Comics
 

Lately I'm getting this fetish for comics. They're like buying vinyl, they feel good to hold and the exctiement when you buy them is very similar. I've been getting into The Secret heavily - great artwork.

You like comics?

The only serious comic book I ever read besides Simpsons Comics and collections of Peanuts was The Watchmen. Fantastic book from the authors of V for Vendetta. They're going to making a film about it soon, I hear.

for a second i thought you meant "fetish comics" like those freak ass japanese ones

used to read x-men back 15 years ago, but even then not so much, never really got into them, but i did enjoy strangers in paradise and ghost world more recently

Best comic out there: F-Minus!

Zak Sally (former Low bassist) makes some beautiful and compelling comics in addition to running a great publishing company, La Mano press. Extremely talented.
He had a book release party tonight that I should be at, but had too many things to take care of at home to attend. He played with his Wipers cover band too; I saw them at the Heliotrope festival and it was pretty balls-on.
http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/articl...ers-cover-band

http://lamano21.com

I don't even want to step into a comics book store. I'd be hooked immediately. The LP jones is trouble enough.

i was collecting superman action comics for a while but then i went away and missed a copy and it just fucked me up, im out of the loop now and i dont know where to go. But yes i just love a nicely drawn comic

i have a comic book smelling adiction. I just cant stop myself from smelling them. ITS A FETISH!

I have to stay away from comic stores, for I will spend too much money.

I used to collect batman, x-men, the hulk, things like that when I was a kid , which i still re-read

I also got into underground comics in the early 90's.

My faves are

Maus (I got my hardbound copy signed by art spiegelman!)
Love & Rockets
The watchmen
Sin City
Batman
Jimbo
Zippy the Pinhead
anything by will eisner
from hell
etc etc

only DC Comic I ever like.



my favorite of all time is Stray Toasters by Bill Sienkiewicz (he also did the Electra Assassin limited series and that's badass too).


time for a new avatar.

bill sienkewicz is one of my idols. he did the very first 6 issues of the SHADOW when it came out in late 80's. fucking amazing art. That shadow run (about 23 issues) is my favorite comic book.

Hey, me, too! Only I bet I was much earlier collector--talking 1960s, early 1970s. The Golden Age. Or one of them. Man, I had some great stuff, too. Also Captain Marvel, Green Lantern, Flash, Detective Comics. For a while in junior high, I thought I wanted to become a comic book artist. That was way, way before that kind of thing was considered cool, though. I had to keep it a secret from my friends that I still read comics at 14 and 15. It was really hard buying comics--I'd have to go to the drug store during off-times I didn't think many other kids would be out.

I could never get into comics, but did like the cartoons, they made of x-men, and spiderman.

The new Jonah Hex series has been pretty good. The recent 5 issue Scarface series (that follows Tony subsequent to the big shootout in the mansion that he survives!) was great, but the Tony Montana Scarface Prequel that comes out next month may be even better. And I await the annual/semiannual release of a new Hate!

those freak-ass Japanese comics pay my bills! :cool:

I love Death Note - about a young genius kid that finds a death god's notebook and tries to make the world better by making all the heinous criminals in the world die of heart attacks. I just finished volume 11.

MPD Psycho is awesome it's about a detective with multiple personality disorder that's chasing a criminal soul that's able to jump from person to person. It confusing brutal and brilliant.

Vagabond is a brilliantly drawn and written story about the life of the famous Samurai Miyamoto Musashi.

And everyone needs to read lots of Crumb, The Watchmen, Sandman, Stray Bullets...and pretty much everything by James Kochalka.

Oh - - and Floating SLowly and Rob Instigator are right...Bill Sienkiewicz is awesome!!

You have to read them backwards, though. That's just freaky.

i've been thinking about getting into them, i'd like some over the years but never enough to buy them.

James Kochalka




and he does music

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I_QsCXm1vrk

that is TOTALLY sig-worthy.

the Moby Dick graphic novel by Sienkiewicz is also really really cool.

hell, anything he does is gold. I could sit and drool over the pictures all day long.

Ivan Brunetti's "Schizo" and Dennis Worden's "Stickboy" were/are both extremely important to me. My first tattoo was a Worden drawing.

I have no interest anymore for Marvel/DC whatnot (junior high was all the longer that lasted for me), but I will agree about Sienkiewicz. I still have the issues of The New Mutants that he did in the early 80s, and they are gorgeous.

no thanks, i'm almost 20 years old.

I'm into Howard the Duck for it's a Marvel item that lacks the soap elements pervasive in all the X-Men thing (will Cyclops and Phoenix be given a chance to live their love, blah blah blah); Howard, a giant duck from another world has no power and no job. He faces a super-villain named doctor Bong whose power is to hit his own head (bell-shaped) to knock his oponents out.

I'd really love to find Sibylline books again.
It's a Belgian bad-tempered mouse. Her stories were published in Spirou back in the late 60s. She was living in a lovely world where carnivors paced the land, attacking her friends to eat them. It was quite violent in a way. Add to that the bad ones (ferret Croque-Monsieur - a croque-monsieur is a toasted ham & cheese sandwich, croque means bite, monsieur, well, sir) were no plain villains, being both cruel and good to their friends (til they ate each other).
The prizes for such books are so high, either on eBay or in these little snobbish libraries in Paris on boulevard Saint-Germain.

A big package of Howard is available on eMule, and two great Sibylline too (Zagabor I'd recommend).

We don't like grown ups anyway man..

It's been years since I've bought a new comic, but it used to be something I spent the bulk of my "allowance" on.

The Maxx was my favorite, even when it didn't make any sense.

Of course classic Marvel titles too, I have a ton of Generation X, X-Force, and Deadpool. Always loved Alpha Flight too; something about Canadian heroes?

I debated on selling them or not. Really they just take up space.

I still can't believe no one ever mentions people like Dan Clowes,Peter Bagge, Julie Doucet, Renee French, Dame Darcy, Jim Woodring, Jim Blanchard and the like when comics are brought up.
Always with the superhero whatnot. The comics underground is bursting with talent.

It's been so long since I've read any comic, like I said. And when I did, it was the standard Marvel, DC, Image, whatever titles. So those names (other than Dan Clowes) are pretty foreign to me.

I was about to say "Daniel Clowes"
There are many great comincs, let me suggest a couple italian things:
Corto Maltese ( by hugo pratt)
and everything Sergio Toppi ever did are worth checking out.
And I hope Crypto was just kidding, or that's is the stupidest thing he ever posted on this board.

Well, this might be debatable.

It's been so long since I've read any comic, like I said. And when I did, it was the standard Marvel, DC, Image, whatever titles. So those names (other than Dan Clowes) are pretty foreign to me.

I wasn't talking about you in particular; sorry if that sounded testy. Just in a general sense.

Guido Crepax does some stylishly sexy comic awesomeness.

Not at all. Though it did make me feel out of the loop. After talking about Canadian super heroes and all.

Its hard to even imagine walking in to a comic book store now, and asking "whats good?"

If you find yourself in Mpls ever, go to Big Brain comics and ask them.
They won't make fun of you and they'll steer you right. That place is not your average comic store.

You mean that he could be right or that he posted "stupider" things? :D (hey Pedro, don't take it too seriosly, eh.)

I'll try and remember if I ever happen upon the Twin Cities again.

Omaha's best record store (Antiquarium) used to sell comics too, and then they got all Bright Eyes and deemed them useless.

I got all those. dan clowes, peter bagge, all the underground stuff.
great stuff. I have the first 15 issues of HATE, in MINT CONDISH. I am a dork.
I once spent 1 1/2 years reading the extensive comic book section of the main branch of the Houston Public Library.
I read all the old Little Nemo, all the old will eisner (my faves), old dic tracy, underground stuff, the european stufff
I alsio used to collect Heavy metal magazines.

my favorites are

SANDMAN
FROM HELL
THE WATCHMEN
any of Frank Miller's DARK KNIGHT
and LOVE & ROCKETS.

Love & Rockets is the fucking best comic book that noone ever talks about any more.

You just like Love and Rockets because there are big-butt ladies all over it.

;)

and

Haha, I've always been into Jhonen Vasquez's sporadic bursts of gawthic fun.









And who could forget the hedonistic nun herself:

One for Rob