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Cara O'Neil - NYCC @caraoneil.bsky.social · 1h

Harveys are heavy

Mark Truesdale @marktweedale.bsky.social · 48m

A damn fine book, that one. I know it's extremely unlikely, but I'd sure love English editions of the grand format versions of Blacksad that Dargaud is releasing right now, along with all the new special features.

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Mark Truesdale @marktweedale.bsky.social · 50m

Has there ever been a film about drawing comics that comes even remotely close to the genius of Look Back?

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Mark Truesdale @marktweedale.bsky.social · 54m

Sorry, I forgot to ALT text a pair of pictures above. It was the cover for the Look Back manga by Tatsuki Fujimoto and the poster for the film directed by Kiyotaka Oshiyama.

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Mark Truesdale @marktweedale.bsky.social · 57m

A big part of the reason why the story works is because we believe in the characters and want to see them succeed. Doing a parody of a parody of a manga would've completely undermined the story. Instead, we get something so beautifully genuine, that captures the character's soul in her artwork.

A comic strip drawn by Fujino when she was in Year 6 from Tatsuki Fujimoto's Look Back.

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Mark Truesdale @marktweedale.bsky.social · 57m

Like the childhood comic strips by Fujino in Look Back. There's something there that makes me not only believe that she'll become a mangaka, but something in her that makes that inevitable. Even in Year 6, it was clear she was a storyteller that had a wonderful sense of humour.

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Mark Truesdale @marktweedale.bsky.social · 57m

Like the movie being made in The Fall Guy, Metalstorm, is absolute shit. Not remotely believable at all as a passion project and certainly not as a successful film.

But it such a pleasure to experience a story about a storyteller, and the story that they're making has a real spark to it.

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Mark Truesdale @marktweedale.bsky.social · 57m

I'm gonna start off negative, but I'm going somewhere with this. One thing I hate in films and TV shows, is when it's a story about someone writing a book, or drawing a comic, or making a film, and the thing that they're making is just extremely mediocre or outright shit.

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Mark Truesdale @marktweedale.bsky.social · 1h

Yes, it would have to be unedited.

Mark Truesdale @marktweedale.bsky.social · 1h

God, I wish they had done a 2D film with marvellously thick black linework. (And with shots where the bottom of the frame is the ground.)

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Mark Truesdale @marktweedale.bsky.social · 1h

Some writers that made me:

• Jane Austen
• J.R.R. Tolkien
• Emily Rodda
• K.A. Applegate
• Lois Lowry
• Ursula K. Le Guin
• Shirley Jackson
• Agatha Christie
• Carl Sagan
• Ted Chiang
• Suzanne Collins

Johanna Taylor 👻 Lightbox Expo 630 @johannamation.bsky.social · 1h

Some writers that made me:

Bruce Coville
JRR Tolkien
Lois Lowry
Eoin Colfer
Markus Zusak
Ray Bradbury
CS Lewis
Mary Pope Osborne
Suzanne Collins

Indie Book Spotlight @bookspotlight.bsky.social · Mar 22

who are some of the writers that made you?

jrr tolkien
libba bray
jd salinger
ken follett
cs lewis
joanna campbell
lemony snicket
richelle mead
stephenie meyer
kurt vonnegut jr
eva ibbotson
se hinton
lois duncan

you? 📚💙

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Mark Truesdale @marktweedale.bsky.social · 1h

Exactly. A.I. exists to create data pollution.

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Comic Book Couples Counseling @cbccpodcast.bsky.social · 1h

Thank You, @harveyawards.bsky.social❤️

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Mark Truesdale @marktweedale.bsky.social · 2h

”Let’s take the poster child of ligne claire and go with a visual style that is the antithesis of that style,” is a hell of a wild choice.

Andy Karl-son of Kong @andykarlson.bsky.social · 4h

The real miracle of the movie, and this is 1000% because of Spielberg's direction, is that it's watchable and actually good, in spite of having been made during the absolute nadir of the mocap CGI era.

Seriously, the film should have as a tagline, "Filmed on location in the Uncanny Valley!"

CGI Tintin and Captain Haddock, the most utterly uncanny valley versions of the characters imaginable

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Mark Truesdale @marktweedale.bsky.social · 2h

Really wish I could buy Look Back. I’m so fucking tired of films and shows I love being locked away in streaming services.

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Mark Truesdale @marktweedale.bsky.social · 4h

From @dstlry.bsky.social. No release date yet. There schedule was thrown into disarray with the collapse of Diamond, but they're with Penguin Random House now and getting things back in order. Their scheduled books are listed here: prhcomics.com/themes/?catU...

Category Landing Page - Penguin Random House Comics Retail

prhcomics.com

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Mr. Tyler Crook @mrtylercrook.bsky.social · 4h

20 minutes!

Mr. Tyler Crook @mrtylercrook.bsky.social · 8h

Friday Yay!

Join us for the Comic Book Cool Down art live stream Fridays at 7pm (PT)!

www.youtube.com/live/IZmGEiX...

The Comic Book Cool Down

YouTube video by Mr. Tyler Crook

www.youtube.com

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Sergio Codespoti @codespoti.bsky.social · 14h

Mike Mignola

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Mark Truesdale @marktweedale.bsky.social · 12h

Anzuelo by Emma Ríos. Here are some preview pages from early in the book. It's gets better the further into it that you go.

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Mark Truesdale @marktweedale.bsky.social · 12h

Les Indes Fourbes, written by Alain Ayroles and illustrated by Juanjo Guarnido www.calameo.com/read/0036116...

Les Indes Fourbes

De l’ancien au Nouveau Monde, la fabuleuse épopée d’un vaurien en quête de fortune… En 160 pages au très grand format, le dessinateur de Blacksad et le scénariste de De Cape et de Crocs nous offrent c...

www.calameo.com

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Mark Truesdale @marktweedale.bsky.social · 12h

Alex Alice's Castle in the Stars.

Castle in the Stars – Volume 1: The Space Race of 1869. By Alex Alice.

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Mark Truesdale @marktweedale.bsky.social · 12h

You should definitely get on that. Dave Stewart's colours are a masterclass of visual storytelling, especially the newer stories which are drawing on a colour language developed over thirty years.

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Alise Gluškova @alisegluskova.bsky.social · 13h

Been tweaking this one for a while. I had few other concepts done that didn't hit the mark. This is the closest I can get to the idea I had in mind. Freshly hatched Drake... 😌 #OCs

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Mark Truesdale @marktweedale.bsky.social · 12h

I can't wait for @sispurrier.bsky.social and @matiasbergara.bsky.social's A Mischief of Magpies. This sort of world building is what the larger and wider comics page is made for. Fantasy and science fiction are just generally better with this aspect ratio. @dstlry.bsky.social #comics #FantasyComics

A double-page spread preview of Simon Spurrier and Matías Bergara's A Mischief of Magpies

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BrowseTheStacks @browsethestacks.bsky.social · 5d

The Secret Of NIMH

Art by Matías Bergara

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