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Post by pentimento on Jan 27, 2024 0:34:22 GMT
Steve Rude doc, focusing on his depression, and his sad and hilariously misguided attempt at giving up comics for a career in "gallery" art. I felt nothing but embarrassment for him, thinking the types of paintings he makes (basically classic magazine covers or poster art) would be of any interest outside of narrative comics, or maybe the Thomas Kinkaid crowd. Glad he gave that up and is back at comics.
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Post by pentimento on Jan 28, 2024 1:09:16 GMT
Canadian show Anti-Gravity Room, from late 90s, about comics, and also stupid shit like video games, etc. Imported to USA via Sci-Fi channel at the time. Lotta dumb ass mainstream shit, but also interviews with Groth, Seth, Clowes, a number of other Fanta people, and plenty of so-called "alternative" artists like Dean Haspiel (ugh) and Evan Dorkin (ugh) as well as genuine greats like Bissette and so on. This dumb show hosted by a teenager is better comics journalism than 99% of all comics websites today, feh! youtube.com/playlist?list=PLksubP8_o5Hy8xyJGZFxvyA3X1DNHB29q&si=AT4njG-h2diKLyqjarchive.org/details/Anti-Gravity_Room-1997-5-episodesarchive.org/details/TheAntiGravityRoom
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Post by robindh on Jan 28, 2024 2:41:35 GMT
This Emmanuel Guibert process video is pretty awe-inspiring, crazy to think he did as many pages as he did like this: And then there's these two from the GOAT, Alberto Breccia, drawing on glass and with a razor blade:
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Post by JerrryJames on Jan 28, 2024 7:57:20 GMT
Here's a few things that I have saved away for a rainy day, I too am quite a media whore :
Jim Phillips / Skateboard art :
Dan O'Neill talking about The Air Pirates & Mickey now that Steamboat Willie is in the public domain:
Jay Lynch flipping through a bunch of art in his home & talking, filmed by Patrick Rosenkranz :
Tales of the Rat Fink - Big Daddy Ross documentary :
Hermann at work:
OZ Magazine :
(The next two aren't necessarily comics/art related, they're just Really great documentaries about Blues & old Bluegrass that I like to share with people when given the opportunity.)
'You See Me Laughin' by Fat Possum Records : (after watching this documentary multiple times, one day I was flipping through books at Powells & came across a comic by Joe Sacco inside of 'But I Like It' that is based off of the bluesmen in this documentary & information from the stories that they tell. I got so excited when I saw that he had drawn everybody, bought it immediately & read half of it on the max by the time I got home.)
Old Appalachian bluegrass documentary with Bascom Lamar Lunsford : (just some good old fashioned cool stuff right there, I only know so many other people in their 20's who would even give this the time of their day)
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Post by pentimento on Jan 28, 2024 20:12:06 GMT
I thought this was real weak sauce, but then these two are my favorite cartoonists of all time, and I've read all their work and every interview since 1982, so I am "bias" as the semi-literate youngsters like to say.
Think it was a huge mistake to interview so many academics instead of other cultural figures from the same era (notable musicians, filmmakers, writers) and the cartoonists they do interview, I've never even heard of (who the fuck is Justin Hall?)
Also think their emphasis on the Bros' incredibly diverse casts is wrongly interpreted as "pushing" an agenda. In fact it was the very unassuming inclusion of so many types of people and settings, the total normalcy of it, that was revolutionary, especially to someone like me growing up in the middle of nowhere. Today's heavy-handed didactic creators have a lot to learn from that.
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Post by pentimento on Jan 29, 2024 17:57:57 GMT
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Post by pentimento on Jan 29, 2024 18:03:07 GMT
One of the greatest cartoonists of all time! Only Kirby matches him for imagination and off-the-wall creation.
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Post by JerrryJames on Jan 30, 2024 4:13:05 GMT
One of the greatest cartoonists of all time! Only Kirby matches him for imagination and off-the-wall creation. Ooooh man, I'm definitely watching this one very soon. I've been on a little Osamu Tezuka kick all week long & just started to really get into his stuff after sort of stumbling on a click-baity video about Carl Barks' history & career. Apparently Osamu was heavily inspired by Barks & was quite a fan, & they even got to meet each other during Comic-Con 1980 & traded drawings. Admittedly, I've only just Seen tons of Astro Boy & a bunch of his art online, I don't think I've actually Read a book by him. Got any favorites that you think I oughta give a read?
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Post by pentimento on Jan 30, 2024 4:50:24 GMT
One of the greatest cartoonists of all time! Only Kirby matches him for imagination and off-the-wall creation. Ooooh man, I'm definitely watching this one very soon. I've been on a little Osamu Tezuka kick all week long & just started to really get into his stuff after sort of stumbling on a click-baity video about Carl Barks' history & career. Apparently Osamu was heavily inspired by Barks & was quite a fan, & they even got to meet each other during Comic-Con 1980 & traded drawings. Admittedly, I've only just Seen tons of Astro Boy & a bunch of his art online, I don't think I've actually Read a book by him. Got any favorites that you think I oughta give a read? My faves: MW - insane plotting and pace, demonic mood, terrorism, paranoia, conspiracies Apollo's Song - also insane plotting, outrageous disturbing but hilarious sexuality Book of Human Insects - my favorite single volume, if I had to choose, as deep and layered as David Lynch or Bergman, with similar issues of identity switching, fantasy/reality, etc. And of course: Phoenix - massive, ridiculously ambitious 12-volume story spanning millennia, all great but the future stories are especially good, sadly out of print That's the tip of the iceberg, too - there are scores of other books, collections of shorts, long series like Astro Boy, Buddha, Adolph, Black Jack... Sometime I find his Disney style at odds with the extremity and depth of his writing, but he always turns me around. What a talent. And links, if you want to sample: archive.org/details/manga_phoenix/Phoenix%20v01%20%282003%29%20%28digital%29%20%28Jaeger-Empire%29%20000.jpgarchive.org/search?query=creator%3A%22Tezuka+Osamu%22
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Post by pentimento on Jan 30, 2024 17:00:17 GMT
Building Stories is one of the greatest accomplishments in comics, ever. But I find Ware, the person, a tedious narcissistic hypocrite. Nonetheless clips like this are nice envy porn, seeing his "work" area and so on. A fantastic cartoonist.
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Post by pentimento on Feb 2, 2024 0:44:15 GMT
Never was a fan of Dame Darcy, but of course that's because I'm a MISOGYNIST, right? Too noodly, too ziney, too cute, too performative. And her appearance here leans heavily on the latter - she may or may not be such a weirdo in "real life" but people like this are tiresome whether it's genuine or not.
I remember an interview she gave a few years back where she was basically dissecting Dan Clowes' looks, and their collapse over the years. Really obnoxious, witless stuff, and if a male cartoonist gave an equivalent interview about a female cartoonist, their career would be OVER. Granted, I've heard such things in private from many well known dude cartoonists (big names!) about their wimmen peers, so I guess everyone's fulla shit. Sad!
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Post by JerrryJames on Feb 2, 2024 10:57:26 GMT
I just started watching this goofy French animated film now that I figured out how to download English subtitles for it. It's called Lascars (Round Da Way) & I'm enjoying it so far. It's like stoner, hip-hop, graffiti, French alt-comix in a movie. There's no versions hosted online that I could find with English subtitles that weren't dogshit, but thankfully the OP posted a link in the comments on how to figure that out. I've never used opensubtitles.org before to download subtitles & drag them onto my video player, but it seemed to work astonishingly well & it was pretty easy, it synced up perfectly with the movie & I gave it a good precursory skim to make sure it was solid, & I'm about to give it a full watch.
I remember watching episodes of the tv show on Youtube a few years ago, the English version is called Homiez (Round Da Way) & it was kind of funny in some parts. Not exactly Great, but definitely enjoyable for what it's worth, the tv show is a lot more lofi than the movie though. So far, I'm liking the movie significantly more.
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Post by TomMurphy on Feb 2, 2024 11:39:47 GMT
I thought this was real weak sauce, but then these two are my favorite cartoonists of all time, and I've read all their work and every interview since 1982, so I am "bias" as the semi-literate youngsters like to say. My big takeaway from this was Jaime's sausage fingers
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Post by pentimento on Feb 3, 2024 0:42:38 GMT
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Post by pentimento on Feb 4, 2024 2:22:30 GMT
Everyone knows The Real World season 3 had a dude named Judd Winnick, who was an aspiring cartoonist. Unfortunately for us, his aspirations were achieved, and he's been a "professional" cartoonist ever since, drawing a maudlin gn about the death of his castmate Pedro, and writing page after page of bilge for DC comics, etc. But the fifth season of the show also had a comics connection in cast member Sarah Becker, who was apparently an employee of Wildstorm Studios, about which I know almost nothing - I guess a sub-studio of Jim Lee or one of those guys? After my time and below my interests. I do remember some footage of her working or interacting with other folks from the studio, but the memory is hazy, and not sure I want to germinate that dying seed in my brain. But lucky you, if you've never seen the show: youtube.com/playlist?list=PL8bpKcdL39Lg2FmIu6Y_18czP3tIskE3g&si=aRG8gv_Y9Un_0LhM
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