Friday, October 18, 2024

White Noiz – This Week’s Links

October 18, 2024 Philippines , Pinoy 0 Comments

A hectic week getting used to a new commute, which means much of this week’s links, below, were read while being ferried through London’s underground system, and thinking about the absolutely deranged (incorrect) directions to Greenwich that someone on the tube gives to the eponymous god of thunder in Thor: The Dark World, which I saw at a cinema in Greenwich, where everybody spontaneously boo’d the screen at that point.

This week’s news.

• We head into the end of this year’s comics awards season with the announcement of the 2024 inductees to the Harvey Awards Hall of Fame, which include Arthur Adams, Sergio Aragonés, John Buscema, Larry Hama, and Akira Toriyama - this year’s full list of Harvey Awards winners will be announced later today at New York Comic Con.

• Koyama Provides announced the latest recipients of their grant funding program, with awards of $1,500 given to The Wolf Suit creator Sid Sharp and I Never Promised You A Rose Garden creator Mannie Murphy.

This week’s reviews.

TCJ

• Leonard Pierce reviews the surprising turns of Özge Samancı’s Evil Eyes Sea - “Evil Eyes Sea is a curious beast, all about politics and political corruption but – likely intentionally – lacking a specific political viewpoint. Erdoğan is still a shadow, and his onetime ally turned mortal enemy, Muhammed Fethullah Gülen, is barely present, the flickering light of a future not yet fully seen.”

• Quinn Milton reviews the sensual experience of Margot Ferrick’s Star of Swan - “Star of Swan has an excruciating tension between adulthood and childhood. There is an ambiguity to Leona’s past that allows us to read in the worst that we can imagine. Hiding in a closet surrounded by debris. Hungry adults crowding around a nest of eggs.”

 

AIPT

• Collier Jennings reviews the engaging start of Ryan Parrott, Eleonora Carlini, et al’s Vicarious #1.

• Christopher Franey reviews the entertaining update of Mark Waid, Chris Samnee, et al’s Batman & Robin: Year One #1.

• David Brooke reviews the practical joys of Alan Moore, Steve Moore, et al’s The Moon and Serpent Bumper Book of Magic.

 

The Beat

• Khalid Johnson reviews the striking visuals of Joanne Starer, Khary Randolph, et al’s Sirens of the City.

• Jared Bird reviews the timely horror of Hannah Rose May, Vanesa Del Rey, et al’s The Exorcism at 1600 Penn #1.

• Jordan Jennings reviews the dense exposition of Ryan Parrott, Eleonora Carlini, et al’s Vicarious #1.

• Clyde Hall reviews the wicked twists of Kyle Starks, Piotr Kowalski, et al’s Where Monsters Lie: Cull-De-Sac #1.

• Zack Quaintance reviews the compelling mystery of Patrick Horvath’s Beneath the Trees Where Nobody Sees.

• Avery Kaplan reviews the fantastic references of Ryan North, Chris Fenoglio, et al’s Star Trek: Lower Decks: Warp Your Own Way.

• Merve Giray reviews the packed plotting of Kasai Fujii’s When the Villainess Seduces the Main Heroine, translated by KiKi Piatkowska.

• Adam Wescott reviews the murderous charms of YOON and GUM’s A Bona Fide Killer, translated by U6IMFINE.

• Masha Zhdanova reviews the confusing worldbuilding of Mogin, MUNCHICKEN, KYONA, et al’s adaptation of Minhee Jeon’s Children of the Rune.

 

Broken Frontier

Lydia Turner has reviews of:

• The nostalgic romping of C.R. Chua’s Goodbye Apple Island.

• The deadpan humour of C A Strike’s Customer Service Eternity.

• The beautiful melancholy of Hana Chatani’s Coppélia et Swanilda.

• The intricate details of Pepe Reyes’ Aquatic Lives.

• The sweet ethos of Boya Sun's Story About a Duck.

 

Four Color Apocalypse

Ryan Carey reviews the period details of Guy Colwell’s Delights: A Story of Hieronymus Bosch.

 

House to Astonish

Paul O’Brien has capsule reviews of Marvel Comics’ X-Men: From the Ashes Infinity Comic #13, Exceptional X-Men #2, X-Force #4, Phoenix #4, Venom War: Wolverine #2, and Sentinels #1.

 

International Examiner

Emma Sum reviews the subversive charms of Rumi Hara’s The Peanutbutter Sisters and Other American Stories.

 

Solrad

Tom Shapira reviews the bizarre wonders of Fantagraphics’ The Upside-Down World of Gustave Verbeek: The Complete Sunday Comics 1903-1905, edited by Peter Maresca.

 

Women Write About Comics

Louis Skye reviews the updated perspectives of David F. Walker and Marcus Kwame Anderson’s Big Jim and the White Boy; and the interesting questions of Murewa Ayodele, Lucas Werneck, et al’s Storm #1.

This week’s interviews.

TCJ

• Jake Zawlacki interviews Jay Fosgitt about Bodie Troll, childhood comics-making, San Diego Comic Con trips, and encounters with My Little Pony fandom - “I like doing a board book compared to a comic book. I'll take doing a comic book any day though, to tell you the truth, because the board books are a lot more of a tightrope walk. You'd think it would be easier because you're essentially drawing one illustration versus a series of panels and trying to tell a sequential story but it's harder because they have co-publishers around the world who are going to put out these books as well as here in the States and those publishers might want to move the artwork around.”

• Sally Madden presents a conversation between Bernadette editors Angela Fanche and Katie Lane about the making of the magazine and the sensation of selfishness inherent to creation - “In order to be a “successful” cartoonist, you need to be able to very seamlessly and quickly draw 15 pages a week: clear, legible, always the same style. That's not very accessible, actually, maybe just as difficult as being a good painter, and neither of which are gonna make you any money. It's a confusing expectation.”

 

AIPT

• David Brooke speaks with Steve Niles about Satan’s Swarm, B-movie inspirations, and concocting new forms of demise for horror stories.

• Chris Hassan talks to Gail Simone and Jed MacKay about the ‘Raid on Graymalkin’ crossover and showing the contrasts of the books it encompasses.

 

Anime News Network

Reuben Baron speaks with Shūzō Oshimi about Blood on the Tracks and Welcome Back, Alice, new and early manga works, and gender ambiguity.

 

The Beat

Ricardo Serrano Denis chats with James Aquilone and Rodney Barnes about Kolchak Meets the Classic Monsters and the enduring appeal of Kolchak.

 

Inverse

Zack Snyder interviews Frank Miller about Sin City, 300, and The Dark Knight Returns, superhero mythology, and eschewing editorial edicts.

 

The Los Angeles Times

Daniel Eduardo Hernandez talks to Jason ‘J. Gonzo’ Gonzalez about La Mano del Destino, and doing cover work for Marvel Comics.

 

Print

Steven Heller speaks with Frances Jetter about Amalgam, the family history behind the book, and the hybrid format of the finished work.

 

Whitehot Magazine

Scott Orr talks to Acky Bright about the ‘Studio Infinity’ exhibition at the Japan Society, the absence of mistakes in live drawing, and differences between drawing for manga and Western comics.

This week’s features and longreads.

• Here at TCJ, Hagai Palevsky celebrates the fiftieth edition of kuš!’s š! anthology series, examining the consistent quality to be found across 17 years of publication, and speaking with co-editor David Schilter about the curation process - “Now, when it comes to anthologies, I'm a simple reader with simple standards: if the book has one—just one—story that knocks me over, that shows me some manifestation of 'comics' that I had yet to consider instead of being merely 'good,' I consider that anthology worth my money. If it has two, even better. Three? Four, even? Well, let me consider that book a miracle.”

• Also for TCJ, RJ Casey waves in more Arrivals and Departures, this month considering the relative levels of rizz to be found in Teo Suzuki’s Cultural Reset #1, Susan Hoppner’s No, Thanks!, Dan Welch’s Dypso, and the return of the Linework anthology - “Linework #0 isn’t a collection of toxic positivity missives, but many hints of genuine optimism. And that’s what you want out of a student anthology, isn’t it? I hope the best for all these young artists and when someone gives them the tired old line, “Comics will break your heart,” they tell them to fuck off.”

• Finally for TCJ this week, Helen Chazan interrogates Margot Ferrick’s Half Gold/Half Dung, and the journey from the digital kingdom of Lodran to the page on which it takes the reader - “But Ferrick is not dealing in reality but longing, absence, erotic imagination. Their crazed knight in the moments before his death is beautiful, elusive, powerful, profoundly just eluding reach. Like Praxiteles’ Aphrodite in the moments before her rapture, Ferrick’s Solaire is vulnerable but absolutely beyond the viewer’s reach.”

• Ahead of the auction of Christine Farrell’s DC comics collection later this month, following Farrell’s passing earlier this year, Intelligent Collector profiles the co-founder of Vermont’s Earth Prime comic store and details the collection, while VTdigger speaks with Vermonter artists about the collection’s sale.

• For The Baffler Dustin Illingworth writes on Charles Burns’ Final Cut and Kommix, the extraordinary draughtsmanship to be found in both, and the contrasting forms of narrative between the two.

• Zack Snyder guest edits the new edition of Inverse, this year’s superhero issue, with pieces on Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons’ ‘The Man Who Has Everything’, romance (or lack thereof) in Wayne Manor, ethical and moral issues raised by superheroes, and a history of superheroes and kink.

• Robin McConnell details Inkstuds latest bumper stack of comics reading, with thoughts on Guido Buzzelli's HP, Edie Fake’s The Pieces, Terry Johnson’s Secret of Het-Uma Drawing, the Northern Gaze anthology, Bobby London’s This Dirty Duck, Revolutionary Comics’ Michael Jordan Tribute Special, Bob Supina’s Monster Boy, John Holiwski and Chuck Wojtkiewicz’s Bushido Blade of Zatoichi Walrus, Ben Marra’s What We Mean By Yesterday, and Dominique Grange and Tardi’s Elise and the New Partisans.

• For Shelfdust, Matt Ledger writes on Garth Ennis and John McCrea’s Hitman #34, and the idea of decency that lies at the heart of the comics.

• Doris V. Sutherland’s look back at all that followed the undead shambling of Night of the Living Dead continues, over at Women Write About Comics, as this edition examines the zombie comics work the film’s co-writer, John Russo, produced for Avatar Press.

• Mike Peterson rounds up the week’s editorial beat, over at The Daily Cartoonist, as this week the perils of misinformation were considered yet again, and violence in the Middle East continued to escalate.

This week’s audio/visual delights.

• Ben Katchor hosted the latest meeting of the New York Comics & Picture-Story Symposium, as critic and historian Danny Fingeroth presented a conversation with writer and artist Larry Lieber, co-creator of Thor, Iron Man, and Ant Man, ahead of the publication of new novel Chirps.

• With New York Comic Con getting into full swing we shall instead look back to last month’s 2024 edition of the Small Press Expo, as this year’s video programming is now online, with panel talks and Q&As available to watch at your leisure.

• Publisher’s Weekly’s More to Come also looked back at SPX, as Meg Lemke spoke with Dash Shaw about Blurry, alongside discussions of recent graphic memoirs with co-host Calvin Reid, before taking a look ahead to the NYCC currently in progress.

• Drawn & Quarterly presented a fresh edition of At Home With, as Adrian Tomine spoke about Q&A, the working processes of a freelance artist, the lasting influence of Love and Rockets, and the importance of reader interactions and taking criticism.

• From earlier this year, related to one of this week’s TCJ reviews, the Roberta Buffett Institute for Global Affairs at Northwestern University hosted a book talk with Buffett Faculty Fellow Özge Samancı about Evil Eyes Sea, which featured a staged reading from the graphic novel.

• Brian Hibbs welcomed Lawrence Lindell to the latest meeting of Comix Experience’s Graphic Novel Club, as they discussed Buckle Up and Blackward, working processes and publisher interactions, and the ability of younger readers to handle big emotions in books.

• David Harper welcomed Michael Allred to the latest episode of Off Panel, as they spoke about The Marvel Art of Michael Allred and Madman, Doop origins, artistic processes and keeping original art, and the quiet influences on one’s work.

• Closing out this week’s selection with some trips in the Word Balloon with John Siuntres, as Garth Ennis discussed Babs and Battle Action, Chris Ryall spoke about the early years of Marvel Comics and work at IDW, Shannon Wheeler looked back on Too Much Coffee Man, David Pepose spoke about Space Ghost, and Ram V discussed The New Gods and Rare Flavours.

No more links this week, as I now have to go and spend a couple of evenings wandering around London’s glittering West End, probably in the rain.

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