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Post by teemcgee on Jul 30, 2023 21:07:56 GMT
Reprints: Glossy or matte paper, original or modern recolouring, I don't care, even if others seem to think some of these options make their pulpy kids comics unreadable.
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Post by eheitner on Jul 31, 2023 13:12:45 GMT
Reprints: Glossy or matte paper, original or modern recolouring, I don't care, even if others seem to think some of these options make their pulpy kids comics unreadable. Well I just don't like glossy paper for anything ever. Doesn't feel good.
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Post by jporcellino on Jul 31, 2023 16:37:29 GMT
Reprints: Glossy or matte paper, original or modern recolouring, I don't care, even if others seem to think some of these options make their pulpy kids comics unreadable. Well I just don't like glossy paper for anything ever. Doesn't feel good. I don't like glossy paper, because something in the coating sets my allergies off.
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Post by bakertoons on Jul 31, 2023 17:19:07 GMT
Yeah, not a big fan of glossy paper myself. The coating just isn't comfortable to feel. Also the light always reflects whenever I read them under a light.
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Post by owaddled on Jul 31, 2023 18:08:43 GMT
Reprints: Glossy or matte paper, original or modern recolouring, I don't care, even if others seem to think some of these options make their pulpy kids comics unreadable. To add on to the glossy paper dog pile: I just read the Halo Jones reprint in the Best of 2000AD Vol. 1 and it's colorized, on glossy paper and shrunk down so the lettering is harder to read. Not a big fan. Not all glossy is created equal though. The glossy paper for COPRA vol 7 isn't too bad. And Psychodrama Illustrated #6 has glossy paper and I think it helps Gilbert's art. One more cred-wrecker: Usagi Yojimbo feels really repetitive and I rarely get swept away by the stories. But I'll keep buying it forever becaue Stan is one of the nicest comics people I've ever met.
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Post by junkflower on Jul 31, 2023 18:16:04 GMT
I've always found it difficult to believe that Usagi Yojimbo is worthy of its accumulated cred. Like I'm sure it's "good," but... y'know? I feel like there's some lucky historical associations very much in Sakai's favor there
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Post by luke on Jul 31, 2023 19:28:37 GMT
I appreciate his art/design work (R.I.P. Pee Wee) but I find Gary Panter's comics to be tedious to read. I'd never buy a wordless comic because the speed at which I'd read it wouldn't justify the money spent. In general I have a hang up about the ratio of monetary-cost-to-time-spent-reading. I enjoyed the one volume of Powr Msters I've been able to find, but some of that CF ephemera feels like straight-up scammery to me. I'm just not the type of comics reader to sit and stare at the art on the page for minutes at a time. I like the pure reading experience of comics and am bad at slowing down to appreciate the art for art's sake.
I've read very little manga, and the stuff I've read hasn't really excited me enough to dig in more. (The only manga work that has really spoken to me is Tsuge's The Man Without Talent.)
Even bad Archie (in the classic cartoony mold, not the lame "reboot" stuff that I think is written by 60-year-old man Mark Waid) is still pretty good! More competent, enjoyable, and easy-to-read than a large swath of much hipper contemporary indie/self-published stuff. Maybe the tides are turning on this (they're turning AGAINST Crumb at least) so it's not so controversial, but I think Aline Kominsky Crumb's work is better than Robert's and will maybe ultimately be more influential.
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Post by kevinfong on Jul 31, 2023 22:32:43 GMT
Well I just don't like glossy paper for anything ever. Doesn't feel good. I don't like glossy paper, because something in the coating sets my allergies off. Something in the combination of ink + glossy paper in many 2000 AD collections makes me nauseous (b+w collections on the matte/toothier paper are enjoyable, in contrast). No other publisher or self-published works is this noxious, they don't even come close.
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Post by adamszym on Aug 1, 2023 14:27:12 GMT
I've still never read a single Hernandez Bro comic despite loving the way their art looks. One of these days!
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Post by manoopuesta on Aug 2, 2023 9:25:18 GMT
of the Gekiga authors I've read, I find sometimes the work of Tatsumi to be the most uninteresting one. I like it at times but it doesn't surprise me as the other Gekiga authors' work I've read do. I don't know if it is also that I have read too much of his work to give it for granted...
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Post by grubcubman on Aug 2, 2023 14:14:33 GMT
My honest "wreck your cred" answer is that I buy more than I read. For example, I saw DeForge give a truly great and interesting talk and Q&A on Birds of Maine last year, bought the book, got it signed (he's a delight!), and haven't read it yet. One of numerous examples: I often find the collector in me to be hungrier than the reader, which seems like the ultimate cred wrecker for a discussion forum. So there!
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Post by manoopuesta on Aug 2, 2023 16:34:10 GMT
Another one would be that despite appreciating a lot the effort done for the 1933 project by several forum members uploading daily new strips for us to read (in the Bubbles-related discord server), I haven't been able to follow this project and read any of them (maybe I managed for 1 day!). Apparently I only like reading strips in the unreal situation of them being collected in a book, but I don't enjoy reading them as they appeared originally (that is: a bunch of very different strips all together, printed on a daily basis).
Also, on a related note, while I discovered some gems in it, I never managed to read more than let's say approx. 10% of the Smithonian book. The size of the book didn't help, mind you.
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Post by owaddled on Aug 2, 2023 18:12:06 GMT
My honest "wreck your cred" answer is that I buy more than I read. For example, I saw DeForge give a truly great and interesting talk and Q&A on Birds of Maine last year, bought the book, got it signed (he's a delight!), and haven't read it yet. One of numerous examples: I often find the collector in me to be hungrier than the reader, which seems like the ultimate cred wrecker for a discussion forum. So there! I once saw a quote that "buying books" and "reading books" are two different hobbies. I've definitely had times where I wondered "do I even actually like reading comics?" because I'll keep buying but not making time to read. But then I'll read something I like and I'll go on a binge of reading and pondering. I have complete runs of some manga where I haven't even touched volume 1. Recently, I've been trying to appreciate the visual art in comics more so I'm reading slower. I probably have enough unread comics to last me two years at the rate that I read. The only thing that makes me feel even a tiny bit less guilty is that I figure I might have kids in the somewhat near future and then I'll have no money, therefore a big backlog will come in handy. Yet...the allure of new comics with small print runs is very strong. I have been better about slowing down on buying new books lately.
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Post by mikesheawright on Aug 2, 2023 19:47:26 GMT
it just occurred to me that wrecking your cred could be ITS OWN sort of cred-seeking, which was not my intention haha. the stuff i listed is not meant to be some sort of humblebrag for avoiding big name people, just stuff i never got around to reading or hasn't struck me in some special way (yet??).
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Post by junkflower on Aug 2, 2023 19:56:41 GMT
it just occurred to me that wrecking your cred could be ITS OWN sort of cred-seeking, which was not my intention haha. the stuff i listed is not meant to be some sort of humblebrag for avoiding big name people, just stuff i never got around to reading or hasn't struck me in some special way (yet??). I think it's OK... I think there's like an odd pressure these days to be totally omnivorous (relentless positivity, can't say bad stuff because the artists are probably on any forum you use to voice your opinion, gotta buy the thing to be in the conversation, etc etc), when really nobody is, and shouldn't be expected to be. Nobody can read everything. I'm not necessarily advocating for even greater negativity here but talking shit is also like 60-80% of any given fan culture IMO. A good "bad review" seems to generate 100000% more discussion than a well written "good review," for whatever it's worth.
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