Rolling Comic Book thread 2017

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.

yeah i was p jealous of the stuff ulysses hoovered up at the show. i was trying to make grocery money from book sales so I had to absolutely forbid myself to shop.

new stuff about Julie Schwartz?

never heard of either Burkholder or Pickrodt but this review shows "being able to be self-reflective about that shit," or something

http://www.tcj.com/reviews/qviet/

I do want that dust jacket book, yes!

yeah that... looks kinda cool!

wonder if the Paul Pope allegations will also come back along with Wood

new stuff about Julie Schwartz?

Well obviously, rumours and gossip about him have been floating round for years, but in the last couple of days people like Martin Pasko, Heidi Macdonald, Mark Evanier and Steve Bissette, amongst others, have all printed accounts on Facebook of Schwartz's harassing behaviour that go further than anything I've personally seen in print before. So I don't know if it's new, so much as pretty concrete confirmation of things long suspected, or spoken about mostly in private.

I don't Facebook, but Colleen Doran, Jill Thompson and Jo Duffy all went on record in the Journal in 2004 (Doran had also spoken earlier, and her Cerebus strip was about Schwartz), so it's been more than rumour for a long time

OK, missed that Journal issue, and the Cerebus strip. I know Doran has spoken about sexual harassment in the past, didn't know Schwartz was involved, but obviously not surprised.

This piece is two years old!

http://www.comicsbeat.com/how-a-toxic-history-of-harassment-has-damaged-the-comics-industry/

I've seen a bunch of Schwartz stories over several years and even one of his friends try to make it look less bad.

Steve Bissette's testimony the most interesting in the thread I think, not least for the Joe Orlando detour.

Is it on facebook only?

That's where I'm reading it. A Marty Pasko post that has a large number of very detailed comments.

Actually, the Vince Colletta stuff is new to me.

Facebook is not usefully googleable, so if the thread is open to the public, a link would be helpful.

Here's the Colleen Doran Cerebus short, and linked below that is Sim's intro from the original issue. In which Dave Sim, 31 years ago, warns that editors for the Big Two are sexual predators and aspiring women in comics should not be alone with them. Also that he didn't take it seriously at first, but quickly realised he should believe women's reports.

http://momentofcerebus.blogspot.com/2014/05/colleen-doran-applicant.html

https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=10155773819277310&id=726372309

The Marty Pasko thread.

ty templeton weighs in
http://tytempletonart.files.wordpress.com/2017/11/julie-schwartz-cop.jpg