put in a trade afterwards.

40% off sale at Fantagraphics today, free US shipping for orders over $75

Any recommendations? Looking at Dementia 21. Wanted to fill in some L&R but the ones I want are out of stock, as was some of the 2021 stuff I was interested in (Crisis Zone, Crash Site).

A lot of stuff was showing out of stock because of selling heavily during the weekend's 30% off sale, but may be coming back, if you drop them a line to ask 'em if they can add to your order at sale price. Crisis Zone's second printing will be out by the end of the year! (and three or four other Hanselmanuals are also reprinting imminently.)

Guessing that you might also like Stone Fruit and No One Else from the 2021 lineup? maybe The Hand Of Black and Young Shadow, and whichever issues of the NOW anthology are in print.

Also, folks might not know about this deluxe reissue of a classic 80s story by a writer who doesn't like their name to appear on reissues these days. Or in reverse effect, Gary Panter's latest oversized $40 hardcover is now available as a floppy.

Ah, good notes! I will look at those.
Totally forgot about In Pictopia existing - what does Moore have against putting his name on that?

Moore has beef with Fantagraphics due to some old Comics Journal interview, is how I've heard it.

You astonish me.