Previews for September
Hey y’all!
We’re back from Vegas where we just got a new place to rent. We’re excited to be coming back to the city we feel at home in. While we were there, Brandon has started work on the art for Moonray book 4.
The start of another month means the arrival of another Previews Catalogue, so here are the comics that caught our eye in the latest Previews.
Brandon’s List
Brandon here-
Vaughn Bodé’s Complete Deadbone Erotica Omnibus HC
Written and drawn by Vaughn Bodé
Published by Image Comics
This is unexpected to see coming from Image- but very welcome!
272 page collection by the late great Bodé-(1941-1975) I consider Bode to be one of the best to ever do single page comics, his work has such a charm to it and certainly had a big influence on my own stuff.
Desolation Jones: The Biohazard Edition HC
Written by Warren Ellis and drawn by J.H. Williams III
Published by Image Comics
I missed this when it came out as issues, so I’m excited to check it out. Having gotten to know J.H. better in recent years has only increased my appreciation of his work, I regard him as the kind of savant genius who in another era would be painting sistine chapel ceilings - comics is damn lucky to have him.
Popeye: Man Overboard HC
Written by Antoine Ozanam and drawn by Lelis
Published by Ablaze Publishing
Drawn by Brazilian comic artist Marcelo Eduardo Lelis de Oliveira -I don’t know much about this but it looks cool. I was suprised at how much I enjoyed the early E. C. Segar Popeye comics. - It’s interesting that Popeye started as a side character in Thimble Theatre. and “the strip was in its tenth year when Popeye made his debut."
Den Volume 5: The Price of Memories HC
Written and drawn by Richard Corben
Published by Dark Horse Comics
I had no idea there was so much Den. I’m excited to read more of the stuff.
Magical Sisters
Written and drawn by Toshio Maeda
Published by Antarctic Press
from Wikepedia
“Toshio Maeda (前田俊夫, Maeda Toshio, born September 17, 1953) is an erotic manga artist who was prolific in the 1980s and '90s. Several of Maeda's works have been used as a basis for original video animations (OVA) including La Blue Girl,[1] Adventure Kid,[2] Demon Beast Invasion,[3] Demon Warrior Koji[4] and his most notorious work, Urotsukidōji (Legend of the Overfiend).[5] An interviewer commented that Urotsukidōji "firmly placed him in the history books—in Japan and abroad—as the pioneer of the genre known as hentai, or "perverted"“
ok. cool.
Yor: The Hunter from the Future #3
Written by Ray Collins and drawn by Juan Zanotto
Published by Antarctic Press
Here’s a Kelsey Shannon cover
an Argentine comic series created in 1974 - I suspect the Ray Collins and Juan Zanotto interiors look more like this- I ordered the first one from LA’s Golden Apple and have to pick it up this week.
the comics got turned into a 1983 movie that I was a huge fan of as a kid. When i was working on Prophet I would joke that there’s no reason for a Prophet movie to exist because YOR is already made.
In the Garden of Earthly Delights
Written and drawn by Rich Tommaso
Published by Floating World Comics
Tommaso does interesting comics- so I’m looking forward to this one.
Kacy’s List
Off the Beaten Path
Written by Marie Sanin and Yann Krehl, drawn by Marie Sanin
Published by Ablaze Publishing
This is a book about a young woman moving to the big city and figuring out her sexuality. It also happens to be drawn in a style that reminds me of the CalArts style, which I like, so those two things combined sound like a winner to me.
Patra
Written by James Robinson, drawn by Scott Kolins
Published by Dark Horse Comics
I forgot to mention this one in our previous Previews newsletter, so I’m remedying that now. I picked up the first issue of Patra this week and enjoyed it. James is a fantastic writer. This story is very creepy and dark, so it’s perfect for the incoming Fall season. The first issue left me with lots of questions, so I’m interested to see where the story goes.
Paranoid Gardens
Written by Gerard Way and Shaun Simon, drawn by Chris Weston
Published by Dark Horse Comics
This is another one I forgot to highlight in our last email. We picked up the first issue and really enjoyed it. I’m generally a fan of Way’s writing, so it had my interest just from the fact that this was a new series by him. When I saw it was him writing about a bizarre care center (part retirement community, part asylum I think?) that has super heroes, monsters, and normal humans in it, I was totally sold. The building itself seems to be alive, there’s a creepy cult, and the main character can’t remember very far into her past. It’s wonderfully bizarre.
Spectrum
Written by Rick Quinn, drawn by Dave Chisholm
Published by Mad Cave Studios
This book is about a young woman who is losing her mind, seeing hallucinations, during the 1999 WTO protests. She encounters a creature that can alter reality through music. The strange creature wants to bring about the end of the world and enlists the young woman’s help. Sounds wonderfully weird and the art looks gorgeous. I’m not familiar with either creator, which is generally exciting to me because that might mean I find someone new who I really connect with. Fingers crossed!
Aster of Pan
Written and drawn by Merwan
Published by Magnetic Press
I’ve seen this one before and meant to get it, but haven’t gotten around to it. Perhaps this will be the time that I pull the trigger. It’s a really gorgeous looking post-apocalyptic story created by a European artist. For a post-apocalyptic book, this one looks rather bright and beautiful, which I like.
Kacy’s Media
Listening
This week I’ve been listening to The Ink Spots a bunch. The Ink Spots were a group active from the 1930’s to the 1950’s and their style was sort of proto-rhythm and blues and proto-rock and roll, influencing tons of bands in each later genre. Two of their biggest songs are “I Don’t Want to Set The World on Fire” and “If I Didn’t Care.” I really like the combination of their dreamy piano and guitar playing mixed with their dulcet vocals.
Watching
I recently found a shirt at GoodWill that had a bunch of cute characters on it, which were reminiscent of a show I like called Hazbin Hotel. The shirt said Long Gone Gulch on it, so I thought maybe they same people had made a new show. I looked up Long Gone Gulch and found it’s not made by the same people as Hazbin Hotel, but it is another indie animated show that currently only has a pilot episode. For those who don’t know, Hazbin Hotel was also originally just a pilot episode which became very popular on the internet and led Amazon to turn it into a full show. I watched the pilot episode of Long Gone Gulch and found that, while I liked some parts of the show, the overall feeling was a little too John K./Ren and Stimpy for me. I really wanted to like it because the character designs are so fun and I really like the setting. Some of the characters include a Sasquatch, a jackalope (who is the mayor of the town), and a talking cactus. The show hasn’t been picked up by a studio at this time.
Reading
I picked up an issue of the original Marvel Star Wars comics from the 1970’s this week in a $1 bin. I was excited to try it out because I’ve heard lots of things about the original Marvel run, like how the comic started coming out before the movie and how the writer and artist had to start making it from a script and some production stills without seeing the movie. The Marvel run also includes a talking green bunny person, which George Lucas was not thrilled about. I found issue #13, which takes place between A New Hope and The Empire Strikes Back. The story has to do with pirates (like, on water pirates, not the Han Solo type) and people who ride sea snakes. It doesn’t really feel like Star Wars to me, which is fair because the feel of Star Wars hadn’t really been established after just one movie. Carmine Infantino’s versions of the characters are too stylized for me, so I didn’t really enjoy this one, but it was an interesting curiosity to experience.
Brandon’s Media
I listened to a recent Tarantino interview where he mention the 1939 Man in the Iron Mask- so I got Kacy to watch it with me and it was very fun. - It’s on Youtube.
aside from that I dug out the old Masamune Shirow BLACK MAGIC- which was his first professional work - I especially like this wrap around cover. (that I assume he did much later) With the face mask that I imagine a lot of the early Image guys were looking at.
Thanks for reading!