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Post by wigshop on Aug 24, 2022 1:38:18 GMT
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Post by mamalips on Aug 24, 2022 17:30:30 GMT
Great news! I did notice Sunday Press disappeared a few weeks ago from an online book shop distributor, that explains why.
It would be cool if they took up more things like this, Peow Studio are closing their doors at the end of the year, it would be cool if FB teamed up with them for distribution help with their stock. I wonder what Koyama did with all their remaining stock?
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Post by arecomicsevengood on Sept 16, 2022 4:19:30 GMT
May as well piggyback off this thread to ask what are the classic comic strips y'all are particularly into. The reading experience of older strips often presents some difficulties for me but it really varies.
That Forgotten Fantasy book Sunday Press did has a lot of stuff in it that totally kicks ass though, I really love the Feininger Kin-Der-Kids stuff, and some of the other strips that have a few examples included like "Madge The Magician's Daughter" and "The Naps Of Polly Sleepyhead" are also great. The Naughty Pete stuff is cool. I have considered tracking down the Gasoline Alley Sundays book, the Frank King Crazy Quilt collection, and the Garrett Price White Boy book.
Also if anybody has any recommendations for that Library Of American Comics "LOAC Essentials" line I'm interested. I read that Bungle Family book because Dan Nadel was riding hard for it. It's kind of a ridiculous and unwieldy format but I guess I appreciate the "just a year of dailies" style as opposed to a completist model because for a lot of stuff a sampling is all you need. I wonder how the Polly And Her Pals collection reads.
The strip that I picked up a collection of and really truly feel like it is not for me is Cliff Sterrett's Barnaby. That's a book that's just sitting there only partly read on my shelf. (The same is also true for a later Walt And Skeezix collection. It could just be fatigue from the format honestly.)
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Post by wigshop on Oct 14, 2022 1:49:45 GMT
May as well piggyback off this thread to ask what are the classic comic strips y'all are particularly into. The reading experience of older strips often presents some difficulties for me but it really varies. That Forgotten Fantasy book Sunday Press did has a lot of stuff in it that totally kicks ass though, I really love the Feininger Kin-Der-Kids stuff, and some of the other strips that have a few examples included like "Madge The Magician's Daughter" and "The Naps Of Polly Sleepyhead" are also great. The Naughty Pete stuff is cool. I have considered tracking down the Gasoline Alley Sundays book, the Frank King Crazy Quilt collection, and the Garrett Price White Boy book. Also if anybody has any recommendations for that Library Of American Comics "LOAC Essentials" line I'm interested. I read that Bungle Family book because Dan Nadel was riding hard for it. It's kind of a ridiculous and unwieldy format but I guess I appreciate the "just a year of dailies" style as opposed to a completist model because for a lot of stuff a sampling is all you need. I wonder how the Polly And Her Pals collection reads. The strip that I picked up a collection of and really truly feel like it is not for me is Cliff Sterrett's Barnaby. That's a book that's just sitting there only partly read on my shelf. (The same is also true for a later Walt And Skeezix collection. It could just be fatigue from the format honestly.) I'm no expert on the classic stuff - my awareness of what was out there back in the day is based almost entirely on what Fanta / DQ / Sunday / etc put out in these archival editions. Nemo was a big one for me. Of Sunday Press's stuff, THIMBLE THEATRE turned me into a laughing lunatic and I kept dragging my wife over to see various strips. Something about Seger's pacing/timing is just astonishing. But, of all I *really* liked LITTLE JOE and WHITE BOY. They both have an arc to their stories over multiple days that lets you really sink into them. Something so innocent and wondrous about old western comics, i think. |
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Post by arecomicsevengood on Oct 15, 2022 17:09:57 GMT
Saw this page on Twitter which reminded me I should buy a copy of that Sundays With Walt And Skeezix book:
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Post by thebeautifulpuffin on Oct 15, 2022 20:34:11 GMT
Nice! Looks like everything is in print but Krazy Kat, Timble Theatre, Nemo 1 and Society is Nix (which is in serious need of a fresh printing; its even more astounding than Forgotten Fantay). I had hopes that the IDW partnership would lead to more releases but not much ended up happening... Fanta is a dream partnership.
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Post by whitecomics on Oct 18, 2022 21:18:41 GMT
I wonder if anyone knows about the prospect of the Smithsonian collection ever being reprinted? Or for that matter why there aren't more best-of collections like it, for Sundays or dailies? I agree that for many strips, a sampling is all I need, and all the better if that sampling was curated for me. I guess Society is Nix is in that category, I should track that one down.
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Post by jporcellino on Nov 22, 2022 20:21:27 GMT
I wonder if anyone knows about the prospect of the Smithsonian collection ever being reprinted? Or for that matter why there aren't more best-of collections like it, for Sundays or dailies? I agree that for many strips, a sampling is all I need, and all the better if that sampling was curated for me. I guess Society is Nix is in that category, I should track that one down. I was just in the Madison WI Half Price Books, and they had 3 copies of the Smithsonian book! There must be lots of them floating around out there. If you have a hard time finding one, let me know! |
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Post by arecomicsevengood on Dec 16, 2022 1:03:20 GMT
My order from Fantagraphics' Cyber Monday sale showed up the other day so I'm digging into Garrett Price's White Boy collection tonight and yeah, it rules. Beautiful drawings. Obviously the page with the fire that's in the Smithsonian collection is incredible but I also like all the stuff where people are swimming in water. Also just the characterization, humor, pacing, all that stuff's on point, I'm having a really good time reading it.
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Post by arecomicsevengood on Dec 20, 2022 2:32:49 GMT
Realizing White Boy's run starts in 1933, I have the 1933-1934 Krazy And Ignatz volume ("Necromancy By The Blue Bean Bush"), the 1933-1934 Walt And Skeezix volume (the last one published, that you can read Matt Seneca talk about on tcj.com as marking a comeback), volume 3 of the big Fantagraphics Popeye hardcovers ("Let's You Him Fight") includes 1933... I could read a strip of all of these a day, the way one would 90 years ago, next year. In both 2023 and 1933, January first falls on a Sunday. Both years are not leap years, so the calendar stays the same throughout. 1933 is even, holy shit, the same year as the LOAC Essentials Polly And Her Pals volume, so may as well order a copy of that now to go all in. Anyway if anybody wants to do this along with me, this will seem less insane and more fun. Or if there are other strips... Alley Oop started its run in December of 1932 so I guess those new collections John P mentioned would cover this year? Dick Tracy was running too, I think this year would be in the first volume of the IDW collections. There's also these two LOAC Essential volumes: libraryofamericancomics.com/product/loac-essentials-vol-9-tim-tylers-luck-1933/ and libraryofamericancomics.com/product/loac-essentials-vol-10-dan-dunn-1933/Maybe this could be done best as like a group chat or Discord thing? Or maybe that would eat up a lot of phone memory. |
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Post by thebeautifulpuffin on Dec 20, 2022 9:02:45 GMT
arecomicsevengood I've thought of doing something similar, synced week-wise, and even started up reading one page from several different books every Sunday for a little while, but never started up a project in an organized way, or kept to it in my willy-nilly way. That said, I have most of the collections that you mentioned above and would absolutely love to join you and whomever else in a group read and chat. Let's figure out how to make it so in '23?
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Post by manoopuesta on Dec 20, 2022 12:26:33 GMT
That's a great idea. I'd love to join but I don't have most of those books so I will have to skip it... but I'm posting now because I think it would be great to have also a Discord server for Bubbles in general too (and this topic in particular, like a channel there?). When I DM about comics with others I do that usually through insta cause the forum doesn't have an instant chat option, so please open more channels to stay away from there! haha Sorry I derailed a bit the conversation...
(And in any case I would love to follow your conversation about your readings, always good, so in turn I learn about specific eras of comic strips for me to read in the near future) |
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Post by grubcubman on Dec 20, 2022 14:04:35 GMT
Realizing White Boy's run starts in 1933, I have the 1933-1934 Krazy And Ignatz volume ("Necromancy By The Blue Bean Bush"), the 1933-1934 Walt And Skeezix volume (the last one published, that you can read Matt Seneca talk about on tcj.com as marking a comeback), volume 3 of the big Fantagraphics Popeye hardcovers ("Let's You Him Fight") includes 1933... I could read a strip of all of these a day, the way one would 90 years ago, next year. In both 2023 and 1933, January first falls on a Sunday. Both years are not leap years, so the calendar stays the same throughout. 1933 is even, holy shit, the same year as the LOAC Essentials Polly And Her Pals volume, so may as well order a copy of that now to go all in. Anyway if anybody wants to do this along with me, this will seem less insane and more fun. Or if there are other strips... Alley Oop started its run in December of 1932 so I guess those new collections John P mentioned would cover this year? Dick Tracy was running too, I think this year would be in the first volume of the IDW collections. There's also these two LOAC Essential volumes: libraryofamericancomics.com/product/loac-essentials-vol-9-tim-tylers-luck-1933/ and libraryofamericancomics.com/product/loac-essentials-vol-10-dan-dunn-1933/Maybe this could be done best as like a group chat or Discord thing? Or maybe that would eat up a lot of phone memory. I'd join this, too! Great idea.
(Name and everything open to change, of course.)
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Post by griffen on Dec 20, 2022 20:48:25 GMT
Love this idea! A couple years back I would read a weeks worth of strips from about 6 or 7 titles for the week it was so everything lined up seasonally. Have a lot of these books already so I am in!
Thanks for making the Discord barackobeagle.
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Post by arecomicsevengood on Dec 27, 2022 5:13:28 GMT
Just wanted to add that the Floyd Gottfredson Mickey Mouse strips from 1933 are in volume 2 of the recent Fantagraphics reprints. (I am pretty sure I have this book but it's in a storage unit.
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