Cover your ears, folks -- I made another one! In a slightly shorter episode of the Internet's Only Podcast About Comic Books than usual (still well over two hours), I rapped about:
-Frank Miller,
-the new Yuichi Yokoyama book Garden,
-Michael DeForge and Ryan Sands' porn anthology Thickness,
-how sex comics are my favorite genre in the medium,
-the best cartoonists working in black and white,
-the "DC Reboot" and why it's a terrible idea
-what creators I'd like to see working on the new DC books (some unconventional answers here),
-Blaise Larmee's webcomic 2001,
-what ongoing series I'd buy if I could only buy 3 of them (I could only think of one),
-Dave McKean and how I think his incredibly '90s Sandman cover art is prime material for a semi-ironic retro revival,
-my favorite comic, Valentina Reflection by Guido Crepax,
-and why comics is such a misogynistic place and what we can do about it.
Of course about a million other topics get brought up and considered in the course of all this. Go listen and see what you think, it's me blabbing about comics and that's what you came to this site for anyway, right? Right!
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Heartthrobs by Max Cabanes is a great comic about sex and identity with beautiful art. I recommend buying it if you can find a copy.
Thanks for the recommendation! I'll check it out.
http://www.secteur7.net/bruce/wp-content/uploads/2009/08/Colin-Maillard-de-Cabanes.jpeg
Here's a page from the book. I couldn't find a scan of the English translation for some reason.
Loved this podcast. I don't entirely agree with you on the whole DC reboot. While I doubt it'll be a huge of a success as they're thinking, I believe the "fanboys" will still lap up the collectable #1 issues and get on the new series.
Also, I totally agree with everything you had to say about Chester Brown's "Paying For It" You should do a longer column or blog post on the fanboy/misogny mentality in comics. Not enough people talk about it and I thought you had pretty interesting things to say about it.
Now I need to go check out Valentina :)
Glad you liked it! I might have overstated my feelings of negativity on the DC thing -- I do think sales will spike with all the #1's, but then fall to what we've got now within 6 months on most titles, and within a year will see a lot of dropoff from the collector/superfans because they won't be invested in the same way.
Tucker Stone has written more and more articulately on the fanboy mentality and even, lifestyle, than I could ever hope to -- my ideas about these things have mostly developed in conversation with him. If you haven't checked out his writing you should. That subtext is never too far away in it.
There's a bunch of photography stuff in the new McKean - juxtaposed with the drawing in a bunch of places, on the same page at times, sometimes on facing pages. I think at least one panel has a photo face plastered onto a drawn body. It's... uh, I thought it was pretty awful, actually, but I'd be really interested in hearing your reactions...
I was excited to listen to listen to this... and then the "Paying For It" bullshit cropped up again.
You desperately need to re-examine whatever issues you're having with that book and the general critical reaction to it. The more you expound upon it, the harder and harder it gets to take your POV seriously, and by extension your POV on comics in general.
No one, absolutely NO ONE of any prominence has made any comments that come anywhere close to to fitting the the description you give in this podcast.
I dunno: I haven't read one decent critic giving an articulate defense of it, either, Mr Anonymous.
why should you ever have taken my pov on comics seriously
For a good part of this podcast, Matt's youthful opinionatedness made me almost angry. Somehow he managed to turn things around with his plea for -- despite all its travails -- romantic love. I felt inspired at the end of Deathcast 3 but boy, listening to Matt is not without its frustrations, especially when you don't agree with him (ha!). Re those digs at Grant Morrison, for example (lately Matt always gives us some jaded remarks about Morrison): Although his relationship with the more conservative parts of fandom is volatile, Morrison has stressed countless times that he knows how it feels to be a socially isolated comics read. My impression is that Morrison willed himself into playing certain roles (the "rock star") but is basically still a shy person, so how could it be otherwise?
Aw, I'm just mad at Morrison cause I wanted to grow up to be him when I was fourteen and now he isn't as kool as he once was. Remember when your favorite underground band signed a major-label contract and started opening for Radiohead? Morrison settling down to write Batman stories for the rest of his life is like that for me.
i don't know why my request/demand that you talk about 2001 was so vague and brief (and it wasn't even a question! what a jerk, me.) thanks for taking the time to talk about it.
i only wrote about 2001 for like, a minute (post goes up soon, waiting for king BL's okay). he put together a mix for me to post, and i wrote more about him than anything he's actually done.
your response was great though, and i shouldn't have listened to the podcast before writing my post. that comic is sooooooo fluid though! and if you're reading it full screen on a slow computer and just keep scrolling down to allow the computer to catch up, it IS animation.
First episode listened enjoyed it greatly. Your tease of possible guest stars made it even better since I find for the most part podcasts improve when you have someone to bounce ideas off of.
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