For the Love of Comics No, not yet. Making my way through randomly. Ive ordered a lot already. All the chaboute trilogy, Incal, clyde fans, and many more.
this is lovely - please never stop sharing your insights. As someone who is not a superhero fan, I am having a great time seeing your unique collection and I'm learning so much! Would you happen to have a libib? If that's available for you and of interest - personally, I'd love to see a list of your collection in written form to reference when looking for new reads - wonderful content, thank you!
Thank you so much for your kind words; it has meant a lot to me. And unfortunately, no, I don't have a text record anywhere as I find one platform too much to handle as it is! I do have an organization of playlists on the channel page that I hope has a curation-like effect if you're interested! Cheers!
Hats off!! This shelf and shelf no. 3 are the best and i even have added some comics to my amazon cart after seeing this video. Looking forward to shelf 8
Excellent choices! And Bryan Talbot has incredible range. If you like the books of his you try, then check out his collaborations with his wife Mary Talbot. And of course there’s his ‘guest’ work in Sandman 😀.
I would love to see a video about the Calvin and Hobbes set, remember reading them when I was a kid. Would love the see the paperback editions you showed. Great collection, really unique books. Thanks for the videos as always! Happy new year to you guys!
Thanks so much! I’ve been thinking about a Calvin and Hobbes video for a while and I do believe you have rekindled that ole fire within - look for it in the upcoming months of the new year! Happy new year!
Karson Phillips Thanks and yes, I’ve been thinking about a video on strips for a while now. I can’t decide if I want to spotlight one or do a list or an overview...I do want to make it interesting to watch so as soon as I figure out the best way, there’ll be a video. Contenders are Peanuts and Calvin and Hobbes, of course, but like Little Nemo, perhaps Krazy Kat, Gasoline Alley or other older strips could also be of interest? Then there’s the newer webcomics - a rabbit hole that’s limited, as always, by what I’ve read and own. Watch this space and all suggestions welcome!
Hello! I've been watching your series and enjoying it very much. I have yet to see "On A Sunbeam" yet in your collection and wondered if you have read it.
I do! I think I got it after this shelf video but in my later videos you can catch a glimpse of it behind me! 😁 I thought it was lovely and touching, and I'd love to make a Tillie Walden spotlight video one day.
whoa! excellent journey through your entire collection, man it was an awesome trip! there is a surprising number of books present here which are also in my wish-list! would love a peek inside 'the hip hop family tree' sets, which i'll grab for sure after i manage to somehow save 7k! and after watching this, i'm looking forward to get 'the tale of one bad rat' (because the artwork looks like miller's the dark knight returns, which i love) and 'king of the flies' (because the artwork resembles burns' x'ed out series, which again i love!) speaking of which, do get your hands on 'sugar skull', the final part of the burns' trilogy ASAP and get your mind blown! PS- that hand gesture during the flight 714 to 'sydney' made me smile :)
Hip Hop Family Tree is a truly monumental work in many ways, but most of all in how readable and fast moving it is, through dozens and dozens of years and a hundred characters! Talbot’s style isn’t immediately reminiscent of Frank Miller but you’re right - the colouring is quite similar; I’d never noticed it before! And yes, I’m probably getting Sugar Skull soon and I’ll do a complete re-read of the first two just before that. Who knows, maybe I’ll find a new love for it! 😀
holy crap! I didn't know Glenn Gould had a biography comic! I need that now (yes, I am Canadian)! I am probably the only one but I think Satania is better than Beautiful Darkness, because it is one of the few comics that is able to capture an HP Lovecraft type of claustrophobia in giant spaces. I have wanted to get Beauty and Miss Don't Touch Me for years but it's out of print and even libraries can't get it in (I've given up and have started to take french courses so I can read this kind of stuff eventually).
I love the Gelnn Gould comic and I think that's also a great observation you have about Satania. I obviously love Satania as well, and mention it and Beauty alongside Beautiful Darkness in my Top 10 Fantasy Comics video. I'm thinking of learning French myself, to read all these terrific editions that never see English translations! 😋 Speaking of Miss Don't Touch Me and Beauty, I only just heard about the death of Hubert earlier this year, in the comments of my Richard Sala eulogy video. How devastatingly sad!
@@ftloc damn it, I didn't know about his death. That saddens me deeply. There's been too many this year, Juan Gimenez (Metabarons) passed from Covid-19 earlier this year too.
I keep wanting to make a Tardi/Fantagraphics video and I keep saying 'one more book, the collection would look so much better if I just added that one book coming out this year to it...' and keep putting it off. Time to bite the bullet, you say?
I'd love to do one - I've been trying to work out the best way to feature them - as part of a Talbot overview, a standalone bit on the series, or as part of a particular Top Ten I have in mind!
I am indeed! I've preordered it - I've never read any Beserk but a friend of mine recommends it highly so when I saw a decent price for the preorder, I went for it. How about you?
@@ftloc I normally read it in the original Japanese, but it's going to be such a handsome set that I think I'll even buy it in English this time. Unfortunately nothing this nice has been released on the Japanese side, so we're in the strange situation where the best release of Berserk may not be in its native language. I will tell you that the story only truly gets going in what will be the second Deluxe release, so give it time if you find the opening kind of slow. It's truly an amazing epic and a triumph of the imagination.
That's great that you have the option between languages though - I am always limited to the English editions of things from Japan or Europe! Re: Beserk, I have definitely been intrigued and heard enough praise from people whose opinion I respect that I went straight for the deluxe instead of the paperbacks. Thanks for the tip - I've seen often that great epic stories need some time to 'clear their throat' and set the stage so I don't mind waiting a bit. I do balk when someone says 'It gets really good in Volume 9' or 'in Season 5 though! 😀
If you like European classics, the original Gil Jourdan by Maurice Tillieux and Spirou by Franquin are really good. Great video and lots of unknown comics and would love a best indie comics or indie comics for beguiners video.
Thanks for the recommendations - I feel very under read in some areas like manga and European comics, so it's wonderful to get specific suggestions. Have you caught my Top 10 Gateway Comics video? The vast majority of those would qualify as indie: I think?
Haha, you've caught one of my peculiar habits. Hasib and the Queen of Serpents is a shiny new book and the Tintin at Sea is a well-worn used book. On my cheap shelves, I tend to put more dilapidated books at the ends to take the friction against the shelf wall, basically thinking they can take the shelf wear and be none the worse and maybe the shiny books will stay shiny a little longer. Not necessarily logical, but now you know my deep dark superficiality-tinged secret! 😆
I did not know that there was a graphic novel about Glenn Gould. He was famous canadian pianist. I'm not a big classical music fan, but I love both of his versions of Bach's Goldberg Variations (the earlier recordings were all bout his fast virtuoso, and his later recording was an experiment in slowing down the tempo). I have never tried any Adrian Tomine, what would you recommend as a starting point? You got me intrigued about the Re[a]d Diary. I will look it up. Do you know there many, many dozens of books (at least in french) about Tintin that are in a similar vein as your volume of The Adventures of Tintin at Sea? They cover just bout many aspects as you can think of about Tintin. Cars in Tintin, Travels in Tintin, History in Tintin, etc. There was even a book just about all the colourful insults of Captain Haddock!
Rangersly the Gould biography is terrific! I don’t know anything about classical music at all, but it was a captivating and beautiful comic irrespective. And of course, the Goldberg variations play an important role in the narrative, the two you talk about serving as bookends of sorts. The first Adrian Tomine I read was Shortcomings, which falls squarely in the middle of all his works so far. If you appreciate that, you can move forward to Killing and Dying and Scenes from an Impending Marriage (the latter being a lighter and funnier work than most others) or backward to his Summer Blonde and other ‘Optic Nerve’ collections. I’m so jealous of French readers! There are so many editions like the Casterman facsimiles that are only available in French and how I hear about these companion books! Either they need to start translating or I need to start learning French.
I'd love to make a video on them - they're some of my favourite editions from Fantagraphics! I'm putting it on the 'video ideas' list and I'll work on how to best do it!
I really enjoyed it. I didn't love It the way I loved Bone, but there are very few things that compare to Bone, in my opinion. I liked that the art style was so recognizably Jeff Smith but also dark and noir enough for the story, and I liked the sci-fi stuff done in the way it was. I just got the colour edition to see if it changes drastically.
Unfortunately no, not that I have found. There are other Hugo Pratt hardcovers in English from IDW/Eurocomics (like the Man from the Great North that I show in one of my New Acquisitions videos) and apparently some other language editions of Corto Maltese are in hardcover (as I have been informed by friends of the channel in the comments sections here) but not hardcover in English. With my luck they'll announce HCs after I have collected all 12 in paperback! =P
@@ftloc Or, possibly, BECAUSE you have collected all 12 in paperback (and demonstrated, in whatever small way, a demand to the publisher). By the way, have you collected any of the Prince Valiant editions by Fantagraphics?
@@haywoco2 Haha, true, perhaps I can help in my small way. Re: Prince Valiant, no, I only have the one volume I picked up on sale but I have been sorely tempted by the slipcased box sets since I enjoyed the one I read. Decisions, decisions!
@@ftloc I ordered the first two sets so I'll let you know how they are when they arrive! I assume it's just the same hardcovers, but the slip case would be nice for storage and to prevent dust from accumulating on the pages.
haywoco2 yes they’re exactly the same editions, in fact the box set is coming much later than the individual books being published so it’s just a repackaging. Aimed at people like me who get extra tempted by things like that 😋 I’d love to know what you think of the first second volumes. and look forward to your review here!
New Delhi, India, how about you? I have a couple of different Q&A videos on my channel, if you're interested. Here's the first: th-cam.com/video/yzFFyMva3H4/w-d-xo.html Cheers!
Yes, I noticed that, good stuff! I just meant I could only get it at list price right now but I’m sure a discount will be applied sooner or later. I’ll just keep watching it like a hawk! 😀
Such an amazing eclectic collection. Thanks for sharing
Glad you enjoyed it! Have you gotten to check out all the shelf videos so far?
For the Love of Comics No, not yet. Making my way through randomly. Ive ordered a lot already. All the chaboute trilogy, Incal, clyde fans, and many more.
this is lovely - please never stop sharing your insights. As someone who is not a superhero fan, I am having a great time seeing your unique collection and I'm learning so much! Would you happen to have a libib? If that's available for you and of interest - personally, I'd love to see a list of your collection in written form to reference when looking for new reads - wonderful content, thank you!
Thank you so much for your kind words; it has meant a lot to me. And unfortunately, no, I don't have a text record anywhere as I find one platform too much to handle as it is! I do have an organization of playlists on the channel page that I hope has a curation-like effect if you're interested! Cheers!
Let's see how this goes! Premiere in about 90 minutes - hit the 'set reminder' button if needed! 😀
I like the experimentation 😯 looking forward to it
Thanks! Hope you enjoyed it!
Hats off!! This shelf and shelf no. 3 are the best and i even have added some comics to my amazon cart after seeing this video. Looking forward to shelf 8
Glad to know you enjoyed it! Which books did you add to your cart?
@@ftloc the grand ville series, glenn gould, the tale of one bad rat.Gonna get some bryan talbot!!
Excellent choices! And Bryan Talbot has incredible range. If you like the books of his you try, then check out his collaborations with his wife Mary Talbot. And of course there’s his ‘guest’ work in Sandman 😀.
I would love to see a video about the Calvin and Hobbes set, remember reading them when I was a kid. Would love the see the paperback editions you showed. Great collection, really unique books. Thanks for the videos as always! Happy new year to you guys!
Thanks so much! I’ve been thinking about a Calvin and Hobbes video for a while and I do believe you have rekindled that ole fire within - look for it in the upcoming months of the new year! Happy new year!
Been watching your collection videos and would love to see a close up on comic strips. Something I am looking at getting into.
Karson Phillips Thanks and yes, I’ve been thinking about a video on strips for a while now. I can’t decide if I want to spotlight one or do a list or an overview...I do want to make it interesting to watch so as soon as I figure out the best way, there’ll be a video. Contenders are Peanuts and Calvin and Hobbes, of course, but like Little Nemo, perhaps Krazy Kat, Gasoline Alley or other older strips could also be of interest? Then there’s the newer webcomics - a rabbit hole that’s limited, as always, by what I’ve read and own. Watch this space and all suggestions welcome!
Grass Kings was amazing it was a great journey to the fall the characters and it was heartbreaking
I completely agree - I enjoyed it a lot!
Hello! I've been watching your series and enjoying it very much. I have yet to see "On A Sunbeam" yet in your collection and wondered if you have read it.
I do! I think I got it after this shelf video but in my later videos you can catch a glimpse of it behind me! 😁 I thought it was lovely and touching, and I'd love to make a Tillie Walden spotlight video one day.
@@ftloc That would be wonderful -- I've added a lot of books to my list because of this series. Thanks for sharing!
Thank you; that's so great to hear! I hope you get a chance to check out more videos on this channel - there are all kinds! 😋
whoa! excellent journey through your entire collection, man it was an awesome trip!
there is a surprising number of books present here which are also in my wish-list!
would love a peek inside 'the hip hop family tree' sets, which i'll grab for sure after i manage to somehow save 7k!
and after watching this, i'm looking forward to get 'the tale of one bad rat' (because the artwork looks like miller's the dark knight returns, which i love) and 'king of the flies' (because the artwork resembles burns' x'ed out series, which again i love!)
speaking of which, do get your hands on 'sugar skull', the final part of the burns' trilogy ASAP and get your mind blown!
PS- that hand gesture during the flight 714 to 'sydney' made me smile :)
Hip Hop Family Tree is a truly monumental work in many ways, but most of all in how readable and fast moving it is, through dozens and dozens of years and a hundred characters!
Talbot’s style isn’t immediately reminiscent of Frank Miller but you’re right - the colouring is quite similar; I’d never noticed it before!
And yes, I’m probably getting Sugar Skull soon and I’ll do a complete re-read of the first two just before that. Who knows, maybe I’ll find a new love for it! 😀
holy crap! I didn't know Glenn Gould had a biography comic! I need that now (yes, I am Canadian)!
I am probably the only one but I think Satania is better than Beautiful Darkness, because it is one of the few comics that is able to capture an HP Lovecraft type of claustrophobia in giant spaces. I have wanted to get Beauty and Miss Don't Touch Me for years but it's out of print and even libraries can't get it in (I've given up and have started to take french courses so I can read this kind of stuff eventually).
I love the Gelnn Gould comic and I think that's also a great observation you have about Satania. I obviously love Satania as well, and mention it and Beauty alongside Beautiful Darkness in my Top 10 Fantasy Comics video. I'm thinking of learning French myself, to read all these terrific editions that never see English translations! 😋
Speaking of Miss Don't Touch Me and Beauty, I only just heard about the death of Hubert earlier this year, in the comments of my Richard Sala eulogy video. How devastatingly sad!
@@ftloc damn it, I didn't know about his death. That saddens me deeply. There's been too many this year, Juan Gimenez (Metabarons) passed from Covid-19 earlier this year too.
Would love to hear what you'd recommend in terms of a good place to start with the currently in print Tardi books. Thank you - keep up the great work!
I keep wanting to make a Tardi/Fantagraphics video and I keep saying 'one more book, the collection would look so much better if I just added that one book coming out this year to it...' and keep putting it off. Time to bite the bullet, you say?
For the Love of Comics most definitely!
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I would love to see a separate video on the 'GRANDVILLE' series
I'd love to do one - I've been trying to work out the best way to feature them - as part of a Talbot overview, a standalone bit on the series, or as part of a particular Top Ten I have in mind!
@@ftloc thanks for replying.
You're amazing! Are you planning to pick up the new Deluxe Edition of Berserk?
I am indeed! I've preordered it - I've never read any Beserk but a friend of mine recommends it highly so when I saw a decent price for the preorder, I went for it. How about you?
@@ftloc I normally read it in the original Japanese, but it's going to be such a handsome set that I think I'll even buy it in English this time. Unfortunately nothing this nice has been released on the Japanese side, so we're in the strange situation where the best release of Berserk may not be in its native language. I will tell you that the story only truly gets going in what will be the second Deluxe release, so give it time if you find the opening kind of slow. It's truly an amazing epic and a triumph of the imagination.
That's great that you have the option between languages though - I am always limited to the English editions of things from Japan or Europe!
Re: Beserk, I have definitely been intrigued and heard enough praise from people whose opinion I respect that I went straight for the deluxe instead of the paperbacks. Thanks for the tip - I've seen often that great epic stories need some time to 'clear their throat' and set the stage so I don't mind waiting a bit. I do balk when someone says 'It gets really good in Volume 9' or 'in Season 5 though! 😀
If you like European classics, the original Gil Jourdan by Maurice Tillieux and Spirou by Franquin are really good. Great video and lots of unknown comics and would love a best indie comics or indie comics for beguiners video.
Thanks for the recommendations - I feel very under read in some areas like manga and European comics, so it's wonderful to get specific suggestions.
Have you caught my Top 10 Gateway Comics video? The vast majority of those would qualify as indie: I think?
I specially like the tardi books my favourite, but you have not colleted the tardi with writer macheta books which have great story and artwork
Or maybe I have and they're just on another shelf! 😁
Keepin the Tintin at Sea book away from the rest of the Tintins.... :O Are you mad, sir? ;)
Haha, you've caught one of my peculiar habits. Hasib and the Queen of Serpents is a shiny new book and the Tintin at Sea is a well-worn used book. On my cheap shelves, I tend to put more dilapidated books at the ends to take the friction against the shelf wall, basically thinking they can take the shelf wear and be none the worse and maybe the shiny books will stay shiny a little longer. Not necessarily logical, but now you know my deep dark superficiality-tinged secret! 😆
@@ftloc I guessed there'd be a reason :D
I did not know that there was a graphic novel about Glenn Gould. He was famous canadian pianist. I'm not a big classical music fan, but I love both of his versions of Bach's Goldberg Variations (the earlier recordings were all bout his fast virtuoso, and his later recording was an experiment in slowing down the tempo). I have never tried any Adrian Tomine, what would you recommend as a starting point? You got me intrigued about the Re[a]d Diary. I will look it up. Do you know there many, many dozens of books (at least in french) about Tintin that are in a similar vein as your volume of The Adventures of Tintin at Sea? They cover just bout many aspects as you can think of about Tintin. Cars in Tintin, Travels in Tintin, History in Tintin, etc. There was even a book just about all the colourful insults of Captain Haddock!
Rangersly the Gould biography is terrific! I don’t know anything about classical music at all, but it was a captivating and beautiful comic irrespective. And of course, the Goldberg variations play an important role in the narrative, the two you talk about serving as bookends of sorts.
The first Adrian Tomine I read was Shortcomings, which falls squarely in the middle of all his works so far. If you appreciate that, you can move forward to Killing and Dying and Scenes from an Impending Marriage (the latter being a lighter and funnier work than most others) or backward to his Summer Blonde and other ‘Optic Nerve’ collections.
I’m so jealous of French readers! There are so many editions like the Casterman facsimiles that are only available in French and how I hear about these companion books! Either they need to start translating or I need to start learning French.
can we have a video analysis on the popeye volumes? :O they look so cool
I'd love to make a video on them - they're some of my favourite editions from Fantagraphics! I'm putting it on the 'video ideas' list and I'll work on how to best do it!
u have any manara comics
Only a copy of a book he did with Jodorowsky - The Borgias. Everything else seems very hard to find (at a reasonable price)
What's ur opinion on RASL?
I really enjoyed it. I didn't love It the way I loved Bone, but there are very few things that compare to Bone, in my opinion. I liked that the art style was so recognizably Jeff Smith but also dark and noir enough for the story, and I liked the sci-fi stuff done in the way it was. I just got the colour edition to see if it changes drastically.
There are no English hardcovers of Corto Maltese, are there?
Unfortunately no, not that I have found. There are other Hugo Pratt hardcovers in English from IDW/Eurocomics (like the Man from the Great North that I show in one of my New Acquisitions videos) and apparently some other language editions of Corto Maltese are in hardcover (as I have been informed by friends of the channel in the comments sections here) but not hardcover in English. With my luck they'll announce HCs after I have collected all 12 in paperback! =P
@@ftloc Or, possibly, BECAUSE you have collected all 12 in paperback (and demonstrated, in whatever small way, a demand to the publisher). By the way, have you collected any of the Prince Valiant editions by Fantagraphics?
@@haywoco2 Haha, true, perhaps I can help in my small way.
Re: Prince Valiant, no, I only have the one volume I picked up on sale but I have been sorely tempted by the slipcased box sets since I enjoyed the one I read. Decisions, decisions!
@@ftloc I ordered the first two sets so I'll let you know how they are when they arrive! I assume it's just the same hardcovers, but the slip case would be nice for storage and to prevent dust from accumulating on the pages.
haywoco2 yes they’re exactly the same editions, in fact the box set is coming much later than the individual books being published so it’s just a repackaging. Aimed at people like me who get extra tempted by things like that 😋
I’d love to know what you think of the first second volumes. and look forward to your review here!
Wow
Do you own any ACK or Tinkle or any other Indian comics?
I do indeed, mainly tattered copies from my distant childhood and some later ones in my wife's collection 😁
Sir it’s a request plz make a new video of tintin
I'm working on a small one, coming soon, hopefully!
Sir where are u from ?
New Delhi, India, how about you?
I have a couple of different Q&A videos on my channel, if you're interested. Here's the first: th-cam.com/video/yzFFyMva3H4/w-d-xo.html
Cheers!
Sir I am from Aligarh India
Yet we don't know the host name of this channel
Sha-booty
Oh, is that the correct pronunciation? I guess I've been reading that accent on the E wrong!
Or were you just singing in joy? 😀
@@ftloc It just made me chuckle. Really enjoying your videos. 😁
@@aaronwallace9942 Haha thanks! Long may that continue!
How about the third Shaolin Cowboy book: Start Trek? That one is the best.
Oh, that’s good to know! I saw it available but it hadn’t yet seen the price drop the first two had so I’m waiting it out a bit! 😋
+For the Love of Comics no, it has more pages: 200 instead of 130 or so.
Yes, I noticed that, good stuff! I just meant I could only get it at list price right now but I’m sure a discount will be applied sooner or later. I’ll just keep watching it like a hawk! 😀
You're such a cool hawk!
Hahahaha!