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Post by mikesheawright on Jan 13, 2024 15:54:58 GMT
Stages of Rot is great
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Post by robindh on Jan 28, 2024 2:49:43 GMT
"Sound of Snow Falling" -- anyone have any recommendations for more comics like this? Not that it has to be about winter, or owls, or even nature or wordless-- but just have a hankering for comics that are slow careful observations of a single subject over time, with the only "plot" really being the passage of time. Zero points awarded for that Crumb America comic, I know that one already. Will second recs for Stages Of Rot, it's maybe the best PEOW book. Also Maggie Umber's other book Time Capsule is really beautiful and has a similarly about animals.
This Pascal Matthey webcomic "à la plage" ("to the beach") is about a beach over a day told entirely in unsequential panels, really beautiful exploration of mise-en-scene. He's got some others like it also on Grand Papier.
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Post by robindh on Jan 28, 2024 2:54:44 GMT
Who can recommend me more good Milo Manara? I've only read The Definitive Collection. I really enjoyed the first two stories most. What's the stuff that's the "best"? His stuff with Hugo Pratt ( Indian Summer and El Gaucho) and the Giuseppe Bergman stuff (the early ones especially are pretty jaw-dropping feats of draftsmanship) |
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Post by wigshop on Jan 28, 2024 3:50:49 GMT
Here's one: back in there day was there ever an old newspaper comic that did the "Wacky Races" formula - like, some kind of big group challenge that had a unique cast of contestants that readers could root for each week, and then a big winner reveal at the end of the arc? Russel Keaton's Flyin' Jenny in Dauntless Dames gave me a taste but I want something more (if it exists).
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Post by robindh on Jan 28, 2024 10:58:19 GMT
Not really a comic strip but Jamie Hewlett's Deadline serial Fireball is just his Wacky Racers, uncollected but a very fun read if you can get your hands on it.
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Post by wigshop on Jan 29, 2024 1:37:47 GMT
Not really a comic strip but Jamie Hewlett's Deadline serial Fireball is just his Wacky Racers, uncollected but a very fun read if you can get your hands on it. Great tip - thanks! |
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Post by pentimento on Jan 29, 2024 18:27:20 GMT
Beautiful book! One of the only Moebius/Miyazaki derivatives (and it's plainly that) which works well and seems new. Excellent coloring too, really smartly modulated shifts in color scheme throughout. |
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Post by robindh on Jan 29, 2024 18:37:05 GMT
Funnily enough Sterte's said Moeb isn't a conscious influence. Apparently as a kid she had some Métal Hurlant but his work didn't interest her as much as others. She's instead cited Taiyo Matsumoto and Daisuke Igarashi
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Post by pentimento on Jan 29, 2024 18:46:08 GMT
Funnily enough Sterte's said Moeb isn't a conscious influence. Apparently as a kid she had some Métal Hurlant but his work didn't interest her as much as others. She's instead cited Taiyo Matsumoto and Daisuke Igarashi Yeah, well, c'mon, look at the drawing. Moebius was an influence either directly or - as you suggest - second hand through other artists. Who's next, Brandon Graham saying Moebius and Bode weren't influences? Tradd Moore claiming to have never seen P. Graig Russel? Lotta artists who run down a list of influences but always conveniently "forget" to name their primary sources. Whatever! It's a lovely book. |
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Post by franlopez on Jan 29, 2024 21:47:05 GMT
Here's one: back in there day was there ever an old newspaper comic that did the "Wacky Races" formula - like, some kind of big group challenge that had a unique cast of contestants that readers could root for each week, and then a big winner reveal at the end of the arc? Russel Keaton's Flyin' Jenny in Dauntless Dames gave me a taste but I want something more (if it exists). Eight Lane Runaways by Henry McCausland, maybe? I could describe that book as a calmer wacky races (but I would be leaving a lot out). But the whole book is characters running some sort of race. And it's great.
I read Leif Tande's Morlac ages ago, but I remember it as a very fun book where you are, in a way, rooting for a character trying to complete a challenge (although the obvious comparison would probably be a platformer video game more than wacky races, but not far in spirit?). I remember it being (also) great.
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Post by wigshop on Jan 30, 2024 4:10:19 GMT
Here's one: back in there day was there ever an old newspaper comic that did the "Wacky Races" formula - like, some kind of big group challenge that had a unique cast of contestants that readers could root for each week, and then a big winner reveal at the end of the arc? Russel Keaton's Flyin' Jenny in Dauntless Dames gave me a taste but I want something more (if it exists). Eight Lane Runaways by Henry McCausland, maybe? I could describe that book as a calmer wacky races (but I would be leaving a lot out). But the whole book is characters running some sort of race. And it's great.
I read Leif Tande's Morlac ages ago, but I remember it as a very fun book where you are, in a way, rooting for a character trying to complete a challenge (although the obvious comparison would probably be a platformer video game more than wacky races, but not far in spirit?). I remember it being (also) great.
will check em out - thanks! |
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Post by pentimento on Feb 2, 2024 0:57:53 GMT
Funnily enough Sterte's said Moeb isn't a conscious influence. Apparently as a kid she had some Métal Hurlant but his work didn't interest her as much as others. She's instead cited Taiyo Matsumoto and Daisuke Igarashi You know what, I dug my copy of Stages of Rot out, and I stand corrected. There really is more of a Matsumoto influence, to be sure. I'd still argue for Moebius's massive influence on all comics, of course, even manga, but that's a given. Even people who haven't directly seen his work sometimes end up drawing like him. Anyhow, great book, Stages of Rot, anyone who missed it, get it now. |
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