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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 original manga pages are rarer than the proverbial hen s teeth i ve seen exactly three this one junji ito at a previous angoulême and kaoru mori at the kyoto manga museum i ve always been intrigued by why original manga art is so rarely seen or offered for sale and never really had a definitive answer until i stumbled on this article in french but google translate does a pretty good job of translating it whatever the reason whenever i have the opportunity to see manga originals i take it especially in the case of someone of moto hagio s stature the exhibt was vast and quite crowded so i didn t take a ton of pictures but here are a few highlights chosen as is my wont mostly for interesting cartooning craft reasons i love the page layout here the final vertical panel is amazing check out though this crazy stippling this kind of thing turns up in several of her pages on display here this page is worth posting just because it s insanely gorgeous but check out how the artist has combined crosshatching with opaque white to create the glitter star effects some really nice nib work with opaque white on this page just throwing this one in because i absolutely love these sorts of pages that you often see in shōjo manga a big one page image that s a sort of poster of a character s emotional state and of course yet another reason that thinking about comics in terms of shots camera angles etc is such unproductive nonsense there is some nice stippling in that robe though some more really nice space stars effects with opaque white in the corner of this page and note the corrected leg position of the character another gorgeous page check out how many different patterns are going on here some hand done cross hatching the plaid on the clothes and others screen tone but the drawings all read very clearly visually the stippling in this panel is 100 bonkers i was largely unfamiliar with moto hagio s sf work but there were some truly stunning originals in that genre at the show check out the insane hatching here in this giant close up eyeball i can t even begin to think about how you d set up an image like this with multiple mirror surfaces welcome to crazytown the pattern on the coat here is not screen tone it s hand drawn check the hatching and stippling combo here in this outer space panel amazing usage of screen tone without outlines contour lines for some of the jigsaw puzzle pieces here i have no idea what s going on with the wavy patterned screen tone here tone with a pre printed pattern white areas pulled out with a razor she d give bill woggon a run in the clothes drawing deparment the razor work on the screen tone on this original is gobsmacking on the way out of the exhibit i bought a copy of moto hagio s l il leo in french not aware that there was an english translation of it it s ostensibly a lighthearted kid friendly collection of stores about the titular leo a talking cat it s a great read but there s a surprising amount of pathos in some of the stories particularly the lead story where leo winds up going to school and being ostracised by the other students for doing cat stuff at school not knowing how to behave in a classroom etc we left angoulême early sunday morning by train so we could spend a bit of time in paris before heading back to columbus while there we caught the joan sfar exhibit it was similarly amazing but that s a post for another time share this share facebook reddit tumblr twitter pinterest comics exhibits 1 comment apr 26 2024 frank miller interviews kazuo koike and goseki kojima by ben in general a few years ago i was a guest at a con i won t name because it was an entirely dismal affair sales wise needless to say i was bored to tears after a couple of hours sitting behind a table with zero happening so i began wandering around the floor trying to enterntain myself thankfully there were tons of longboxes on the floor and one such 2 bin had a handful of old comics interview magazines from the 90 s in it and among them was this gem the september 1995 manga and anime issue there s a ton of interesting stuff in here it s a fascinating time capsule of where the mainstream comics industry was 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