(Ashley Holt HalloWeirdo art stolen from Wide Awake Press. Surely I don't have to tell you people to go look at the HalloWeirdos every day right? You have been doing that right?)
Here are some things I found interesting in the world
of minicomics, comic books, graphic novels, small press, self
publishing, zines, webcomics, cartoons, digital comics, other, etc.
during the week ending 10282012:
“It’s one of the most evil things I’ve ever done,” he told Kimmel. “We have these Halloween parties, and I decided, let’s have a Halloween tree. So we did the tree and put out presents, families come with their little kids, and the little kids stand there and I go ‘Oh, you don’t have a Halloween tree?’ and they go ‘Nooooo,’ and I’d give them a present. And then their parents would call me for about three months, ‘You son of a…’” -W. Axel Rose on Halloween.
- I don't know about you but I spent most of my remarkably small free time this past week re-reading and writing about Grant Morrison's comic book series The Invisibles. I invite you to read along. I call it Into the Supercontext. It is also worth noting that I am transcribing much of the Invisible Ink letters pages. I do not think that they have been collected anywhere before. (Please let me know if I'm wrong because I could much rather copy and paste.) Here is what we have so far:
That gets us through the first arc of the series. The next arc is Arcadia and it is hard core. Hard. Core. I hope to get up to speed on that right away so you just sit there and keep hitting the refresh button on your screen until you see it update.
- There was a lot of stink this week about how facebook does not show people all the posts and junk from the fan and community pages they like. Sort of a big deal to cartoonists and creative types that try to drive their audience through facebook. But don't worry, I solved all of that for you.
- So 24 Hour Comics Day happened again.
- Comic artists do indeed direct the flow of viewer attention. Well duh.
- The great and terrible Ashley Holt has a new book. This one collects most of his ranting from his online journal The Symptoms. I've read a lot of that stuff and it is great.
- This Jack Davis will be on hand to sign his new book at the Georgia Museum of art on Nov. 4. An exhibition starts on the 3rd and is curated by Patrick Dean. If you have the ability to attend that and chose not to then there is no amount of prayers I can say to fix whatever is wrong with you.
- Matt Bors told us something we did not know.
- Batman, Johnny Ryan and Michael Deforge are burning in hell.
- Tom Spurgeon interviewed Julia Wertz about her new book and stuff.
- I could sit and listen to The Comics Reporter talk about visiting comic book shops all day long.
- The Spurge also took on digital comics in what appears to be a new regular column. Making sense of digital comics is a daunting task but if anyone can do it, the Spurge will be the first to link to them.
- A really nice piece at The Beat about the late Peter McFarland.
- Jacob Canfield at The Hooded Utilitarian racism, satire and lazy critics.
- LOVE this Wonder Woman.
- Robert Newsome talked about wrasslin' on a podcast. That ain't got nothing to do with comics but I liked it.
- And he also made another one of his regular podcasts. This time he played a song from the horror movie Trick or Treat. Yeah, I probably watched that movie ten times when I was a kid. It starred Skippy from Family Ties.
- Wouldja go look at that fine White Denim poster Josh Latta made.
- David Brothers at Comics Alliance took a look at Brendan McCarthy's Zaucer of Zilk. It looks amazing. Just look at those colors.
- The Comics Reporter has your The Projects link round up.
- Jack Kirby and Joe Simon remember the Alamo.
- I could look at this helicopter nose art all day long. (Again, stolen from The Comics Reporter.)
- The wall in the great Bill Mantlo's hospital room and his smiling face.
(Image stolen from ComicVine.)
...was Savage Dragon 182 by Erik Larsen and some other guys. I was a Savage Dragon fan from the start but my move to rural America cut me off from the comic. I have tweeted at and emailed Mr. Larsen several times to say that if he would point me in the direction of a way to subscribe to the comic I would. No response. But finally, the first ever comic book shop (actually a video game store) in the county where I live and work got me a copy. And I liked it a lot. I don't have a clue what is going on. Dragon is gone and his son is the Savage Dragon now? I need to read more and get caught up but the comic is a lot of fun all on it's own. Drama, splosions, punching, teen angst, death, punching, high school, religion, politics, punching and punching. The production level on this thing is ridiculous. Comics do not need to look this good. We don't need paper this good. Larsen's art is always entertaining. Nikos Kovtsis colors are impressive. The pallet is a bit brown for my tastes but I was still impressed with it. This comic has a letters page. I love letters pages. And a Vanguard back up. A very solid comic for $3.50 and it was packed with enough goodness to get me through waiting on the service center to plug two flat tires and change my oil. Can't ask for much more than that out of a comic book.
Oh, and one more
last thing! Did you know you can leave comments on these posts here at
file under other? It's true! And, I'll probably respond. Twitter and
facebook killed the message boards but that's no reason why you can't
argue with me, praise me or leave me recipes. It's your intronet. Have
fun!
- And finally... maybe tonight you'll be gone. (Have a fun and safe Halloween everybody!)
And
that's just a taste of some of the interesting things going out there
in the wonderful world of comics and things. I can't keep up with it all
but I do keep up with a lot of it on twitter and I try to re-tweet the
good stuff. You should probably follow me there. If you did something to make comics better this week then high-five!
Your best pal ever,
Shannon Smith
p.s. Say you want a leader but you can't seem to make up your mind. I think you'd better close it and let me guide you to my twitter feed.
p.p.s. Let's pretend we went to high school together on facebook.
p.p.p.s. Google + is another place you can read the same thing I posted here.
p.p.p.p.s. I'll tumblr for ya.
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