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Daily OCD: 11/9/09
http://www.fantagraphics.com/index.php?option=com_myblog&show=Daily-OCD-11-9-09.html&Itemid=113 A piping hot dish of Online Commentary & Diversions: • Review: "...[T]his shaggy-haired collection of 15 years’ worth of artful zines and comics [Like a Dog]... reads at times like a history of psychological warfare. [Zak] Sally... tends toward richly dark, semiautobiographical, and tightly etched tales of tension and self-recrimination. Creepy dreams and images of anatomical self-analysis are recurring themes, along with the general sense of transience that marked Sally’s life while relentlessly touring with Low... At times the book... breaks out of that shell to address topics that are usually no lighter in tone though, as with his excellent retelling of Dostoyevski’s imprisonment, they benefit from the change in perspective. The art is equally claustrophobic when not downright disturbing. Revealing and witty, even when mired in darkness." – Publishers Weekly • Review: "The Cold Heat material from Jones, Santoro, and Vermilyea is... imaginative and, particularly with Vermilyea at the drawing table, sharply delineated, as is Vermilyea's delightfully sick solo material. Josh Simmons impresses with his blackly comic strips... Tim Hensley kills it as always with the concluding chapters in his Wally Gropius saga, featuring peerlessly communicated body language perhaps the greatest anti-climax in comics history. I think this is some of the tightest material we've seen yet from Sara Edward-Corbett... Lilli Carré is alarmingly good at depicting male lust. Nate Neal's not-so-instant-karma piece in Vol. 16 is explicit and haunting. Dash Shaw is a restless talent, albeit so restless he never seems to settle down even in the middle of any given strip." – Sean T. Collins on Mome Vols. 14, 15 & 16 • Review: Lene Taylor of the I Read Comics podcast wonders if the humor in Jason's Low Moon exists in an alternate world (beware of spoilers) • Review: Google Translate creates poetry out of this Portuguese review of Like a Velvet Glove Cast in Iron by Daniel Clowes at O Recíproco Inverso: "The art that is what Daniel Clowes you do best: people ugly. All the characters are people from day to day, dark circles, old-fashioned clothes, hair loss... out the freaks that appear, like the girl in the form of potato or the dog itself without holes, op. You see, the Daniel Clowes does not draw badly, he draws very well what he wants to show. That is, ugly people. I will not give star ratings do not pro book, this is very scrotum. Just know that it's cool." • Plug: "One hell of a messed-up book. ... Pim & Francie are Columbia's pet subjects — a pair of cute kids who are always stumbling into horrific nightmare scenarios. This isn't quite a collection of stories about them: it's a collection of Columbia's rough and finished materials concerning them that keeps veering toward storyhood, then jerking the steering wheel and plunging over the nearest cliff." — Douglas Wolk, Comics Alliance • Plug: Chris Mautner of Robot 6 rediscovers Zero Zero by way of our 99 Cent Comics sale (issues are selling out fast): "Re-reading this stuff, it really startles me just how good and how ignored this series was and continues to be. I mean, the level of talent in these pages is staggering. Kim Deitch's Search for Smilin' Ed! Dave Cooper's Crumple! Richard Sala's The Chuckling Whatsit! Joe Sacco's Christmas with Karadsic! Not to mention Max Andersson, Skip Williamson, Mack White, Sam Henderson, Michael Kupperman, David Mazzuchelli and so many more. This really was the best anthology of the 90s, bar none." • Preview: The Comics Reporter spills the beans on one of our 2010 releases: Drew Weing's Set to Sea • Preview: If you want to read about our February 2010 releases in Portuguese, GHQ has you covered • Things to see: Look who's popped up in Gabrielle Bell's cartoon recounting of her trip to Minneapolis: none other than Tom Kaczynski and Zak Sally • Things to see: Cookies, Li'l Wayne, and inter-mythology love figure in the latest batch of sketchbook scans from Anders Nilsen |
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warrenelliscom
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12:03a |
The Lost Army
http://www.warrenellis.com/?p=7950 This, on the other hand, is amazing.
The remains of a mighty Persian army said to have drowned in the sands of the western Egyptian desert 2,500 years ago might have been finally located, solving one of archaeology’s biggest outstanding mysteries, according to Italian researchers.
Bronze weapons, a silver bracelet, an earring and hundreds of human bones found in the vast desolate wilderness of the Sahara desert have raised hopes of finally finding the lost army of Persian King Cambyses II. The 50,000 warriors were said to be buried by a cataclysmic sandstorm in 525 B.C.
"We have found the first archaeological evidence of a story reported by the Greek historian Herodotus," Dario Del Bufalo, a member of the expedition from the University of Lecce, told Discovery News…
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| Monday, November 9th, 2009 | |
warrenelliscom
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11:49p |
Moving Away From The Digital City
http://www.warrenellis.com/?p=7949 (I’m in a foul mood today.)
All you people with your augmented reality unlocking the digital city outernet designing the sentient city rhetoric and toys? You know what you’re making?
Street Clippy.
Now fuck off and make something that’ll do useful work on a phone in a village, instead of something that’ll get you laid in fucking Hoxton. Make something that has meaning outside a major metropolis.
Oh jesus, I’m sorry, you were working on building the urban digital future playing Foursquare and I disturbed you.
(I’m off to kick the cats.)
(Yes, playing Devil’s Advocate a bit. But, see above about foul mood. An article I’m not linking to because they don’t deserve my ire just tipped me over the edge into shoutiness.) |
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warren_ellis
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The Lost Army
This, on the other hand, is amazing.
The remains of a mighty Persian army said to have drowned in the sands of the western Egyptian desert 2,500 years ago might have been finally located, solving one of archaeology’s biggest outstanding mysteries, according to Italian researchers.
Bronze weapons, a silver bracelet, an earring and hundreds of human bones found in the vast desolate wilderness of the Sahara desert have raised hopes of finally finding the lost army of Persian King Cambyses II. The 50,000 warriors were said to be buried by a cataclysmic sandstorm in 525 B.C.
"We have found the first archaeological evidence of a story reported by the Greek historian Herodotus," Dario Del Bufalo, a member of the expedition from the University of Lecce, told Discovery News…
(Automatically crossposted from warrenellis.com. Feel free to comment here or at my internet church at Whitechapel. If anything in this post looks weird, it's because LJ is run on steampipes and rubber bands -- please click through to the main site.) |
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| Tuesday, November 10th, 2009 |
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| Monday, November 9th, 2009 |
coppervale
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2:22p |
The Tour Continues - With An Ice Cream Book Party!!!
Since the SHADOW DRAGONS signing event at the Barnes & Noble Desert Ridge takes place on the night before a certain author's (ahem-hem) tenth thirtieth birthday, we're going to turn it into a Book Signing Ice Cream Party! Bring your kids! Bring your books! I'll be signing, sketching, and discussing the proper way to construct an ice cream sundae. Is this a full service author tour, or what? ********** James A. Owen
The Chronicles of the Imaginarium Geographica: The Shadow DragonsAuthor Event, Children's Event Tuesday November 10, 2009 7:00 PM
Barnes & Noble Desert Ridge
Desert Ridge Marketplace, 21001 N. Tatum Blvd. Suite 42, Phoenix, AZ 85050, 480-538-8520 |
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suxdonut
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10:54a |
a lifetime class act
here's me passed out at 22! omg looking at these old pix is tripping my balls off. i can't beleive there was a time before the internet, when i decided everything for myself. and omg i loved SO passionately with no regard for returns. |
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Flipped!: David Welsh Surveys Entertaining College Comedies
http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/CrBriefings/~3/YytqDLvFSVk/ 
By David P. Welsh
Del Rey has recently released the first volume of the eagerly anticipated Moyasimon: Tales of Agriculture, written and illustrated by Masayuki Ishikawa. It's set in an agricultural college in Tokyo, and its protagonist can communicate with bacteria, so essential to many agricultural processes, not to mention life in general. The series gets off to a promising start, blending low comedy and hard science in amusing ways. (Bacteria are also essential to digestion. Let's just leave it at that.) It feels too early in the semester to give Moyasimon a firm grade, but it has inspired me to take a quick run through the abundance of entertaining college comedy that's out there.
 Genshiken, written and illustrated by Kio Shimoku, Del Rey: The cast members of this series constitute a club so geeky that they can't even settle on a single pop-culture niche on which to obsess. Their office is packed with manga, anime, games, and toys. Their individual levels of social dysfunction range from apologetic awkwardness to unflinching self-loathing. Fortunately, Shimoku treats them with warmth and specificity that spares the reader a by-the-numbers nerd parody. For me, the heart of the series rests with the unrequited love hardcore otaku Madarame harbors for Kasukabe, the pretty, normal girl who views the club with undisguised contempt but hangs around because her outwardly normal boyfriend is a member. Her prickly disdain for the club in general and Madarame in particular softens into something almost like affection, though the average reader will have reached that point well before her.
 Honey and Clover, written and illustrated by Chica Umino, Viz: Unrequited love is central to Umino's shôjo look at art school. There's less romantic geometry here than arrows pointing from yearning hearts to people who either don't reciprocate or don't even recognize that they're adored. But Honey and Clover isn't all mooning; it's more a quirky, funny ensemble piece that does a fine job describing the anxieties of artists in training. These students struggle with inspiration (either its absence or excess), the deprivations of daily life (cheap food, crappy apartments, not enough money for beer), and decidedly uncertain prospects for employment after they graduate -- assuming they graduate at all. Of all the series on this list, I think Honey and Clover does the best job of evoking a specific kind of university experience, halfway between the relative cocoon of high school and the harsher realities of working life.
 Ichigenme... The First Class Is Civil Law, written and illustrated by Fumi Yoshinaga, 801 Media: When Yoshinaga creates gay romance stories, there's usually a recognizable structure. In the first volume, she meticulously builds a relationship between her protagonists, exploring the interplay of their dispositions and backgrounds and bringing them together. In the second volume, the couple has lots and lots of sex. As a side note, one half of the couple usually likes to cook. This structure is in place in Ichigenme, but Yoshinaga's comics always have at least some level of idiosyncratic charm, and this is one of my favorite of her yaoi titles. Set in law school, it features hard-working Tamiya (he cooks), who's aghast at the laziness and entitlement of his privileged classmates. He's also shocked by his budding feelings for the laziest of the bunch, politician's son Tohdou (he eats). One of the great pleasures of Yoshinaga's yaoi work is the way she incorporates the real world into her romantic narratives. Class, career and essential questions of identity all play a role here, which makes the romance sweeter and smarter.
 Nodame Cantabile, written and illustrated by Tomoko Ninomiya, Del Rey: For whatever reason, I've spent a lot of my adult life at least partly in the company of classical musicians. And you want to know something? A lot of them are just plain weird. (I know a bassoonist who insists he channels Courtney Love before each performance.) As a result, the decidedly idiosyncratic behavior of Ninomiya's characters seems less extreme to me than carefully chosen. Shinichi Chiaki yearns to study conducting in Europe, but he's terrified of plane travel. Megumi Noda plans to teach music, which is a slightly terrifying prospect given her rather limited life skills. The slovenly Noda dotes on the persnickety Chiaki, who softens towards his gifted, unpredictable classmate. Musicality isn't easy to convey in a comic, particularly orchestral music, but Ninomiya succeeds in communicating her cast's passion for music. The quirkiness threatens to overwhelm other elements at times, but it's a very likable romantic comedy on the whole, and the orchestral background is refreshingly different. Nodame Cantabile is one of those titles that's hugely popular in Japan but hasn't found a sizeable audience over here. I'd love it if more people gave it a try, as it really is charming.
 Ohikkoshi, written and illustrated by Hiroaki Samura, Dark Horse: I've never quite understood why Ohikkoshi didn't garner more attention from fans of independent films. The titular novella in the collection is structured very much like an amiable art-house flick, with a group of near-college graduates spending a long night drinking, hanging out, and stumbling across funky misadventures. It's a change of pace for Samura, best known for his award-winning samurai epic, Blade of the Immortal, and it's distinct from the rest of the items on this list in that it's most focused on the end of college -- the last threshold between adolescence and adulthood. The cast's night of revelry is akin to a bachelor party, a celebration of a last night of freedom before the ball and chain is affixed. These students believe they have unfinished business that can only be accomplished in the relative freedom of school, and they don't want to miss the opportunity. They're sweet hipsters looking for that special memory that will help them through the slog that's to come.
 Venus in Love, written and illustrated by Yuki Nakaji, CMX: This is certainly the most conventional romantic comedy of the lot. Suzuna is eager to start her college life, anticipating the thrilling possibilities of independence and the expanded social opportunities of a co-ed college after an all-girl high school. She settles into her apartment, makes a new friend, and sets her eye on handsome, athletic Fukumi. She soon finds that she has a rival for Fukumi's affections in the form of his best friend, a guy named Eichi. Since manga is the natural habitat of the friendly rival, it's not surprising that Suzuna and Eichi bond over their shared good taste in boys. It is surprising, and pleasantly so, that Nakaji eschews conventional love-triangle antics for a more sedate, slice-of-life approach. She establishes an easy chemistry among her four leads and allows them to bond interpersonally and as a group. Venus in Love isn't an especially ambitious work, but it's very sweet and likeable.
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David P. Welsh has loved comics since his parents first used Archie and Casper to sedate him during long trips in the family station wagon.
He's worked as a reporter and editor for daily and weekly newspapers, and later sold out for the glamorous world of public relations. Prior to relocating to The Comics Reporter, he wrote his Flipped column for Comic World News for just over three years. He's written articles on comics for print outlets and a variety of other web sites.
He lives in West Virginia, which he says has gotten a lot easier since the Starbucks and Barnes & Noble opened up.
You may e-mail David with questions or commentary You can write to this site about David's columns
Please bookmark his site, Precocious Curmudgeon.
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suxdonut
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10:15a |
talkin bout a girl named sickie sick
all sick in shit booooo...oh well its kind of nice to just be immobilized on the couch with 'mySims agents' to dress in gogo boots and solve crime. once i am sick there's not a lick of guilt anywhere to be found. im SICK, geez. ians b-d party was great, no social anxiety here! just friends and laughs and cake. ive been recovering ever since hehe. today i got a special package, an anime hat for me, clays greenman suit, and a little samurai robe for charlie! he looks powerful and intmidating and kyoooot! happy monday every body... |
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warren_ellis
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11:28a |
The Mechanic Speaks
Ariana Osborne, designer of this place, SHIVERING SANDS, etc., talking about POD and the book, because:
…apparently, there’s a bunch of folks paying close attention to how Shivering Sands does so they can figure out if POD is “worth their time.”
And I have absolutely no fucking clue what that means, so I’ve just got to talk about it…
(Automatically crossposted from warrenellis.com. Feel free to comment here or at my internet church at Whitechapel. If anything in this post looks weird, it's because LJ is run on steampipes and rubber bands -- please click through to the main site.) |
coppervale
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11:04a |
Found it!
Here's the other UNDER IN THE MERE piece that I'm putting up for sale. There are seven pieces total (with my favorites being the one with the Chinese Theater, and the one with the Questing Beast). Offers can be sent to my email address at coppervale at frontiernet dot net.  |
tmcm
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10:06a |
I need a title
I might be joining up with Dean Haspiel's ACT-I-VATE, the Brooklyn webcartoonist collective. They have one amazing book out and it I'd be surprised if they didn't do more. Dean wants to run a weekly gag cartoon (from the rejected New Yorker cartoons). I need a title for the strip like Postage Stamp Funnies. I don't want to use New Yorker Rejects (for a variety of reasons). It's true that they weren't used by the magazine but that isn't the point of the comics. "Gag Reflex" is what I have so far. That was the name of a gag strip I drew in college.  Current Music: button to button - white stripes |
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