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Post by pentimento on Nov 19, 2023 5:31:32 GMT
It's been announced that D&Q will publish Garo samurai classic Legend of Kamui, in 10 volumes, from next year.
came to post this, i'm hyped! baiting pentimento with this... find the mistake lol I did the read the Eclipse series when it was released 35 years ago and liked it well enough, though I was more excited at the time for Lone Wolf & Cub because of its Miller influence, and of course Mai had more facile drawing, which is always appealing to a young cartoonist. Will be interesting to re-read and re-evaluate. Here's a little overview of that first American reprinting: totaleclipse.blog/2018/06/01/1987-the-legend-of-kamui/
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Post by argethebarge on Nov 19, 2023 9:16:09 GMT
came to post this, i'm hyped! baiting pentimento with this... find the mistake lol I did the read the Eclipse series when it was released 35 years ago and liked it well enough, though I was more excited at the time for Lone Wolf & Cub because of its Miller influence, and of course Mai had more facile drawing, which is always appealing to a young cartoonist. Will be interesting to re-read and re-evaluate. Here's a little overview of that first American reprinting: totaleclipse.blog/2018/06/01/1987-the-legend-of-kamui/The eclipse series is a spinoff of the original, this would be the first time kamui den is released in english
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Post by BubblesZine on Nov 19, 2023 13:50:13 GMT
I'm mostly referring to the last line lol, Katsuichi Nagai VS Go Nagai
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Post by pentimento on Nov 19, 2023 16:31:12 GMT
I'm mostly referring to the last line lol, Katsuichi Nagai VS Go Nagai Dude, even with bifocals I can't read that last line.
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Post by BubblesZine on Nov 29, 2023 16:16:30 GMT
Drawn and Quarterly has it's catologs for Winter 2024 and Spring 2024 up now. From Winter:Curses by Kevin Huizenga is the only one that really jumps out at me, but I'll probably try a few others. Not really familiar with any. From Spring:What It Is by Lynda Barry, probably solid Giant Robot collection, I'm excited for this one. Gleem by Freddy Carasco, good for this getting reprinted I liked it Second Hand Love by Yamada Murasaki, I'm hyped looks great Oba Electroplating Factory by Yoshiharu Tsuge, can't wait of course Raw Sewage Fiction Marc Bell, love Bell should be great
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Post by junkflower on Nov 29, 2023 16:19:54 GMT
Can't wait for those Yamada Murasaki and Tsuge books.
Oba's Electroplating Factory was my first exposure to Tsuge via Raw v2, and it's still maybe my favorite single story by him. I wish these came out more frequently!
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Post by pentimento on Dec 11, 2023 3:03:11 GMT
Tried to post something about this on the TCJ review page, but I'm banned there under several names (can't imagine why?) so here we are, myself and my good pal butt buddies at Bubblezone Comics. My people! Firstly, this is a great book of superb cartooning, I'm glad 50 Watts helped materialize it BUT - the reproduction is total horseshit. Looks like the worst of print-on-demand shit I occasionally see. The linework is utterly destroyed: pixelization, half-tone smudges where there should be discrete hatching, that sort of thing. Just an embarrassing disappointment. I've seen this on a lot of "professionally" published books the last 5 - 10 years (including Fanta) and written emails and made public statements (with scanned examples) but no one seems to care. Too bad we live in a fallen world! I worked in a copy shop in Seattle for five years (1999 - 2004) and can assure you that the most half-assed "zine" from that period looked better than most modern line art printing. Give me five minutes on a thirty-year-old Ricoh, and I'll make a better looking book than this. I don't understand why standards have dropped in the toilet like a moist turd, but I'm guessing it has to do with... fucking picgfuck cocksucking shitfuck COMPUTERS. Crisp, high contrast B & W line art should not be so difficult to reproduce, but apparently all these companies are hiring special needs kids or people who simply don't care. Come on, folks, let's GET IT TOGETHER for the sake of the medium.
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Post by robindh on Dec 28, 2023 19:42:49 GMT
Some new stuff on Fanta's site, here's what I found interesting: - Petar & Liza by the Croatian cartoonist Miroslav Sekulic-Struja, beautifully painted in gouache, Tommi Parrish vibes but more ornate. Here's Santoro on another book by the same cartoonist from a few years back.
- The Complete Web of Horror: an archival edition of an old creator-controlled horror comics mag. Stuff by Kaluta, Wrightson and Bruce Jones among others inside.
- All My Bicycles, new memoir by the Colombian cartoonist Powerpaola who you may know for the English translation of her book Virus Tropical 2DCloud put out years ago. Tasteful mixed media, more than a hint of Lynda Barry in there.
- Shell Collection: collects Ron Regé Jr.'s long-running subscription based minicomic The Shell of the Self of the Senses. From Fantagraphics Underground so liable to go out of print. Cover is hopefully preliminary.
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Post by BubblesZine on Dec 29, 2023 4:10:07 GMT
Oh hell yeah stoked on Shell Collection didn't know that was coming.
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Post by arecomicsevengood on Jan 17, 2024 15:18:48 GMT
Last Gasp announced they've licensed Ultra Heaven by Keiichi Koike, cover looks good and people on Discord who've read Heaven's Door are psyched: http://instagram.com/p/C2Lj1Pdv41E
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Post by JerrryJames on Jan 17, 2024 15:24:53 GMT
I was perusing Fantagraphics' website last week & ended up preordering a copy of Blessed Be by Rick Altergott that's scheduled to come out in March, looking forward to seeing that one & what it's like. www.fantagraphics.com/products/blessed-be
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Post by robindh on Jan 17, 2024 19:03:31 GMT
New Insta post from NYRC seems to indicate they'll publish Dash Shaw's new GN, Shaw himself has been posting pages from it for a while
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Post by arecomicsevengood on Jan 17, 2024 23:10:44 GMT
I'm looking forward to the Dash Shaw book for sure but I hope they fix that spelling error in the panel they posted before it hits print (and would probably not have put up a sample with an error in it personally).
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Post by robindh on Jan 18, 2024 17:51:58 GMT
Also should say Dave Cooper is drawing comics again, from Instagram as well.
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Post by pentimento on Jan 19, 2024 3:55:11 GMT
Also should say Dave Cooper is drawing comics again, from Instagram as well. I really dislike that noodly shit he does. Reminds me of a Rick Geary, that lot. Too cute, and the emphasis on troubling story content fails as a provocative juxtaposition, in my opinion.
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