Study Group Comic Books

So what's their deal? I found them thru mention of The Mourning Star (which also seems cool -- worth trying to hunt down the two volumes if i liked what i read on SGCB?) and they've got all kinds of cool stuff. i liked Crime World (http://studygroupcomics.com/main/2012/07/crime-world-part-1-by-david-king/) and Barfight (http://studygroupcomics.com/main/2012/07/barfight-by-simon-roy/). [dear forks,] What other stuff is worth checking out?

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that's uncannily like anders nilson's stuff

You should really get mourning star.
Only thing i know these guys from is their affiliation with kazmir

barfight was good tho!

i mentioned on the other thread that i tried to buy mourning star today but the store didn't have it... do u know anywhere i can get it for not super expensive OOP prices?

Order direct from Sparkplug?

they don't seem to have it

Oh wait it was Bodega that published it, wasn't it? Hmm.

Wow Cool seems to have both of them...

http://wowcool.com/The-Mourning-Star.html

and bought. thanks for the link :)

So... Study Group was a pretty highly-regarded print anthology edited by Zack Soto, and for quite awhile it was also a semi-private message board somewhat analogous to the ilx (or perhaps noize borad) of alt comics. And now it's a co op serializing site w/a lot of the same folks. And Zack did put out a new printed one last year iirc.

Looks like a lot of good stuff on there - I started with Mourning Star, don't even know what to try next

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i like the post-apoc / scifi piece today. all the comix they publish seem to have this kind of loose sense of plot. i'm never really clear about what is going on. i wonder if it's an aesthetic choice or just a failure of storytelling (bc in other ways esp genre, setting the storytelling is really strong).

were you talking about this one?
http://studygroupcomics.com/main/disappearing-town-polaroid-by-morgan-jeske/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=disappearing-town-polaroid-by-morgan-jeske

cuz i was pretty thrilled with this, heavy handed as it kinda was, the artwork was more than enough to keep me in

yes, that one. i love the BRIEFCASE FULL OF DANGER

oh ok i misread your comment a bit. yeah, i agree with you, i'm not really down with much of the erm, scragglier aesthetic choices of half the stories, but really down with this Paul Pope/Geof Darrow/Moebius kinda stuff

i guess i want more cohesive storytelling from graphic novel / comix medium, but i can respect things that are doing other stuff and this does that other stuff well enough that my complaint is pretty tepid

yeah, i totally feel you here. i think the complaint is valid though, no reason you can't do interesting stuff that doesn't look like outsider art, or actually show they're practiced artisans, etc.

http://studygroupcomics.com/main/winter-1812-by-francois-vigneault

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Conor Willumsen's new strip up on Study Group is some "holey moley" stuff. Wow.

i was hoping kazimir was gonna release a new book. what's up with that guy?

so good! http://studygroupcomics.com/main/jezebel-part-1-by-elijah-brubaker/

also really good! http://studygroupcomics.com/main/secret-of-the-lagoon-by-nick-sumida

i like Jezebel!

also really dig the art for Secret of the Lagoon

!!!! http://studygroupcomics.com/main/joywell-by-dalton-rose

when i grow up i want to be hayao miyazaki ... but i also want to be adrian tomine

i dug it

short, worth looking at
studygroupcomics.com/main/the-scout-by-malachi-ward/

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http://studygroupcomics.com/main/bear-fox-by-sophie-goldstein

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1109081813/study-group-comics-2014-spring-pre-order-fest

http://studygroupcomics.com/main/the-epic-of-gilgamesh-part-1-by-kinoko-evans/

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is that Tommaso? lettering looks like him, and the colouring would make sense post-Barks

yes it is!

good eye sic

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a lot of the recent halloween stuff has been fantastic

OH YEAH. I'm all up in this Gilgamesh. I found a copy of The Epic of Gilgamesh hanging around work last summer and was all about that, so I'm jazzed for this.

this is one of my favourite comics I've read lately: http://studygroupcomics.com/main/calgary-death-milks-a-cow-by-connor-willumsen/

http://studygroupcomics.com/main/doppleganger-by-tom-neely/
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wow

some really great stuff over the last couple weeks. i like:

http://studygroupcomics.com/main/five-times-by-patrick-dean/
http://studygroupcomics.com/main/pony-by-ramon-sierra/
http://studygroupcomics.com/main/lovers-nebula-anuj-shrestha/

all romance/love themed (some sad)

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Never change, sad lonely bastards who write indie comics! Reading all those many, many nearly-identical doomed relationship confessionals is like rubbing a worry stone.

Lol sad but tru