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read it it s not just a great how to on nuts and bolts things like page panel layout production etc it also digs into the financial minutiae of self publishing vs working with a publisher and other practical concerns and as one would guess given how beautifully put together copra is it s a beautiful book production wise i think the only way you can get one of these is via fiffe s etsy shop but there still seem to be copies available comics swipes ed phillipe capart i can t remember how i got wind of this great little book and i do mean little it s about 3 x 2 5 inches but it was one of my favorite purchases of 2024 it is exactly what it purports to be each spread in the book shows two images one is the source the second is a panel from a comic that s the swipe unfortunately it looks like it s sold out happy hunting comics exhibits 2024 was an absolutely banner year for exhibits of original comics art my three favorites among those that rebecca and i saw in roughly chronological order moto hagio at angoulême i did a whole post about this one which you can find here but needless to say this was an absolutely stunning show as little as five or six years ago it was incredibly rare to see shows of original manga pages in the west but with the continued fervor for manga in france the angoulême festival has really taken up the reins here and run with it every year i ve been and including the upcoming 2025 show there ve been at least two huge shows of manga originals what a delight joann sfar at the musée d art et d histoire du judaïsme winter 2024 in france was truly a abundance of riches exhibits wise on the way back from angoulême we spent a day in paris and there were literally more exhibits than we could get to ultimately we wound up passing on a posy simmonds exhibit although there will be a simmonds show at angoulême in 2025 in order to get to the big joann sfar show and it did not disappoint the show was on three floors if i m remembering correctly and was a career spanning retrospective i m partial to sfar s work on donjon and thankfully there were tons of pieces from that on display including several drawn by christophe blain one of my absolute favorite working cartoonists sfar s color work is often traditional watercolor directly on the page which afforded a rare opportunity to see a lot of color at an exhibit of comics originals comics 1964 2024 at the centre pompidou i ve been to tons of comics exhibits here in the u s canada multiple shows in france in japan etc and i ve never seen anything like this tour de force at the pompidou this summer it s notable obviously for its scale all five floors had comics stuff on them and scope including comics from the u s canada europe the uk and japan just as laudable to me though was that this was a show of comics art at one of the world s most respected museums and there was a notable absence of any sort of introductory verbiage explaining or justifying why they were doing a major show of comics art just as you d not need to supply any explanation for why you re exhibiting impressionist oil paintings the curators here simply took it for granted that comics is an important art form as dan nadel noted in his write up of the exhibit in artforum the exhibition was successful in part thanks to what it didn t do no toys costumes or figurines no pop art no content warnings for the often difficult images no this is what a comic is didactic material there were no apologies in this show and no equivocations the curators trusted that the public had enough experience with comics that they could simply present the material for viewing there s a beautiful catalog french and english versions but you can also see some of the pictures i took on my ever expanding thread on the show over at bluesky jim curious and the jungle journey by matthias picard this is i believe the third in the jim curious series and this installment is just as fun and visually stunning as the previous two these are beautiful wordless 3 d comics that are i assume intended for kids but they re absolutely enjoyable for grown ups mostly because of the gobsmackingly beautiful art and well done 3 d effects the general conceit of each story visually is that the first few introductory pages are normal but once the titular jim enters some new world the sea the ocean etc the pages become 3 d unlike a lot of 3 d comics the art and imagery here are designed with 3 d in mind and with the 3 d as an essential part of the narrative my favorite 3 d comics second only to the o g mighty mouse three dimension comics so glad to see a new installment this year r i p bic velocity color ballpoint pens and now some sad news from 2024 bic has apparently discontinued the color versions of my absolute favorite ballpoint pens for drawing i started messing around with ballpoint pens for drawing four or five years ago and intially would pick up pretty much any variety of them i happened upon and throw them into my art box to try out you can see some of my sketchbook goofing around with ballpoint over at my instagram page over the years i honed down my toolkit to what i thought were the very best pens and hands down my favorites are the bic velocity color pens sadly it looks like as of 2024 bic is no longer making the velocity pens in any colors other than black and blue the traditional colors for writing which seems like a baffling decision since the creamy blendable ink in these pens that make them amazing for drawing must make them terrible for actual writing rip bic velocity p s don t be fooled by the bic gel ocity line of gel pens they are obviously gel pens not ballpoints antsy sucko by tim fuller i m a sucker for the ol comics with the original dialog replaced gag my all time fave is truer than true romance a classic of the genre and this one is a hilariously solid example based obviously on mid century nancy and nancy and sluggo comic book stories antsy sucko capitalizes on the inherent absurdity of the setups and visuals of the originals and plays them up further for laughs the production is nicely done as well the paper patina off register printing etc is all preserved and the new lettering blends in perfectly i picked our copies up directly from the creator at space here in columbus but you can get either a digital or hard copy here when we were trekkies 1 10 joe sikoryak another absolute favorite read for me in 2024 is this charming biographical coming of age comics series about the early days of star trek fandom this was an easy sell for me given that i m a huge star trek fan and also someone who s just generally interested in fandom particularly pre internet fandom so i of course loved reading all the stories about day tripping in to nyc to various costume shops for cosplay supplies attending early sf conventions etc i ve read a ton of prose books about early trek fandom but there s something wonderful about reading a first hand account and one that s a comic these read best as a single complete story and it looks like you can now get them as a complete box set via birdcage bottom books leroy automatic lettering machine i don t remember how i even became aware that this thing ever existed but it was a few years ago and when i did i immediately set up an ebay alert for one cut to years later in 2024 and i finally got a hit needless to say i bought it most comics people are aware of the 50 s era leroy lettering set i have one of those too the hand operated mechanical lettering system that created the odd but distinctive lettering seen most notably in e c comics and early wonder woman comics this though is a 1980 s version that has a digital interface keyboard and an automated scriber that does the lettering i assume these things promptly disappeared as desktop publishing was becoming a thing by this point thus rendering things like the leroy automatic lettering machine obsolete you can see it in action in this old twitter post of mine pentel fude touch brush sign pen i was given one of these pens for my birthday last year and it s become new new favorite sketchbook drawing tool i ve never tried the colored ones but the black pen is amazing feel wise it s sort of halfway between a dead line felt tip tech pen like a micron and a full brush pen like the pentel pocket brush pen it has a small protruding conical nib that produces just enough line weight variation to give your line work a bit of life but without necessitating the sort of conscious attention to hand pressure modulation that a full brush pen requires nab one at jetpens 1986 jim rugg another spx pickup this is a beautifully put together magazine size zine focused on everything going on in comics in the year 1986 which as it turns out is a stunning amount of stuff watchmen maus early translated manga tmnt and associated riffs parodies the ascendance of frank miller graphic novels starting to be a thing etc the zine is assembled entirely of press clippings bits of articles reviews editorials catalog listings and other source material from the era get one now while you still can here charlotte mensuel 1 3 ed vincent bernière i ve really been digging this new french monthly comics magazine it features a good mix of translated american manga and french comics mostly serialized ongoing stories the big draw as far as american stuff goes is the chris ware story the last saturday that was serialized online by the guardian in 2014 but which has never been printed in physical form until now more generally though charlotte mensuel is yet another example of a format that i love yet seems for some reason to only be viable in places other than the u s the anthology of serialized comics there s 2000 ad weekly judge dredd weekly shonen jump shoujo beat etc i m not sure why this format historically seems unable to fly here in the u s the complaint i usually hear is i don t want to pay for something if i don t like all the stories but that s the whole point of the format to be able to try out a bunch of things and find a few you like of the 20 ish ongoing stories in charlotte i m regularly reading maybe 30 of them which is fine anyway even with international shipping subscriptions aren t too bad price wise john stanley the final pencil scripts from marge s little lulu 197 1970 ed tom devlin i got wind of this via tom devlin s ig and grabbed one immediately from the d q booth at cxc this is a zine that reproduces in full an entire pencil script basically at size lettered thumbnails for a previously little known very late career john stanley little lulu story it had been generally accepted that stanley s last little lulu issue was 135 from 1959 but apparently and for reasons no one really knows he did this one off script for 197 i loved seeing this not just because i m a huge little lulu john stanley fan but also because i love seeing any kind of comics behind the scenes process i also generally force my comics students to do a dummy of their stories exactly like this so i also selfishly enjoyed seeing that this is the method one of my comics heroes used for his work i don t think there s a way to get one of these other than from tom short notes marvel artist select series fantastic four by john byrne as with all these idw collections the production here is gorgeous the selection of material in this though was absolutely baffling i couldn t have come up with a more random list of issues from this run with one of those powerball things doctor moebius and mister gir by numa sadoul jean giraud moebius i d been waiting for this oft delayed book through the whole pandemic and it finally arrived it s a fascinating look at the artist as a person personality i was though left wishing there d been more nuts and bolts craft talk asadora vol 7 by naoki urasawa this continues to be my favorite ongoing manga it s baffling to me that urasawa easily one of the absolute best working cartoonists today has an ongoing excellent series and you hear so little talk of it in comics circles batman the court of owls saga by scott snyder greg capullo i read this in the new dc compact comics format i generally love the smaller manga ish size of this line and getting a complete story for around 10 the already kinda murky color though didn t appear to be adjusted pre press for uncoated newsprint stock and was very muddy in places hoping they ll change this in future installments of the line sal vol 1 by e b sciales this mini of short stories and gag panels about a tiny artist was my favorite pickup at spx this year it s charming funny and beautifully drawn in a sort of classic mid century cartooning style daniel clowes across the street by daniel clowes i got wind of this little book via cartoonist kayfabe rip ed you re missed it s a gallery catalog from the recent clowes exhibit in paris and it s a beautiful little volume filled with clowes s colored pencil preliminary drawings a beautiful foldout of an original cover etc the follies of richard wadsworth by nick maandag speaking of clowes when he was here in columbus for cxc he mentioned that nick maandag was one of his favorite cartoonists so i of course went to his table and bought a bunch of his books this book is absolutely laugh out loud hilarious other stuff i read in 2024 anatomy of comics damien macdonald copra master collection book one michel fiffe suddenly one summer camp from hell 1 by shelly bond liz prince dreamland japan writings on modern manga frederik l schodt pizza pickles and apple pie the stories behind the foods we love david rickert the translator without talent ryan holmberg osamu tezuka anime manga character sketchbook haruji mori osamu tezuka watership down the graphic novel richard adams james sturm and joe sutphin the cartoonists god bless em summer pierre blessed be rick altergott see you at san diego an oral history of comic con fandom and the triumph of geek culture mathew klickstein ain t it fun peter laughner proto punk in the secret city aaron lange leo fr moto hagio paul bunyan the invention of an american legend noah van sciver night stories folktales from latin america liniers jones et autres rêves fr franco matticchio the nancy show celebrating the art of ernie bushmiller ed peter maresca and brian walker les mondes de wallace wood fr various comics 1964 2024 dummy 1 ed john kelly the popeye story bridget terry hate revisited 1 2 3 4 peter bagge look back tatsuki fujimoto the comics journal 310 ed kristy valenti austin english creating copra michel fiffe little lulu 87 corto maltese the golden house of samarkand hugo pratt les cahiers de la bd 22 27 fr ed vincent bernière witch hat atelier vol 7 kamome shirahama unwholesome love charles burns share this share facebook reddit tumblr twitter pinterest comics exhibits leave comment jul 16 2024 angoulême 2024 moto hagio by ben in general yeah angoulême was six months ago but that doesn t mean i m not gonna post a few pics from the amazing moto hagio show shows of 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