Rolling Comic Books 2020 Visions

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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

Chuck_Tatum, Sunday, 19 April 2020 19:11 (four years ago) link

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.

Nhex, Sunday, 19 April 2020 19:25 (four years ago) link

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)

Nhex, Sunday, 19 April 2020 19:28 (four years ago) link

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

Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Sunday, 19 April 2020 21:32 (four years ago) link

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

Nhex, Sunday, 19 April 2020 21:33 (four years ago) link

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.

Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Sunday, 19 April 2020 21:35 (four years ago) link

Who needs excuses to be gross?

Robert Adam Gilmour, Sunday, 19 April 2020 21:43 (four years ago) link

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

Robert Adam Gilmour, Monday, 27 April 2020 04:33 (four years ago) link

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

Robert Adam Gilmour, Monday, 27 April 2020 22:25 (four years ago) link

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.

Robert Adam Gilmour, Monday, 27 April 2020 22:26 (four years ago) link

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

Nhex, Wednesday, 6 May 2020 03:43 (four years ago) link

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

Nhex, Saturday, 9 May 2020 00:50 (four years ago) link

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

Mud... jam... failure (aldo), Monday, 11 May 2020 19:03 (four years ago) link

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.”

Inadequate grass (morrisp), Sunday, 17 May 2020 21:42 (four years ago) link

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

Nhex, Sunday, 17 May 2020 23:09 (four years ago) link

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



tl;dr the CEO of Diamond Comics is one of those horny on main guys who tweets his appreciation at sex workers on twitter under his own name, and a certain site about comics has an entire article explaining how this is completely normal and acceptable behavior

mh, Tuesday, 19 May 2020 15:11 (four years ago) link

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

mh, Tuesday, 19 May 2020 15:14 (four years ago) link

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

Bleeqwot (sic), Tuesday, 19 May 2020 19:53 (four years ago) link

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

Robert Adam Gilmour, Tuesday, 19 May 2020 20:04 (four years ago) link

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

Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Tuesday, 19 May 2020 21:33 (four years ago) link

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/

Robert Adam Gilmour, Saturday, 30 May 2020 00:32 (four years ago) link

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

Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Saturday, 30 May 2020 00:46 (four years ago) link

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

Robert Adam Gilmour, Saturday, 30 May 2020 01:09 (four years ago) link

lol, i guessed right on deviantarts

Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Saturday, 30 May 2020 05:24 (four years ago) link

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

massage angry pixels (sic), Saturday, 30 May 2020 06:26 (four years ago) link

irl tee hee

massage angry pixels (sic), Saturday, 30 May 2020 09:22 (four years ago) link

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

Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Saturday, 30 May 2020 14:59 (four years ago) link

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

Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Saturday, 30 May 2020 15:23 (four years ago) link

everything that is fetishy or seems like it could be in science fiction and fantasy

Fixed that for you.

Mud... jam... failure (aldo), Saturday, 30 May 2020 17:05 (four years ago) link

Interesting thing about this stuff on deviantart and similar sites is that something really niche can flourish on one of them but can't be found at all on the others.

Robert Adam Gilmour, Saturday, 30 May 2020 19:18 (four years ago) link

I had this really weird amazing dream that I was holding this Daredevil Annual from the 80s written by Frank Miller with artwork by Art Adams that of course does not really exist. In my minds eye memory it had this cool cover where Daredevil is swinging by on his billy club being chased both by Hand ninjas and Venom.

Been reading a bunch of horn head comics (to use the Stan vernacular) but not the Miller issues, the later part of the original run and the earliest issues, neither of which I read when I was a kid. Venom does show up in the 'Fall from Grace' story, so that must have been part of it.

earlnash, Sunday, 31 May 2020 13:09 (four years ago) link

http://i.imgur.com/Ze2Ratv.png

Gary Panter - https://www.instagram.com/p/CA9fbNHl0Ul/

Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Wednesday, 3 June 2020 19:32 (four years ago) link

i...don't get it?

Nhex, Wednesday, 3 June 2020 22:06 (four years ago) link

nhex, ilxmail me and i will send you some Krazy Kat cbr
or just do this
https://joel.franusic.com/krazy_kat/

Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Wednesday, 3 June 2020 22:17 (four years ago) link

I don't really "get" this particular appropriation / recontextualization of Offisa Pupp, but whatevs

Charging for Brewskis™ (morrisp), Wednesday, 3 June 2020 22:35 (four years ago) link

pupp represents control, structure for the sake of structure rather than truth and dumb power; he claims to protect but doesn't care what his constituents actually want and is fast to throw ignatz in jail for upending order
panter is a noted obsessive drawer and hand drawing waves of baton-raised lockstep pupps to cope struck me as pretty brilliant

Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Wednesday, 3 June 2020 22:50 (four years ago) link

yes

massage angry pixels (sic), Wednesday, 3 June 2020 22:58 (four years ago) link

Seems kinda reductive, but ok

Charging for Brewskis™ (morrisp), Wednesday, 3 June 2020 23:02 (four years ago) link

Panther has been posting these giant tapestries of classic comic characters on his Instagram for ages, you don't even have to see it as a political statement if that doesn't work for you.

Daniel_Rf, Thursday, 4 June 2020 10:10 (four years ago) link

Love the Panter, thanks for sharing forks

Ward Fowler, Thursday, 4 June 2020 10:32 (four years ago) link

seems almost quaint now, since offisa pup never had a riot shield or helmet

good share, thanks forks

mh, Thursday, 4 June 2020 14:51 (four years ago) link

Been seeing quite a lot of cool drawing/painting and comics stuff appearing on my youtube recommendations (what taken so long?)

I don't know if I've ever seen Shinichi Sakamoto's work. I still find the idea of drawing digitally really disconcerting but I am impressed how well he works with his assistants and how seamlessly he can place on a bloody readymade wig onto a character. Maybe I'd notice the seams if I was reading. I often notice artists drawing over 3d models and I don't like it most of the time.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TDpn9fdsRbY
The channel is generally interviews with japanese creators in different mediums.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=haaZ4X_hyeY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vRqIYbg18sY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sVKFvdHgc3s
Loving Ed Piskor and Jim Rugg's Cartoonist Kayfabe channel. The interviews are lengthy; they do interesting commentaries of Wizard and Comics Journal issues; I hadn't heard anything about Octobriana; they've got a Kaze Shinobu video; liked the videos about "outlaw" and bootleg comics.
Thing I enjoyed most was probably the Tim Vigil interview. Sad that there hasn't been collected editions but he wants to do one. I get a kick out of seeing 80s/90s/early 00s alternative comics getting collected even if I'm not into them but I'd probably get a Vigil collection. Sad that it pretty much always ends up being a crowdfunding thing that gets them going.

Robert Adam Gilmour, Thursday, 4 June 2020 18:47 (four years ago) link

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IIVSjH-srqM

Robert Adam Gilmour, Thursday, 4 June 2020 19:49 (four years ago) link

Below is the link to a Google doc list of all the titles suggested by members of the CSS Facebook Group in response to a request for comics/graphic novels addressing racism, policing, and social justice.

I'd like to build this list with member and comics community input, so if you have more suggestions please add them and include a link, and then we can share it more widely as well.

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1a6RYz3NkT_SOhMr_GKfdYv0SmgHWstYPGGUPhHDFCRg/edit?usp=sharing

Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Friday, 5 June 2020 14:47 (four years ago) link

RE: Octobriana - Bryan Talbot incorporated her into his Luther Arkwright strip, I believe (the link above may mention that, haven't watched it yet)

I also have that Octobriana and the Russian Underground book - 1971 UK h/c £3.90 - there isn't much actual comic strip content, but the big stylistic influence appears to be Barbarella.

Ward Fowler, Friday, 5 June 2020 14:55 (four years ago) link

Yeah they did mention the Arkwright thing and a few other comics even did that.

Gary Groth interview was good. He's publishing Barry Windsor Smith's Monster soon, which I assumed died many years ago but he was working on it for something like 3 decades. A story about living with Jim Sternako. And talking about a couple of really impressive sounding upcoming graphic novels by first timers.

Robert Adam Gilmour, Friday, 5 June 2020 19:24 (four years ago) link

Man, DC really wants to kill print comics.

Donald Trump Also Sucks, Of Course (milo z), Friday, 5 June 2020 19:53 (four years ago) link


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