#backissue

[themyscirah]

And I'll make you a promise. I will never forget you.

Spirit World #6 by Alyssa Wong and Haining

[garlic-sauc3]

my comic bookshelf so far

[bonnettsbooks]

Comics, manga, graphic novels... we've got 'em. Some are NOT for the kids. These 3 are fresh arrivals. Stop in to see what else you can find!

1/9/24 — Open 6-9p Mask recommended. No open drinks, please.

[fantasticcomics]

Gunna grade and price this classic today! #backissues #bronzeagemarvel #incrediblehulk #inhumans

[lawfulgoodness]

As someone who started reading comics regularly in the early 2000s, and then quit in the early teens, I really need to know what this means.

Any time I recommend a superhero comic from the early 2000s you should go in with a clear-eyed understanding that I have recommended a superhero comic from the early 2000s. If I've failed to convey this baseline assumption, I am morally derelict and I throw myself at your mercy

[8ptates]

You Found it!

So Timmy and Peri/Poof are at the comic shop and they find the rarest of the rare comic in the backissues boxes. Think action comics #1 of Crimson chin comics. They decide they aren't walking out of the shop without it XD

Bonus (?) below

The figure case is filled with superhero's from the show.

[decepti-thots]

I saw your posts about how expensive the mtmte/ll paperbacks can be and wanted to add this. If you are open to single issues the most reliable and inexpensive way to get your hands on them in my experience is to visit in person comic shops. Because the issues didn’t sell too well physically they typically only go for around 2-5 usd. You’d have to visit a ton of different shops but that’s part of the fun, and it’s always a plus to support local comic shops.

Ohhhh, good point. On ebay they are sometimes still subject to price gouging (a lot of the ones that wind up on ebay are specifically the retailer incentive covers, which go for more because comic collector nonsense, haha) but I have for sure seen cheap issues in the backissue longbox sections of actual comic book stores. And I suspect that the fact that a lot of MTMTE's fanbase are not habitual western comic book readers means that they probably don't get snapped up all that fast, lbr. If you live somewhere there's a comic book store or three, definitely consider checking out their back-issues section and rifling through to see what they have (and let the store owners know that if they get any in, you'd like them to contact you! IME, they will be interested to know if there's someone actively seeking a whole series to buy off them. Comic book stores are desperate for people looking to buy any large amount off of them, given how slim their margins are.)

[acronym-chaos]

Comic Books Themed ID Pack

[PT: Comic Books Themed ID Pack].

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Names

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Action, Alex, Alf, Allie, Anthony, Axiom, Barbara, Barry, Bruce, Cel, Chapter, Clark, Dana, Dash, Elaine, Felix, Frank, Gail, Glynis, Graph, Hal, Hero, Hue, Ivy, Jean, Joe, Katherine, Kelly, Logan, Louise, Marie, Marv, Mask, Miles, Morgan, Nicola, Nora, Oliver, Page, Penn, Peter, Pop, Quinn, Roy, Ruby, Scott, Selina, Sketch, Stan, Streak, Sue, Swoosh, Valerie, Willow

Pronouns

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Ay / Art / Ar [Art], Bam / Bang / Bams, Bo / Book / Books, Comic / Comics / Comics, Frame / Frames / Frames, Hero / Heroes / Heros, Ink / Ink / Inks, Iss / Issue / Iss, Line / Lines / Lines, Pa / Page / Pages, Pan / Panel / Panels, Pir / Print / Prints, Plot / Plots / Plots, Pow / Pews / Pows, Read / Reads / Reads, Sto / Story / Stories, Stri / Strip / Strips, Toon / Cartoon / Toons

Titles

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[Noun] Surrounded By Onomatopoeias, [Noun] Written into Legend, [Pronoun] Speaking in Speech Bubbles, [Pronoun] Told in Sequential Art, [Pronoun] Whose Story is Far From Over, A Buried Backissue, A Collector of Stories, A Hero Forged in Ink, A New Chapter of the Issue, A Splash Page, The [Noun] Drawn With Bold Lines, The Protagonist of [Pronouns] Own Issue

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Requested by anon

Also tagging: @id-pack-archive

[uncivildiscourse]

Backissues of Oligarch Monthly

[systeminquiry]

What is a 'system'?

been seeing a lot of discussion about what it means to be a system and wanted to compile some research on the term's origins and medical usage.

The earliest use of "system" I could in reference to one individual with multiple parts was in 1988, in Phenomenology and Treatment of Extremely Complex Multiple Personality Disorder (Kluft, 1988).

The earliest use of 'system' on Pluralpedia and in plural communities December 1990 issue of the Many Voices newsletter - the newsletter's subtitle is "Words of Hope for Clients with MPD and Dissociative Disorders," but I'll address that later on.

As seen above, the first reference to a system of alters was before the newsletter in 1988 and explains that "as children [the patients] had been so bombarded with outrages that they had not been able to develop a cohesive and comprehensive system of alters," showing why and when systems form (repeated trauma in childhood).

What we can take from this is that the term 'system' as is now used in reference to multiplicity/plurality originated from MPD/DID treatment circles (Kluft, 1988). The term has been taken in the past years, by people who identify as plural or multiple but did not experience repeated early trauma, in an attempt to de-medicalize the word to apply it to their own experiences - fundamentally misunderstanding the process through which systems form and speaking over pwOSDDID in the process.

It's interesting to me that the purported earliest usage of 'system' was in a newsletter for people with dissociative disorders; the subtitle at the top of the page is "Words of Hope for Clients with MPD and Dissociative Disorders" - this and the contents of the newsletter ( indicate that this is for people struggling with the results of trauma and recovering from MPD/DID (Telling Others Our Secret, 1990). This newsletter is the first use of 'system' cited on Pluralpedia and elsewhere. Based on the research above, however, this is not the case.

'System' was used in the treatment of Dissociative Identity Disorder before non-disabled plurals adopted an oversimplified version of it.

Preferable alternatives include "plural," "multiple," and other terms that were not already in use for disabled people in need of medical treatment.

Sources below the cut

Kluft, R. P. (1988). The phenomenology and treatment of extremely complex multiple personality disorder. Dissociation: Progress in the Dissociative Disorders, 1(4), 49–50.

Telling Others Our Secret. (1990). Many Voices, 144(12), 8 https://manyvoicespress.org/backissues-pdf/1990_12.pdf

[ferronickel]

Lettering Tips for Comics Artists!

Lettering is an easy to overlook aspect of comics creation, partially because good lettering is designed to be invisible, but bad lettering can ruin an otherwise well crafted project.

Now, I'm not a letterer by trade, I'm a colorist who thinks too much about comics craft, but I've picked up on a few common mistakes I've seen new webcomic artists making, and I thought I'd share my tricks.

#1: Get a Dialog font

Sorry, despite Comic Sans having the word comic in the name, it's not actually good for lettering comics. Comic book letterers usually use specially designed fonts when they're lettering comics, and they often have websites where you can get these typefaces for a reasonable fee (or sometimes even free!)

What makes dialog typefaces special?

The barred-I! (and other contextual options)

This one is subtle, but generally, you want to only use the barred-I for the personal pronoun "I" or for roman numerals. It helps clarify that what you're looking at is an I and not an L, but it takes up more space in the word, and we're trying to reserve as much space as possible for the art on the page.

Specially made comic book fonts will also be custom designed to be legible at a distance, have multiple bold/italics options, and might even include special versions of individual letters for when you type multiple of the same character in a row! It'll give your lettering a personal touch that you won't get from typefaces designed for other things.

Blambot is a great resource for all your lettering needs. Here I'm using Backissues and Nightmark

#2: Dialog Stacking

Dialog should always be stacked such that your longest line of text is in the middle. The block of text itself should have a sort of diamond shape <>. Sometimes this is difficult to do, especially if you have any long words at the beginning or end of a sentence. You can't always get it to work (and if you're unwilling to rewrite your dialog so it fits), so sometimes it might not be perfect, but if your text block is more hourglass shaped >< that's a good indication that you should try putting your line breaks somewhere else. Basically try to make your text as round as possible if it's in a balloon.

#3: Balloon Shape

One of the more common mistakes I see webcomic artists making is using perfectly elliptical balloons. It's actually kind of difficult to fit text into balloons that are perfectly elliptical; there ends up being a lot of uneven space around the text, and it looks kind of cheap. Making your balloons slightly more rectangular is going to give you more bang for you buck, they'll fit the text block a little better. I like a hand drawn balloon, I tend to think they add variety.

One thing you definitely shouldn't do is this:

This might be a personal preference thing more than any kind of hard and fast rule, but these lettering styles give me the impression that the text is pasted on top of the art, and that no real thought was put into arranging it thoughtfully with the art. These are probably more appropriate for captions, not so much for dialog

Lettering is a part of the medium we're working with, the dialog should be approached as a part of the artwork, and treated as such.

#4: Balloon Placement

The number one, most important rule of lettering, is that the placement of your balloons should never confuse your reader. The goal of balloon placement is to guide your reader around the page, each one should naturally lead your reader towards the next thing they should read. Here's an example of something I see a lot:

While yes, it is true that on a comics page, people read left-to-right top-to-bottom, if two balloons are connected with a line, I am going to read them one after another. Readers are not going to intuitively assume they should jump to the other side of the page just because the #2 balloon is slightly above #3. In this situation the balloons should be interwoven.

It should not be possible to look from one balloon to another and skip over intermediate dialog. If your reader misses a part of the conversation and has to double back to figure out what they missed, you've broken the flow and immersion of the page.

Like I said, lettering is all about guiding your reader around the page, it should be a part of your composition from the beginning, don't forget to incorporate lettering into your work when you're first laying out your page. Put yourself in the place of your reader and see how your eyes track across the page.

Hope these help! Like I said, I'm no expert; it took me a while to learn a lot of this. I would have found these tips super useful when I was first starting out. If you're interested in the technical side of lettering, I highly recommend The Essential Guide to Comic Book Lettering by Nate Piekos. It's one of the most useful reference books I own, and I learned most of this from that book.

[themyscirah]

Wait am I stupid omg is Aphra ending

[pandaimitator]

Update on my Castle Greystoke Adventure™

Today I received a complementary backissue of The Anotar Journal from the British Edgar Rice Burroughs Society in the post.

I am seriously falling in love with them

Front cover featuring Castle Greystoke

A long travel feature about the Castle and surrounding village.

Look at the gang! That Tom Rookes fellow knows what he's on about. Gotta love a man who wears a suit on a hike.

And finally, look at all the fanfiction! You won't find this on AO3, that's for sure. I'm gonna snuggle up and read Christmas with the Greystokes right away!

Okay, maybe my expectations for the fanfiction were unrealistically high

[fantasticcomics]

Some cool comics. #silveragemarvel #bronzeagemarvel #backissues

[edwin-paynes-bowtie]

A really awesome thing happened to me today! I went to a local comic shop I'd never been to, and the man who helped me knew about the Dead Boy Detectives and actually HAD the Children's Crusade issues featuring them. It's the first comic store that has had these backissues! They were only $2 each and the money won't go to NG (since they're secondhand. ) I've never read these stories and am SO excited to dive in.

[notafraidofredyellowandblue]

He said in the interview with Karl Lagerfeld that he loves both! His sister has 8 cats I think and they live together.

I know of the interview (2013 for Quintessence), but unfortunately can't find a free link anymore on internet (a backissue can probably be ordered, don't know), so apart from this intro, i have no details..

But i'm sure he loves both 🌺

Does he 'live together' as in 'they share a house and are always there' or as in 'he travels around the world and has a couple of houses in Germany, but when he's in the town where his sister lives, he stays with her'? I could imagine it's more like that last one?