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Turns out I was wrong about the Humanoids books. Reason I can’t buy it, is because they’ve not distributed it out yet. Straight from the horse’s mouth so to speak.
Diamond clearly doesn’t have their information right.
Just bought this great book called: The Art of Osamu Tezuka. Apart from a great hardcover book with good production values, you’ll also get a great DVD (The secrets of creation) on there with a documentary showing you what the man went through to create his art. It’s a great package for a reasonable price and definitely should be in any sequential arts fan’s library.
Amazon.co.uk link and the Amazon.com link
This is what I don’t get, the new revitalised Humanoids publishing looks like they’ve FINALLY understood how their content should be presented. After years of them publishing it in various format that just don’t do the material justice trying to infiltrate the American market they’ve finally understood something…come closer.
The people buying books like ‘The Metabaron’ and ‘The Incal’ are not your teenager - those are looking at Naruto, Bleach, DeathNote, maybe the Mark Millar stable of books. The people that are interested in Moebius and Jodo are people who have cash, are of a slightly older demographic and appreciate comics as art, no matter how long that damn thing takes to make.
Which is good that they’ve understood that, so they’ve created these absolutely GORGEOUS hardcovers for their material. I am talking IDW level production values, and nice price tag to accompany this. These things look absolutely amazing. Have a look:
So what’s the problem? You can’t buy the bloody books anywhere, that’s what’s the problem. I’ve checked the following places to order the Incal in particular (although I’m hoping that they create a Metabarons version of this as well). - Amazon - Borders - InStockTrades - DCBService - Things from another World - Khepri
None of these guys have it in stock or even in their catalogue. Not one of them. So how the hell are you supposed to buy the damn book? So far I’ve only been able to find one place I can buy the book from, and that’s forbiddenplanet - and even then it doesn’t seem like it’s going to be a sure thing. Seriously Humanoids, you’ve tried this several times before and failed. Finally you’ve got your product in the correct format that it will appeal to your demographic and you fuck it up by not getting it out there….sort it out people!!!!
http://www.brokenkode.com/the-problem-with-humanoid-publishing
The Walking Dead trailer - From AMC, the new HBO. With Mad Men and Breaking Bad under their belts, they’re going for the hat trick with ‘The Walking Dead’ based on the Robert Kirkman & Charlie Adlard series of graphic novels.
Just thought I’d share a nice milestone for myself. My one and only comic book work ‘Coffee Beans’ has now been downloaded over 250 times since I originally ‘published’ it. Here’s hoping I get to finish off more comic book stories in the near future. Thanks for reading.
It’s that time of the year again, where all of geekdom heads on down to San Diego for a weekend filled with comics, pop culture and weird shit. Thank god for the internet. Here’s a list of items that have caught my attention (I’ll update this list throughout the weekend):
ComicCon from end to end - gives you a real scale of the damn thing.
Matt Broome on Defcon 2055 - I have the original Defcon 4, which was an amazing comic when it came out. Part of me really believes that Broome could have been a massive creator, but he didn’t make the right decisions I feel early on in his career. Still this is a step in the right direction.
Hickman and Pacheco on Ultimate Thor - It’s been a while since I bought anything from Marvel, and not really a Thor fan, but get those two names together and you know there is magic in the air.
Tron Legacy - ‘nuff said.
Grant Morrison’s Sintarao - It’ll probably start AMAZINGLY and then petter out into complete weirdness, much like most of Grant’s writing.
First look at the League of Extraordinary Gentlemen Vol 2: Century - Get on with it and release this bad boy.
List of the Eisner Award Winners - Asterios Polyp gets some love, as does Parker: The Hunter and Footnotes in Gaza. All some of the very best graphic novels to come out last year. Once again, David Mack doesn’t get anything which is a fucking travesty. Give him something already you bastards, he’s probably been nominated more times than anyone else, and he bloody deserves to win.
And I’ll leave you with the image of the con for me so far.
Cover Browser - Gallery of over 450,000 comic book covers. Yeah I’m pretty jazzed about this site. Weird how the main comic book new sites haven’t mention this gem.
Jus’ Checkin’ - I can pretty much vouch I’m that person as well. Are you?
Alan Moore’s Unearthing - Am a fan of the man’s for sure, but never really heard any of his recordings. In any case, this looks like a pretty impressive package.
Graphic.ly - Has just launched. Maybe this will mean I keep more in touch with weekly comics. It all depends on how good the software is. I tend to shy away from anything Adobe Air related. Review of this software soon.
Cameron Stewart Drawing Catwoman - Love me some Cameron Stewart. Love these videos of comic professionals drawing characters.
http://www.brokenkode.com/cameron-stewart-digital-drawing-catwoman
The Complete Famous Artist Course - This is one of the best resources for aspiring artists out there - instant bookmark and download.
http://www.brokenkode.com/on-animation-blog-archive-updated-the-complete-famous-artist-course-1960
Free Comic Book Day - It’s been going on for several years now. You go into a participating comic book store on the 1st of May and get some free comics. If I was going to get some they would be: Solar, Weathercraft, Toy Story, Atomic Robo and loads more. The site has been updated with previews
S is for… - Awesome Superman mosaic of the ‘S’ from an action figure collection.
Spider-Man The Other Review - I do have another website…I’ve not been giving it much love. Fortunately the excellent James Huff has taken it upon himself to start reviewing again, which is only a good thing. Hopefully I’ll get inspired to start review some stuff in the not too distant future as well. If you’re into graphic novels and the comic book form, Splash Panel has got only good recommendations. We’d don’t review books we didn’t like.
Movie Mr Men - This made me smile a lot. Love how he’s just constantly building this flickr set. Here are some of my favourites:
Charles Vess & Neil Gaiman’s Instructions - When this comes out it’s definitely high on my buy list. Charles Vess’s work has never looked better (he of Stardust fame).
http://www.brokenkode.com/charles-vess-amp-neil-gaiman-s-instructions
Plastic Beach- The new Gorillaz album appears to be imminent. Awesomeness.
Top Shelf 2.0 - Loads of excellent comics for your devouring pleasure over at Top Shelf. I’ve not read anything from the fine gents in a while (several years ago I used to buy everything they did, but alas I started looking elsewhere).
The year in Manga - Also an excellent list of things that are definitely on my list, but I’ve not had a chance to buy/read yet (I did mention Children of the Sea though, and that book does look amazing).
PW Critic’s Graphic Novel Poll - Great list of graphic novels that came out in 2009. The obvious candidates like Asterios Polyp, The Hunter and the one that I feel has been COMPLETELY neglected by the comics community is Kabuki: The Alchemy.
not simple - And another series I’ve heard really excellent things about as well. More great Manga than you can shake a stick at.
Children of the Sea - Go read this for free. I’m going to be buying the volumes as well, but this is online for free for you to devour (I’m needing this sort of fix to keep me happy in my graphic novel deprived country).
AppleGeeks 3.0 - I’ve not heard of this, but it’s actually pretty well done. I think I’ll be buying the first volume when I get back to comic book civilisation (yeah there’s not my in way of anglophone comics here in Lebanon, the fekking landscape is completely barren).
Turf - New four issue comic book series by Jonathan Ross and Tommy Lee Edwards. This thing is going to sell like a bazillion copies.