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Guido Crepax: erotica? Pornography? Or something more?

I am looking up European cartoonists in order to expose myself to anything beyond Asterix and Tintin. I came across Guido Crepax on the Fantagraphics website.

I did some research and sampled some pages online, and while I can appreciate he's a master of the craft, I feel a bit ashamed that I don't think I could convince anyone, be it my wife, family, or friends, that it's high art or worthy of deep study/introspection, which I associate more with Fantagraphics than say Marvel or DC. Though I'm aware of the Fantagraphics "Underground" line and that they've published Johnny Ryan, lol.

I guess I'm just rambling a bit here but I'm curious what your take on it it. Nudity in a museum as fine art, or lower on the artistic expression totem pole?

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u/ShangoX3 — 1 day ago
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I'm Finally Getting Around to Reading The Complete Eightball

I'm halfway through and really enjoying it. I like seeing some of my favorite cartoonists' early work and watching them progress. I finished Adrian Tomine's 32 Stories before this, same type of deal.

The hand lettered ads and letters pagers really are something else. Dan has such a solid grasp on typography (though using serifs on the dialog in some of the stories is really hard to read.)

u/ReverseCowboyKiller — 1 day ago
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​The corporate censorship of comic book resale culture is killing the hobby. This is why I'm here. - Ironwood #4 by Bill Willingham (Eros Comix, 1991)

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u/ShangoX3 — 2 days ago
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"People like us shop at...." - a 1982 Forbidden Planet NYC ad with art by Brian Bolland (as seen in Amazing Heroes #10, April 1982)

Not sure if the artwork first appeared here or if it's from one of Bolland's stories.

u/ShangoX3 — 4 days ago
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Introducing Gilbert & Jaime Hernandez's Love and Rockets (interior ad from Amazing Heroes #10, April 1982)

It was still about four months before Love and Rockets #1 officially came out.

u/Mt548 — 3 days ago
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Out this week: How I Make Comics by Kim Deitch; Fungae by Wojtek Wawszczyk and Tomasz Lew Lesniak; Breakthrough: A Life on the Brink by Christopher Fink; Our Little Wild Time by Fred Noland; The Book of Murmurs by Candice Purwin

u/ShangoX3 — 4 days ago
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TIL Dark Horse Comics once threatened to SUE Fantagraphics over it's short lived early 90s Hard Boiled Comics imprint because it had the same name as the Frank Miller and Geof Darrow series

Gary Groth quotation is from We Told You So: Comics As Art (2016)

u/ShangoX3 — 4 days ago
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Was Mark E Smith more Anti-establishment, Absurdism, or Solipsism?

Been watching interviews of him on YT.

Fascinating character. Although i never followed The Fall much as i like a good melody, i can see the appeal to him as he almost seems to be capable to see things only through his own viewpoint?

On the one hand I admire him for his anti-establishment anti everything views, and on the other he reminds me of just another narcissistic politician who can fire 60 staff on a whim without needing any connection to people.

For a group named after an Albert Camus book, i cant make out if its brilliant Absurdism or more just absurd?

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u/Other_Attention_2382 — 4 days ago
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Ghost World - Daniel Clowes

Copped this from my used books place yesterday. It's not everyday you stumble on graphic novels on my side of town. Don't know the writer but I love Fantagraphics, the publisher, so I had to have it.

Has anyone else read it? I totally love the illustration style. Reminds me a little of Chris Ware. Just a little.

u/ShangoX3 — 5 days ago
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A panel from Tim Lane's Happy Hour in America v2#1 (2017) featuring Steve McQueen.

Yes, THAT Steve McQueen

u/ShangoX3 — 5 days ago
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Kirby colors on John Severin (p) and Will Elder (i)

If you saw the Steranko's speech at the Kirby street sign ceremony, he mentioned being amazed at Kirby's coloring abilities. This is the original art from the cover Prize Comics Western no.89 (1951) that Kirby colored and displayed in his kitchen. The printed cover is from Fantagraphics The John Severin Western, a great book for Severin and Golden Age fans.

u/ShangoX3 — 7 days ago