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Nice video! I got that Bradleys TPB shortly after I got into Hate in the early 90s. I have vivid memories of laughing so hard that I was crying while reading it. I loved that City of Glass book and Mazzucchelli’s (and/or Karasik’s) formalistic approach and thinking “how can this be an adaptation of prose?” I should read the novels and reread the comics. I’m a big Mattotti fan too, so I’m looking forward to that new book. I really enjoyed Understanding Comics too. I no longer have the book, and it wouldn’t be on my top 100, but it is an impressive achievement and generated a lot of fun discussion. And Cages, From Hell, and Ghost World - 🤌

I might have to make an effort to find Cages. There was definitely a European element to that art that caught my eye.

"I don't have the original issue of the journal with me...I lost it in a drunken poker game with Gary Groth's retired drug dealer" That's what I heard anyway.

This Canon book is large and is well worth it. I’ve enjoyed looking through it and being exposed to work I hadn’t encountered. Also, great cover.

“Even a phoned-in Alan Moore is better than the rest of this junk.” 😂😂😂 Tedward and Tongues are the standouts to me this month.

Ken Worthing, the guy who does the Alan Class videos, dropped once that Class was still alive. I think he mentioned it last year.

I’m going to miss these if Diamond folds.

Also: viewers really should get the Canon annual. Really solid, hard to put down.

I mean, these comics are OKAY, but no This Is Wild Dog? Where's Lobo? C'mon!

This is quickly becoming my favorite Comics content on TH-cam, a really wonderful companion to The Comics Journal's list.

I think as far as EC goes, small doses is my preferred way of reading them too.

I need to track down that Alec. I’ve read some here and there and liked it. I still have a fair amount of his Bacchus. Woodring is up there for me. Love all of his work, and I agree that his latest is a masterpiece. And I still love A Contract with God! 😊

Thanks for this! IMO, Pekar was a genius-innovator of the form. Pekar with wife Joyce Brabner and artist Frank Stack won the Harvey Award for best original graphic novel, 1995, for Our Cancer Year. It is a masterpiece and one of the crowning achievements in comics. Also there's a very good feature-length comedy-documentary film on Pekar from 2003 called American Splendor. It stars actor Paul Giamatti as well as Pekar himself.

I really like those early American Splendors. I didn’t start reading them until 1990 but I was aware of him from David Letterman. Nothing else like it at the time. And the way he (and his cartoonists) could make regular “day in the life of a file clerk” stories interesting was amazing.

This issue of TCJ is what introduced me to Steinberg, whose work became incredibly important to me.

Nice video! I was working at Bedrock City comics in Houston when Rubber Blanket 3 came out. We could still get copies of 1 and 2 (can’t remember now which distributor - might have been Last Gasp?) so we tried to keep all 3 in stock. But they were not quick sellers. They would sit a long time. I don’t remember anyone ever wanting it because they were a fan of his superhero work but that may have happened. I think it was mostly people who were into the alt comics scene, but it was still tough because the tone isn’t like Hate, Eightball, etc. Plus, these were the days that people wouldn’t buy something just because it wouldn’t fit in a standard longbox. Also, Lynda Barry is still an embarrassing blind spot for me. I really need to do a deep dive into her work.

Just tag me when it gets to Kickers Inc.

Nice video! I’m with you on Mr. Punch. It’s good, but Sandman is stronger for Gaiman and Cages is McKean’s best. I remember actually being disappointed with Mr. Punch when it came out because my expectations were so high. I really need to read Drechsler. One of those blind spots I’m embarrassed to admit.

The sometimes absurd levels of pretension shown by Comics Journal by putting Watchmen at #91. Made me laugh out loud! Thanks for this great best of series.

YES!!! Great video! Man that Canon Annual looks fantastic! Can’t wait to get it!

Here we go again! What a great surprise to see you reviving this video series. Even better to see CANON ANNUAL in print, congratulations to you and Alex.

Party time. I'm 99% sure I preordered this I should check 😂😂

hell yeah Colin. Congratulations on this!

Ordered. Very interesting idea plus a Noah Van Sciver cover. Looking forward to it.

“Keeping Two” was a lovely book.

Always informative! Fully Loaded looks like it could be a good Blade Runner / Hard Boiled type comic with good photo reference art. It's a fine line between stiff looking photo art and pleasant Al Williamson type good photo reference. There is a short interview in Tripwire with Broxton where he acknowledges the Darrow / Miller / Blade Runner influence. It was apparently a Zoop funded graphic novel first. Anyway, I'm a mark for Darrow and Blade Runner, so I will check it out. The big books for me here are Beat it Rufus, Give Me Liberty and Goes Like This. Also, Nemesis.

Love your monthly curation. First Comics putting out Badger again written by Steve Rude looks cool. Nemesis the Warlock Omni would be a fun read. I'm going to pull that Fully Loaded book too.

Colin, you are doing the Lord’s work here.

I ❤ this channel and these Previews reviews. I was unaware about the Comics Catalog book and I’m definitely going to get it. You pointed out some other great books too.

Is your new job as the official Fantagraphics archivist and head librarian? If so, very jealous.

I give a shit about these videos! 😂 You always point out a few things I missed like Revelations in the Wink of an Eye and Grand Electric Thought Power Master (long titles!). And Vagabond. I would like the Paul Smith AE but I’m out of room for those big books for titles that are not top of the list for me! Still getting the Neal Adams one, though! Also, Taschen is going to be putting out XXL EC books…😳 That Comics catalog is the first time that an English version has been made in hardcover I believe. I ordered an English version when I first heard about it, and mine is softcover. I think only the French version was originally available in hardcover. I’m tempted to get this hardcover because it’s such a great book and I like hardcovers much more than softcovers (and my copy arrived a little beat up). But I will probably resist the urge to double dip. That AI porn book is ridiculous. It’s ridiculous that they have those “photography” books in Previews. It goes to show who their audience is though.

Great channel

Started a new job! Terence said you were independently wealthy, like me. 😂

Wow! All of the art is great, but Crumb?!?! Mic drop. A holy grail for anyone who likes underground. Like me!

Wow! Killer collection! Jaxon! Trondheim! Sala! Deitch! Sim! Seth! Bagge! Cruse! Hernandez! And more! A veritable who's who of alt/art cartoonists!

Righteous! Thanks for posting this! Wish I could have been there.!

Great to see this interview. Interesting to hear the behind the scenes account of what goes into the stories.

Great chat. Ty NVS, Colin and Sean. BTW, here's a link to Wikipedia on Tintin, "The Shooting Star" by Hergé: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Shooting_Star Be sure and scroll down to the section on antisemitism. As ever, it is complicated but it appears that Hergé's estate may need to be further held to account.

Loved it as always! DC should use you for the cover blurbs on Longbow Hunters: “There’s worse shit you could spend your money on” “I can’t say it’s good, but I enjoyed it” 😂😂😂 Actually, I feel the same way. I loved the series when it came out. Over the years I have read a lot of negative criticism in TCJ and elsewhere. I’m currently about halfway through a reread and loving it! Not sure I would if I hadn’t read it when I was 16-ish. The Bess horror books are comics. They are caption-heavy but definitely told in a sequential comic style. I think Magnetic’s description is a little misleading. They are not artist’s editions as we know them (at least they don’t appear to be to me), but they don’t have they don’t have the gray tones and other effects added to the original French versions. Maybe they are scans of the original art, but you see very little, if any, process - it just looks like black and white. They are beautiful though. I’m really enjoying Paklis. I’m also really enjoying the new Den editions. Villarubia is not recoloring but attempting to color to Corben’s wishes using original art as the base. Arguably, some earlier editions still look better, but he’s not trying to change the colors. On the Bilal book (Exterminator published by Humanoids), he was asked to recolor. That’s my understanding anyway.

Hello Colin! Thanks for the video. I've been following Manara's works very closely. Dark Horse already released Caravaggio Vol. 1 before the pandemic. They were scheduled to release Vol. 2, but it never materialized, so I bought the edition integrale and the "oversized" artists edition of both volumes. If these are erotic, they are "R" with close attention to historical detail. The same can be said for Manara's adaptation of the Name of the Rose. There are numerous - the term risqué doesn't even really apply - adaptations of French and Italian classic literature from Manara that deserve an American audience. Fantagrsphics could reprint those, but will a non erotic Manara generate wide enough sales in the USA? Who can say? My bottom line here is that the moral climate has changed in Italy, and with it, Manara's penchant for beautiful and bizarre erotica. Yes, Manara has resigned himself to creating something akin to the Classics Illustrated of Europe! As for the Bess adaptations of Gothic Horror, Magnetic did a very nice job, and if they plan to present the artist's editions, more power to them. Are these essential? I don't think you'd enjoy them. They are text and illustrations. Beautiful illustrations, but we all know these stories back to front. The Bolland Artist's edition has been pushed back? The price isn't what scares me away from this work, I am more concerned by how well it function as an example of Bolland's process and not just new printings of very old pages. As always, the long delayed Dark Horse Corben books remain very much hit and miss affairs. The essence of Corben, for me, is what HE did with color in the original editions of his works. Recoloring them seems counterproductive. Villarubia is doing the same thing with the work of Enki Bilal, which seems like an even stranger proposition. 🎃

The cost of some of these does take your breath away. I love Brian Bolland but that price is steep.

I haven't read my Bess, Dracula and Frankenstein, they really are beautiful. Can't comment on how the read quite yet though.

Dogman here, I rule.

Glad to see your insights. Picked up Charles Burns' The Final Cut yesterday, can't wait to dig in!.

Nice haul! I thought Naff was old Clowes when you first put it in front of the camera! You got a lot of nice looking comics from cartoonists I haven’t heard of. I agree those Titan collections are cool. As you mentioned, they did Alan Moore’s Swamp Thing, which I would love to have because it’s in B&W. They also did a set of Batman books that had the O’Neill / Adams run, plus others so you would get the whole story. They are not as large as those Zeniths though - they are American comic size. Still awesome to have in nice B&W.

I love the flask shaped Andy Capp book! Great haul!

Nice flip-through as always! I had missed "I, Dragon," "Lilly Wave," "Mythologies & Apocrypha," and "In the Garden of Earthly Delights" in my online review of the catalog. I was also shocked when I heard that Image is publishing Deadbone! I got hat Peeters and Schuiten Nemo book through the Kickstarter. It's mostly full page images with text, so it's a little different than the other books, but it's still amazingly beautiful like the others. Alaxis Press also published a really nice edition of Leaning Girl. I agree with you on Tim Lane, and I loved that first Mythologies comic. I also like Tommaso a lot - he has been publishing Black Phoenix for Patreon supporters and doing a variety of different genres and playing with format in that magazine.

A highlight each month. Glad I waited for the Tardi boxed set.

Thanks for the run down!

Cool channel. I ordered some zines from your big cartel. Looking forward to the book on NVS. I hope it will be available to order. Great discussion.