robin
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Can we be serious for a second
January 21, 2026 at 9:16 AM
Can we be serious for a second
One of two great meme pics to come from this final
January 19, 2026 at 12:15 AM
One of two great meme pics to come from this final
No. 9
Education; John Haniewicz: (reread)
As beautiful & engrossing & mystifying as ever. Properly cemented as an all-timer for me. This time I made a conscious effort to give the images more attention & I found connections I'd previously missed. Comics as poetry, as dance, as *writing*
Education; John Haniewicz: (reread)
As beautiful & engrossing & mystifying as ever. Properly cemented as an all-timer for me. This time I made a conscious effort to give the images more attention & I found connections I'd previously missed. Comics as poetry, as dance, as *writing*
January 16, 2026 at 6:43 PM
No. 9
Education; John Haniewicz: (reread)
As beautiful & engrossing & mystifying as ever. Properly cemented as an all-timer for me. This time I made a conscious effort to give the images more attention & I found connections I'd previously missed. Comics as poetry, as dance, as *writing*
Education; John Haniewicz: (reread)
As beautiful & engrossing & mystifying as ever. Properly cemented as an all-timer for me. This time I made a conscious effort to give the images more attention & I found connections I'd previously missed. Comics as poetry, as dance, as *writing*
No. 8
Lon Chaney Speaks; Pat Dorian:
A fannish slog. I'm not a fan of Little Lulu aping or this kind of watercolour work. There were some neat pages & I found the morals of silent films (both on & off screen) pretty interesting but man, comics biographies are so rarely good or even interesting lol
Lon Chaney Speaks; Pat Dorian:
A fannish slog. I'm not a fan of Little Lulu aping or this kind of watercolour work. There were some neat pages & I found the morals of silent films (both on & off screen) pretty interesting but man, comics biographies are so rarely good or even interesting lol
January 15, 2026 at 9:59 PM
No. 8
Lon Chaney Speaks; Pat Dorian:
A fannish slog. I'm not a fan of Little Lulu aping or this kind of watercolour work. There were some neat pages & I found the morals of silent films (both on & off screen) pretty interesting but man, comics biographies are so rarely good or even interesting lol
Lon Chaney Speaks; Pat Dorian:
A fannish slog. I'm not a fan of Little Lulu aping or this kind of watercolour work. There were some neat pages & I found the morals of silent films (both on & off screen) pretty interesting but man, comics biographies are so rarely good or even interesting lol
Tremendous cosign on the back cover lol
January 15, 2026 at 3:45 PM
Tremendous cosign on the back cover lol
No. 7
Little Death; Thomas Kriebaum:
Super hacky gag comics. Half of these aren't even jokes and the other half are trite and unfunny. Doesn't instill confidence in me that there are Austrian comics worth reading not by Nicolas Mahler.
Little Death; Thomas Kriebaum:
Super hacky gag comics. Half of these aren't even jokes and the other half are trite and unfunny. Doesn't instill confidence in me that there are Austrian comics worth reading not by Nicolas Mahler.
January 15, 2026 at 3:40 PM
No. 7
Little Death; Thomas Kriebaum:
Super hacky gag comics. Half of these aren't even jokes and the other half are trite and unfunny. Doesn't instill confidence in me that there are Austrian comics worth reading not by Nicolas Mahler.
Little Death; Thomas Kriebaum:
Super hacky gag comics. Half of these aren't even jokes and the other half are trite and unfunny. Doesn't instill confidence in me that there are Austrian comics worth reading not by Nicolas Mahler.
No. 6
Hacienda 1; Dave Ortega:
Intriguing! Features two stories that I presume will intertwine in a later issue but which I enjoyed on their own merits. Love & Rockets style meat-and-potatoes storytelling (although the drawing is worse) with interesting metatextual elements in both stories.
Hacienda 1; Dave Ortega:
Intriguing! Features two stories that I presume will intertwine in a later issue but which I enjoyed on their own merits. Love & Rockets style meat-and-potatoes storytelling (although the drawing is worse) with interesting metatextual elements in both stories.
January 15, 2026 at 3:15 PM
No. 6
Hacienda 1; Dave Ortega:
Intriguing! Features two stories that I presume will intertwine in a later issue but which I enjoyed on their own merits. Love & Rockets style meat-and-potatoes storytelling (although the drawing is worse) with interesting metatextual elements in both stories.
Hacienda 1; Dave Ortega:
Intriguing! Features two stories that I presume will intertwine in a later issue but which I enjoyed on their own merits. Love & Rockets style meat-and-potatoes storytelling (although the drawing is worse) with interesting metatextual elements in both stories.
No. 5
Inspiration; Yan Cong:
Lovely gross minicomic that does a lot with just 22 pages. Takes from American (Crumb, Matt) & Japanese (Tsuge) comics traditions for a tale which (I think) is about the follies of the Male Cartoonist & the shallowness of a lot of those creators' work.
Inspiration; Yan Cong:
Lovely gross minicomic that does a lot with just 22 pages. Takes from American (Crumb, Matt) & Japanese (Tsuge) comics traditions for a tale which (I think) is about the follies of the Male Cartoonist & the shallowness of a lot of those creators' work.
January 11, 2026 at 11:11 PM
No. 5
Inspiration; Yan Cong:
Lovely gross minicomic that does a lot with just 22 pages. Takes from American (Crumb, Matt) & Japanese (Tsuge) comics traditions for a tale which (I think) is about the follies of the Male Cartoonist & the shallowness of a lot of those creators' work.
Inspiration; Yan Cong:
Lovely gross minicomic that does a lot with just 22 pages. Takes from American (Crumb, Matt) & Japanese (Tsuge) comics traditions for a tale which (I think) is about the follies of the Male Cartoonist & the shallowness of a lot of those creators' work.
No. 4
Picnoleptic Inertia; Stathis Tsemberlidis:
Meh. When I say this feels very Heavy Metal, I mean that pejoratively. The sex stuff, sociopolitical 'commentary,' and allusions to The Matrix all fell flat for me. The drawings look time-consuming and all but they're super starchy
Picnoleptic Inertia; Stathis Tsemberlidis:
Meh. When I say this feels very Heavy Metal, I mean that pejoratively. The sex stuff, sociopolitical 'commentary,' and allusions to The Matrix all fell flat for me. The drawings look time-consuming and all but they're super starchy
January 9, 2026 at 10:25 PM
No. 4
Picnoleptic Inertia; Stathis Tsemberlidis:
Meh. When I say this feels very Heavy Metal, I mean that pejoratively. The sex stuff, sociopolitical 'commentary,' and allusions to The Matrix all fell flat for me. The drawings look time-consuming and all but they're super starchy
Picnoleptic Inertia; Stathis Tsemberlidis:
Meh. When I say this feels very Heavy Metal, I mean that pejoratively. The sex stuff, sociopolitical 'commentary,' and allusions to The Matrix all fell flat for me. The drawings look time-consuming and all but they're super starchy
No. 3
Retreat; Jaakko Pallasvuo:
Gorgeous mixed media apocalype melodrama. Freewheeling in its approach to form and frequently v funny. Found the bathetic ending unexpectedly moving. Better than Trophy Hunters. Pure Shores next!
Retreat; Jaakko Pallasvuo:
Gorgeous mixed media apocalype melodrama. Freewheeling in its approach to form and frequently v funny. Found the bathetic ending unexpectedly moving. Better than Trophy Hunters. Pure Shores next!
January 9, 2026 at 9:45 PM
No. 3
Retreat; Jaakko Pallasvuo:
Gorgeous mixed media apocalype melodrama. Freewheeling in its approach to form and frequently v funny. Found the bathetic ending unexpectedly moving. Better than Trophy Hunters. Pure Shores next!
Retreat; Jaakko Pallasvuo:
Gorgeous mixed media apocalype melodrama. Freewheeling in its approach to form and frequently v funny. Found the bathetic ending unexpectedly moving. Better than Trophy Hunters. Pure Shores next!
Just got all these experimental French comics from publisher Adverse in the mail. Guy on Vinted was selling them for ~100 quid, about a quarter of retail. I have so much to read
January 9, 2026 at 8:30 PM
Just got all these experimental French comics from publisher Adverse in the mail. Guy on Vinted was selling them for ~100 quid, about a quarter of retail. I have so much to read
Henryk Tomaszewski, '50s illustration for the magazine Przegląd Kulturalny ('Cultural Review')
January 3, 2026 at 12:49 PM
Henryk Tomaszewski, '50s illustration for the magazine Przegląd Kulturalny ('Cultural Review')
Derambure does a remarkably good job replicating the stylistic tics of mainstream manga, much better than the vast majority of Japonist French "Manga" (an awful sub-genre): namely labels, little text inserts, and, more broadly, the oft-underestimated stylistic & formal mercuriality of Shōnen/Shōjo.
January 2, 2026 at 9:51 PM
Derambure does a remarkably good job replicating the stylistic tics of mainstream manga, much better than the vast majority of Japonist French "Manga" (an awful sub-genre): namely labels, little text inserts, and, more broadly, the oft-underestimated stylistic & formal mercuriality of Shōnen/Shōjo.
No. 2
Basket:
Super endearing. Derambure the star of the show: there's Matsumoto, Moyoco Anno & Junko Mizuno in her art but her work's entirely her own. Moccand's script's also very charming and funny. Always a nice surprise when a non-Japanese sports comic is good. Good translation, bad lettering
Basket:
Super endearing. Derambure the star of the show: there's Matsumoto, Moyoco Anno & Junko Mizuno in her art but her work's entirely her own. Moccand's script's also very charming and funny. Always a nice surprise when a non-Japanese sports comic is good. Good translation, bad lettering
January 2, 2026 at 9:47 PM
No. 2
Basket:
Super endearing. Derambure the star of the show: there's Matsumoto, Moyoco Anno & Junko Mizuno in her art but her work's entirely her own. Moccand's script's also very charming and funny. Always a nice surprise when a non-Japanese sports comic is good. Good translation, bad lettering
Basket:
Super endearing. Derambure the star of the show: there's Matsumoto, Moyoco Anno & Junko Mizuno in her art but her work's entirely her own. Moccand's script's also very charming and funny. Always a nice surprise when a non-Japanese sports comic is good. Good translation, bad lettering
No. 1
World Heist:
Really liked this! An enchanting Corto Maltese-y yarn is always bound to hit for me. Tight & lucid at points but still manages to retain a sense of mystery. Enjoyed Sterte's sketchier-than-usual style & the 2- or 3-paneled pages very much. More books should be bound like this also
World Heist:
Really liked this! An enchanting Corto Maltese-y yarn is always bound to hit for me. Tight & lucid at points but still manages to retain a sense of mystery. Enjoyed Sterte's sketchier-than-usual style & the 2- or 3-paneled pages very much. More books should be bound like this also
January 2, 2026 at 1:01 AM
No. 1
World Heist:
Really liked this! An enchanting Corto Maltese-y yarn is always bound to hit for me. Tight & lucid at points but still manages to retain a sense of mystery. Enjoyed Sterte's sketchier-than-usual style & the 2- or 3-paneled pages very much. More books should be bound like this also
World Heist:
Really liked this! An enchanting Corto Maltese-y yarn is always bound to hit for me. Tight & lucid at points but still manages to retain a sense of mystery. Enjoyed Sterte's sketchier-than-usual style & the 2- or 3-paneled pages very much. More books should be bound like this also
2026 comics reading thread !
January 2, 2026 at 1:01 AM
2026 comics reading thread !
So many pseuds on my twitter feed. "Slop suggests [...] something to bite into"? What??
December 28, 2025 at 9:55 AM
So many pseuds on my twitter feed. "Slop suggests [...] something to bite into"? What??
Emmanuel Guibert / Fumiko Takano
December 25, 2025 at 5:29 PM
Emmanuel Guibert / Fumiko Takano
! New Helge Reumann klaxon !
CHÖD, coming from Atrabile in 2026
CHÖD, coming from Atrabile in 2026
December 12, 2025 at 3:09 PM
! New Helge Reumann klaxon !
CHÖD, coming from Atrabile in 2026
CHÖD, coming from Atrabile in 2026
I should read more of his interviews, but my interpretation was that he was very passionate about the form but disappointed in the direction it was going. More than a bit curmudgeonly. Sort of the Alan Moore of his time (I'm aware there's some overlap there)
December 8, 2025 at 11:11 PM
I should read more of his interviews, but my interpretation was that he was very passionate about the form but disappointed in the direction it was going. More than a bit curmudgeonly. Sort of the Alan Moore of his time (I'm aware there's some overlap there)
WRT comics, I like what Barthélémy Schwartz had to say about the matter (trns. Derik Badman:
www.du9.org/en/dossier/d...
www.du9.org/en/dossier/d...
December 8, 2025 at 9:32 PM
WRT comics, I like what Barthélémy Schwartz had to say about the matter (trns. Derik Badman:
www.du9.org/en/dossier/d...
www.du9.org/en/dossier/d...
Also! Highly debatable that they've been better and, if so, whether that has anything to do with Salah's omission. Does Salah not contributing defensively (a tactical decision Slot made!) have anything to do with their numerous issues? Why then is Konaté still playing? Macallister? Gakpo?
December 7, 2025 at 9:58 PM
Also! Highly debatable that they've been better and, if so, whether that has anything to do with Salah's omission. Does Salah not contributing defensively (a tactical decision Slot made!) have anything to do with their numerous issues? Why then is Konaté still playing? Macallister? Gakpo?