HOLY SHIT I DIDN’T KNOW ABOUT THIS HOLY SHIT
And yeah @Tony you wanna go to Quimby’s. I haven’t been there in forever but it’s def one of the best shops in the country. So’s Chicago Comics but it’s much more of a pop culture shop. Most of the small press/zine stuff is in the back, I just make a beeline there whenever I shop so I don’t get cooties from all the superhero stuff.
Ah, I think it’s pretty hard to come by! Think it was a pretty small pressing. I’d loan you the one I have, but I borrowed it from a friend. I’ll try to find some time to scan it before he forces me to give it back
Any recommendations on where to start with this author? I’m interested after looking at a few panels.
Either that or panorama of hell are good starting points. Also work mentioning he directed Guinea Pig 2 (awful) and Guinea Pig 6 (pretty good!)
Yeah it’s Panorama of Hell but I also love The Red Snake. It’s a a really uncomfortable, incestuous kind of book; I once compared it to “shamefully recognizing a relative’s personal stink.*” I hope it gets reprinted someday, would be nice to read it with a non-Comic Sans font.
*I actually forgot a (former?) poster asked me to do a bunch of comics posts until I searched my hard drive for “Hino” earlier today. Think this one is the superior piece though, everyone should read it if they haven’t!! The Hino one has some good panels though. Lots of typos but good panels.
The cover to the red snake looks so much like a seiichi hayashi drawing I had to make sure he didn’t have a hand in it.
It would be great! Thanks!!
I read pretty much every Junji Ito book that gets published and I like them all, but sometimes one stands out. Black Paradox is bizarre, surprising, and funny in places. Recommended.
Speaking of manga horror, maybe you guys know it already, but Gou Tanabe’s At the Mountains of Madness is a great adaptation of Lovecraft’s work (and my favoritie manga from Gou Tanabe).
Oh! And I have just read Baby Boom by Tatsumi and it’s really nice! I see that Plaza (English version) can be bought from Amazon Italy, so I’ll get that. Does it have a story?
Most of Yokoyama’s books have little dialogue but the general premise of that is like a game show these creatures are competing in that leads into his Biggest and loudest book yet, I’ve followed his work for years but comments calling that his masterpiece are 100% justified (if you can find a cheap copy I’d also recommend picturebox’s release of Color Engineering as a supplement to it).
My personal favorite is still Garden.
I have read also New Engineering (too messy maybe) and Voyage, which is now my favorite. Very clean, easy yo follow, poetic.
Unfortunately, I cannot find Garden in digital and the I see it for sale for over 80 usd 
i got a silver age flash trade today
its great, it has a bunch of stories by robert kanigher that i used to have in this amazing trade called THE GREATEST FLASH STORIES EVER TOLD when i was a kid. theres also a bunch of amazing jay garrick shit in there that has great art and is hilarious conceptually. theres that dinosaur again
I LOVE THE DINOSAURS FACE IN THIS PANEL
all i remember about THE TURTLE is that there’s a silver age story where he owns the flash by painting his shadow on a brick wall and making him run into it. its really funny to me that the road runner and the turtle use the exact same tactics
That last one is Carmine Infantino inked by Frank Giacoia, Comic Cavalcade #24, 1947. Great panel aside from the Golden Age comics tied-up woman trope.
Also in that ish:
(From the Cotton-Top Katie story “Practice Makes Perfect” by Harry Lampert.)
look, some of us needed this trope to figure things out
that is the most overwhelmgly breakneck paced comic jeez o pete
just copy pasting what I had to say about carmine infantino on discord last night
I’m really fond of carmine infantino’s pencils in the early adam strange comics
[11:40 PM]
just really good looking figure work, a softness to the way characters were rendered that I find most artists have been unable to replicate. Infantino feels a bit like the heir to hal foster era prince valiant in terms of art style
[11:43 PM]
just love this panel for instance
[11:43 PM]
it is really helped by the excellent inks by frank giacoia, too
[11:44 PM]
who I think was also doing inks on infantino’s flash? Whatever the case, they were a great creative team
[11:45 PM]
help I love to write too many words about silver age artists
a bunch of them are inked by joe giella and sometimes joe kubert too. frank giacoia also did stuff in flash comics that owns, he’s more of a golden age flash guy too me
