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Post by mikesheawright on Nov 16, 2023 21:06:51 GMT
Where are people finding the Ebisu? It’s sold out at my usual places. i just ordered it straight from Breakdown, hyped to read that and the Liam Cobb book!
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Post by arecomicsevengood on Nov 17, 2023 0:27:55 GMT
Other faves: Aisha Franz, Work-Life Balance; Drew Lerman, Snake Creek: Escape From The Great American Novel, Ruppert and Mulot, The Extraordinary Part: Orsay's Hands, Geoff Darrow, Shaolin Cowboy: Cruel To Be Kin. Angela Fanche's This Valentine's Day and WWREC.
Haven't read yet but want to before any list-making attempt: Sammy The Mouse 3, Spa, Nejishiki, Doctor Strange: Fall Sunrise, Social Fiction, Monster Fan Club.
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Post by nate on Nov 17, 2023 3:54:48 GMT
Where are people finding the Ebisu? It’s sold out at my usual places. i just ordered it straight from Breakdown, hyped to read that and the Liam Cobb book! Thanks! I couldn’t figure out if they shipped to the US… I’ll go to the site and see if I can figure it out!
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Post by skoden on Nov 17, 2023 23:06:09 GMT
i just ordered it straight from Breakdown, hyped to read that and the Liam Cobb book! Thanks! I couldn’t figure out if they shipped to the US… I’ll go to the site and see if I can figure it out! New Ebisu is up at 50 Watts Books! They'll probably restock at partnersandson and domino at some point. Floating World and SHQ should probably get some too. Too much good stuff to choose from for end of year. Monica, Sunday, Blab!, Spa, all some big highlights for me. Not to mention all the rad reprints and english translations like Cat-Eyed Boy, Orochi 4, Creepy, Eerie...good year for comics!
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Post by BubblesZine on Nov 22, 2023 0:14:42 GMT
Okay I finished Sunday, fucking amazing. Best comic of the year probably.
I have I Wish I Was Stupid in the mail now, can't wait.
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Post by mamalips on Nov 22, 2023 13:35:53 GMT
Yan Cong – HARRY TOTTER pt.2 How did you order this? His work can be quite tricky to get hold of.
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Post by owaddled on Nov 22, 2023 15:29:47 GMT
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Post by manoopuesta on Nov 22, 2023 19:36:34 GMT
Yan Cong – HARRY TOTTER pt.2 How did you order this? His work can be quite tricky to get hold of. i got it at Fatbottom.
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Post by mikesheawright on Dec 6, 2023 23:08:50 GMT
alright i'm adding the Liam Cobb book, Pure Evil by Matt Seneca, and both of the DoubleBob books to my list. all tremendous.
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Post by GHO on Dec 7, 2023 6:28:20 GMT
Picture diary Flippy Empty Wire Junction Box 1 Blah Blah Blah 4 Gull Yettin Blood Of the Virgin
1/2 list
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Post by dominocorp on Dec 14, 2023 9:04:16 GMT
It's interesting how many books are coming out lately, because 15 years ago, Why Don't You Love Me? by Paul Rainey would have been the thing that everyone is talking about, probably a book that would have made him a cartoonist everyone who is into comics would be obsessed with now...and instead it's just sort of a book people have maybe kinda sorta heard of? Anyway...if you haven't read this book, go get it...like Time Zone J, a graphic novel that is actually for adult readers, about things worth thinking about and confronting rather than 'oh, nice pen line' or 'nice statement.'
It's very well drawn, but in that English comics way where you constantly think the cartoonist should maybe have a cup of coffee to liven things up? But for this one it works.
There's one panel in it that is equally upsetting/sappy/moving that hovers over the rest of the book, it's like in the first third if you read it.
There's a really great American cartoonist who about someone once said to me in private the following: 'yes, they're brilliant at drawing/story telling, the only problem is they are searching for a theme which they don't have the ability to reach' and I think about that a lot, whereas this book has something to say, isn't searching.
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Post by crapmasterzac on Dec 14, 2023 15:14:04 GMT
I've been thinking about it and spent 3 nights organizing everything i got from this year but right now my list is Monica Devils Grin issue 4 Warm Television Milk Maid Blood of the Virgin I wish I was stupid babsy and maude plum pocket indonesian duck comic Werewolf Jones and sons Deluxe Summer Annual
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Post by mikesheawright on Dec 14, 2023 21:02:19 GMT
There's a really great American cartoonist who about someone once said to me in private the following: 'yes, they're brilliant at drawing/story telling, the only problem is they are searching for a theme which they don't have the ability to reach' and I think about that a lot, whereas this book has something to say, isn't searching. send this quote to Clowes.
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Post by whitecomics on Dec 16, 2023 21:10:45 GMT
There's a really great American cartoonist who about someone once said to me in private the following: 'yes, they're brilliant at drawing/story telling, the only problem is they are searching for a theme which they don't have the ability to reach' and I think about that a lot, whereas this book has something to say, isn't searching. I understand what this means, there are definitely cartoonists like this, but it's also interesting because someone straining to express something they can't quite reach can also be really beautiful in certain cases. An ambitious failure, etc. Or I think of someone who explores a single set of themes and ideas throughout their career and how that can be endlessly compelling or eventually tiresome because it starts to seem like the person is making the same book again and again.
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Post by pentimento on Dec 17, 2023 0:36:15 GMT
There's a really great American cartoonist who about someone once said to me in private the following: 'yes, they're brilliant at drawing/story telling, the only problem is they are searching for a theme which they don't have the ability to reach' and I think about that a lot, whereas this book has something to say, isn't searching. I understand what this means, there are definitely cartoonists like this, but it's also interesting because someone straining to express something they can't quite reach can also be really beautiful in certain cases. An ambitious failure, etc. Or I think of someone who explores a single set of themes and ideas throughout their career and how that can be endlessly compelling or eventually tiresome because it starts to seem like the person is making the same book again and again. I remember Spiegelbrick saying about Charles Burns, that he makes teh same book over and over, but he hit the motherlode, tapped into the main vein, with Black Hole.
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