#American comics

[skatankata]

Pav portrait! A Pavtrait!

[ducklooney]

It's been a while, but happy birthday again to one of my favorite comic book writers and artists, especially Donald Duck and Uncle Scrooge comics. And that is certainly Don Rosa. Happy 72nd birthday Don Rosa and thank you for the best comics!

And yes, his comics are not Ducktales and that should be clearly separated.

[iwtvdramacd18]

Front covers from Innovation's comic adaptation of the Interview with the Vampire novel. These were published pre- movie adaptation, the first issue published in 1991

[evilwickedme]

leaving what counts as "old style" up for interpretation. if more than one of these is relevant - pick the one that's most important to you. reblog for larger sample sizes etc etc

[geritsel]

George Herriman - Krazy Kat drawing for a fan, 1925

[aesthetic--mood]

Morticia Addams Aesthetic

[iukasylvie]

As a Japanese person who is used to reading manga, I find comics outside Japan to be so different beyond size, color, reading direction, and language that I wish there was a book explaining comics of various kinds and how to approach them. For example, I have read The Witch Boy by Molly Ostertag, Magical Boy by The Kao, Hound by Paul J. Bolger and Barry Devlin, An Táin by Colmán Ó Raghallaigh, and the excerpts of Franco-Belgian comics in the guide Invitation au monde de la Bande Dessinée (はじめての人のためのバンド・デシネ徹底ガイド, 2013).

Neither The Witch Boy nor Hound were divided by chapter to my surprise—especially Hound since it was first released in three volumes. Dialogue in Franco-Belgian comics are lengthy compared to what I see in manga, which the academic book Les échanges culturels entre Manga et Bande dessinée : Historie, Adaptation et Création (日仏マンガの交流 ヒストリー・アダプテーション・クリエーション, 2015) has commented on.

Hound was created by at least two Irish people and edited by one British person (Hugh Welchman) but I find this graphic novel to be similar to a certain kind of Franco-Belgian comics like the works of Jean "Mœbius" Giraud. These comics have impressive art and imagery—and I love how Hound portrays Cú Cullan's berserk state and uses dashes of red in an otherwise black and white setting—but they give me little or no idea about what's going on unlike, say, Fullmetal Alchemist by Hiromu Arakawa. I have heard of the international popularity of manga—in France in particular—but I wonder why people outside Japan embrace manga so much when it's not like comics produced in their countries.

Thoughts?

[super-heroinecomparisons]

Houhou Ranger from Gosei Sentai Dairanger (1993).

Pink Squadron ranger from Power Rangers Universe (2021).

[archivlibrarianist]

WHAT.

[hotcomicstv]

Spider-Man 2099 explained 

[jjoyboii]

Invincible 1 - 10

Written By: Robert Kirkman

Illustrated By: Ryan Ottley

[skatankata]

Tried something different with the eyes, I don't love it

[ducklooney]

The hunt for the anonymous cartoonist who transformed pop culture

Video clip from YouTube related to the analysis of Carl Barks and his comics and the problem of why Disney has denied him and his comics for a long time. Listen to this, it's very interesting.

[boldlydeck]

Feel free to comment!

[iwtvdramacd18]

The famous swampstat return scene from the 90s Innovation comic adaptation of Interview with the Vampire

[cosmicjoke]

I've been reading a bunch of American comics lately, and you really begin to understand why manga is absolutely crushing their sales month after month. The writing is just SO bad, good grief. It has all the subtlety and nuance of a sledgehammer to the forehead. It's so dumb and basic. You see the same hack jobs done in American films and television too. Not too surprising, I guess, from a country that seems incapable of self-reflection.