Comic Book Resources

Outside of Chew and Sweet Tooth( which I actually get) those are actual comics?

@Jose

Believe it or not, there are comics that don’t feature guys in tights punching each other!

Hey, imagine that! There are comics you’ve never heard of that people enjoy and are considered to be really well made.

Pluto is an amazing series

It really makes me feel, I don’t know, “weird”, I guess, that I *just* heard about Duncan the Wonder Dog for the first time YESTERDAY. I spend a lot of time on comic-related sites, too much time, maybe, how is that even possible? And I don’t mean super-hero sites.

Honestly, I’ve heard of four of these. And, don’t get me wrong it *excites* me to find out about pieces in a preferred media that are, apparently, awesome that I have to look forward to checking out, but how is it POSSIBLE that I hadn’t even HEARD of them?

Maybe I’m going to the wrong site (present site excluded)?

“it *excites* me to find out about pieces in a preferred media that are, apparently, awesome that I have to look forward to checking out, “

Jose, I’m sorry, but Kyle wins.

Heard of most, and own three. Drew Weing actually lives just a few blocks from me, and SET TO SEA is a very nice book. My LCS is indie-minded, so I see most of this stuff.

What websites would y’all recommend to people who’d like to hear about books like this, but don’t get exposed to them on CBR? Journalista? The Beat?

“I *just* heard about Duncan the Wonder Dog for the first time YESTERDAY”

… Well, Publishers Weekly had covered it pretty extensively, from what I remember– they were pretty quick to declare it one of the big books of the year– I want to say in the summertime. They’re not really a hype machine over there, though. But I think the reason you probably haven’t heard much about it is … I THINK, it just came out to actual comic stores relatively recently, sometime this fall. I don’t know when it made con debuts or what have you, though– but I only saw it in a shop in the fall sometime…

It’s also pretty long, and reasonably involved– it was a slow read for me at least though that may just speak to the deficiencies of my attention span– so it’s not something I think you can just dash off a review for– or at least, I know my opinion about it is… turbulent. Both re: content and craft. I know I want to write about it but I don’t have any idea what I want to write…? I can’t speak for other writers though.

Gropius was my favorite book, too, but I always miss some of the key Big Books of the Moment, so…

Love the love for Pluto. If you don’t read many of the books on the list… maybe you should start?

Oh wow. Another list that doest include what I’M reading, so it MUST be wrong and stupid and chosen by liberal west coast douchebags who drink way too much tea. Yeah, once again New York proves it has no idead what america is.

A bit too much of an indie list, but I assume that’s the bias of the magazine. Pluto seems to be getting a lot of critical acclaim but I really thought there was a big drop in standard in the final volume.

I picked up Duncan the Wonder Dog at SPX on the strength of the buzz that was going around. It’s a hefty phonebook (492 pages) of a work – very ambitious for a freshman piece. If I hadn’t heard about it at SPX, though, I’m not sure that I would have ever heard about it otherwise, though. This is one of the reasons that I go to SPX and shows like it – to find works that aren’t going to show up in the world of Previews.

Heard of all of them, own all but two, and I do want to get those. Yeah, I spend way too much money on comics …

I can’t recommend #8 (Pang the Wandering Shaolin Monk) enough!! Sure, my brother writes and arts it up, but still. I think it’s excellent!