Rolling 2015 Reading Funnybooks Thread

cue the waltons episode where they are burning all the german books... only one of them, they realise just in time, is Die Bibel...

Two of my fellow EatenByDucks members have books out.

http://graphicpolicy.com/2015/09/17/preview-hieronymus/
This is Marcel Ruijters biography of Bosch. He said he worked on it for 4 years. I think his only other book in English was Troglodytes published by Top Shelf.

http://issuu.com/sherpacomics
On this page you'll find (along with one of Marcel's non-English books) a preview of Ibrahim R Ineke's The White People, which is not an adaptation of Arthur Machen but sort of a response piece.

For those of you who feel overwhelmed by Beto Hernandez's recent output and dig his more experimental stuff (a la Fear Of Comics), I would recommend his new Fantagraphics series, Blubber. First issue out now and second out soon. It's...pretty far out.

Given the timing (ie, after Sam Wilson has taken up the mantle of Captain America), it's really, REALLY hard for me to not rmde at all solicitations for Captain America: White

you and me both

I thought it was an incredibly awkward title to use, but it being a Jeph Loeb thing means I'm staying even further away

haha yup

It could be worse. Given his demonstrated willingness to create unfortunate portmanteaux of a character's name and the color of said character, the book could've been called Whiteptain Whitemerica.

not wanting to leave out that key "Captain America for white people" demographic

i haven't had a problem with his various X:Y color books tbh
BLUE was already used for Spider-Man. more surprised he didn't already use RED but i guess that would be also weird for Cap...

he is a bad writer man

I didn't know about the other color books until I did some reading/research (I do try to ignore Loeb as much as I can) so I know there's nothing overtly nefarious going on there but... it still makes me rmde

the timing/title combo is incredibly bad

Caucasian American: White

At least it wasn't called "Real Captain America"

lol. takin' our country back from deep color schemes

just noticed that it's been almost an entire decade since Joe Matt put anything out :(

https://www.drawnandquarterly.com/blog/2015/03/new-joe-matt-0

new piece is in the D&Q 25th anniversary book; he's pretty much right where you remember him, just in LA
http://boingboing.net/2015/06/03/cartoonist-joe-matts-porn-pr.html

awesome thx

Dark Horse is doing a Moebius Library reprint series (hopefully along the lines of their Manara books):
http://www.bleedingcool.com/2015/10/06/nycc-15-dark-horse-announces-the-moebius-library/

Best English-language comics news of the fucking decade, seriously

cool... so basically they're reprinting the epic books?

aaaaahhhhhh!!!!!

I'll maybe get the Arzach and Airtight Garage stuff but I'm curious to see what the other stuff looks like. I've got Horny Goof, it's okay and I didn't much like the drawing in Incal and Madwoman Of The Sacred Heart.

All I want now is a Complete Blueberry.

maybe ilx mail me to discuss that

Happy to hear about the Moebius reprints. Feels like his stuff is perpetually out of print...

http://www.themarysue.com/diversity-comics-industry/

I just quickly rummaged through the first 20 chapters of District 14 and it is HIGHLY recommended for anyone who is into Dungeon or was a fan of funny aminal Fantagraphics series "Critters".
Really great, maybe the best thing I've read lately; amazing art and amazing story.
http://www.humanoids.com/book/294
http://www.amazon.com/District-14-Pierre-Gabus/dp/159465056X
http://www.tcj.com/reviews/district-14-season-1/

New Amazing Spider-Man, thoroughly meh.

Well, it is still Dan Slott.

Thanks, I'll definitely pick up District 14, love Dungeon.

(In fact Dungeon's so good I've stopped reading it because I don't want to run out.)

Only 2 quid for Amazon ebook. Done. Thanks!

you'll love it. and yes, dungeon is basically my favorite book at the moment.

Happy to hear about the Moebius reprints. Feels like his stuff is perpetually out of print...

that's because Is4b3ll3 G1r4ud has kept it out of print for the last couple of decades

lol was it really necessary to googleproof that. i know nothing of this, though

RIP Dennis Eichhorn
http://www.thestranger.com/blogs/slog/2015/10/09/22985836/sad-stuff-underground-comics-giant-dennis-eichhorn-is-dead

I'll be damned if there's a better drawn American comic this year than the Cursed Pirate Girl annual.

i just got my first exposure to that book; the art is an interesting blend of Tony Millionaire and Geoff Darrow

You mean the collection or the new annual?

the books. it's new to me.

Box Brown guys! He's really good!

hell yeah he is! got a print of the cover of Number 2 at spx this year

I hadn't heard of Cursed Pirate Girl but I do buy Box Brown comics, so I googled and this is not by Box Brown

Kate Beaton signing in London last night. Queues round the block for three hours!

Had a look at Cursed Pirate Girl online, seemed like a lot of noodly oodly overworked filigree

http://jeremybastian.blogspot.co.uk/

Lots of his drawings here.

Cursed Pirate Girl art / Box Brown are two different thoughts

Chuck, what did you think of District?

here's the print i got

https://instagram.com/p/70538vBHm_/

Grr, I had to refund District on Amazon, it was only the first issue, not the first volume (as it was billed).

Saw a copy in Gosh last night, though, so I might just grab a print copy. New editions of Corto Maltese looked good, too.

I just finished reading Jillian Tamaki's "Supermutant Magic Academy", and liked it a lot. It's basically a collection of one-page strips (it was originally a webcomic) that gradually becomes a sort of a larger story; I guess you could say it's like Peanuts, if Peanuts took place in a high school that's a combination of Charles Xavier's School for Gifted Youngsters and Hogwarts. Awesome stuff, deep and funny and moving, I can't imagine reading a better new comic this year. I guess I'll now have to delve into Tamaki's other comics, which I weren't familiar with before this.