Yessss! Haha
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Finished the comics in this collection of Krazy Kat and really recommend this edition if you can afford or borrow it. It’s a beautiful edition but super expensive and massive, just overall an especially excessive art object.
But I am like fully in love with Krazy Kat now. Felt like encountering a fragment of my scattered soul reading these comics. I never encountered them before this so it was very cool. There is a really in depth essay in the beginning of this book, but the form factor of the book made reading that really unappealing sadly. I would love to read it in smaller form cause it does deal with Herriman’s influence on dadaists and modernists and his creole ethnicity which I am really interested by. Alas the book too damn big!!
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R.I.P. Richard Corben
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ComiXology have a shitload of Marvel Volume 1’s on sale for .99c-$1.99 until January 3.
read richard sala’s the hidden. i think i’ve had mixed experiences in the past with his later stuff - the earlier horror comics are really manic and pile ideas and images on top of each other wildly, the later ones tend to be more focused and measured but the same pastiche elements i like about the other stories can undermine any sense of place or mood. but his book delphine was great, one of the best western horror comics i’ve read, so it got me to give this one a shot. i enjoyed it a lot, sometimes the setting feels a bit sparse or the dialogue too unwieldy but the monsters are wonderful and uncanny and i liked the plot too (the nightmare of history in the guise of a century-long conspiracy of frankensteins). it also has a good example of one of the more likeable aspects of his later comics: a tendency for big, carefully drawn tableaus of various bush administration era creeps and flunkies being chopped to pieces with knives. in this one there’s a kind of davos conference surrogate that quickly descends into a cannibal murder orgy, exactly like the real thing.
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Trying to think of what Junji Ito thinks of the world these days, and I’ve decided the most likely possibility is he legitimately has not noticed that anything is any different
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i’d find that level of pedantry annoying if it was anyone but don rosa
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it’s weird because i thought the new show was, if anything, more closely connected to the comics? but i don’t know anything
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it is much closer and rosa also hates it lol
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he’s probably just repulsed by the decision they made to make all the characters look like funko pops
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i doubt he would watch a full episode he probably saw that the boys didn’t have the comics personalities or saw characters from the 87 show like launchpad, beakley, webby or like heard the theme song and turned it off
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Finally starting to read General Myao. I just happened to finish reading a history of the soviet union last month. This manga was made for me
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read “three fingers” by rich koslowski, which was not good but ended up being compelling in a weird way and was memorably crazed in terms of worldbuilding decisions. the idea is that it’s a fictional documentary about a disney analogue, except all the cartoon people who act in the movies are real, and they’re all washed up actors now, etc. i do not think this part of the book will be very interesting to anyone who does not get a crazy subversive charge out of the idea of a mickey mouse surrogate called rickey rat dragging on newports in an empty mansion.
there was a horror undertow i did like where the surviving toons talk about “the ritual”, in which amputating the fourth fingers of their hands is somehow linked to showbiz success. the reasoning behind this is never explained and it’s always uncertain whether doing this actually works in some occult fashion or is just a weird recurring superstition. something about that worked for me in ways that more OTT faustian success allegories rarely do. i liked that part but then!!
- someone in the book directly compares it to circumscision!!
- this world’s Martin Luther King Jr (not a fictional analogue!) is explicitly stated to have been assassinated because he supported Toon Rights??
also for some reason Mowgli from The Jungle Book is not human but is a “young Toon of Asian descent” even though all the other toons we see are talking animal people, which opens up a different rabbit hole it thankfully never ends up going down.
so i guess i would describe it as one of those things which is kind of effectively weird as long as you take the central premise as totally self-contained and disconnected from reality and the very second you try to allegorize it in any way the whole thing becomes irredeemably stupid. anyway please enjoy this panel.
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Really just another angle on the whole Goofy/Pluto thing I suppose.
Dungeon Meshi #9 is out. Let’s gooooooo
I don’t want to post spoilers for the new issue but in its honor here are some of my favorite title pages from Dungeon Meshi history. I love how they recontextualize the characters either in a past domestic scene or in a metaphor
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A Voyage to Arcturus illustrated by Jim Woodring. No way I can justify buying it, but it sure looks nice.
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I want that so bad I could puke.
Someone break into a warehouse in a few months and steal a copy for me. Hell, steal copies for all of us.
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!!!
I’ve been trying to get a not-embarrassing copy of one of my favorite books for years; I’ve seen two or three nice printings fall apart.
if ever there was a reason to have this stupid job, this is it
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