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Post by junkmonkey on Mar 7, 2021 12:31:00 GMT -5
I agree with everything you said here. Yes, they have a right to remove those books and the people acting like the Cat in the Hat and Green Eggs and Ham are being banned are ridiculous. But the decision to remove those books is misguided. Pretending they never happened doesn't solve anything. Eisner's Spirit books are still available despite the racist portrayal of the Ebony character. Keeping it out there forces us to talk about it and it's a discussion we need to have. It's not as if the books are being made illegal. It's not against the law to own, read, or sell any copies of these particular volumes you have in your possession. And I don't think they're 'pretending' that those books didn't happen. It's just that they have decided they don't want to sell them any more. That's their right. Just because they own a thing (or two) doesn't mean they HAVE to sell it.
And while I'm here, the missing space in the title of this thread:
"There I said it"on any subject in the world
is really starting to get on my tits.
There, I said it.
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Post by junkmonkey on Mar 3, 2021 12:00:13 GMT -5
so here's something I thought cute. The strip is a series of gags about silent movies so naturally the characters talk in intertitle cards: Spirou 2917 du 9 mars 1994
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Post by junkmonkey on Mar 1, 2021 8:19:58 GMT -5
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Post by junkmonkey on Feb 27, 2021 21:12:11 GMT -5
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Post by junkmonkey on Feb 26, 2021 15:58:09 GMT -5
I think for me it was back when Mike Myers was there, the Wayne's World days. I don't get Farrell's popularity, he's never made me laugh much. Farrell is okay in very, very small doses. I actually really liked him as the straight man in Stranger Than Fiction. That's a fun movie. With a totally crappy ending!
[spolier] {Spoiler: Click to show} Ferral's character should have died! That was the whole point of the film! [/spolier]
But generally yes. A small talent spread a very very log way. - according to the IMDb he is about to fuck up remake The 100 Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared. (If you haven't seen it I can recommend the original.)
I bet Brendon Fraser could have done it - but then I think Brendon Fraser is just gorgeous. (There I said it. Brendon Fraser is HOT!)
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Post by junkmonkey on Feb 24, 2021 8:46:03 GMT -5
I never saw Citizen Kane. Is it worth it ? Absolutely. It's one of the all-time best. Other suggestions to watch (or rewatch, as the case may be): Sunset Boulevard Chinatown Any Alfred Hitchcock The French Connection The Bridge on the River Kwai Dr. Strangelove Blazing Saddles or Young Frankenstein
Yep all of the above Citizen Kane is genius (but I'm a big Welles fan - I'd add The Magnificent Ambersons, Lady From Shanghai and Mister Arkadin to the list) but Blazing Saddles? Really? Have you watched it recently? I watched it a couple of years ago with my daughter - "It's great!" I told her, "Very funny." (I hadn't seen it since I saw it in the cinema when it first came out and we had both seen, and enjoyed immensely, Young Frankenstein a couple of weeks before). After the initial funny gag of the black labourers conning the white bosses into singing The Campdown Ladies we sat there in stony silence. Unfunny mugging, endless rape 'jokes', dated references that had me struggling to find context (and were incomprehensible to her) Gross homophobic caricatures. She gave up and left. I struggled through to the end but I doubt if I will ever want to revisit. It hasn't aged well at all.
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Post by junkmonkey on Feb 23, 2021 13:52:07 GMT -5
Since the RIP thread is still locked I'll have to express my sadness at the demise of Daft Punk here:
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Post by junkmonkey on Feb 23, 2021 13:39:28 GMT -5
I have no real desire to watch any of the Godfather films. The subject matter simply holds no appeal for me. You're not alone.
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Post by junkmonkey on Feb 20, 2021 21:02:48 GMT -5
The Lonestar repro is misleading IMO ... I have an old, now crumbling copy of this, bought from a street vendor, which I bought oh must be, what, 12 or so years ago--and the colors are not as even or smooth as the Lonestar image makes it seem. The brown is brown, not as dark and unvaried as shown in the LS image. The clothing and the mist are effective too on the published cover. The brushstrokes and "textures" are evident. But I agree that usually, something's really lost in the process and I usually admire the original painted versions I've seen (online) more than the finished product that appears on covers. That is probably due to the scan. I scan originals all of the time, at work, to reproduce them and the color will show tonal shifts, because the digital scanner can only interpret the color. Scanning from an original, at high resolution tends to produce something truer, but, there will still be shifts, due to digital coloring processes and formulas. Those original covers were printed on offset printers, in ink. For digital, you would need to adjust the color in Photoshop or Illustrator or similar software. There's also the monitor you look at it on to think about. I have a dual monitor display with two different types of monitor (one Dell, one HP) and no matter how hard I try I can't get them to display exactly the same. When I colour my comics in Photoshop I usually have the tools on the right hand display and the art on the left solely because the left hand monitor is turned portrait and the art fits better. Dragging the art over to the right hand monitor it always looks a lot paler, flatter, and washed out than on the left hand one.
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Post by junkmonkey on Feb 20, 2021 8:14:56 GMT -5
How are the other books in the Terres Creuses series? No idea but I intend on finding out. My budget is limited, my wife eagle-eyed, and the field of, as yet, unexplored BD vast. One day, when I've seen cheap enough copies on eBay, I'll let you know.
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Post by junkmonkey on Feb 19, 2021 20:03:40 GMT -5
Occasionally you come across a comic that just blows you away. Just happened to me. Nogegnon by Luc and François Schuiten. It's the third (and so far last) book in their Terres Creuses (Hollow Earths) series. The story is slight. A woman, Nellie, looking for her friend, Olivia, tracks her to the world of Nogegon which has a very low gravity and a society devoted to symmetry. Nellie steals the ID of a zealous investigator she encounters in a camp of nonconformist outsiders. Using his ID she finds that Olivia has committed suicide after living with a sculptor. She visits the sculptor and destroys his statues of Nellie. Then, in return for the truth about what happened, poses for the sculptor, becomes his lover, discovers that Olivia is not dead but moved on to another world. She encounters another investigator probing the accidental death of the investigator Nellie encountered at the start of the book. Together they return to the nonconformist encampment and Nellie leaves as the investigator realises the rules of symmetry are foolish. The art in the book is detailed and has a dreamlike quality - the low gravity of the world means people drift airily - I was reminded more than once of the way a lot of Moebius' charactersoften don't quite touch the ground in things like The Incal and The Hermtic Garage. What makes the book bloody brilliant though is the structure. The book is in chapters. Chapter 1, Chapter 2, Chapters 3 and 3, Chapter 2, Chapter 1. Halfway through 'Chapter 3 and 3' the page numbering starts reversing, counting down from 36 to zero and every page is then an inverted mirror of the corresponding, earlier, numbered page. BARE NAKED LADY ALERT!
{Spoiler}{Spoiler: Click to show} Not just the layout of the page but the contents of each panel too. Pages 36 and 36', the centre of the book (above) are when you first see this: And it carries on right through to the end of the book panel for panel reversing the motivations and attitudes of all that has come before... and then past the story... because the end papers are inverted as are the covers. Tricksy and arty maybe, but bloody impressive, and gorgeous to look at.
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Post by junkmonkey on Feb 17, 2021 9:59:12 GMT -5
Spanish does open up the world of Latin American comics, which is quite rich, even with just the Argentines. and the Philippines.
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Post by junkmonkey on Feb 13, 2021 8:57:08 GMT -5
IT really sucks that we don't get translated French comics much in the US.. maybe they need to make a few cartoons, we can start the next fad! We don't get that many in Britain either (despite the gallant efforts of www.cinebook.co.uk/ ) which is why I decided to learn French.
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Post by junkmonkey on Feb 12, 2021 19:04:28 GMT -5
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Post by junkmonkey on Feb 8, 2021 12:40:23 GMT -5
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