Rolling Comic Books 2020 Visions

what do people make of this

https://bleedingcool.com/comics/today-the-comic-shops-direct-market-was-saved/

It seems like it might be the best option to allow business to continue as close to normal as possible, but I also don't really know how many smaller publishers still have yet to embrace digital.

Pretty sure in the longer term, Diamond is gonna need to get the boot (or have its monopoly broken, at the very least). One week into this and they're already unable to pay their vendors. The corporate entities behind the Big Two are almost certainly gonna be asking why the entire business model rests on the back of an entity with (apparently) no liquidity whatsoever.

"Our Last, Best Hope for a Piece"?

why the entire business model rests on the back of an entity with (apparently) no liquidity whatsoever.

May or may not be relevant: Geppi himself has apparently been bleeding money like an artery was cut for the last 14 years

Slightly off-topic (haven't finished the video but the occasion is a prose horror anthology about a fictional Hammer/Amicus-esque film studio) but a longish interview with Bissette seems appropriate enough
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C4NwwskeW3E

He was great on Joe Dante's podcast!

lol, he really needed three episodes on that

Fantagraphics are delaying the digital release of many of their new books, in order to give surviving retailers a better chance of selling them.

(While for customers on lockdown, they've also dropped prices on a lot of digital back catalogue through April 23rd, and are doing free shipping on direct orders in the US, with code SHUTIN.)



In pvmic, I4n L3vine is screaming at ppl on the internet to GET YOUR FACTS STRAIGHT, as he sold his collection years ago and it's that buyer who's auctioning it now. (iirc, aimn, he was so disgusted by the New 52 that he didn't want to have DC comics around any more.)

iirc, aimn, he was so disgusted by the New 52 that he didn't want to have DC comics around any more

LOL — tough, but fair.

https://bleedingcool.com/comics/milo-manara-draws-women-very-differently-in-recent-weeks/

Manara's new direction is a thing.

I was anticipating different types of women from his usual but only the clothes has changed really.

^

I’ll never forgive Marvel for letting him do that Spider-Woman variant cover. “Click” my nutz

I bet they tried really hard to stop him

Pretty low on the list of Marvel's crimes.

Top of the list for me though.

Why? Especially given they've treated people horribly, the copyright extensions, they're part of that hegemony noted in that Disney thread and pump out piles of shit constantly and their shitey films.

I'm not a fan of Manara but he's head and shoulders above most of their artist stable.

Because I’m a fan of Spider-Woman, and didn’t appreciate seeing her turned into Butt Crack Chick (it’s not even a good drawing). I’ll leave those other fights to others, we all have our own emotional investments.

Yeah, all those "different" pictures of women still all have the single same face he knows how to draw, it just has a mask on it sometimes.

Molly Crabapple presented a sex in comics documentary which was quite good and I was surprised she criticized him for drawing the same girl with a different wig. She liked him overall.

Frazetta and Jack Kamen are the artists I liked most guilty of this. I think that most artists who are interested in having a good looking cast struggle with deviating from the same face/body type. Some people call it sameface syndrome. What a lot of artists do are almost emoticon faces. Regardless of using a small number of models, Dante Gabriel Rossetti didn't have much range in this regard but he's still great.

Doesn't help if you work by comics deadlines, even if it's more lax european deadlines. Nowadays I'm kind of amazed that comic artists on regular monthly or weekly deadlines manage to be even pretty weak or mediocre. A lot of great artists would be completely terrible under those deadlines.

I was surprised she criticized him for drawing the same girl with a different wig.

― Robert Adam Gilmour,Wednesday, April 15, 2020 9:25 PM

Surprised because I didnt expect a documentary to make these kind of judgements about people they were interviewing.

High recommendation for this longass bagel high school story on instagram, that’s been running all through lockdown (and still continues!)

https://www.instagram.com/p/B9xRzZNjpMJ/?igshid=s51cxebri9f5

My LCS got their March 25 order a couple days ago (over three weeks late). Bought some extra stuff on top my pull to give them a little support. Thinking about doing some mail orders for some other local shops too, but then I'm still conflicted about buying unessential stuff through the postal service.

If we're recommending Quarantine Comics I have to recommend this remarkably funny and gross storyline by Simon Hanselmann (Megg and Mogg?) that's been running every day

https://www.instagram.com/p/B9sB-C3hQ_X/?hl=en

(Unfortunately you'll have to do the crappy IG browsing to figure it out)

i've always had mixed feelings about Hanselmann but the COVID storyline is dead fucking on

ha, same. i wasn't really a believer until i started reading this

I think i've read everything they've ever written and it's always been sorta like, well i see what you're doing there but it's so often gross and sadistic for no other reason except you're having a good time drawing it but their moment is definitely now. it's honestly the most of-the-instant bit of art i've seen so far in this shitstorm.

Who needs excuses to be gross?

http://static01.nyt.com/images/2015/10/25/magazine/25gross2/25mag-25gross-t_CA1-jumbo.jpg

More Junji Ito books from Viz: Venus In The Blindspot in autumn and Remina in winter.

https://patmills.wordpress.com/category/clerical-abuse/

I've read some of it (about him being abused by priests) but I don't know the full scope of it, it's quite a lot of blogging.

Lots of interesting Humanoids releases in this digital bundle.
https://groupees.com/humanoids

Marvel is shuttering their webcomics store, redirecting customers to Comixology. But their mobile apps will remain online, so.. kind of a weird decision.

Steve Bissette saying that Marty Pasko has died. I think his Swamp Thing work is very underrated because of Moore.

Update on the state of things with a (good) local comic shop here in L.A. (from this article):

At Golden Apple Comics on Melrose Avenue, the doors are still closed to customers, but people are picking up orders in the back parking lot. Owner Ryan Liebowitz said his shop hadn’t received a shipment of new comics since March due to shutdowns in printing, distribution and shipping, but he expects new comics to start arriving next week.

“Comic book stores live and die every week by their shipment,” Liebowitz said.

Until curbside pickup was recently allowed, Liebowitz said, Golden Apple was relying on customers who subscribed to titles through the store and on online sales, with expanded online events intended to connect with customers.

“Our online sales are through the roof,” he said. “We’re waiting on Phase 3, where we can let people inside the shop. That hasn’t happened yet.”

I've been doing as much curbside pickup and mail order as I can during this time.

going to post the tweet in the thread of reactions that encapsulates a thought rather than going on at length, because wtf

https://t.co/xGL2n6PQrs amazing article here trying to defend this guy, claiming that somehow context that's been removed here is that he isn't JUST horny, he wants something meaningful pic.twitter.com/ogWm8r45nD

— Ed Zitron (@edzitron) May 18, 2020

I think the funniest sentiment is “he knows these women and they appreciate this” and I’m thinking.. knows them how? appreciate it because.. it’s their job to react positively to this attention and monetize it?
I am thinking this is a big confession essay about how the writer has an alt account for horny replies

Geppi is the founder and owner of Diamond btw, not just an exec

If he knew them he probably wouldn't be asking to meet them like that.

to paraphrase the comments, just because it's not "wrong" doesn't mean it's not "funny."

I recently found a little community of people creating art and stories about sexy people with really big heads. Some people in this community like large exposed brains, some people like elongated domes and some people just like heads that are bigger as a whole.
Somebody posted (what I'm guessing was from early 60s) comic panels of Lois Lane losing her hair and the dome of her head growing longer. It brought to mind images from that era (early 60s?) of The Flash getting a big elongated head and I think it happened to him and other DC heroes multiple times? I remember an interview with Gilbert Hernandez where he asked what was with all the enlarged head stories in DC Comics at the time.

I know it was a staple in old science fiction to have characters (especially mastermind villains and super intelligent aliens) with huge heads but I'm wondering if this can be traced particularly to certain writers or artists in or out of comics.

It's way beyond my capabilities but I'd love to write an encyclopedia of everything that is fetishy or seems like it could be in science fiction and fantasy, while trying to be respectful and not presumptuous. Including how certain characters can become part of a fixation they were probably never intended for (the snake from Jungle Book and Midna from Zelda spring to mind).

Something entirely different.
https://blanddcheadcanons.tumblr.com/

kinda need a link to your big head kink friends deviantarts page

I don't know how much of this will be visible to non-members because most of it is NSFW
https://www.deviantart.com/bigbrainedbeauties/
Lois Lane
https://www.deviantart.com/maxgrowth/art/Who-likes-this-653544338

lol, i guessed right on deviantarts

always low-key assumed that the elongated-head thing came from Mort Weisinger being self-conscious about balding, but I don't know if I've ever seen a photo of him

Allow me to set your mind at ease:

https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/marvel_dc/images/2/27/Mort_Weisinger.jpg/revision/latest/scale-to-width-down/350?cb=20110213063153

irl tee hee

https://www.instagram.com/p/CAn6ZGDB6h6/

I've been following this case closely for a number of reasons and was surprised to discover that Chris Cooper, the (unrelated) guy opposite Amy Cooper in the recent racially-motivated Central Park birding kerfuffle, happens to be an ex-Marvel editor who introduced the first openly gay characters to the canonical Star Trek universe back in the mid 90's