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Post by wigshop on Aug 7, 2022 5:37:58 GMT
Nick Bunch from Reptile House said that a cool person they met at TCAF was Gabriel Howell, who I'd never heard of before, but who has a book called Forget Me Not coming out from Secret Acres in October, images of the art look interesting/well-done. I'm looking forward to it in the sense of getting a chance to look at it and get a feel for what it's doing moreso than active expectation. Howell's really good! OVERSHADOWED BY A CASTLE from Bred Press is excellent.
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Post by dominocorp on Aug 7, 2022 16:35:16 GMT
Yeah Howell is really really good.
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Post by BubblesZine on Aug 18, 2022 13:13:20 GMT
Forget Me Not was awesome, definitely recommend it.
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Post by grubcubman on Aug 23, 2022 13:50:43 GMT
I'm a bit late on this, but I listened to the most recent episode of the Gutter Boys podcast, featuring Patrick Keck, and they discussed the upcoming release of Dream of the Bat by him and Josh Simmons. Not sure this will be new to anyone, but it's a collection of four Bat stories by Simmons (with, I believe, two drawn by Keck), and I enjoyed the earlier issues quite a bit. This collection will feature a new story, the fourth and final chapter with this character.
On this note, I've thought so often about two related passages by Joe McCulloch and Ken Parille at TCJ.
I don't think any of this is meant to be subversive; or, at least I hope not, because that would be a waste of effort. The contours of this story recall a comic the artist Richard Corben once did with the veteran mainstream writer Garth Ennis: 2004's The Punisher: The End, a hypothetical "final" story for the death's head-bedecked Marvel vigilante, finding him in a post-nuclear wasteland and suggesting that, if given ample opportunity, the character's nightmare righteousness would result in the extinction of humankind itself. Such critical sentiments have not stalled the character's adoption as a mascot of rapidly-militarized police departments here in our real world, where it remains a profitable holding in the Disney entertainment empire. Watchmen didn't end superhero comics - it only ensured that superhero publishers would make more Watchmen.
The hero-meets-product alliance represents the most important corporate crossover event: the ongoing merging of our escapist fantasies and capitalism’s desires. It’s a perfect world, this corporate superhero universe: publishers and creators sell the value of superheroes who sell candy in an ad about events that appears in an event comic that sells other comics/other events that sell the value of superheroes and their (i.e., our) stories. The circle is unbroken.
Coming out within weeks of another, these two pieces got me thinking about whether parody has any role in breaking the circle Parille described: Can you write a Batman story that does something other than feeding the commercial machine? I think Twilight of the Bat (and the other chapters) come as close as possible by breaking the rules of commercial satire: TOTB, in particular, is so repulsive in places that no company can use it for anything. It's not a "Strange Tales" type story; it's too gross.
With that said, the GBs said on their podcast that they have friends who read only Marvel and DC and the most recent Bat chapter was the only small press book they've enjoyed. I'm glad for Simmons and Keck but sort of sad for my whole thesis.
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Post by suntory on Aug 30, 2022 22:09:24 GMT
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Post by arecomicsevengood on Sept 10, 2022 21:31:09 GMT
Cornelius does really beautiful looking work. I don't like overvaluing production values when considering comics but it really can make impressive work sing.
While I could've been buying it in single issues, I have instead been waiting for the current Shaolin Cowboy series, Cruel To Be Kin, to be collected in the oversize hardcover format, which has now been announced as happening in April of 2023.
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Post by teemcgee on Sept 14, 2022 16:30:24 GMT
Lagon has announced their next anthology coming out this autumn. Keep your eyes out - these usually disappear fast.
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Post by mikesheawright on Sept 14, 2022 21:08:32 GMT
Lagon has announced their next anthology coming out this autumn. Keep your eyes out - these usually disappear fast. do we think this is new Yokoyama??
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Post by BubblesZine on Sept 16, 2022 12:16:28 GMT
Lagon has announced their next anthology coming out this autumn. Keep your eyes out - these usually disappear fast. do we think this is new Yokoyama?? Probably is, the comic he did in Torrent was was exclusive to that I think.
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Post by manoopuesta on Sept 16, 2022 17:08:53 GMT
I think I mentioned somewhere else here before how excited I was about the comic D&Q is publishing from Fujimara Waki (Y. Tsuge's wife), called 'Picture Diary'. Well, today D&Q revealed the cover, it looks so good, doubly excited now. Can't wait!
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Post by arecomicsevengood on Sept 25, 2022 21:57:35 GMT
It got announced that Rich Tommaso's Black Phoenix stuff will start getting collected next year. That's his single-artist anthology, available on his Patreon. I tend to find Tommaso's comics sort of unsatisfying when I read them, and so am not the target market for his Patreon, but his stuff always looks good, at least, and I'm looking forward to seeing this stuff in person and seeing if the new work connects with me more than his older stuff. It's going to be grouped by genre into pulp paperback sized volumes, issued by Floating World.
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Post by grubcubman on Sept 26, 2022 12:14:38 GMT
It got announced that Rich Tommaso's Black Phoenix stuff will start getting collected next year. That's his single-artist anthology, available on his Patreon. I tend to find Tommaso's comics sort of unsatisfying when I read them, and so am not the target market for his Patreon, but his stuff always looks good, at least, and I'm looking forward to seeing this stuff in person and seeing if the new work connects with me more than his older stuff. It's going to be grouped by genre into pulp paperback sized volumes, issued by Floating World. I've felt confused about the messaging surrounding this work: I got the sense that it would only ever be available on Patreon, then that the only collection would be the big hardcover that got crowdfunded a few months ago, and now it's also coming out in digest magazines. I think I didn't read closely enough! Anyway, I picked up the hardcover, but I hope these ones sell well, too.
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Post by arecomicsevengood on Sept 27, 2022 3:17:54 GMT
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Post by awfulquiet on Sept 27, 2022 12:53:16 GMT
I wouldn't call it cheap. It's not premium. But it's no different than your average graphic novel, and certainly no different than the average tankoban. I would probably say everything I have from Seven Seas is lower quality than Starfruit.
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Post by arecomicsevengood on Oct 1, 2022 1:59:13 GMT
This is kinda a response to Austin talking about the new Alex Ross Fantastic Four comic but I am looking forward to that Tradd Moore Doctor Strange comic, Fall Sunrise, that starts coming out next month.
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