Rolling comic books 2021

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.

Is there anyone in the comics industry he's still on speaking terms with?

Out of the many feuds I've seen him involved in this feels like the only one where I think he's just being silly tbh

Do any of y'all fuck with Ed Piskor's The Red Room? I only ask because when it was first announced, it looked extremely NOT up my alley, but people I respect keep praising and promoting it on the socials. So last week I bought issue 1 and it was pretty much what I expected it to be (i.e. not my thing). But I keep seeing people talking about it. Is it safe to assume if I didn't like issue 1, then I would expect more of the same in the other issues?

Ed Piskor has a lot of good will from his previous works. From the cover alone though I had a similar feeling that it wasn't for me. Maybe if my library gets a copy...

i have some love and patience for piskor but red room is terrible based on one issue

Yeah, I tried to read the first issue. It was bad.

I enjoy his Cartoonist Kayfabe channel for all the formalist analysis of comics but his vocal affectations remind me of like 50's white authors trying to show they're hip by talking jive. Not a comment on his work ofc.

Tried the first volume of Sophie Campbell's TMNT run. The concept is cool: a mutagen bomb goes off in a neighbourhood and now everyone's a mutant; the area gets cordoned off but instead of things devolving into gang wars as such a development usually would in a superhero comic the emphasis is on mutual aid, the turtles trying to build up structures to help the neighbourhood out. The art is very not for me tho.

Also tracked down the first volume of D&Q's Kitaro, after having gone through that Arrow yokai box set. Cool episodic stuff, v cartoonish figures contrasted with ultra realistic backgrounds.

Anyone recall the writer who explained Superman keeping his identity secret by vibrating his face when he is getting his photo taken/filmed? That's one of the funniest old DC things ever

Supergirl has also done that in her CW show. It's just as ridiculous as you'd expect.

Like this Teen Titans piece
https://joshbayer.storenvy.com/products/13642836-characters-watercolor-commission

I was just checking out when the remainder of Berserk is coming out (I was up to volume 37) and Miura has another one book series coming out
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duranki_(manga)
I still haven't read Giganto Maxia either (that's one book)

Never seeing the real end of Berserk is going to be a lifelong regret for me

Has anyone read Blutch graphic novels or Don Simpson's Border Worlds? I'm thinking of getting them

Here's a review I wrote of Blutch's Total Jazz album:

https://theslingsandarrows.com/total-jazz/

Thanks

both worth a read imo

I remember Border Worlds was excellent back in the 80s, but I was out of comics when he later finished the story. Same thing with Puma Blues, which I think they later finished off at some point.

Indie comics is always a sad dead letter office of series that never finished.

i am rummaging through a digital stash of image comics of the 90's and wow are there ever a lot of unfinished and abbreviated series.

The factors that ended 1990s Image series are very different to the ones that ended Puma Blues.