“Keeping Two” was a lovely book.

Always informative! Fully Loaded looks like it could be a good Blade Runner / Hard Boiled type comic with good photo reference art. It's a fine line between stiff looking photo art and pleasant Al Williamson type good photo reference. There is a short interview in Tripwire with Broxton where he acknowledges the Darrow / Miller / Blade Runner influence. It was apparently a Zoop funded graphic novel first. Anyway, I'm a mark for Darrow and Blade Runner, so I will check it out. The big books for me here are Beat it Rufus, Give Me Liberty and Goes Like This. Also, Nemesis.

Love your monthly curation. First Comics putting out Badger again written by Steve Rude looks cool. Nemesis the Warlock Omni would be a fun read. I'm going to pull that Fully Loaded book too.

Colin, you are doing the Lord’s work here.

I ❤ this channel and these Previews reviews. I was unaware about the Comics Catalog book and I’m definitely going to get it. You pointed out some other great books too.

Is your new job as the official Fantagraphics archivist and head librarian? If so, very jealous.

I give a shit about these videos! 😂 You always point out a few things I missed like Revelations in the Wink of an Eye and Grand Electric Thought Power Master (long titles!). And Vagabond. I would like the Paul Smith AE but I’m out of room for those big books for titles that are not top of the list for me! Still getting the Neal Adams one, though! Also, Taschen is going to be putting out XXL EC books…😳 That Comics catalog is the first time that an English version has been made in hardcover I believe. I ordered an English version when I first heard about it, and mine is softcover. I think only the French version was originally available in hardcover. I’m tempted to get this hardcover because it’s such a great book and I like hardcovers much more than softcovers (and my copy arrived a little beat up). But I will probably resist the urge to double dip. That AI porn book is ridiculous. It’s ridiculous that they have those “photography” books in Previews. It goes to show who their audience is though.

Great channel

Started a new job! Terence said you were independently wealthy, like me. 😂

Wow! All of the art is great, but Crumb?!?! Mic drop. A holy grail for anyone who likes underground. Like me!

Wow! Killer collection! Jaxon! Trondheim! Sala! Deitch! Sim! Seth! Bagge! Cruse! Hernandez! And more! A veritable who's who of alt/art cartoonists!

Righteous! Thanks for posting this! Wish I could have been there.!

Great to see this interview. Interesting to hear the behind the scenes account of what goes into the stories.

Great chat. Ty NVS, Colin and Sean. BTW, here's a link to Wikipedia on Tintin, "The Shooting Star" by Hergé: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Shooting_Star Be sure and scroll down to the section on antisemitism. As ever, it is complicated but it appears that Hergé's estate may need to be further held to account.

Loved it as always! DC should use you for the cover blurbs on Longbow Hunters: “There’s worse shit you could spend your money on” “I can’t say it’s good, but I enjoyed it” 😂😂😂 Actually, I feel the same way. I loved the series when it came out. Over the years I have read a lot of negative criticism in TCJ and elsewhere. I’m currently about halfway through a reread and loving it! Not sure I would if I hadn’t read it when I was 16-ish. The Bess horror books are comics. They are caption-heavy but definitely told in a sequential comic style. I think Magnetic’s description is a little misleading. They are not artist’s editions as we know them (at least they don’t appear to be to me), but they don’t have they don’t have the gray tones and other effects added to the original French versions. Maybe they are scans of the original art, but you see very little, if any, process - it just looks like black and white. They are beautiful though. I’m really enjoying Paklis. I’m also really enjoying the new Den editions. Villarubia is not recoloring but attempting to color to Corben’s wishes using original art as the base. Arguably, some earlier editions still look better, but he’s not trying to change the colors. On the Bilal book (Exterminator published by Humanoids), he was asked to recolor. That’s my understanding anyway.

Hello Colin! Thanks for the video. I've been following Manara's works very closely. Dark Horse already released Caravaggio Vol. 1 before the pandemic. They were scheduled to release Vol. 2, but it never materialized, so I bought the edition integrale and the "oversized" artists edition of both volumes. If these are erotic, they are "R" with close attention to historical detail. The same can be said for Manara's adaptation of the Name of the Rose. There are numerous - the term risqué doesn't even really apply - adaptations of French and Italian classic literature from Manara that deserve an American audience. Fantagrsphics could reprint those, but will a non erotic Manara generate wide enough sales in the USA? Who can say? My bottom line here is that the moral climate has changed in Italy, and with it, Manara's penchant for beautiful and bizarre erotica. Yes, Manara has resigned himself to creating something akin to the Classics Illustrated of Europe! As for the Bess adaptations of Gothic Horror, Magnetic did a very nice job, and if they plan to present the artist's editions, more power to them. Are these essential? I don't think you'd enjoy them. They are text and illustrations. Beautiful illustrations, but we all know these stories back to front. The Bolland Artist's edition has been pushed back? The price isn't what scares me away from this work, I am more concerned by how well it function as an example of Bolland's process and not just new printings of very old pages. As always, the long delayed Dark Horse Corben books remain very much hit and miss affairs. The essence of Corben, for me, is what HE did with color in the original editions of his works. Recoloring them seems counterproductive. Villarubia is doing the same thing with the work of Enki Bilal, which seems like an even stranger proposition. 🎃

The cost of some of these does take your breath away. I love Brian Bolland but that price is steep.

I haven't read my Bess, Dracula and Frankenstein, they really are beautiful. Can't comment on how the read quite yet though.

Dogman here, I rule.

Glad to see your insights. Picked up Charles Burns' The Final Cut yesterday, can't wait to dig in!.

Nice haul! I thought Naff was old Clowes when you first put it in front of the camera! You got a lot of nice looking comics from cartoonists I haven’t heard of. I agree those Titan collections are cool. As you mentioned, they did Alan Moore’s Swamp Thing, which I would love to have because it’s in B&W. They also did a set of Batman books that had the O’Neill / Adams run, plus others so you would get the whole story. They are not as large as those Zeniths though - they are American comic size. Still awesome to have in nice B&W.

I love the flask shaped Andy Capp book! Great haul!

Nice flip-through as always! I had missed "I, Dragon," "Lilly Wave," "Mythologies & Apocrypha," and "In the Garden of Earthly Delights" in my online review of the catalog. I was also shocked when I heard that Image is publishing Deadbone! I got hat Peeters and Schuiten Nemo book through the Kickstarter. It's mostly full page images with text, so it's a little different than the other books, but it's still amazingly beautiful like the others. Alaxis Press also published a really nice edition of Leaning Girl. I agree with you on Tim Lane, and I loved that first Mythologies comic. I also like Tommaso a lot - he has been publishing Black Phoenix for Patreon supporters and doing a variety of different genres and playing with format in that magazine.

A highlight each month. Glad I waited for the Tardi boxed set.

Thanks for the run down!

Cool channel. I ordered some zines from your big cartel. Looking forward to the book on NVS. I hope it will be available to order. Great discussion.

Thanks for mentioning the Manga version of Ronin Rising though I wonder if the story will work in the smaller manga format. But $12.95 is a good price.

It’s a lean month but that’s good as my wallet could use the respite from the last two months of very interesting books.

Always glad to hear your takes. I am very happy with Charles Burns Kommix cover book. I just can't get enough of his stuff!

The Road is a superb adaptation and graphically a beautiful book. You should see it in the European format size. Hope you get it there also.

Floating World got the solicit for Vendetta: Holy Vindicator all messed up... it's not a one-shot, it's issue #5 (continuing on from issue #4, 30 years ago!) - everything by STEVE McArdle (there is no Sean McArdle) lol -- great video!

Ultra Heaven 1 by Last Gasp looks cool.

Also a new Henry & Glenn comic coming out from Microcosm Publishing.

Magnetic really produces beautiful books. I've really only bought one scifi cartoonist and a few toppi books but they are all so beautiful

This is THE Rick Parker you think it is. I checked it out.

Yellow by Jay Martin was something I preordered, I read his previous GN, not bad.

It’s a shame that Final Cut is 6X9. I’m glad I bought the French albums as they were released. Editions Cornelius makes some beautiful books.

52:26 I would suggest to consider the last volumen of Tokyo These Days by Taiyo Matsumoto. (PS: Thank you for this monthly flip-trough. It helps a lot.)

I've been waiting all year for that J. Webster Sharp book from Avery Hill! I'll probably order direct from them when it comes up for preorder.

How did I miss I.L. by Tezuka???

I can't imagine sitting down and reading a blacksad comic from start to finish

2:20 as far as I know, very little of the original art still exists. Literally destroyed. The mind boggles!

Ive been looking online for more information on GROUND ZERO COMICS by Leonard Rifas ever since I saw your video, without much luck. I'm so glad you mentioned it!

Very nice book haul in there. I was suprised to know that Mezzo and Pirus was published over there and by no other than Kitchen Sink. Never understood why Fantagraphics (or others…) never reprinted this one but then again they failed to print the whole “King if the Flies” series, so… If you can try to get the excellent “Love In Vain: Robert Johnson 1911-1938” also by them.

Just finished 2nd Innocent book. Absolute must read. Sakamoto is on another level

Thanks for mentioning the DC Comics Style Guide! I had no idea it was being republished.

One thing that caught my eye was "Last Starry Night" from Black Panel Press. Looks interesting.

Ignorant review

right on!

Amar Chitra Katha was a staple of every Indian comics fan, very interesting to see them push towards a Western market. They were more mythological than religious, so I think some non-Hindu readers will get some mileage out of them.