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Post by bluebed on Jun 2, 2023 13:59:04 GMT
I just use basic google translate. Apple has its own thing, they are very similar, both pretty meh but get the job done if the writing is fairly straightforward (Dubois’s seems very matter-of-fact). I sent his stuff to fanta/d&q a couple of times, it’s wild how few arty french comics we get. Everything Misma and 2024 put out is amazing and there’s so much more www.misma.fr/At least fanta is still putting out all the Anne Simon books and d&q is putting out this one www.editions2024.com/livres/le-grand-videAnouk Ricards Bensons Cuckoos is a masterpiece and no one really talks about that book drawnandquarterly.com/books/bensons-cuckoos/
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Post by manoopuesta on Jun 2, 2023 14:43:58 GMT
I just use basic google translate. Apple has its own thing, they are very similar, both pretty meh but get the job done if the writing is fairly straightforward (Dubois’s seems very matter-of-fact). I sent his stuff to fanta/d&q a couple of times, it’s wild how few arty french comics we get. Everything Misma and 2024 put out is amazing and there’s so much more www.misma.fr/At least fanta is still putting out all the Anne Simon books and d&q is putting out this one www.editions2024.com/livres/le-grand-videAnouk Ricards Bensons Cuckoos is a masterpiece and no one really talks about that book drawnandquarterly.com/books/bensons-cuckoos/I agree there are so many interesting French titles from the alternative scene nowadays and the translation rate to English is very low. Even for Spanish it is the same. I am surprised about this since there is a ton of French comics translated to Spanish (due to language and geographical proximity, I assume). Bensons Cuckoos is such a great book, I love it. This was also translated to Spanish, and Le Gran Vide by Léa Murawiec was recently translated too. So it seems the few that make it get then easily translated to several languages.
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Post by pietrykowski on Jun 2, 2023 19:34:55 GMT
Thanks for the info and all the good recommendations bluebed!
At times I have gotten books that came with a little companion book/zine or bookmark with translations. I do wish more publishers would do that.
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Post by luke on Jun 7, 2023 17:27:42 GMT
Pick-ups from a sale a couple weekends ago in a dingy bowling alley, Everything except the undergrounds in the top row was 50 cents or a dollar. Also got a stack of about 60 Treasure Chest of Fun & Facts for two dollars. I was just going to buy this one but the guy had never seen anyone show any interest in them before and was desperate to rid himself lol. And the pièce de résistance: a mimeographed Tarzan fanzine/school yearbook from 1970. Five bucks!
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Post by mikesheawright on Jun 7, 2023 20:57:42 GMT
holy shit that tarzan thing is amazing
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Post by snailcomic on Jun 9, 2023 14:32:12 GMT
forced to teach in the australian countryside for 2 months as part of my teaching degree which is as miserable as it sounds. been able to ship stuff over though. beautiful spring day was great, but I like the format of something like the Frank book more which gets a lot of mileage out of the short, snappy collected stories from the zines and stuff. I feel like you get to see more of the universe that way rather than with spring day's slower more methodical approach with the 3 larger collected stories. the yoshitaka amano book was gorgeous, but the tale of genji artwork was far better than most of the fairies stuff. the unnecessary writing just kinda bogs it down. stray toasters was something I was so excited for when I found it in a store before moving to the country and I brought it with me. turns out a much prettier deluxe edition was printed recently that I didn't know about but oh well. comic was amazing. been on a huge okazaki binge lately. reread helter skelter after initially hating it. I had been reading all her scanlated work online and buying a copy of pink and I've come to love everything about her work. the anger, the vanity, the sweetness and the insatiable hunger, it's so cathartic to read. helter skelter is probably her most manic, vicious work and definitely one of my new favourite comics. the moyoco anno book was really solid. like a lot of josei it succeeds through its bitterness, melodrama and effortlessly cool and aloof designs and linework. had been hunting for margot ferrick's yours for forever. finally tracked down a japanese book store that was selling copies online for some reason. shipping price was dreadful, buying comics from aus is so horrible. but I've read this book twice now and it's left me utterly in tears both times. might be my new favourite comic alongside roman/bluebed's all the living lmao. really special comic. eisbahn is a short comics collection of tsuchika nishimura whose art Im a big fan of, but a lot of the art in these comics werent his a-game and had a literary stiffness that I found kind of boring. had to translate it from french too which made things wonky.
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Post by grubcubman on Jun 9, 2023 19:18:14 GMT
forced to teach in the australian countryside for 2 months as part of my teaching degree which is as miserable as it sounds. been able to ship stuff over though. beautiful spring day was great, but I like the format of something like the Frank book more which gets a lot of mileage out of the short, snappy collected stories from the zines and stuff. I feel like you get to see more of the universe that way rather than with spring day's slower more methodical approach with the 3 larger collected stories. the yoshitaka amano book was gorgeous, but the tale of genji artwork was far better than most of the fairies stuff. the unnecessary writing just kinda bogs it down. stray toasters was something I was so excited for when I found it in a store before moving to the country and I brought it with me. turns out a much prettier deluxe edition was printed recently that I didn't know about but oh well. comic was amazing. been on a huge okazaki binge lately. reread helter skelter after initially hating it. I had been reading all her scanlated work online and buying a copy of pink and I've come to love everything about her work. the anger, the vanity, the sweetness and the insatiable hunger, it's so cathartic to read. helter skelter is probably her most manic, vicious work and definitely one of my new favourite comics. the moyoco anno book was really solid. like a lot of josei it succeeds through its bitterness, melodrama and effortlessly cool and aloof designs and linework. had been hunting for margot ferrick's yours for forever. finally tracked down a japanese book store that was selling copies online for some reason. shipping price was dreadful, buying comics from aus is so horrible. but I've read this book twice now and it's left me utterly in tears both times. might be my new favourite comic alongside roman/bluebed's all the living lmao. really special comic. eisbahn is a short comics collection of tsuchika nishimura whose art Im a big fan of, but a lot of the art in these comics werent his a-game and had a literary stiffness that I found kind of boring. had to translate it from french too which made things wonky. I love this collection of little reviews! Really makes me want to read Yours again.
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Post by manoopuesta on Jun 16, 2023 17:21:28 GMT
I bought today the spanish edition of "That Miyoko Asagaya Feeling" (published by Gallo Nero) to gift to a friend: she only reads the mangas she buys for her kid (including Junji Ito, mind you) and she says she doesn't find them appealing so I thought this would be a nice start for her into gekiga (my favourite gekiga comic, I think).
And turns out that when I picked this u p I realized that this edition has a a larger page count than the Black Hook Press edition (the one I own). I feel so dumb I never picked the Gallo Nero edition at any bookstore I visit sometimes, just out of curiosity...
Anyway, this afternoon I have been obsessively comparing the 2 editions and turns out that the Black Hook edition has 8 stories while the Gallo Nero one has ten. And they only have in common 4 stories. Why did I assume they would be the same exact edition but in different languages? oh well... So I need to get another copy for me, haha. (also the edition is quite nice, highly recommended for Abe's completists!)
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Post by manoopuesta on Jun 16, 2023 17:41:42 GMT
been on a huge okazaki binge lately. reread helter skelter after initially hating it. I had been reading all her scanlated work online and buying a copy of pink and I've come to love everything about her work. the anger, the vanity, the sweetness and the insatiable hunger, it's so cathartic to read. helter skelter is probably her most manic, vicious work and definitely one of my new favourite comics. Okazaki's Helter Skelter is so good. It is so unique in manga, I think. Got turned to this mangaka by a friend who recommended me Pink, but Helter Skelter is his best work (..., out of these 2 I mean, cause I haven't read more). Looking at his Wikipedia, it seems I am missing A LOT, maybe it is time to get into reading scanlations...
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Post by owaddled on Jun 17, 2023 0:22:32 GMT
Okazaki's Helter Skelter is so good. It is so unique in manga, I think. Got turned to this mangaka by a friend who recommended me Pink, but Helter Skelter is his best work (..., out of these 2 I mean, cause I haven't read more). Looking at his Wikipedia, it seems I am missing A LOT, maybe it is time to get into reading scanlations... I do believe Okazaki is a woman. I am glad to see people discussing her work. I have a japanese edition of Helter Skelter, but I haven't had the brain power to read it. Sadly Okazaki was severely injured in a car accident and hasn't really worked for 20 years. Japanese wiki says Moyoco Anno was an assistant to Okazaki. I've heard great stuff about her work. (I just found out she's married to Hideaki Anno creator of Evangelion)
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Post by owaddled on Jun 17, 2023 6:46:31 GMT
Got a promotion at work so went a lil comic crazy. Got Anya Davidson's MNSTRFCKR and she sent along prints and stickers too. The main story and 2nd story are excellent. Tried to catch up on Yuichi Yokoyama's books that haven't been brought over yet. Bought from Lucky Records. They threw in the mask and postcard sized print. Bought the tote bag for the guy that runs my LCS because the online store would only let me buy 1. The two large sized ones are Astronaut and Gravure. Astronaut is quite fun. A bunch of Yokoyama characters flying around outerspace like suoerheroes. Gravure is 100 panels on a single sheet. It's a lil repetitive but i chuckled a few times. Moeru Oto (Burning Sound) is the square book with red and yellow book band. Might be the most difficult work of his to comprehend visually but I got a visceral thrill in the first story. And all 3 stories work as a larger story. Neo Manyo is the grey book. Ryan Holmberg is in for a tough time on this one. Each comic is based on an old japanese Waka poem. Each has the original poem and a modernized version. I haven't finished but so far it's an exciting new concept from him. Not pictured Copra #45 - One of my favorite issues in a while. Really cool page design. John Hankiewicz' Asthma! Ghost Comics Anthology edited by Ed Choy Moorman. Has Zak Sally, Lucy Kinsley, John Porcellino? Warren Craghead III, and more. Haven't finished but really really liked the first comic The Witness by Hob. Unsmooth #1 and 2 by E.S. Glenm I rebought my copy of Band for Life I had sold to my LCS after being schooled on this board about the virtues of Anya Davidson. I'll post more about this book later.
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Post by manoopuesta on Jun 17, 2023 8:50:47 GMT
I do believe Okazaki is a woman. I am glad to see people discussing her work. I have a japanese edition of Helter Skelter, but I haven't had the brain power to read it. Sadly Okazaki was severely injured in a car accident and hasn't really worked for 20 years. Japanese wiki says Moyoco Anno was an assistant to Okazaki. I've heard great stuff about her work. (I just found out she's married to Hideaki Anno creator of Evangelion) I always thought so but then yesterday quickly browsing wikipedia made me think otherwise. I guess I mixed up biographies when I was browsing over several mangakas' wiki articles (I blame it to being extremely tired after work). yesterday I was very confused thinking I had been wrong all along and very disappointed in a way (I know so few female mangakas already, one down!). so thanks for correcting me on this! I haven't read any Moyoco Anno, maybe I should give it a try.
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Post by manoopuesta on Jun 17, 2023 9:00:18 GMT
I rebought my copy of Band for Life I had sold to my LCS after being schooled on this board about the virtues of Anya Davidson. I'll post more about this book later. I bought a few months ago her book School Spirits. I read it from the library many years ago, and it is one of the comics that did a big impression on me when I was getting more into alternative comics. I re-read it just this past week and it still had the same effect in a way. Very cool now I know better, I can see some Archie/Thirteen Going to Eighteen influences on that. (I got turned to Thirteen Going to Eighteen after she mentioned it in an interview and I am still so thankful for that discovery).
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Post by arecomicsevengood on Jun 17, 2023 13:38:25 GMT
I think it's been mentioned in the "Looking Forward To" thread, but Okazaki's book River's Edge is coming out in English in two weeks, before the end of the month.
I ordered a stack of books from the Uncivilized Books sale a month ago that now arrived and are forming a pile of stuff to get to: The Whistling Factory by Jesse McManus, Jezebel by Elijah Brubaker, War Of Streets And Houses by Sophie Yanow, Pascin by Joann Sfar (looks great on a flip-through), Sammy The Mouse volume 2 by Zak Sally, New Construction by Sam Alden. I also read already the James Romberger "For Real" comic about Jack Kirby.
(This is an edited post, I accidentally posted like I was in the "What Are You Reading Today?" thread.)
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Post by bluebed on Jun 17, 2023 13:50:36 GMT
That Tsuchika book is so good, he’s been doing less cray-cray manga about a shopping center with funny animals, beautiful stuff (I think it’s been adapted into an anime), but I miss his more experimental work. There’s an earlier story of his in the latest Glaeolia, and this artbook is a nice intro to his work: japanese-creative-books.com/product/illustration/tsuchika-nishimura-artworks/There’s a great tribute to Maki Sasaki, who was published by Breakdown.
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