TELL ME, DO YOU READ ANY JUNKY COMICBOOKS, OR THE MODERN: GRAPHICNOVELS???

[IDON MINE]

Hi and Hello Garagebookworms and Archivars of the Superniché Materials!

Say, are you reading any Comicsbooks, Minicomics, Strips, Cartoons, or drawn Zines???

Let me know what affects you outta that corner!

[movingV]

I like Toth, but I'm not as wild about him as I am about Basil Wolverton, Jim Steranko, Steve Ditko, Wally Wood...and Robt Wms, who I think is the maximum utmost.

IDON MINE said:

Yep, part of the media witchhunt of that time. Blame comics for the society they portrait and cast away from bullshit politics that helped make them a fact.

Like artists didn't have it hard enough at that time, copeing with changing work standards! Always good to close a work option and then not opening up five new ones to fill the gap.

Oh I'm getting carried away!

Any other genre classics you read? How about Toth's HOT RODD and Car Comics?





movingV said:

That was before some Senate committee investigating violent comics. Some asshat asked Wm C Gaines whether he thought the cover was in bad taste, and Gaines said it wou'd've been in bad taste if they'd shown the bottom of the head, dripping blood. Not the wisest reply...

One of the greatest and wildest cover ideas any comic ever had. The cencorship idiots almost jailed the publisher if I remember right...

[IDON MINE]

YEEESH!

Hahaa!

Love the page, I have a Wolverton cover of Mad around, he is so super hilarious! ...Will post that later.

All of those guys are great, great Comics artists, stretching their genres and blowing them up to the max. It's just a drag they where always put down by what they worked on.

How about Caniff? That guy, like Kirby could move in a genre he helped craft and play in it. His work is really wonderful and alive. And Black and White of course.

I love these more recent Artists:

Sam Hiti, awesome!

Toby Cypress, awesome too!

Both using a base of old styles in their work and kicking it up into soemthing really fresh. And B/W, which I always welcome.



movingV said:

I like Toth, but I'm not as wild about him as I am about Basil Wolverton, Jim Steranko, Steve Ditko, Wally Wood...and Robt Wms, who I think is the maximum utmost.

IDON MINE said:

Yep, part of the media witchhunt of that time. Blame comics for the society they portrait and cast away from bullshit politics that helped make them a fact.

Like artists didn't have it hard enough at that time, copeing with changing work standards! Always good to close a work option and then not opening up five new ones to fill the gap.

Oh I'm getting carried away!

Any other genre classics you read? How about Toth's HOT RODD and Car Comics?





movingV said:

That was before some Senate committee investigating violent comics. Some asshat asked Wm C Gaines whether he thought the cover was in bad taste, and Gaines said it wou'd've been in bad taste if they'd shown the bottom of the head, dripping blood. Not the wisest reply...

One of the greatest and wildest cover ideas any comic ever had. The cencorship idiots almost jailed the publisher if I remember right...

[Johnny Singles]

I've currently slipped back into one of my periodic fan-boy obessions with Eric Powell's The Goon...

Amongst others I'm a big fan of the old-school style art in Michael Kupperman's Tales Designed to Thrizzle:

I picked up the first part of The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen: Century the other day - not so bad, but I'm thinking that it's not really going to work as a complete and rounded peice untill all the chapters are in (making the yearly release dates pretty irritating...)

[IDON MINE]

Yes the KUPPERMAN is gold!

Seems we have a bit of a FANTAGRAPHICS theme going!

Also in that vain, I totally dig the Noah vanSciver Stuffffff! The guys awesome! BLAMMO!

There is the Basil wolverton Bible out (or isn't it yet???)



Johnny Singles said:

I've currently slipped back into one of my periodic fan-boy obessions with Eric Powell's The Goon...

Amongst others I'm a big fan of the old-school style art in Michael Kupperman's Tales Designed to Thrizzle:


I picked up the first part of The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen: Century the other day - not so bad, but I'm thinking that it's not really going to work as a complete and rounded peice untill all the chapters are in (making the yearly release dates pretty irritating...)

[movingV]

was there a whole Wolverton bible? I know he did the Revelations. Great stuff.

[IDON MINE]

YEP for realz! and it is the only one I would read, even though it's the bible! ...Sorry I'm not really into that religious stuff! Anyhow!

HERE it is!

Crumbs bible that he does is getting some shit for whatever reason. I guess this one should be awesome too!



movingV said:

was there a whole Wolverton bible? I know he did the Revelations. Great stuff.

[IDON MINE]

READING Jeff Smiths BONE IN SINGLE ISSUES AND LOVING IT!

[John Battles]

...R.Crumb did do The Old Testament. The thought of Basil Wolverton doing the Bible (Though I know that's not what you meant.) is TOO funny.

[dave]

Hope everyone is having a better time than these guys. Only New Years to go, and this stuff/ordeal will be over...

[IDON MINE]

Yep, thanks for the clarification, hope I didn't spoil no one's reading when they got the book and found out part 2 of the christian murderfest wasn't included, haha. I'm not the most detail savy person out there, when it comes to being accurate on the topic of religious books. Old, new, all the same to me ;)




John Battles said:

...R.Crumb did do The Old Testament. The thought of Basil Wolverton doing the Bible (Though I know that's not what you meant.) is TOO funny.

[IDON MINE]

Hahaha, thanks - the Nick Fury one really cracked me up. Yeah, hope everyone's fine on their end of the globe as well, holiday fatigue and all.



dave said:

Hope everyone is having a better time than these guys. Only New Years to go, and this stuff/ordeal will be over...

[Allerleirauh]

I'm currently reading the the graphic novel "Fun House" by Alison Bechdel. It's really good. As for comics... Invincible, Mind the Gap, Battlepug (webcomic), Scarlet...