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Post by owaddled on Jan 8, 2024 21:58:11 GMT
The 10 page sitcom style strips that you'd see in Walt Disney's Comics and Stories are funnier and faster paced than the long adventure strips you would get in Uncle Scrooge or Donald Duck. I love all of it though Thanks! Almost all my Barks reading is through the Gladstone european album sized ones and they are very focused on the adventures. If you've ready them, do you think the Fantagraphics collections do a good job balancing the adventures and shorter ones? It is cool that Barks had those two modes...though so did Stanley on Little Lulu which I find funnier. I'll keep reading Barks here and there for the rest of my life probably.
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Post by disneyweirdness on Jan 8, 2024 22:12:54 GMT
The 10 page sitcom style strips that you'd see in Walt Disney's Comics and Stories are funnier and faster paced than the long adventure strips you would get in Uncle Scrooge or Donald Duck. I love all of it though Thanks! Almost all my Barks reading is through the Gladstone european album sized ones and they are very focused on the adventures. If you've ready them, do you think the Fantagraphics collections do a good job balancing the adventures and shorter ones? It is cool that Barks had those two modes...though so did Stanley on Little Lulu which I find funnier. I'll keep reading Barks here and there for the rest of my life probably. When my kid was little I would read comics to him as bedtime stories. His favorites were John Stanley's Tubby and the "Terror of the Beagle Boys" Fantagraphics book. He was mostly bored with the longer stories but the gag strips got big laughs
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Post by owaddled on Jan 8, 2024 22:35:48 GMT
Glad to know I have the taste and attention span of your son...when he couldn't read on his own! Does your kid read any comics these days? (I hope to be a father some day and it'd be sweet if I could infect them with comic reading) Also only tangentially related, did you check out Michael Mouse? I saw Matt Seneca put it as a best of the year, which made me want to check it out but when I went to my LCS they had sold their 1 copy and can't currently get anymore.
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Post by disneyweirdness on Jan 8, 2024 23:08:11 GMT
Glad to know I have the taste and attention span of your son...when he couldn't read on his own! Does your kid read any comics these days? (I hope to be a father some day and it'd be sweet if I could infect them with comic reading) Also only tangentially related, did you check out Michael Mouse? I saw Matt Seneca put it as a best of the year, which made me want to check it out but when I went to my LCS they had sold their 1 copy and can't currently get anymore. I loved Michael Mouse, I followed it on Instagram and ordered the print copy as soon as he announced it. My kid is a teenager now so he only cares about Shonen Jump stuff and those Simpsons Treehouse of Horror collections.
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Post by guidovision on Jan 8, 2024 23:52:26 GMT
Glad to know I have the taste and attention span of your son...when he couldn't read on his own! Does your kid read any comics these days? (I hope to be a father some day and it'd be sweet if I could infect them with comic reading) Also only tangentially related, did you check out Michael Mouse? I saw Matt Seneca put it as a best of the year, which made me want to check it out but when I went to my LCS they had sold their 1 copy and can't currently get anymore. I loved Michael Mouse, I followed it on Instagram and ordered the print copy as soon as he announced it. My kid is a teenager now so he only cares about Shonen Jump stuff and those Simpsons Treehouse of Horror collections. I hear you! My son is nine, and though I've tried to instill comics into his reading habits, the only things that have hooked him so far are the Legend of Zelda manga adaptations.
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Post by owaddled on Jan 9, 2024 1:03:09 GMT
I loved Michael Mouse, I followed it on Instagram and ordered the print copy as soon as he announced it. My kid is a teenager now so he only cares about Shonen Jump stuff and those Simpsons Treehouse of Horror collections. Dang didn't know Michael was on IG first, now I've read the first 32 posts. It's hard for me to explain why it works, but it does. I think the on model poses from the classic comics add that physicality and just visual entertainment I don't get from say the Sean Phillips Criminal comics. The plot has all the twists and turns of a potboiler and David Duck is classically noir-tragic. Very enjoyable.
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Post by pentimento on Jan 9, 2024 1:51:47 GMT
The 10 page sitcom style strips that you'd see in Walt Disney's Comics and Stories are funnier and faster paced than the long adventure strips you would get in Uncle Scrooge or Donald Duck. I love all of it though do you think the Fantagraphics collections do a good job balancing the adventures and shorter ones? Be aware - the Fanta volumes are increasingly censored by the Disney overlords, and shamefully Fanta has said NOTHING about it in public.
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Post by junkflower on Jan 9, 2024 2:10:56 GMT
I would guess Fanta's contracts with Disney probably stipulate that they can't comment on that kind of thing
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Post by pentimento on Jan 9, 2024 6:06:24 GMT
I would guess Fanta's contracts with Disney probably stipulate that they can't comment on that kind of thing Of course, but it's still bullshit. It's the sort of think Groth would have railed against for twenty pages in the TCJ of olde. Tis sad.
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Post by BubblesZine on Jan 9, 2024 12:46:03 GMT
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Post by guidovision on Jan 9, 2024 15:15:55 GMT
As a fan of Fort Thunder, (and Thunder-adjacent stuff) it's kind of embarrasing to admit that, other than the Picturebox slipcase, I had virtually no Gary Panter -their clear predecessor- comics work in my collection. This one feels like a good place to start. The Muñoz-Sampayo book (of Alack Sinner fame) was highly recommended to me by a friend whose opinion I really trust. I've read the first couple of stories, and it is indeed a haunting portrait of mid-century Argentina that avoids the melodramatic trappings that usually come with that type of work. Plus, devastatingly good art by Muñoz. Attachments:
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Post by owaddled on Jan 9, 2024 15:35:39 GMT
As a fan of Fort Thunder, (and Thunder-adjacent stuff) it's kind of embarrasing to admit that, other than the Picturebox slipcase, I had virtually no Gary Panter -their clear predecessor- comics work in my collection. This one feels like a good place to start. The Muñoz-Sampayo book (of Alack Sinner fame) was highly recommended to me by a friend whose opinion I really trust. I've read the first couple of stories, and it is indeed a haunting portrait of mid-century Argentina that avoids the melodramatic trappings that usually come with that type of work. Plus, devastatingly good art by Muñoz. Reading Jimbo: Adventures in Paradise for the first time was a real eye opener for me, just the expressive visual range and how free he was in the early 80's and how much I felt engrossed and awed by the ending after it starts basically as a gag strip. If you end up loving it, I recommend getting a copy of the Pantheon edition. The NYRC edition is missing the sepia tones on the opening story and some pages are cut off a bit.
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Post by GHO on Jan 9, 2024 17:49:15 GMT
As a fan of Fort Thunder, (and Thunder-adjacent stuff) it's kind of embarrasing to admit that, other than the Picturebox slipcase, I had virtually no Gary Panter -their clear predecessor- comics work in my collection. This one feels like a good place to start. The Muñoz-Sampayo book (of Alack Sinner fame) was highly recommended to me by a friend whose opinion I really trust. I've read the first couple of stories, and it is indeed a haunting portrait of mid-century Argentina that avoids the melodramatic trappings that usually come with that type of work. Plus, devastatingly good art by Muñoz. another great Panter book is dal tokyo, if you can find it. I think it's OOP and I never see it out in the wild. To me that is Panter at his peak and it stretches for a long portion of his career. so there's lots to sink your teeth in. his typography throughout that book is something to marvel at as well. also, this book from UDA is probably the best Panter art object/book that I personally have ever seen! lotsa great paintings in here too. But when is someone going to make a book of panter paintings post that picture box book. I really think he was hitting his stride right at the end of that book around 2005. And all the shows i've seen in person since then reaffirm this suspicion.
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Post by owaddled on Jan 9, 2024 18:27:10 GMT
another great Panter book is dal tokyo, if you can find it. I think it's OOP and I never see it out in the wild. To me that is Panter at his peak and it stretches for a long portion of his career. so there's lots to sink your teeth in. his typography throughout that book is something to marvel at as well. also, this book from UDA is probably the best Panter art object/book that I personally have ever seen! lotsa great paintings in here too. But when is someone going to make a book of panter paintings post that picture box book. I really think he was hitting his stride right at the end of that book around 2005. And all the shows i've seen in person since then reaffirm this suspicion. Is the UDA book the The Land Unknown book? It seems like there was another called The Wrong Box that was more focused on paintings.
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Post by GHO on Jan 9, 2024 18:31:40 GMT
another great Panter book is dal tokyo, if you can find it. I think it's OOP and I never see it out in the wild. To me that is Panter at his peak and it stretches for a long portion of his career. so there's lots to sink your teeth in. his typography throughout that book is something to marvel at as well. also, this book from UDA is probably the best Panter art object/book that I personally have ever seen! lotsa great paintings in here too. But when is someone going to make a book of panter paintings post that picture box book. I really think he was hitting his stride right at the end of that book around 2005. And all the shows i've seen in person since then reaffirm this suspicion. Is the UDA book the The Land Unknown book? It seems like there was another called The Wrong Box that was more focused on paintings. YA, sorry meant to drop the link www.lespressesdureel.com/EN/ouvrage.php?id=4295&menu=0 . haven't heard of the other one but ill look for it right now, thanks for the tip :0) Edit: wowee, looks great. but it is staple bound and looks like pre 2005 stuff :/ the other one is very chunky in comparison.
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