A Sense of Doubt blog post #1930 - Comic Books Return - Comic Book Sunday for 2005.31
Single issue comic books are back.
A day after my blog post was dominated by news of the "I Can't Breathe" riots and protests following the murder of George Floyd as just one more person of color killed by the racist epidemic of our nation.
And so, just a celebration of comic books today. Lots of Twitter. Jack Kirby's grand son!! Tons of news and links from two great newsletters.
It's comic book Sunday because I always want to feature comic books at least one day each week but also because I am now fully committed to taking off from work each and every Sunday (except when final grades are due the next day, which will happen in a few weeks). To refresh my batteries from the self care practice, I need to read comics for at least an hour if not multiple hours.
Part of me thinks I should be continuing to write about the things going on in our world like the protests and riots and of course the pandemic. But it's also nice to take a break.
And so, now, some comic books.
I am not going overboard with my own writing today, but I want to launch all these comic book yumminess with a post by my good friend George Gene Gustines and his reminder of his ode to our favorite comic book character: Richard Grayson, the original Robin and now Nightwing.
The week with comic books!
Wednesday is finally back this week!
And now it's joined by Tuesday!
Seriously, we know Life After Lockdown (LAL) is going to be very different, and comics are a great test case. One of the Big Two has decided that Tuesday can be New Comic Book Day (I hear some whispers that others may join, but still only whispers.) Both Marvel and DC have decided that Digital First is fine. And shops themselves are either trying to adhere to social distancing guidelines, or ignore them because customers refuse.
And really, is picking up a book and riffling through it even thinkable any more?
How have the last two months been for you, readers? Have you ordered DC's early offerings? Have you picked up books that were available curbside? Did your store ever close? And how do you feel about shopping for comics in the future?
We'd love to hear from you - just hit us up at info @ comicsbeat.com.
Top image from Challengers Comics in Chicago.
-- Heidi MacDonald
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| THE LATEST STORIES FROM THE BEAT! |
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THE CORONAVIRUS JOURNAL:
Alternative Distribution Will Help Us Survive
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| MINT CONDITION: ASTRO CITY (1995) |
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| STUDY GUIDE: Osamu Tezuka’s THE TWIN KNIGHTS |
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| THE BEAT presents SHUT IN THEATER! |
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| Why TONY HAWK PRO SKATER is the game the industry needs right now |
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| www.graphicnovelclub.com/kids is incredibly delighted to bring you author Rod Espinosa live and in-person to discuss life, art, and creation and his terrific book THE COURAGEOUS PRINCESS! Club members can ask questions live on the live stream! |
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| www.graphicnovelclub.com/start is incredibly delighted to bring you author Mark Russell live and in-person to discuss life, art, spirituality and creation and his terrific book WONDER TWINS! |
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| A MAN & HIS CAT is a soothing read for lonely hearts |
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| THE THIRD POPULATION demystifies mental healthcare |
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| Taiyo Matsumoto’s PING PONG is a very different kind of sports manga |
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PORTRAIT OF A DRUNK is a
soused nightmare of absurd cruelty |
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One thing is for sure, Jim Lee and his pals have been killing it on their daily BINC charity sketches! This one is Brainiac and it's pretty spectacular.
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Culture doesn't fit in a box. Neither do we.
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PATREON EXCLUSIVE ESSAY: The Fighting First Lady: Red Sonja in the 1970s by Doris V. Sutherland
Back in the 1970s, comic covers hailed her as “Fantasy’s #1 Fighting Female” and “the Fighting First Lady of Swords-and-Sorcery”. Decades later, she retains iconic status even among people who would have trouble identifying her by name. She is an archetype, embodying a specific type of fictional woman.
She is clad in chainmail armour – but it is armour adapted to fit the pattern of skimpy late twentieth-century swimwear. She is ostensibly an animalistic warrior, her life built upon the visceral pleasures of besting her foes in battle – yet she has time to don eye make-up and keep her legs free of hair. Her name, of course, is Red Sonja.
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In this day and age it’s likely that you’ll read a lot of articles about women who make comics. They’ll focus on great new titles like Monstress, Saga and Bitch Planet. Maybe they’ll even mention a book like Moon Knight, which features the incredible colours of Jordie Bellaire.
Though it’s wonderful that these books are getting the love that they deserve, these articles are often written as if women never have never been involved in comics in any capacity until the last few years, and that is not only incredibly annoying but also patently false. Women have been an active part of the comics industry since it’s inception, whether behind the scenes or queuing up at the newsstand, women have been there. |
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Scintillating Selfies From Seasons Past!
While there are a number of self-portraits of comics artists, it seems a lost
art when the artist would surround his image with those comics characters he or
she was best known for. The first time I became aware of such portraits was
when Marvelmania--Marvel's licensing arm in California which
absorbed the old M.M.M.S. and sold fans a variety of memorabilia in the early
'70s--grouped together a number of such portraits and advertised them for sale
in books published circa 1971:
In those early days of my Marvel Comics acclimation, I was thrilled to see portfolios of those artists whose work I was just getting to know. (Jack Kirby, of course, had departed Marvel by that time, but I was starting to devour reprint titles featuring his art.) I remember being a little disappointed by John Buscema's offering, which featured only a sampling of his work from a single title, Silver Surfer:
Yet there later appeared an offering from him that showed what might have been in a more comprehensive rendering, while other outlets have adapted his pose to create their own portrait of the artist and the many characters which benefited from his style.
Buscema's brother, Sal, who also has a rich portfolio of work at Marvel, was a little more difficult to track down in this respect, but one such drawing turned up:
Though given the sheer number of characters Buscema has brought his style to, the artist himself might have been a bit lost in the crowd if they had been included. What we see here is quite satisfactory--and Buscema's positioning of himself is an interesting choice in comparison with other such portraits.
I would have expected a similar throng of characters in a George Perez portrait, but the drawings which turned up were surprisingly reserved.
There are no Daredevil images in Wally Wood's selfie, but perhaps a takeaway panel from one of his stories explains why (though the breadth of Wood's work with other subject matter would be more extensive than the pigeon-hole he establishes for himself here).
Several of Gil Kane's offerings focused on his work at DC, though at least one of them included some of his renderings of Marvel characters:
Finally,
the portraits of John Romita and Herb Trimpe round out this assortment nicely.
If you can identify the character posed in front of the Glob in
Trimpe's portrait, there's a free Trimpe-rendered Incredible Hulk comic
in it for you! (Well, more like my sincere thanks, instead!)
I was surprised at the dearth of such character-based portraits for Rich
Buckler, Neal Adams, Jim Starlin, Barry Smith, Bill Everett, George Tuska, Don
Heck, and other notables, all of whom had a hand in building Marvel into the
brand it became. If you're curious to see other self-portraits not featured
here, do check out the PPC's prior posts on the subject, where you'll find those of
Jack Kirby, Marie Severin, et al.
BONUS!
Renditions
of the ideal Marvel Bullpen, as conceived by Marie Severin and Bob Camp.
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- New note - On 1807.06, I ceased daily transmission of my Hey Mom feature after three years of daily conversations. I plan to continue Hey Mom posts at least twice per week but will continue to post the days since ("Days Ago") count on my blog each day. The blog entry numbering in the title has changed to reflect total Sense of Doubt posts since I began the blog on 0705.04, which include Hey Mom posts, Daily Bowie posts, and Sense of Doubt posts. Hey Mom posts will still be numbered sequentially. New Hey Mom posts will use the same format as all the other Hey Mom posts; all other posts will feature this format seen here.
