- Dope webcomics via an unexpected source: the Cold Cave tumblr website.
- Chris Mautner pulls back the curtain on some comics I want so bad it's like a physical sensation inside me: French artist Blutch's 1990s series Mitchum, which looks something like a Euro-inflected mix of Frank Santoro's Sirk and David Mazzucchelli's Rubber Blanket. Jesus, dude. Jesus. Look. At. These.
- Charles Brownstein tells you about what I came up in. What with the big Image Expo that went down a little bit ago in Oakland, I seem to see a few more people than usual talking about the San Francisco Bay Area as a vital and relevant nexus point for comics, which it totally is. My own East Bay scene loyalties aside, it's cool to see any scene beside Brooklyn and Portland getting play. Also: I've recently been shocked to discover that it's mostly only people who've lived in the Bay Area at some point who read Cometbus?!? Solve the problem, folks.
- This guy Moebius is pretty good.
- Jesus Christ dude, I cannot even tell you to extent to which Aidan Koch's The Blonde Woman is my new favorite webcomic. This is immediate, gorgeous, challenging work by one of comics' most talented young artists, and it pretty much blows everything else out there right now away. I fucking wish I was this good. Look!
- You can now read Ryan Cecil-Smith's fantastic horror-fusion comic Two Eyes Of The Beautiful for free on the internet at What Things Do. Which is big news, and unless you happen to have busted out the Little Nemo or something, clicking this link will assuredly take you to the best comic you've read all day.
- Every night before I go to bed I read some black and white Barry Windsor-Smith Conan reprints out of the Conan Chronicles magazine Marvel published in the '80s and '90s. Great comics. Here's Smith's finest moment, an unpublished "Kull" story drawn all in two-panel grids. Sometimes the only appropriate reaction is weeping.
- Matthias Wivel posits Kramers Ergot 8 as an aesthetic failure, in an excellently written article that I don't agree with at all but found fascinating nonetheless.
- Ben Marra talks to Brandon Soderberg. Required reading.
- My new favorite comics character is named "Butt Riley". Isn't yours?
- Ken Parille writes a dope article about how grody superhero costumes are, including some spot-on words about how instinctively Rob Liefeld understands his audience and milieu. But I'm sorry, "Daniel Clowes, the premier theorist of the superhero" -- are you kidding? could you possibly patronize the genre more? I'll give it to Stan Lee before I give it to a dude who's done one superhero comic in his life. Also: nobody ever talks about how power fantasies are portrayed as inherently sad and weaselly whenever superhero comics come up... but I think power fantasies can be pretty awesome. Name me one worthwhile person who doesn't have some sense of themselves as being somehow superior. There's some super funny stuff in that comments section, too.
- Black Ecstasy, via Wicca Pha$e $pring$ Eternal. Adam's musical direction continues to hold down the party scene in LA...
- This comic looks completely amazing
- I dunno what took so long, but Comics Of The Weak has finally taken its place among the Comics Journal's columns, and Tucker brought his fucking game face out.
- I proofread this Diego Gerlach page, and I proofread it like a boss.
- "I can not stand it when a figure is drawn with more than two lines or fewer that one billion lines. I’m Matt Seneca.” SIC. Another gauntlet thrown by sequential art's most exciting new online voice, Dash Dash Dash Dash Comix. The comic that post links to is completely jaw-dropping by the way.
- And, Frank Quitely remembers Moebius.
6 comments:
That's Thomas Thorhauge who wrote that KE8 piece not Matthias.
Also I'm pretty sure there's a lot of 90s punk kids out there that read Cometbus who weren't in/from the Bay Area.
To be clear, that was no typo; it was an artistic choice meant to capture how carelessly a theoretical person who did not like Maka-Maka would theoretically type. I may have made it too authentic.
Okay, the truth is I just don't know how to write. But don't tell my thousands of enemies.
Glad we're both having fun here. Oh, by the way, I'm gonna post that Moebius comic and not give you credit. Hope that's cool!!!
Yeah, Maka-Maka! That's the same dude who did this immediately-forgotten Dark Horse series called Devil... it's kinda weird:
http://comicscomicsmag.com/2010/03/this-week-in-comics-31710-sand-fury-ristorante.html
matt, you dumdum, we have those issues of Mitchum at FAMILY.
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