Comics June
Jun. 17th, 2003 03:14 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
talktoolooseMeanwhile, I'm really stoked about comic books in general. Carla Speed McNeil, creator of my favourite comic book, Finder is drawing a new mini-series of Oni Press's Brit spy series, Queen and Country and her love of humanity is wonderfully evident in her art. In a world of pumped-up pin-up comic book characters exhibiting, for want of a better world, a cartoon sexiness, she understands what makes people truly sexy and how that is intertwined with their expression of their full humanity.
(Oni Press seems awfully cool. They also have several 60s flavoured Vespa-cool comics about scooter dudes and the girls who love them. Hot.)
It was a Speed double shot week with a new issue of Finder featuring a "Mystery Date" story about her student at the prostitute's university. Thank god Speed doesn't have an a mainstream editor telling her that no one will get that those are ghosts populating the background. The slow realization makes the story much more poignant. And if you only get it on the second reading, so much the sweeter.
Other highlights of the last month in comic books is a new mini-series from Marvel on the adolescence of Namor, the sub-mariner. The writing is fly-weight, but the art is luscious, luscious, luscious. Shit, why is it only the majors can afford colour?
Worth a mention is Skaggy the Lost, a bizarre and brilliantly loopy mix of viking and Aztec culture. Don't ask, just get it from Slave Labour. The art reminds me of Mad's Sergio Arrogones but with a darker sensibility.
During the production meeting at work this week, I was sketching the monster from the four-page comic script I recently wrote.![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
redrunner, I may steal it from you...
(Oni Press seems awfully cool. They also have several 60s flavoured Vespa-cool comics about scooter dudes and the girls who love them. Hot.)
It was a Speed double shot week with a new issue of Finder featuring a "Mystery Date" story about her student at the prostitute's university. Thank god Speed doesn't have an a mainstream editor telling her that no one will get that those are ghosts populating the background. The slow realization makes the story much more poignant. And if you only get it on the second reading, so much the sweeter.
Other highlights of the last month in comic books is a new mini-series from Marvel on the adolescence of Namor, the sub-mariner. The writing is fly-weight, but the art is luscious, luscious, luscious. Shit, why is it only the majors can afford colour?
Worth a mention is Skaggy the Lost, a bizarre and brilliantly loopy mix of viking and Aztec culture. Don't ask, just get it from Slave Labour. The art reminds me of Mad's Sergio Arrogones but with a darker sensibility.
During the production meeting at work this week, I was sketching the monster from the four-page comic script I recently wrote.
redrunner, I may steal it from you...
