Showing posts with label comics. Show all posts
Showing posts with label comics. Show all posts
Monday, September 7, 2015
Current Comic Book Reading
I finished one six-issue music-based comic book miniseries only to have
another one start. Yay and dammit, all at once, for a new limited
'Phonogram' series! ("Dammit" only because I like having money.)
Sunday, May 31, 2015
Things I've Enjoyed Recently
It's always tough to figure out what to say when it comes to updating
this site. Yep, I'm still working on writing. Nope, I haven't done as
much with my stories as I want to. I feel confident of about maybe five
percent of what I write. The rest of it requires me to go back, edit
madly, start new stories, and hope to get better.
My Saturday nights are quite exciting. The stuff of legend, you can be sure.
Anyway, in addition to scribbling my own stuff, I also read and listen to the stuff that other people create. Here's some stuff I've enjoyed in recent weeks:
1) Trubbled Youth by Felipe Echevarria
Because it feels like an old-school zine, and because I love how expressive his figures are. This was one of my favorite finds of C2E2 2015.
2) "21 Steps to Enlightenment (Minus One)" by LaShawn M. Wanak, read for PodCastle by Khaalidah Muhammed-Ali
PodCastle often makes for excellent listening for a long work commute, and this story caught me right from the start with its premise. I wouldn't have guessed that the story developed the way it did, which was part of why I loved it so.
3) The Sculptor by Scott McCloud
The major plot points seemed familiar (Pregnancy! Death! A manic pixie dream girl!), but there were so many of the small notes that were just right, from the way that David's first attempts with his artistic gift don't meet with success to the conversations he has with Uncle Harry (actually, throw in all of the conversations about art--they felt painfully real). And Scott McCloud's artwork is solid and subtle, but I thought it made the most of the medium. And I cried at the end.
Hope you've been enjoying some good stuff on your end, whoever and wherever you are!
My Saturday nights are quite exciting. The stuff of legend, you can be sure.
Anyway, in addition to scribbling my own stuff, I also read and listen to the stuff that other people create. Here's some stuff I've enjoyed in recent weeks:
1) Trubbled Youth by Felipe Echevarria
Because it feels like an old-school zine, and because I love how expressive his figures are. This was one of my favorite finds of C2E2 2015.
2) "21 Steps to Enlightenment (Minus One)" by LaShawn M. Wanak, read for PodCastle by Khaalidah Muhammed-Ali
PodCastle often makes for excellent listening for a long work commute, and this story caught me right from the start with its premise. I wouldn't have guessed that the story developed the way it did, which was part of why I loved it so.
3) The Sculptor by Scott McCloud
The major plot points seemed familiar (Pregnancy! Death! A manic pixie dream girl!), but there were so many of the small notes that were just right, from the way that David's first attempts with his artistic gift don't meet with success to the conversations he has with Uncle Harry (actually, throw in all of the conversations about art--they felt painfully real). And Scott McCloud's artwork is solid and subtle, but I thought it made the most of the medium. And I cried at the end.
Hope you've been enjoying some good stuff on your end, whoever and wherever you are!
Thursday, February 26, 2015
Amazing Fantasy
Amazing Fantasy Books and Comics in Tinley Park was the first dedicated comic shop I ever visited, so I went out yesterday to see it one more time before the big move to its new location. Only when I got home and looked at this photo did I notice the little yellow plush sitting inside the security mirror up right. Somehow, its presence there seems entirely fitting.
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