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Post by antoine on Aug 27, 2023 15:07:34 GMT -5
The equivalent of 42 books for me in July. A bit late as I was on vacation.
Nothing was amazing, the best book I read being The Private Eye by Brian K Vaughn.
I also read some Moomin for the first time and I quite enjoyed it.
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Post by antoine on Jul 26, 2023 14:51:04 GMT -5
I've decided to start a little project where I take a look at the winners and nominees for each year of the Eisner Awards and see if I can discover any forgotten or overlooked books, as well as getting a snapshot of the state of the industry and some insight into what comic book professionals thought of their peers' work. I should have probably started with the Kirbys, but I was already knee deep into 1987 comic books when the idea dawned on me. This isn't meant to be a review thread. Just me reading comics and sharing some random thoughts about the Eisners. Very interesting thread! Just discovered it and will read along. Every year I try and read as much as I can of the Angoulème's winners and every year I discover great books I had never heard of before.
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Post by antoine on Jul 3, 2023 18:17:38 GMT -5
84 books for me, but that's including the huge D&Q 800 pages book
Highlights :
Corps Vivante (Julie Delporte) Pow Pow Drawn & Quarterly: Twenty-five Years of Contemporary Cartooning, Comics, and Graphic Novels Drawn and Quarterly Conventum (Pascal Girard) La Pastèque
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Post by antoine on Jun 5, 2023 8:37:12 GMT -5
Slow month for me as I spent 12 days in Turkey, read the book on Dungeons and Dragons art and continue reading the massive D&Q books. The equivalent of 38 comics
The best one was Géants aux Pieds d'Argile. It talks about the struggle of a stay at home father. I was a SAH dad for a few years with three young daughters and this book really resonated with me.
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Post by antoine on May 15, 2023 7:53:36 GMT -5
81 comics in april. Thought it would be a small month since I'm reading the massive 800 pages book on Drawn and Quarterly, but 80 books is standard for me. Highlights : L'Arabe du Future 6 Une Jeunesse au Moyen Orient (1994-2011) (Last issue of the series, it's available in English (The Arab of the future), people should check out this excellent series about a young Syrian man with a french mother growing up between the 2 cultures.) Jardin des Complexes (Jimmy Beaulieu) Jardin des Complexes Mélange Festif (Iris & Cathon) Strips d'amitié 2019-2022 The worst book was Spider-Punk. I rarely read modern super-heroes comics anymore and this mini-series reminded me why. Nothing really happened, the are was often confusing, no story really. Terrible. Although they DID have a little nod to one of my favourite "punk" singer, Jeff Rosenstock. Leaving for Turkey for 10-12 days, so May will be a small reading month for sure!
Iris & Cathon and Jimmy Beaulieu are all new to me - and all three are Quebec BD creators, I see, after looking them up. That's an area I know little about in terms of comics. I like the look of Beaulieu's artwork so I'll probably look for something of his soon. I have to do a little more looking around for Iris and Cathon, but their work looks interesting too, separately or together.
My April was a bit disappointing in terms of the amount of post-2000 things I managed to read: only one issue of Love and Rockets, the first book of Pierre Christin and Annie Goetzinger's 1950s detective series Agence Hardy, and around half of Goetzinger's own Jeune Fille en Dior. Ill try to do better this month and start one of the bigger newish books I have, Kate Beaton's Ducks, or BWS's Monster.
I'm originally from Québec so I try to read most of the stuff coming from there. You can check out Pow Pow, Mécanique Générale and La Pastèque, they are the main publisher. Not sure about english version thought, but I know Pow Pow have some. powpowpress.com/shop/product-category/comics/They are more like D&Q and Top Shelf than Marvel and DC. Some Québec artist were just translated by Top Shelf recently : Cab (Utown) and Axelle Lenoir (Secret Passages and Camp Spirit)
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Post by antoine on May 2, 2023 14:42:47 GMT -5
81 comics in april. Thought it would be a small month since I'm reading the massive 800 pages book on Drawn and Quarterly, but 80 books is standard for me.
Highlights :
L'Arabe du Future 6 Une Jeunesse au Moyen Orient (1994-2011) (Last issue of the series, it's available in English (The Arab of the future), people should check out this excellent series about a young Syrian man with a french mother growing up between the 2 cultures.) Jardin des Complexes (Jimmy Beaulieu) Jardin des Complexes Mélange Festif (Iris & Cathon) Strips d'amitié 2019-2022
The worst book was Spider-Punk. I rarely read modern super-heroes comics anymore and this mini-series reminded me why. Nothing really happened, the are was often confusing, no story really. Terrible. Although they DID have a little nod to one of my favourite "punk" singer, Jeff Rosenstock.
Leaving for Turkey for 10-12 days, so May will be a small reading month for sure!
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Post by antoine on Apr 23, 2023 8:53:53 GMT -5
What material is reprinted in these HCs? I don't have any of them on my shelf yet.
I took a picture of the Don Rosa volume table of contents below so you can see the stories/issues included. The second volume is actually a modern original story that's an homage to the Carl Barks era (they had previously done a Mickey volume in this style as well). While you aren't really going to mistake this for an actual Carl Barks work, it's lovingly done and I like it very much for what it is. There's actually over 15 comics in that series (Donald and Mickey), and all the ones I've read so far have been great! They are done by French cartoonist so I'm not sure how many have been translated yet.
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Post by antoine on Apr 4, 2023 13:19:09 GMT -5
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Post by antoine on Apr 4, 2023 12:51:59 GMT -5
I read the equivalent of 73 comics in march. Not much but I also read a book on the history of Dungeons and Dragons and started the massive book on the history of Drawn & Quarterly. The best comics I read were The Armed Garden and other Stories (David B.) Fantagraphics Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands (Kate Beaton) Drawn & Quarterly Les Cités Obscures 1 Casterman Les Cités Obscures 2 Casterman I discovered Les Cités Obscures from the European comics thread and LOVED them. Great art. Which history of D&D book? -M It's called "Slaying the Dragon". Haven't played in maybe 25 years but recently got a bunch of early 80s D&D books and it made me want to read about D&D.
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Post by antoine on Apr 3, 2023 17:09:23 GMT -5
I read the equivalent of 73 comics in march. Not much but I also read a book on the history of Dungeons and Dragons and started the massive book on the history of Drawn & Quarterly.
The best comics I read were
The Armed Garden and other Stories (David B.) Fantagraphics Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands (Kate Beaton) Drawn & Quarterly Les Cités Obscures 1 Casterman Les Cités Obscures 2 Casterman
I discovered Les Cités Obscures from the European comics thread and LOVED them. Great art.
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Post by antoine on Mar 15, 2023 20:41:37 GMT -5
I've never heard of that. Is Volume #2 the only one worth reading or the whole series? You got me curious and I reserved this one from the library but wondering if I need to read the rest of the series or can enjoy this one as a standalone. Every Schuiten/Peeters book is stand alone. But every one is more than worth reading. (There is occasional reference to other stories) Just finish reading La fièvre d'Urbicande 5 minutes ago, what an amazing book. I got the Casterman edition , art looked REALLY good. Can't believe I had never heard of that before. I also read volume #1 (Les Murailles de Samaris) and also loved it. Will read the rest of the series in the neat future. Really happy you suggested this!
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Post by antoine on Mar 10, 2023 16:03:56 GMT -5
That's definitely the same one! The upcoming 2nd series has that same cover: Glad it was translated! Really good book. (Castle is Château in French)
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Post by antoine on Mar 8, 2023 11:27:08 GMT -5
wait..there's a DIFFERENT Animial Farm riff out there? interesting... I mean,unless its the same one and Ablaze is listing the translator as the writing or something... This one is recent and still ongoing (Volume 3 is out in Europe but not here yet. It usually takes a few months). I think it's planned in 4 volume www.bedetheque.com/serie-60691-BD-Chateau-des-Animaux.html
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Post by antoine on Mar 3, 2023 19:43:55 GMT -5
I have the original French edition I've never heard of that. Is Volume #2 the only one worth reading or the whole series? You got me curious and I reserved this one from the library but wondering if I need to read the rest of the series or can enjoy this one as a standalone.
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Post by antoine on Mar 3, 2023 19:29:02 GMT -5
I read the equivalent of 78 comics in February. Way less than January but my hockey team is doing great and the MLS is finally back so I've been watching a bit of sports! Just took a massive 7-800 pages book on the history of Drawn & Quarterly from the Library so not sure how many comics I'll read in March!
Best comics of February were
Hasib & the Queen of Serpents (Davib B.) NMB Le Château des Animaux 1 Casterman Le Château des Animaux 2 Casterman
Everything by David B. (that I've read) has been exceptional! This one was the best. Le Château des animaux is loosely based on Orson Well's Animal Farm, highly recommended.
I've been disappointed by Tom Gauld's collection of newspaper/magazine comics. I love Mooncop and his David and Goliath story but his one-page gags really don't do it for me. They are mostly about literature and science, so maybe I'm not bright enough to understand all of them, but that's really not for me (still managed to read 3 full collection. When I borrow a book from the library I have a hard time not reading it all).
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