PREVIEW: Walt Disney’s Donald Duck: Lost in the Andes
This month's release of the first volume of Fantagraphics' Carl Barks reprints is call for rejoicing. There have been many reprint projects centered on Barks' work, but they must have been designed by the three bears: one was too expensive, one was too cheap, one had garish color, and so on. This new effort -- reprinted in handsome hardcovers with simple coloring by Rich Tommaso that recalls the original limited coloring without a lot of fanfare. I think a lot is going to be said as more of Barks' work becomes available in a world where the bodies of work of the great cartoonists are becoming increasingly available -- it is the golden age of the comics reprint, after all. For now, this conversation between James Romberger and Gary Groth will serve as a good introduction. Fantagraphics has a 17-page pdf preview available on their site. In the meantime, here's a seven-page preview of that preview. And these may be the seven of the greatest comics pages ever. Enjoy.
Continue ReadingNice art AND To Do 12/1: Kilian Eng art at Floating World
Swedish digital artist Kilian Eng is one of the hottest things going in illustration, and he's getting his first monograph from Floating World Comics -- and they'll be holding an opening to celebrate on December 1st at FLoating World. Alas the artist will not be on hand. The book will be available at the Brooklyn Comics and Graphics Festival on December 3.
Continue ReadingMust read: How to Beat The Haters by Rob Liefeld
Not too long ago, Rob Liefeld hada long blog post about how to deal with the ups and downs of the business. When you think about it, he's the perfect person to write that piece -- his ups have been high and his downs have been low. And despite his very name being one of those push-butten codewords for bad art among many comics observers, Liefeld hasn't let that stop him. He does more public appearances than ever and every time we see him, he appears to be having a good time. Say what you will about his art, in that way Liefeld has exhibited a professionalism that a lot of people could learn from. And one of the message of his piece is that you just can't listen to the haters:
Continue ReadingVideo alert: Derek Kirk Kim’s MYTHOMANIA finishes Season One
As we've previously mentioned, Derek Kirk Kim is a real hyphenate. Note only is his webcomic TUNE going strong towards a Fall 2012 collection, but he's just finished posting to YouTube 9 episodes of MYTHOMANIA, a parallel video series following cartoonist Andy Go and his millennial adventures.And now it has a poster!
Continue ReadingNice art: Brian Bolland’s Judge Dredd covers
Among the many excellent pieces of art up at his blog.
Continue ReadingNice art: Defenders splash pages
These Defenders don't mess around. Also, call me nuts, but on the off-chance that this just happened to be the first comics book I ever picked up, I'd rather just read a big old caption explaining who these groovy characters are than read dialog like, "Namor will not let your gamma-radiation based mutation take over, Banner!" Although considering that this is a '70s comic, they probably ALSO said something like that inside even though there was a caption.
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Must read: How to stay in the biz, by Chris Eliopoulos
Recently, letterer/artist Chris Eliopoulos posted some guidelines for how to stay in the business once you've broken in. There are a few comics-specific details, but mostly, this is how you stay in any field. A sampling:
Continue ReadingNice art: Joe Infurnari’s REED-iculous Richards
In his spare time, the MUSH artist likes to doodle in a series called REED-iculous RICHARDS.
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Top Shelf launches app
Top Shelf has just announced a team-up with comiXology that includes their own iOS app, and a separate app for the Kids Club line. Books from LEAGUE OF EXTRAORDINARY GENTLEMEN to OWLY will be available across various platforms. Interestingly, Top Shelf is the first "alt.comix" type publisher to go whole hog with digital. D&Q and Fantagraphics and most of the smaller indies have remained remained aloof to the ecomics world. Although most art comics are best suited to the paper medium -- and are, indeed the very type of objects that will keep print books alive for quite some time -- a lot of indie cartoonists read just fine on the screen — we've found some of the "panel grid layout" types even look great on an iPhone. It seems like only a matter of time before everyone has their own app and storefront...but how long?
Continue ReadingBoom teases Grant Morrison on the Avengers — UPDATE
Not that Avengers. The ones with John Steed and Mrs. Peel. You know, Diana Rigg. The image suggests a six-issue miniseries beginning in January based on the '60s TV show The Avengers, whch featured an urbane pair of British spies. The show was a huge influence on Morrison, so it's not hard to see why he'd want to write a miniseries based on the property.
Continue ReadingFrank Miller unloads on Occupy Wall Street
In case you were not on Twitter orFacebook in comics circles this weekend, Frank Miller, evidently tired of being asked when Sin City 2 would go into productions, decided to set up a diversion by airing his feelings on the Occupy Wall Street movement in a calm, reasoned editorial that did not contain ad hominem attacks:
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