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Free bits of comics you can read online! I think I like The Lost Colony best. Link via Chris' Invincible Super Blog Vulnerable Emo Blog. He seems to like A.L.I.E.E.E.N. best. I can see that. He says it's basically "Owly with eye-gouging". I have to say I think it's Jim Woodring with a touch of, I dunno, Hello Kitty.

It's funny that I'm so attracted to The Lost Colony because, frankly, the art is like that cartoonist - what's his name - the guy who does the the batty women, and codgers, and the dog. And they're usually in a ramshackle room with an exposed 40 watt bulb. And they say something quirky. I don't really like that guy. His stuff is in The New Yorker. That guy. Noses like potatos. But I like the look of the The Lost Colony.

Comments

[Joshua Macy]

The cartoonist you're thinking of is George Booth, I believe.

[jholbo]

ah yes! That's the ticket! Booth!

[ben wolfson]

Last week I saw a sextet led by Bill Frisell play music to accompany animations by, and animations based on comics by but not themselves created by, Woodring.

Pretty weird!

[Matt Weiner]

Harrumph. George Booth rocks (or at least useta).

[Timothy Burke]

It's such a superior blog. Though there's a few others I like which are similar. I'm thinking of doing an entry in the same spirit on the Essential Nova Volume 1, which I picked up today--too many panels that cry out for scanning.

[yabonn]

Oddly, it feels odd to find Trondheim or Sfar linked here. Are they well known in english?

Anyway, Stassen's Deogratias is great. There's a glimpse of "La fille du professeur" in first second's homepage, so it must be there too.

Nice, nice, nice catalog.

[Zeke]

Comix have morphed; now more literary and PC, and sophisticated, if a bit cute (the Fate of the Aartist dude has a nice style) but some of us prefer R. Crumb or Zippy or Moebius or Crepax for the, eh, more adventurous, various legendary Zap phreaks: Bondo Bob, etc. For that matter, I am one of the opinion that someone like walt Kelly or Al Capp is worthy of ten picassos and probably ten fitzgeralds as wall. As Crumb once said, if you can't be a cartoonist you might make at as an artist.

[Carlos]

These were all drawn on a Windows machine, Zeke? say it isn't so.

[Zeke]

Yes they look a little Windows-y; but one indication that they are greasy kid stuff rather than dread pulp comix is the color-work, which is pretty much that vermonty-look meant to like capture the eye of some college dames at Borders or something. The real comix 'head doesn't need the color, but goes for the line, bay-be; in fact, an underground master like Crepax or Bondo Bob, Griffiths, can suggest color and other effects like chrome just with pen and ink. That said, I do like color if its done right, 'specially the old Metal Hurlant or Heavy Metal jass of Moebius-Gir, master of cyber-pulp, or Corbin, Jodorowksy, others. The Fifth Element (with Willis a bit miscast) tried to do Gir, but sort of didn't catch it.

[yabonn]

Corben is the one you mean, no? I think Sfar, Trondheim and a few others may have things for you too, even if they are not in first second's catalog.

They started by creating they own editions, publishing in b&w etc. Now they must be rolling in dough, as they're the original publishers of Satrapi's comics, and all that.

[Emo]

i have an emo blog at http://emoequality.blogspot.com/

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