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Post by bran on May 19, 2017 14:51:28 GMT -5
During a Roy Thomas Conan saga on several occasions Buscema's pencil-work was inked by "The Tribe". "The Tribe" knocked it out the park, every single time. Here is a memorable scene from A Witch Shall Be Born: According to GCD, the Tribe comprised Tony deZuniga, Steve Gan, Rudy Mesina and the previously unknown to me Freddie Fernandez, with grey tones by Pete Lijauco. De Zuniga and Gan are great artists in their own right. What a team that was. some De Zuniga graphite:
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Post by bran on May 18, 2017 1:44:20 GMT -5
During a Roy Thomas Conan saga on several occasions Buscema's pencil-work was inked by "The Tribe". "The Tribe" knocked it out the park, every single time. Here is a memorable scene from A Witch Shall Be Born: by Mitra indeed! Notice exceptionally well done dialogs, and by the quantity as well - not too much not too little, just the right amount. We have the perspectives of Conan, the chieftain, even chieftain's second in command without any fat exposition and what not (George Miller level).
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Post by bran on May 15, 2017 18:44:56 GMT -5
here, this guy tried to make some sense out of it: www.spideykicksbutt.com/SpiderMan101/SpiderMan101Part2.htmlit's a combination of: - attempts for creation of thematically-oriented titles - sales gimmicks - attempts for creation of titles dedicated to particular authors - alternate/rebooted timeline titles and few other things for sure, but basically it's a mess it's really more relevant who wrote it, rather than the book-title. AFAIK post Lee/Ditko/Romita Spider-man is just a different character(or a cardboard, sometimes for better sadly), that's where I draw the line but hey - check it out for yourself it's the endless sea..
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Post by bran on May 14, 2017 11:12:02 GMT -5
Akira V for Vendetta Scorpions of the Desert + any Corto Torpedo Mouse Love & Rockets + Halo Jones
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Post by bran on May 14, 2017 9:31:05 GMT -5
Buscema/Buscema - excellent Alcala/Alcala - excellent Buscema/Alcala - sick
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Post by bran on Apr 28, 2017 7:52:36 GMT -5
The Gray Morrow-drawn origin of Man-Thing from Savage Tales #1 was reprinted in Essential Man-Thing #1. Ooh I forgot about that one, it was also reprinted in Infernal Man-Thing #3 from 2012 as a back up. The 3 issue mini presented Gerber's final Man-Thing story which had never been published, drawn by Kevin Nowlan. -M It's also in Man-Thing by Steve Gerber - The Complete Collection Vol. 1.
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Post by bran on Apr 23, 2017 18:13:37 GMT -5
When editors/publishers hire a working-man writer to write a story in the style of [whoever made a smash-hit] last month. Sometimes it spawns a series, like a product-line. When you read it you can see they are trying to emulate their target author's style, but the more they try the worse it gets somehow...
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Post by bran on Apr 23, 2017 14:25:24 GMT -5
Another I like whose work appears in European comics, specifically Metabarons form Humanoids, is Juan Gimenez even though he is Argentine. Gimenez may be from Argentine but his work is out of this World..
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Post by bran on Apr 21, 2017 13:37:19 GMT -5
How could I forget this, enter one and only - Kelly Green: Now she is not exactly a cup (or a criminal), she acts as a "go in between". Not only by her trade, but story-wise and esthetically KG does not follow some of the already established forms in books or cinema. It's a comic book story all trough and trough, books and cinema can only do a copycat job (and so they did).
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Post by bran on Apr 20, 2017 12:14:34 GMT -5
If you are into ongoing Walking Dead series (or Mad Max movies) do check JeremiahWOW! I thought I knew quite a bit about Franco Belge BD (I own around a thousand, I've read a few thousands), but I always thought Jeremiah was a western in the vein of Blueberry and Buddy Longway. I have NO idea why I never checked it out. Thanks for this great post Bran, I will definitely be on the hunt for these books! You bet. It's a lot like western, in a sense there is no law and they are retrofitting old technology, using horses, steam etc. Both Kirkman and Hermann, wisely, are ambiguous what exactly happened (just a bit of exposition here and there, personally I prefer Kirkman's version), but it's not about that - it's what happens after. [In Jeremiah there actually is a Federal Police, but they are struggling, tremendously.]
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Post by bran on Apr 17, 2017 6:25:12 GMT -5
Enter - Misterix There was one particular title (from b/w/g era) that was completely out-there, but beloved nevertheless (and would you believe it - an old man who is no less but antique dealer) - Mort Cinder. Fortunately rescued and reconstructed fully by some Spanish publisher few years back.
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Post by bran on Apr 16, 2017 20:17:05 GMT -5
Swamp Thing TPB vol. 2 (Alan Moore starts!) DH Conan from the start (if it sucks some missed Roy Thomas classics from SSC era) more of SW KOTOR (JJ Miller)
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Post by bran on Apr 16, 2017 18:51:14 GMT -5
When it comes to Jodo's work, if I were "bandes dessignees" editor - I would commission the man himself to inspect/correct a solid Spanish translation (he was born in Chile I think). Perhaps perfect Spanish-English translator easier to find.
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Post by bran on Apr 16, 2017 17:44:01 GMT -5
Here is one author you never heard of - Matthias Schultheiss: Went well ahead of his time. Bells Theorem was published by catalan communications in the US. Heard of way back. His Propeller Man was published by Dark Horse, in the 90s. Terrific book. Took quite a while to get my hands on Bell's Theorem. Unfortunately, not much of his work was translated over here, in the US. I've seen a panel of Trucker, in the revised edition of Maurice Horn's World Encyclopedia of Comics. One series I have been longing to see translated into English if Francois Bourgeon's Passengers of the Winds, ever since I saw images of it in the documentary series History of the Comics, the 9th Art. It just looked amazing. Others would be the Tangy et Laverdure series, Barbe Rouge, and the earlier Buck Danny (Cinebook has published a handful of the much later ones. I have a few pdfs of them, in French, that I found online; but, would love to be able to read the story in English, without having to constantly consult a dictionary or google words. Sadly even when translated, translation is often flat, as if translated by people who never actually spoke the language in real life. Passengers of the Winds is a real page-turner. Burgeon wrote the sequel (collected in Girl Bois-Caiman), we meet Izzy (Isabeau) right after the US Civil War, now in her 90s, and she basically tells her life-story to her cousin (whom we follow prior to that point). It's quite good, 1st class, but it's sad as hell (and condensed). Her original adventures (collected in vol 1) are just radiant and unpredictable - it's like a nexus of personal dramas, life at sea, slave trade, politics and customs of the 18th century, exotic landscapes, female perspective on things, coming of age, and other ingredients. At the end of the original adventures (vol 1, which we follow "in real-time"; not as flashback or 3rd person POW), the very last page is in IMO the very best closing in comics of all times, when she says to her friend "What do you say?.. Rain?.. You think I'll get wet?..." and than they both laugh. Took me awhile to figure out - she was contemplating the suicide. [low res and b/w, but you get a picture]
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Post by bran on Apr 16, 2017 4:34:05 GMT -5
Here is one author you never heard of - Matthias Schultheiss: Went well ahead of his time. Bells Theorem was published by catalan communications in the US.
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