Rolling Comic Book thread 2017

It was this 174-post comment thread on Groth's website that drew his attention to the work: http://www.tcj.com/new-small-press-comics/

Finally got round to Jillian Tamaki's BOUNDLESS, which is a really nicely done collection of stories, though sometimes they just stop rather than end. Recommended.

i found this very helpful

Pronunciation guide for Marvel staffer names, circa 1984 pic.twitter.com/62sa74bf0A

— Matthew Perpetua (@perpetua) October 30, 2017

that IS useful!

I had pretty much all of those right except I was giving dematteis an extra syllable

Ehhhhhh, I actually think you might be right, Jon. I knew someone who was close friends with his son, and I'm fairly certain she pronounced his name with that extra syllable.

Jansan JONsen is a tricky one and

I've heard interviews with DeMatteis, and he pronounces it with four syllables (or maybe 3.6)

This seems like a reliable source

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0F5sqM7334A

Marvel fucking up continuity again

more surprised that he calls himself "j.m." but i guess ya gotta roll with it

he goes by "Marc" in actual conversation with humans

This is wonderful.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vrO52WmwV4U

Love Flo Steinberg.

Indian comics for the XTREEM 90s
https://comicvine.gamespot.com/bheriya/4050-31910/?page=1&sortBy=asc

i've been reading chronological issues of WHIZ comics from the forties for the captain marvel content. they're fun! one ongoing dumb joke is that when people see billy change to cap (which he regularly does in front of the bad guys for some reason) and they do the "hey weren't you just a kid" bit, he always has this snappy comeback "I'll tell you when I come back.... MAYBE."

also i just read all of BLUBBER and wow it's twisted as fuck and i like it
especially prefer it over the skinemax-y birdland type porn beto had been doing; this stuff is the opposite of erotic.

http://monsterbrains.blogspot.com/2014/04/hindi-comic-covers.html

I think my preferred way of enjoying comics is listening to Joe McCulloch talk about something ridiculous and obscure that I couldn't be bothered reading the whole way through. I love listening to him talk about trashy comics. In an ideal world he'd make a good living from talking about pulpy comics he'd dug up.

If you're wondering where you can listen to McCulloch, just go to the menu on this video and select episodes. He's just one of four people in the podcasts, but he often dominates.
http://www.factualopinion.com/the_factual_opinion/2017/09/this-week-in-comics-rip.html

I listened to the Eros comics history with Tom Spurgeon, heaven I tell ya! Some funny stories in there.

Never heard of those Carter & Rydyr comics before, that's some of the weirdest shit I've seen in a while.

Yeah, McCulloch is fucking great. Also enjoy his movie podcast.

Isn't that Tucker Stone and other guys? I don't remember McCulloch being on the movie podcast much.

By the way, there are two episodes with Eros in the title. The One I was talking about is Inside The Tent: Memories Of Eros Comix.

RAG, true! I kinda mash up those Factual Opinion guys in my brain.

Actually those Carter & Ryder comics are like a way more fucked up version of Blubber by Gilbert Hernandez. It was speculated they're a husband and wife team but I can't find any confirmation.

well i suppose i gotta go find thsoe now.

innnnnnteresting
http://www.weirdwildart.com/books/bookchart.html

oh that's the TCJ guy daily guy huh? yeah, i'll be listening to that going forward.

Surprising how many similar artists are in their anthologies.

Fantagraphics up on Comixology. Should be another sadface about the future of the direct market but I can't sell enough of their books to matter anyway, but I'll happily buy them on my iPad.

"Guy Daily guy"?

It was speculated they're a husband and wife team but I can't find any confirmation.

It was speculated... by whom? SCAR were a couple in the '90s and I doubt that's changed since they're still working together, but obv that's no proof

Fantagraphics up on Comixology. Should be another sadface about the future of the direct market

This is the 2017 thread btw

just "daily guy" obvs

nbm's new kerascoët-drawn book Satania is tops; everybody who digs body horror, eldritch cthulu mythos and super-detailed "chicken fat" illustration go check it out
http://www.nbmpub.com/comicslit/dontouchme/satanpre1h.html

Jog never wrote daily for TCJ, and stopped writing for them regularly a few months ago so I'm still confused

Maybe thinking of whoever did the TCJ blog? Was that Dirk or Spurgeon?

"the guy who wrote the weekly comics i haven't read roundup" is what i meant; jeez you take all the fun out of goofing up on deadline

I totally had no idea what you meant!

i know, i know, my bad

Listening to the Hellboy episode and they said Scott Allie sexually harassed someone.

solitary posts that sum up 2017

yeah i remember that news bit

I don't recall hearing about this in August. RIP.
http://www.heavymetal.com/news/alfonso-azpiri-heavy-metal-artist-1957-2017/

I'm both pleased and annoyed that Richard Corben is doing a sequel to Murky World in Heavy Metal for THREE YEARS!

Pleased because he'll probably be more sustained with his better techniques.

Annoyed because since I can't wait til 2020 for a collected edition, I'll be buying each issue with probably 90% content I'm not interested in. It's never been a cheap magazine.

All I remember about Azpiri is he was yet another Heavy Metal artist who liked doing rape comics, just his style was more cartoony than most

indie cartoonists are among the sexual predators being called out, as of yesterday... one person I've met a few times but never read (Cody Pickrodt) and one person I've never heard of but who I guess is supposed to be pretty talented (Andrew Burkholder). Details of the first guy are in a cooperative Google doc of testimonies (abominable creep) and I'm not sure what the allegations toward the second guy are but his publisher has already dumped him.

no new accusations of brian wood?

Frankly I'm surprised bigger names haven't come up. So many of the most prominent indie comix dudes straddle that line of "here's where I exorcise my darkest fantasies" and Louie's shown that being able to be self-reflective about that shit is no guarantee you're not giving in to it in real life. :/

Lots of very sordid stuff abt Julius Schwartz all over Facebook right now.

yes and Eddie Berganza is finally suffering some consequences at DC about a decade too late

All I remember about Azpiri is he was yet another Heavy Metal artist who liked doing rape comics, just his style was more cartoony than most

― Mince Pramthwart (James Morrison), Friday, 10 November 2017 04:56 (three days ago)

I'm not sure I ever read his work but he was often in issues I bought. I don't remember the original Metal Hurlant crew doing that sort of thing but there is a lot of European artists who do these sexual odysseys with the main character having sex with nearly everyone they meet.

Bought the new Heavy Metal. £9, ouch, my pocket is bleeding! Barely anything interested me in there, including adverts for Motley Crue albums.

Got an issue of Comic Book Creator, a Kaluta & Ramona Fradon issue. Fradon writes studies of Faust in more recent times.

Not a comic but I seen it in the comic shop today and I think a lot of you will like it: Illustrated Dust Jacket 1920-1970.

i spent about 200 bucks at Comics Art Brooklyn and I found some winners. will report back.