What Classic Comics Have You Purchased Lately? Pt. 2

[Johnny P. Sartre]

Oh yes! Tezuka has some great underrated classics like Princess Knights, Ode to Kirihito, NextWorld and Swallowing the Earth to name a few and in which I think deserve more attention.

[pmpknface]

LOVED SWALLOWING THE EARTH! I'm still not done with Princess Knight though...

[Jezebel Bond]

A pretty reductionist point of view. Anyway, as if you needed to speak Italian to "read" that Eurotrash!

Nothing to do with being reductionist...I like dirty comics, especially when the art is good...like Giovanna Casotto...and it does help if one can understand Italian...unless everyone here can explain what l'arte erotica dal fumetto alla fotografia means without looking it up.

[DubipR]

Nothing to do with being reductionist...I like dirty comics, especially when the art is good...like Giovanna Casotto...and it does help if one can understand Italian...unless everyone here can explain what l'arte erotica dal fumetto alla fotografia means without looking it up.

I'm with you on having a slight grasp of a foreign language to appreciate an untranslated comic a bit more. I speak touristy-German but enough not to get mugged or killed when traveling. Most of the European comics I like or want to read are mostly French and Belgium, but I'm able to locate German translation of some volumes.

And as for Giovanna Casotto, her stuff is exquisite. Have you ever seen any of Nik Guerra's artwork? Its in the same vein as Casotto, but with a bit more bondage in his works.

[Johnny P. Sartre]

Love Guerra and Casotto! Any fans of Olivia De Berardinis, Paolo Eleuteri Serpieril, and hell, even some of Vittorio Giardino's stuff too?

[DubipR]

Love Guerra and Casotto! Any fans of Olivia De Berardinis, Paolo Eleuteri Serpieril, and hell, even some of Vittorio Giardino's stuff too?

I've met Olivia a few times at gallery openings and book signings; one of the nicest ladies you'll ever meet. I'm a fan of Serpieri as well; I appreciate someone that is classically trained that can draw like that in comic format. I also like Alfonso Azpiri (Lorna) as well. As or Giardino, I've only seen bits and pieces of Little Ego and some Sam Pezzo works.

[Johnny P. Sartre]

OH PEZZO! How I love ye. I haven't read Pezzo in a long time and this whole euro talk is making want to whip out a lot of albums.

[dan bailey]

it does help if one can understand Italian...unless everyone here can explain what l'arte erotica dal fumetto alla fotografia means without looking it up.

Something along the lines of erotic art of the fumetti & photograph, which I'd guess would convey something like erotic photographic fumetti ... except I think fumetti are by definition (at least here in the U.S) photo-based.

In other words, I'm guessing wildly. (Don't know any Italian except for a handful of items off a menu. Took a couple of other Romance languages, French & Spanish, in school, but that's as close as I got. Took second-year French & first-year Spanish the same semesters, in fact, which I don't particularly recommend -- I got A's, but I'm more prone to confuse terms from the two more than I would otherwise, I'm sure.)

[Fesch_]

I wouldn't mention Giardino in comparison with Serpieri or Azpiri (though I have a soft spot for Azpiri, since I would read his Mot with pleasure when I was a kid). Giardiano plays in a different league: he doesn't just draw beautiful women, he is one of the most elegant European artists working today, and a fantastic storyteller. He has done some fine erotic stuff (Little Ego is certainly charming), but he can also stand against the likes of Bilal or Bourgeon. Check his Max Fridman series, for instance.

Nothing to do with being reductionist...I like dirty comics, especially when the art is good...like Giovanna Casotto...and it does help if one can understand Italian...unless everyone here can explain what l'arte erotica dal fumetto alla fotografia means without looking it up.

It means: "Erotic art from comic to photography". And no, I didn't look it up.

Something along the lines of erotic art of the fumetti & photograph, which I'd guess would convey something like erotic photographic fumetti ... except I think fumetti are by definition (at least here in the U.S) photo-based.

Fumetto is the Italian word for comic, and it doesn't have anything to do with photography.

[dan bailey]

Fumetto is the Italian word for comic, and it doesn't have anything to do with photography.

I think I knew that, somewhere in the deep, dark recesses of my memory. Though as indicated, over here fumetti refer to strips consisting of photos with word balloons, pretty much.

[MDG]

Fumetto is the Italian word for comic, and it doesn't have anything to do with photography.

I first saw fumetti used to describe comics created by adding balloons to photographs. I think Harvey Kurtzman was one of the first to do this in the US, mainly in HELP! (but he may have done a couple for Playboy).

[Fesch_]

Maybe in the US it has that meaning, but in Italy it's just a comic. And in the rest of Europe we usually say fumetti when we refer to Italian comics, in the same manner that we say BD for Franco-Belgian comics. It is true, though, that Italy has a long tradition of photo novellas (have you seen the unforgettable shooting of one of those in Fellini's The White Sheik?), so this may have led to the overlapping of terms in the US.

[dan bailey]

Is there a listing somewhere for different nations' & cultures' ways of referring to comics? I'd love to see one.

[CromagnonMan]

This:



I Shall Destroy All The Civilized Planets - The Comics Of Fletcher Hanks

Another nice Fantagraphics tome of rare golden age oddities, this time by Fletcher Hanks. Its rather good.

[pmpknface]

I've flipped through that book and seen some of it on line. Great stuff. "You! You're bad! Into the sun with you!" That's a lot of what it's like. So much fun...