Cover your ears! Another episode of my quarterly-ish podcast on all things comic booky is up right here, and as always it's better listening than whatever you've got the itunes doing right now. Yes, the sharp-eyed among you may have noticed that this episode is hosted at a new url than my last ones, but that was cause they wanted me to pay a hundred dollars before I could record anymore at that address. You don't even want to know what percentage of my yearly income that is. So look for a new podomatic site every four episodes from here forward, I guess. Topics I discussed include:
* Yuichi Yokoyama's new (and impossible to find) book Baby Boom,
* The incredible new Daredevil series and the slightly lackluster new Batwoman series,
* Recent back issue finds, mainly the Ben Katchor edited Picture Story #2, which is the dopest anthology of all time,
* The process I use to draw my comics pages and my own "anxiety of influence" as a cartoonist,
* Russian models,
* Why I don't like/even read any Vertigo comics,
* The most underrated and overrated cartoonists,
* Comics as commodities versus comics as art,
* The moral failings of Grant Morrison's new book Supergods
...and like a million other things too. With topics of discourse contributed by Special Celebrities Tucker Stone, Sean Witzke, and Frank Santoro! Listen up!
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Matt's criticism of Grant Morrison continues! To recap (I'm summarizing from memory; to a certain extent the adjectives are interchangeable): His recent Batman comics were horrible, Joe The Barbarian was boring, Action Comics is crap and now Supergods is morally flawed.
I'm still still looking forward to the podcast, of course!
(If PodOmatic has fees based on file sizes of podcasts, you may want to look into cutting down the Deathcasts, so you could stay longer with one free account. 100MB could easily be 50MB or less with lower bitrates. Listeners who don't have unlimited broadband would be thankful, too, I think.)
You mention that there are better books on comics history written by actual comics historian. Can you recommend some?
on what topic?
The history of the American superhero. You said that Morrison was feeding us garbage from his garbage mouth, so what should we read instead?
Well, Morrison's book is the only one about the history of superheroes, since he cares about superheroes and the real historians tend to actually care about comics. That said, Gerard Jones' Men of Tomorrow, Blake Bell's Ditko biography, and Greg Sadowski's Krigstein book all give a much more accurate picture of the kind of problems with early mainstream comics that Morrison glosses over. Even Mark Evanier's Kirby book is more realistic, though you have to read in between the lines cause he doesn't go nearly hard enough. And last but not least, most of comics' best history-telling has been done orally, so track down as many feature-length Comics Journal interviews with crusty veterans of the Golden and Silver Ages as you possibly can.
Thanks, Matt!
Love the blog and the podcast.
Thanks man!
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