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d the perdition of all others posted in uncategorized leave a comment kim thompson is dead june 20 2013 shit 56 years old too young first thought does this mean i ll see fewer awesome euro comics from fantagraphics second thought christ i m an entitled arsehole the guy just died ffs third thought actually isn t that a sign of how good he was at his job actually his calling rip mr thompson one of the all time greatest advocates that comics has ever seen here s to all the great comics you never had a chance to show us posted in fantagraphics 2 comments yoohoo sends dave sim a sign updated with mea culpa august 25 2012 this is a real shame fire has destroyed the negatives for dave sim s high society digital reprint but i have a prediction and i will gladly bet a zillion dollars on it at any odds sim will interpret this as a sign from god a sign that well something or other probably that he shouldn t be so hubristic about the digitisation of cerebus scare quotes because i m imagining sim interpreting himself that way not because i think he has been but maybe that he should stay off the internet take up smoking again mark my words folks update re reading the story i see that this sandeep fellow has lost everything that s really awful also this is bad for sim and i genuinely really heartfeltedly meant it when i said it was a shame this post was an all time dick move even though it s true and was meant as laughter in the face of horror the first comment here was that i should feel ashamed of myself and i do feel free to submit hate comments i ve surely earned them posted in dave sim 4 comments this is why we can t have nice things august 5 2012 this is what happens when you view the entire history of comics through the lens of one very small genre which has thanks to various accidents of history become the dominant entry point for a particular type of reader you get asinine questions like this about floyd gottfredson s mickey mouse one of the things that blew my mind was how those strips feel so much more modern than your average golden age super hero comic even though they started eight years before action comics 1 that s right kids we re in a decade that had inter alia prince valiant krazy kat terry and the pirates popeye in thimble theatre wash tubbs captain easy alley oop dick tracy li l abner and we re asking why another canon level comic strip seems modern compared with action fucking comics 1 comics posted in big dumb doody heads bring the hate comic strips comics suck fantagraphics floyd gottfredson venting 2 comments cartoonists drawing like other cartoonists 1 irving does frazetta july 10 2012 frazer irving gets his frank frazetta on posted in cartoonists drawing like other cartoonists frazer irving leave a comment racism in the funny pages episode 51 822 june 26 2012 et tu micke detail from mickey mouse 10 february 1932 by the great floyd gottfredson even homer nods inks by al taliaferro tags comic strips mickey mouse walt disney posted in comic strips disney fantagraphics floyd gottfredson racism in the funny pages leave a comment helter skelter june 7 2012 so it s now official i ve joined the manson family i have my own bio as a contributing writer and everything oh the unspeakable horrors of their initiation rites how horrible and unspeakable and initiatory they were what with the rites and the initiations and the horrors and oh speak about unspeakable naturally i m sworn to secrecy about the exact nature of those rites but let s just say the phrase now that your mom s gone you have to be the chihuahua will be forever burned into my memory as well as my well like i said sworn to secrecy of course this means i ll have to step up my douchebaggery to a whole new level on the cid scale comics internet douchebag scale writing at hu even irregularly ranks only just below posting comments about fuck kirby s family what did they ever create or male superheroes are objectified too so it s time for me to troll up and flame on did somebody say troll up and fuck kirby s family you may have noticed a lot of chatter lately about comic creators getting screwed it s just one of those crazy little things that come up every now and then you know how people love to complain on the internet anyhoo tom spurgeon s been making this kind of point a bit and i just wanted to elaborate on it a little so consider this the guy who drove the van that delivered the catering to the site for secondary photography during the postproduction process of the future dvd making of feature of the popular movie the walt disney company s marvel entertainment s the avengers probably made a lot more money out of the avengers than jack kirby ever did and that s no slam on that guy he probably did a really good job driving that van if you were in that van you d probably be all like whoa dude you took that corner so smoothly it was like being tongue kissed by a lace doily knitted by god himself ladies gents don t act like you don t know what i m talking about or even if that guy wasn t you know a veritable william blake of the catering delivery industry even if he was just basically what you d expect some dude driving a catering van he probably did an okay job and he deserves to be fairly recompensed let s send him a nice royalty cheque but you know what let s send jack kirby a much fucking bigger one while we re at it i don t know is it partly an american thing i mean there are arseholes the world over but it seems to me at least in this late stage of capitalism to be a distinctively american kind of arsehole who will defend to the death the right of goliath to beat the shit out of david as long as there s a buck in it and no laws are broken and besides he s got a goddamn sling why doesn t he defend himself for yahweh s sake it makes me wonder in the world of the simpsons are there bloggers who pride themselves on being all hard headed and tough minded and realistic able to cut through all the the namby pamby sheltered workshop hand wringing of the lennys and carls of the world guys who write long blog posts and message board comments about how of course it s perfectly morally acceptable for mr burns to build a giant shield to block the sun from falling on springfield ever again or to flay the cute widdle puppies of santa s little helper so he can make a vest out of their skins no one put a gun to your head and made you live under mr burns giant sun shield you knew what you were getting yourself in for when you were born in springfield do they write paragraph after paragraph justifying mr burns decision to dump extremely hazardous toxic waste in the grounds of springfield elementary on the rationale that hey he s the one who s undertaken all the risk of actually putting the waste into barrels and having it driven to the school so he s morally entitled to a fair return on his investment why do lenny and carl hate america class warfare job creators work for hire sign the back of this cheque to get paid and thereby validate our legally dubious claims of ownership who am i kidding of course there would be people like that in the world of the simpsons however the plebs sometimes riot in the face of injustice actually they ll riot at the drop of a hat but sometimes it happens to be a hat of injustice and so they re kind of rioting in the face of injustice a face made of hats hm i kind of lost a grip on my metaphors there but you get my point it s time for a motherfucking riot posted in a horse called ditkirby fanboys attack jack kirby lace doilies knitted by god himself marvel self promotion super heroes time for a motherfucking riot leave a comment make mine martin digital colouring remastered with extra rambling may 30 2012 at robot6 brigid alverson has a short response to my last post where she offers an elegant explanation of what s wrong with that kind of colouring the visual clash between gradients heavy black lines in a comment here matt echoes brigid s sentiment i know essentially zilch about visual theory but that explanation sounds persuasive to me in fact it s made me think through some of the mainstream artists who have made digital colouring work for them and many of them use a thin line gene ha frank quitely john cassaday note that these guys often do their own inks too and then there s frazer irving and kyle baker who do their own colouring as well and they often forgo lines altogether when marking colour boundaries but dave stewart of course like his rough contemporary mark schulz worked in that wally wood tradition of thick brush inks so maybe it is as simple as that that clash between gradients and heavy lines that explains why laura martin s recolouring looks so goddamn bloody i can hardly stand to look at it good god why no seriously why not very good funnily enough until i started reading that idw reprint volume i would have called martin one of the better colourists in the mainstream biz her frequent collaborations with cassaday are good stuff and idw has delivered a lot of tasteful reprints with no attempts at improving the art so again what went wrong here how could people with good taste do this it s such a shame because come on the main appeal of the rocketeer is that art does anyone really think to themselves gee i really wish i could read about the adventures of some guy with a jetpack and his gal pal bettie page well okay some people probably do but for me and a lot of others the drawcard is the art and while design is a part of that and that does still shine through the hideous recolouring it s even more about stevens linework and if idw thought the original colouring was too garish then hey they could have released it in black and white but you know in an affordable version i just wanted to stare at some nice art why you gotta play me like that idw bring on fantagraphics b w ec reprints i say one last thought if brigid s right about this style of colouring is the mismatch something that s going to persist or is it just a shift in taste there was a recent back and forth in film blogs about the shift to digital film and how that s changed the basic look of modern cinema david bordwell who s just released a book about it represented the old guard by criticising the new look he quoted roger ebert film carries more color and tone gradations than the eye can perceive it has characteristics such as a nearly imperceptible jiggle that i suspect makes deep areas of my brain more active in interpreting it those characteristics somehow make the movie seem to be going on instead of simply existing on the other hand you had jim emerson who s also part of the old guard being more sceptical about the inherent inferiority of digital i love the poetic language roger and david use to describe the living breathing singing qualities of film but i wonder how much of it is subjective and how much is objective i wonder how much our perceptions are conditioned by our expectations and what we re used to seeing rather than the inherent trade offs between digital and analog formats at least about film i think emerson s probably right relativism about aesthetic properties is way more plausible to me than anti relativism but what about comics in ten fifteen years time will the kids who ve grown up on modern superhero comics prefer this newer shittier look ha ha just kidding everyone knows that no kids whatsoever have grown up on superhero comics since the 90s except matt seneca and he s a total freak so until next time true believers make mine martin posted in comics suck film gal pal bettie page idw imperceptible jiggles intramural circle jerk 1 comment there really is no accounting for taste may 23 2012 original version recoloured original version recoloured and so on for 140 or so pages i find it no exaggeration genuinely hard to read laura martin s recolouring of dave stevens rocketeer as it appears in the 2011 reprint volume from idw i cannot understand how anyone could possibly look at something like this and decide that what it needs is a bunch of slick plastic looking colour gradients to muddy up dave stevens linework my critical motto has become different strokes for different folks but i look at this reprint and my mind just boggles the people who published this and according to the internet laura martin was hand picked by stevens himself to recolour the work thought this was an improvement some readers prefer it fuck it any readers prefer it are you shitting me kuhn was right i literally live in a different world from these people it is impossible for us to understand one another images pilfered from idw preview art chris sims one of the readers who mirabile dictu actually prefers the recolouring and wil pfiefer posted in bring the hate comics suck idw j accuse teh suk venting 8 comments modern superhero comics described in one headline may 14 2012 general mills gives honey nut cheerios bee intense backstory of childhood foster home abuse in bizarre rebranding 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