Rolling Comic Books 2020 Visions

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

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

Fixed that for you.

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.

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.

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

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

i...don't get it?

it's offisa pup
https://artduckomagazine.wordpress.com/2016/02/24/krazy-kat-spotlight-by-erica-lambright/

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

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

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

yes

Seems kinda reductive, but ok

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.

Love the Panter, thanks for sharing forks

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

good share, thanks forks

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.

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

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

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.

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.

Man, DC really wants to kill print comics.

Black history
https://www.yoebooks.com/upcoming-books/215-invisible-men-by-ken-quattro.html

Man, DC really wants to kill print comics.

^^ Pulled out of Diamond altogether, switching all their periodical distribution to two mail-order companies, no international distribution to comic shops.

In normal times, this would definitely be a case of pointing and laughing when, like Heroes World, the plan flops. This seems so much more speedily doomed to failure that the only thing that makes sense is that it's intended as a strongarm move to get better terms out of Diamond.

However, decisions from DC that make sense have not been a core business strategy for about the last 15 years.