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Post by teemcgee on May 16, 2023 19:21:37 GMT
Showing Bubbles solidarity, picked up the one (single!) issue of forum own whitecomics 's Yearly 2019 that came in to Gosh here at London - keen to read this through Andrew!
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Post by whitecomics on May 16, 2023 20:20:41 GMT
Showing Bubbles solidarity, picked up the one (single!) issues of forum own whitecomics 's Yearly 2019 that came in to Gosh here at London - keen to read this through Andrew! Hey thanks. A true pleasure of self-publishing is that you know exactly where each copy goes, except of course when you don't. Which is to say I definitely didn't send anything to Gosh, I'm happy a comic ended up there anyways! Hope you like the issue (you can also read the main story from it online, since you're missing the portion that appeared in 2018).
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Post by luke on May 18, 2023 19:26:45 GMT
Got the latest two David Collier books, Winter of Our Pandemic and the hot-off-the-presses True Friends. Both published by Spare Parts Press, a pretty new publisher I don't know much about. I wonder how Collier ended up there. It seems like a cool press but it seems like they don't have the best distribution; I ordered from them direct because I couldn't find a US retailer that had both books in stock. This is carping but both books especially Winter have too-narrow gutters, which is a problem I'm noticing in more and more even in fancy major press books. Otherwise the paper and printing are of high caliber, and assuredly the actual content will be as great as Collier usually is.
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Post by dominocorp on May 19, 2023 5:06:06 GMT
Collier is such a special artist. In a way you'd think the current book publishing landscape would be perfect for him, as he works with historical subject matter and/or auto bio, but of course it's the opposite because he doesn't reduce any of those things to a clear hook, which seems required these days. His chosen subject matter is always a catalyst for him to reflect on things rather than for events to just play out. Brilliant artist.
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Post by jporcellino on May 19, 2023 16:58:50 GMT
Got the latest two David Collier books, Winter of Our Pandemic and the hot-off-the-presses True Friends. Both published by Spare Parts Press, a pretty new publisher I don't know much about. I wonder how Collier ended up there. It seems like a cool press but it seems like they don't have the best distribution; I ordered from them direct because I couldn't find a US retailer that had both books in stock. This is carping but both books especially Winter have too-narrow gutters, which is a problem I'm noticing in more and more even in fancy major press books. Otherwise the paper and printing are of high caliber, and assuredly the actual content will be as great as Collier usually is.
The Spare Parts publisher is a longtime King-Cat reader. We struggled with how to get the books to Spit and a Half cheaply, the shipping from Canada to the US is outrageous. Finally Collier just took it upon himself to send me some boxes of Winter of Our Pandemic on his dime. They've been selling like hotcakes ever since. In fact, I need to reorder again. I'll be sure to get the new book too, thanks for letting me know about it!
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Post by jporcellino on May 19, 2023 17:09:00 GMT
Collier is such a special artist. In a way you'd think the current book publishing landscape would be perfect for him, as he works with historical subject matter and/or auto bio, but of course it's the opposite because he doesn't reduce any of those things to a clear hook, which seems required these days. His chosen subject matter is always a catalyst for him to reflect on things rather than for events to just play out. Brilliant artist. This goes back to the How to Expand the Audience for Art Comics thread, but more and more I'm feeling fine about how things are. We all know that these comics deserve a larger audience, but at the same time -- they're doing what they need to do. It's gone back to the days of small press/weirdo publishers, distributors, artists just busting through whatever barriers lie in front of them. The audience is there, and they're super appreciative, the support is there. Is it as much support as the latest My Pretty Broney Fairie Fighters comic gets? Nope, but so what. We're making hard comics for a discerning audience. More than ever, these works are getting into people's hands by hook or by crook. One thing I think about a lot, coming from my background in punk, was we saw mainstream society as hopeless, toxic, and disgusting. We had no desire to get involved in it. We were looking to create an alternative system alongside it. Looking back, we did. We accomplished that, to one degree or another (Some parts of it worked better than others...). Over time, and these things go in waves, there will come more mainstream interest in the underground. People on that end will try to figure out how to water down and commodify this art, this expression, this world. Sometimes that's tempting to us on the underground end, to dip our toes into that money/attention. It almost always does not end well. I think we're in that part of the wave again where people in the underground are realizing the benefits of staying a little under the radar. Of re-committing to DIY. Is it perfect? No. But by and large, we're getting the job done.
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Post by robindh on May 26, 2023 20:21:56 GMT
That complete stories edition of Martí's Taxista (Cabbie) is one I've been wanting to buy for a while, because of the format plus the design - even though I owned already some Cabbie volumes. So I am super stoked about this.
I got the English volume of Cabbie and had a good time, I'm usually not one for cartoonists working in the mode of old comic strip artists but Martí is so charming and so good at mimicking Gould's style. Unfortunately I'm pretty sure we won't ever get a second volume, especially without Kim Thompson's curatorial influence at Fanta. A while ago I counted up everything of his that's been published in English and was surprised to find he's one of the most frequently translated Spanish cartoonists. Up there with Torres, Max and Prado.
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Post by manoopuesta on May 26, 2023 21:22:25 GMT
That complete stories edition of Martí's Taxista (Cabbie) is one I've been wanting to buy for a while, because of the format plus the design - even though I owned already some Cabbie volumes. So I am super stoked about this.
I got the English volume of Cabbie and had a good time, I'm usually not one for cartoonists working in the mode of old comic strip artists but Martí is so charming and so good at mimicking Gould's style. Unfortunately I'm pretty sure we won't ever get a second volume, especially without Kim Thompson's curatorial influence at Fanta. A while ago I counted up everything of his that's been published in English and was surprised to find he's one of the most frequently translated Spanish cartoonists. Up there with Torres, Max and Prado. Supposedly Vol. 2 of Cabbie was published by Fanta some years ago (I came across this some months ago, but i don't seem to find any physical copies of it).
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Post by robindh on May 26, 2023 22:09:38 GMT
I think that's a situation where it was put up for pre-order but it never actually went to print. So there's just the phantom previews on various book-buying platforms.
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Post by basterfeldt on May 27, 2023 0:01:46 GMT
I think that's a situation where it was put up for pre-order but it never actually went to print. So there's just the phantom previews on various book-buying platforms. This kinda happened with My Favourite Thing Is Monsters 2 too right? I at least have to argue that it doesn’t actually exist quite a bit, even though there’s a cover out there and at one point a release date (I think??) I bought 20km/h by Woshibai, a collection of their super short and silent strips that d+q just put out. Absolutely wonderful and exactly what I needed; cute, melancholy and really funny. Plus it a strip isn’t working for you, in 10 seconds you’ll be onto something else that might. Just picked up all of Lale Westvind’s Hot Dog Beach too. Very excited to finally get to read it.
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Post by juett2424 on Jun 1, 2023 15:52:37 GMT
War epic by nathan cowdry was really great...if you liked crashsite then you will be into this book. I also bought starmash 1-3 of a recomdation from this board so really looking forward to that book coming in the mail.
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Post by pietrykowski on Jun 1, 2023 23:51:49 GMT
Citeruine byJerome Dubois. Pumped to spend sometime with it. Big thanks to Wig Shop.
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Post by bluebed on Jun 2, 2023 0:05:02 GMT
Citeruine is so great, and the original story volume (Citeville) is amazing. I read my copy with an auto-translator on the phone, worth the effort.
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Post by pietrykowski on Jun 2, 2023 0:55:06 GMT
Citeruine is so great, and the original story volume (Citeville) is amazing. I read my copy with an auto-translator on the phone, worth the effort. I might have to do that. Are you using any special app for the translations?
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Post by mikesheawright on Jun 2, 2023 1:16:48 GMT
wow great idea, will be trying that, thanks.
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