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Wherein members of the ILC hivemind do their best to hip the rest of us to titles that we might not know about outside of the break-neck madness of the SHIPPING THIS WEEK threads.

Preferably, these would be books outside the auspices of the Big Two, tho books on the outskirts (cf. She-Hulk, Plastic Man) definitely qualify.

― David R. (popshots75`), Friday, 10 February 2006 17:16 (nineteen years ago)

pyongyang: graphic novel by michel delisle about spending 3 months working in north korea. it's put out by drawn & quarterly and is really fascinating and readable.

― s1ocki (slutsky), Friday, 10 February 2006 17:20 (nineteen years ago)

Paul Heatley! He was the best part of the mcswnys comic issue and he has a regular series. Easily the most readable young indie artist and different from most by innovating narrotologically rather than visually.

See also Church of the Holy Consumption.

A Korean friend of mine told me Pyongyang was the sucky suck!

Also - I don't know anyone who reads Cabanon, but Tom Gauld seems to do a lot of the twee whimsy of Kochalka, et al., but better!

― kenchen, Friday, 10 February 2006 17:52 (nineteen years ago)

well if an authentic korean doesn't like it

― s1ocki (slutsky), Friday, 10 February 2006 18:15 (nineteen years ago)

Well, she's also an artist and anthro grad student. I think she didn't like it on grounds of being a bad comic, but I thought I'd through "korean" in the mix for kicks. I haven't read it, but I've been meaning to borrow it from her.

― kenchen, Friday, 10 February 2006 18:21 (nineteen years ago)

i didn't mean to be snarky, sorry, i have a hangover!

― s1ocki (slutsky), Friday, 10 February 2006 19:57 (nineteen years ago)

Isn't it David Heatley?

― Matt LC (flightsatdusk), Friday, 10 February 2006 20:47 (nineteen years ago)

David Heatley is a wonderfully nice guy in person. One of the most amazing things I've seen him do was a poster for a comics exhibition in Chicago which artfully aped Jessica Bel/ Chris Ware/ Dan Clowes/ Ivan Brunetti and exceeded Ron Rege levels of visual density. It was awesome.

― ng-unit, Friday, 10 February 2006 23:55 (nineteen years ago)

two months pass...

Why aren't more comics like Pyongyang? I don't want to say Pyongyang was completely brilliant -- it was basically a really long good New Yorker article. But then again I like John McPhee a lot too. Anyway I would like more comics like this please!

― Casuistry (Chris P), Wednesday, 3 May 2006 03:35 (nineteen years ago)

I got Pyongyang for christmas and haven't read it yet. Will amend.

― Tom (Groke), Wednesday, 3 May 2006 11:08 (nineteen years ago)

One problem with contemporary comics is the shortage of genres. It's not that you don't have the romance stories and westerns that you had fifty years ago, but that the classic indie comics are usually limited to a realist anecdote-telling and have their territory as firmly and boringly marked out as superhero comics. (A lot of the newer indie comics seem to me to be focusing less on the literary/story side of comics and more on using comics as a vehicle to explore different graphical techniques.) I want more comics that don't fall into easy categories. I can't think of any good examples right now, but maybe stuff like Leviathan and Dead Herring?

― kenchen, Wednesday, 3 May 2006 14:12 (nineteen years ago)

yay at casuistry, tom.

― s1ocki (slutsky), Wednesday, 3 May 2006 14:20 (nineteen years ago)

I was going to ask if you knew him or something but then I noticed you got his name wrong. Guy Delisle. But yes.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Thursday, 4 May 2006 00:59 (nineteen years ago)

six months pass...

So has anyone [has anyslocki] read his new book, the one about China, yet?

― Casuistry (Chris P), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 17:26 (nineteen years ago)

I've got a spare promo copy I haven't read yet

― Chuck_Tatum (Chuck_Tatum), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 18:12 (nineteen years ago)

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