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Post by maxhuffman on Apr 22, 2024 19:10:49 GMT
the no. 5 defender has logged on...i think that book holds up a lot better if you come at it like an "art comic"...narratively it has the fragmented, frustrating vagueness (non-derogatory) of say a CF or Leomi Sadler zine (my Toy Box Coffin order just arrived sorry), only it's one thousand pages long...but visually it's pure unrelenting masterclass drawing and sequencing, like "i'm going to draw every single thing i know how to"– the animals and architecture alone... i found it both inspiring and exhausting as a pure showcase, more sketchbook than story. small doses. like it a lot.
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Post by arecomicsevengood on Apr 22, 2024 20:49:33 GMT
Reading a volume of DC's Plastic Man Archives, which it turns out are actually pretty cheap online these days. Gotta pace the stories out and not binge them but they are neat so far. Not like super-kinetic cartooning in terms of the line itself but Cole's choice of poses in the storytelling often feels like he's molded the figures out of clay and is moving the camera around little dioramas.
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Post by disneyweirdness on Apr 24, 2024 12:10:04 GMT
the no. 5 defender has logged on...i think that book holds up a lot better if you come at it like an "art comic"...narratively it has the fragmented, frustrating vagueness (non-derogatory) of say a CF or Leomi Sadler zine (my Toy Box Coffin order just arrived sorry), only it's one thousand pages long...but visually it's pure unrelenting masterclass drawing and sequencing, like "i'm going to draw every single thing i know how to"– the animals and architecture alone... i found it both inspiring and exhausting as a pure showcase, more sketchbook than story. small doses. like it a lot. I picked it up again with this in mind. It reads much smoother when you don't worry about the story too much
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Post by bluebed on Apr 24, 2024 20:32:31 GMT
Normally not a big fan of animated comics, but THIS is next level (might take a moment to load, but it's worth it)
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Post by arecomicsevengood on Apr 26, 2024 2:24:29 GMT
I'm starting to read Berserk, and finished up reading Garth Ennis' Hellblazer run. Not my favorite comics, but a good baseline, so that when people act like "cute" comics are trending I can have no idea what they're talking about, because I will be in a bubble where the most popular comics I'm aware of are these hard-R fantasy things. I'm also just not yet at the part in Berserk where people say it gets good so I am not judging it yet.
Yesterday I got Angela Fanche's Humility Machine in the mail and that was good.
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Post by dominocorp on Apr 27, 2024 0:13:43 GMT
Looking at some 80s Carmine Infantino comics, who I've never enjoyed, but became intrigued by when reading that fan opinion had turned on him by the 80s, but cog in the machine types still held him in high regard. It's interesting because you look at this, and if someone came along and their new comics were just exactly like this, you'd think of them as some kind of amazing genius, capable of drawing/communicating basically anything...but at the same time you can tell he's a company man through and through (I know he was particularly not on the side of fellow artists in many key episdoes of comics history), does the jobs just well enough to get them done on time, understands everything about making comics within the confines of a certain system but never steps out of it.
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Post by nrh on Apr 28, 2024 14:31:09 GMT
I've been slowly reading the wonderful Sam Glanzman Hercules series, collected in the Dark Horse edition, which looks like it's scanned from the printed comics. The series never quite settles on a register, despite the labors of Hercules making a pretty convenient skeleton. The first issue, written by Joe Gill, is relatively grounded historical fantasy, kind of like the Riccardo Freda or Cottafavi peplums of the era, and that approach really seems to suit Glanzman's obvious strengths. The Denny O'Neil issues that follow move towards a slightly camp Golden Age fantasy, and when Gills returns the series takes a kind of uneasy middle ground between the two approaches. Which means that Glanzman, who gets asked to draw all sorts of exciting things throughout, gets to keep on trying out new strategies - by the end he's incorporating all sorts of decorative flourishes on top of the usual great figure drawing and landscapes. Which means on one hand that it isn't as perfect a Glanzman showcase as Kona or the war comics, but on the drawing is very engaged in a totally different way. Somehow very rewarding to sit with.
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Post by disneyweirdness on Apr 29, 2024 18:26:49 GMT
Tom Scioli's Witch Man came in the mail today.
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Post by arecomicsevengood on Apr 29, 2024 19:54:00 GMT
Last year, Tom Herpich wrote about Roberta Gregory's miniseries Artistic Licentiousness for the Comics Journal website. I tracked down issues two and three, and started a thread asking if anyone knew about her or had ever read Naughty Bits. But I hadn't read issue one until today, after ordering it off Ebay (from Sam Henderson - more expensive than waiting around for mycomicshop but good to do business with a longstanding working cartoonist). Herpich had described it as a soap opera, and that was how I was taking it, it hadn't even really occurred to me until reading a note from Gregory in issue 1 that it's meant as an "erotic" comic. She describes it as maybe the first drawn by a woman, which, Trina Robbins' anthology Wet Satin would've predated it, but maybe she meant a full issue by a single author, in which case, I don't know, maybe? Anyway it's all about these people who make fantasy narratives - the woman writing stories, the man drawing comics - and all of them have little porn versions of their characters as well.
I also read more of Berserk, and have requested more of the deluxe versions from the library - The pacing is really incredible. Obviously, there's a ton of it. I wonder how much of it I will read before I lose interest.
I want to reread Matsumoto's Sunny too, that sounds like a good idea.
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Post by BubblesZine on Apr 30, 2024 12:19:57 GMT
Tom Scioli's Witch Man came in the mail today. Got mine the other day, loved it. I read it aloud to my girlfriend and I think it made it even better to do the voices and laugh along with it.
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Post by bluebed on Apr 30, 2024 17:33:59 GMT
arecomicsevengood I slowly went through all the deluxes via the library, too, it's the way to go. Takes a while to warm up to the 'good part' but it's worth it. That arc is like a self-contained epic of the highest order. Afterwards, I think it becomes a bit of a mixed bag, and much more quippy, which I felt never really fitted the mood. When comedy relief was Puck alone, it was tolerable, then it becomes more of a standard manga 'group of misfits each discovering their purpose' thing, everyone chatting constantly, Star Wars references... Kinda wish he contained his ambitions a bit, my favorite parts of Berserk are the less crowded ones. Still, the slow character development, the setting and monsters alone.. incredible. You can sense the artist's personality growing and changing through this whole series. And that horse, which clearly inspired Ludwig in Bloodborne, one of the most disturbing things I've seen in any medium.
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Post by manoopuesta on May 1, 2024 14:40:04 GMT
spending today's national holiday chilling at home and reading comics (these):
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Post by jamescollier on May 4, 2024 22:09:16 GMT
Chester Brown's Underwater. It's amazing.
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Post by robindh on May 5, 2024 16:31:06 GMT
Slowly (my French is so bad I need software assistance) making my way through Le Rêveur Captif by Dorénavant co-founder Barthélémy Schwartz. It is―so far as I can tell―a quasi-autobiographical comics essay on comics and the mechanics of dreams, and I've found it fascinating. Schwartz is like Spiegelman in that he's not a natural draftsman but he makes up for it with a gift for collage and a good understanding of form. More comics should have epigraphs.
I'm three stories into Susumu Katsumata's Red Snow and I'm liking it so far. This book seems to have gone somewhat under the radar (at least in the Anglosphere, I saw the recent Spanish edition on a lot of end-of-year lists a year or two ago) and I can't imagine it was a big seller. It's sort of standard airy Garo fair, if owing a bit more to mainstream manga cartooniness. What's struck me so far is the way that the stories have ended: on a striking image and a good bit earlier than one would expect. When reading Tsuge earlier this year I had the impression that the stories in that collection ( Nejishiki) lacked this quality, they all ended more or less where I expected them to and they begun to take on a certain lethargy. This might sound like maybe the most common critique leveled at Tomine's short stories―which tend to end prematurely and somewhat pathetically―but I think Katsumata makes it work. To put it in John McPhee's words, he looks upstream.
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Post by GHO on May 5, 2024 16:50:26 GMT
read "beautiful darkness" by Fabien Vehlmann and Marie Pommepuy. I really enjoyed it alot even if my favorite characters got eaten by birds as soon as I got attached to them :0/. Would def recommend if you like grimm-esque fairy tales and shrunk down people in a nature setting also "dark comedy". i'm going to make it my staff pick at work. I also saw that it has had at least 4 reprints since 2018(?) that is really great for a comic.
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