Our Complete Comics Collection: SHELF TEN!

[@ftloc]

Goof alert! The third name in the list of editors of the Long Form volume is Sekhar Mukherjee , not Sekhar Kumar! I corrected myself during recording but still ended up using the wrong ‘take’ somehow! That’s what you get for editing late at night...My apologies.

[@DiptarupGhoshDastidar]

Ahh its great to see the Longform Anthology here!! I am very closely related with and follow the works of all the editors (although I am not personally acquainted with Shekhar Mukherjee). Excellent artists all of them! No words for Junji Ito! _/\_ There were so many things I wanted to write almost at the end of each of your videos so far, but I refrained lest I end up spamming! Ha ha! And I'm sure you've talked about those plenty in a lot of the other comments too!

[@ftloc]

I would invite you to definitely comment away; as you can probably tell, there's no frowning on long talks over here! 😋

[@DiptarupGhoshDastidar]

@@ftloc ha ha!! Yes that's true! 😁😁

[@arunavabanerjee6467]

Have you read Raymond Briggs' Ethel and Ernest? That's where I first read (and loved) him and background reading suggested that most of his other work was for children. I seem to have made the same mistake in think of these other works as I earlier have with James Kochalka. Will have to get my hands on Gentleman Jim and When the Wind Blows ASAP then.

[@ftloc]

Arunava Banerjee Ethel and Ernest is a lovely work! I read it from a library many years ago, and my memory jogged by these videos, I ordered a used copy a few weeks ago. It should be here soon! Actually I think I will also seek out Briggs’ Snowman and other kids’ work now that Thriftbooks has made most of them available secondhand!

[@pranabsarkar1042]

Most of the collection are like my type especially the the American comics strips collection

[@Rangersly]

I am jealous of your beautiful hardcover ditions of USAGI YOJIMBO! I try to buy the Carl Barks Duck hardcover in the slipcase editions myself. It's not a big price difference here in Canada, but it is kind of harder to follow the series that way. I think I saw one volume featured in two different slipcases with a different second volume in each...

[@ftloc]

Rangersly Yes! Basically you need to avoid the Christmas or other ‘celebratory’ slipcases and only get the ones that put them together chronologically, the ones with the circular images. Not all of them come to India, unfortunately, and the ones that do are exorbitantly priced for some reason, probably import duties on list price with 0 discount. I’m glad I was able to get all the Peanuts hardcover volumes in slipcases, but that’s not going to happen for Barks 😔

[@mutton7891]

Great stuff as usual. That Long Form volume caught my eye. I've always been interested in checking out the Indian indie comics scene but never knew where to start so I might have to pick it up.

[@ftloc]

I think given the range and quality of work it contains, it’s a perfect pick for what you’re curious about. Also, have you tried any books from Kokaachi press?

[@mutton7891]

@@ftloc No I'm not familiar with Kokaachi Press. Do they publish indie comics from India too?

[@ftloc]

Mutton yes, they’re a small press out of Kochi with some very interesting offerings. Some of their comics show up at the start of my Shelf Eight video and you should check out their website. Along with Longform, their list is a good place to start!

[@mutton7891]

@@ftloc Just had a look at their website, this seems to be just what I was looking for. Thanks for the great recommendation!

[@chad8767]

That kabuki volume I have as well, but it was skewed when they formatted it to Library Edition, which actually ruins the readability for the story. A perfect circle is important to the theme and iconography of the story, so destroying the circle is just destroying the story. So I have the original hardcover of Circle of Blood and the Library Edition. That said, I recommend collecting all the rest of the Library Editions of Kabuki because there is no skew issues and they are fantastic printings.

[@ftloc]

Yes that's exactly what's been recommended by others as well, and I also hear there are omnibuses that correct that circle problem in the first LE. I hope to be able to find the other LEs soon, but chances are slim, I fear! 😔

[@chad8767]

@@ftloc yes, the Omnibuses correct the skew problem, so you are safe getting those (I just like the hardcover stuff for this since it is one of my absolute favorite books I ever read)

[@sam.s.g]

I would like to see a more in-depth look at the Best American Comics anthology one day. Great video

[@ftloc]

Ah interesting! I didn't know if anyone would be interested in those but they're pretty significant for me, so I would love to tackle them in a video! Thanks for the nudge and they go on the list...😁

[@lord-fish]

Great collection.

[@RSEFX]

Looks like I'd have an awful lot to catch up to if I really decided to delve into this kind of work on a concerted level. What are some of your preferred/favorite/most highly-regarded (etc) non-comic/non-comic-related readings? What else is an influence on your thinking, your philosophies and so on in the literary or visual art realms that are separate from your interests in the graphics/comics media?

[@ftloc]

Oh that's a powerfully loaded question - I've addressed bits of it in some of my Q&A videos, but I love prose fiction (although I don't read much of it these days) , particularly the works of Nabokov, Dostoevsky, Coetzee, Toni Morrison, a couple of Salman Rushdie books, Garcia Marquez, Kurt Vonnegut, but also classic favourites like Jane Austen...actually I guess I select favourite books/stories more than favourite authors at most times and find gems in many bibliographies. I also love movies, where my favourites would include Dr Strangelove, Blade Runner, In the Mood for Love, Fantastic Mr Fox, Taste of Cherry, Tampopo, All The President's Men... You know what? This is too difficult 😝

[@RSEFX]

@@ftloc Yes, I guess that was kind of an insanely big question to ask. But I do very much appreciate some insight into what you find of interest, reading-wise, outside of the graphic-novels/comics realm. Your wide range of interests and suggestions in the latter has opened up a major realm of creativity for me to explore, at least to the extent possible. After a long long career in film in which I had so little time for anything but work and more or less scientific/technical matters, I am now having some welcome time for exploring these other realms on a wider basis. Thank you for this!.

[@freakbuck]

Also there are. 2 more junji ito books from viz. Smashed and Shiver. Not to mention the melting classroom and his upcoming not only human

[@ftloc]

I got Frankenstein but need to get Smashed and Shiver - thanks for the tip!

[@freakbuck]

Check out the Drifting Classroom if you havent yet. Amazingly underrated surreal horror manga from the 70s

[@ftloc]

Good to see so much more good stuff waiting for me! Thanks for the leads!

[@haywoco2]

Uzumaki is quite a classic! I know we talked a bit about Berserk, but beyond that, are you at all interested in expanding your collection of Japanese manga?

[@ftloc]

Absolutely, I can’t get enough now! 😀 I need the next volumes of Bride’s Story and Children of the Sea, but I think you’ll see some brand new books in the upcoming weeks/ months as well! 😀

[@suklabhowmick6140]

@@ftloc please read monster by naoki urasawa

[@abhaybedi7680]

hey where do you buy most of these comics , like i want to start with jason series but it is not available on amazon

[@seans.383]

Death Note is amazing, you should watch the anime too, I actually found it better than the manga

[@ftloc]

I've watched the first ten episodes and thought it was crackling; not really sure why I didn't go on, but I should look it back up!

[@WaffleAfterHours]

I need to clean up my shelf.

[@ftloc]

I need to make a video on that! 😀

[@abhirajsah6308]

I am your new fan loved your comic review , btw can you review hellboy the wild hunt

[@ftloc]

Welcome and thank you! I’m definitely going to do Hellboy, I am just trying to find the right shape - one big video? A bunch of small ones? Should I get the paperbacks if I like my library editions just fine? So many things to figure out! 😅 But it’ll happen, just never at any trendy time like a movie release etc because I have no clue to how work that way! 😀

[@arindam_sen]

A series on Jason!!

[@ftloc]

I’m working on it! 🤓

[@wrybried]

You're missing out on some really nice manga (though what you've shown in these videos is generally pretty good), you might want to check out stuff like wandering island, house of five leaves, girl from the other side, Blame!, or dead dead demon's dededede destruction for instance.

[@ftloc]

Oh, yes, I have no doubt that I have only just started scratching the outermost surface of the first level 😀. But I feel that way about all books and literature all the time anyway, so that's part of the joy of having the whole world in front of you. I'll definitely be looking into more and more manga, and Blame! is -for example - one that many people recommend. Thanks for the list and I'm off to the research stations!

[@wrybried]

​@@ftloc The only thing to surpass the pleasure of the quest for new reading material is the joy in the eventual finding and experiencing of such books. I hope your intrigue is piqued by what you discover of these books, and are driven to give them a try!

[@shouryabhattacharjee6220]

Can you guys do a best graphic novels ever written.BTW I'm a new subscriber and i have watched most of your videos and loved each of them.

[@ftloc]

Welcome to the channel, and thanks so much for the kind words! In some ways, *all* our videos are about the best comics ever (or at least our favourites/ greatest loves) because it would certainly be a lifelong effort to highlight them all. Still, we have made a handful of Top 10s as you may have seen, and plan on keeping on making such lists by genre or some other parameter, so hopefully that will work for you too. Quite simply, the "greatest 'graphic novels' " is way way too wide for me without making it into more manageable categories first! 😀

[@avadheshfamily5936]

Can you do a overview of the Carl barks duck comics

[@ftloc]

A Barks/Scrooge video in the works, but I keep waiting for one more volume, one more volume ... maybe I should just go for it! In the meantime, have you caught my in-depth look at Uncle Scrooge #15 here: kzbin.info/www/bejne/nZrLY5qErJarqpo ?

[@asurprisetobesurebutawelco6617]

@@ftloc please just go for it its gonna a be a good video

[@kitrinospiti]

I have these Donald and Unce Scroodge stories by Carl Barks and Don Rossa in Greek, in a comic series that was being published here but seeing your video I suddently want to get them in their original language (I'm sure there would be a lot of jokes lost in translation). How does the volume counting go? They start from the Don Rossa ones and continue counting with the Carl Barks? I got confused!

[@ftloc]

Although the Rosa stories came a couple of decades after the Barks stories, Barks wrote for many more years so his volumes are still being published (two a year from Fantagraphics) wheras the Rosa volumes are all done. So you can pick up all ten Rosa volumes in chronological order. There are many Barks books out already and five or six more to go I believe!

[@TheSanne1979]

Have you manage to get the hardcover set completed? Do you have the reprint of the vol 1 usagi yojimbo?

[@ftloc]

I did manage to snag a copy, yes! But it is sitting with my sister in the USA and I have no idea when I'll get my hands on it... 🤪

[@TheSanne1979]

@@ftloc good excuse to visit your sister 😄

[@ftloc]

Absolutely, as if I needed one! 😁

[@TheSanne1979]

@@ftloc and did you snag vol 9?

[@pranabsarkar1042]

I love this video

[@mazecoaster]

Do a video looking at the Uncle Scrooge and Donald Duck books

[@ftloc]

Definitely getting to it, I just need a few more of the released volumes to fill it out first!

[@MySouravdas]

When Debkumar Mitra turns into Debkumar Mitro you will find a rocking Bengali you tuber in the house

[@ftloc]

😆

[@ihatefanserviceanime364]

I recommended a distant neighborhood and ashita no joe

[@ftloc]

A distant neighbourhood is one of my favourite comics ever and I've talked about it in a couple of my videos now. I have not read Ashita No Joe yet, though. Are there many volumes?

[@opereirajj]

Have you ever read a brazilian comic?

[@ftloc]

What do you suggest?

[@opereirajj]

@@ftloc Cumbe by Marcelo D'Salete won the last Eisner

[@opereirajj]

@@ftloc Vincent by Vitor Cafaggi

[@ftloc]

@@opereirajj Thank you, I'm looking them right up!