New European Comics Special "After-Angouleme" Edition

Many European comics seem to be coming out around the time of the Angouleme Festival, so let's get the party started with last year's Grand Prix honoree Julie Doucet...

FROM LASSOCIATION.FR 1/20/23:

SUICIDE TOTAL is a special limited edition of the book published by Drawn & Quarterly as TIME ZONE J. As you may be able to tell from the photos above, it's printed on one continuous page, which I'm guessing is how Doucet envisioned the book.

LES NOUVELLES AVENTURES DE LAPINOT TOME 8: 31 JUILLET New book by Lewis Trondheim

FROM LESREQUINSMARTEAUX.COM 1/2023:

VERMINES EPISODE 2 by Marc Pichelin and Guillaume Guerse

FROM LA-BOITE-A-BULLES.COM 2/1/23:

I've seen a few of this publisher's books translated into English, so maybe we'll be able to read these in the future.

HAYAT: D'ALEP A BRUXELLES

ENFANT DE LA NUIT POLAIRE by Julia Nikitina

FROM DANIELMAGHEN.COM 2/09/23:

L'OR DU TEMPS: SECONDE PARTIE by Rodolphe and Oriol

FROM FREMOK.ORG 1/26/23:

DEFENSE D'ENTRER ICI by Patrick Kyle (Published by Koyoma Press in 2016 as DON'T COME IN HERE)

FROM DIABLOEDICIONES.COM 1/16/23:

EC Comics in Spanish!

FROM EMPLOYE-DU-MOI.ORG 2/03/23:

TANGO VOLVER by Hanneriina Moisseinen

FROM SPLITTER-VERLAG.DE 1/25/23:

DER INCAL 6: IN NACHSTER NAHE special oversized edition with Moebius art in b/w.

Splitter Verlag releases so many albums that I've concentrated on these German-made adaptations of Markus Heitz novels. Art on both by Che-Rigas Rossie.

DIE ZWERGE 4

DIE ZWERGE GESAMTAUSGABE (1-4)

FROM EDITIONS-DELCOURT.FR:

1/18/23

JE SUIS METISSE by Sayra Begum

LA NEF DES FOUS TOME 12

LA NEF DES FOUS TOME 1 both by Turf

NO FUTURE written by Corbeyran

DU BEAU AVEC DU MOCHE by Kek

1/25/23

NEVADA TOME 4: JACK LONDON art by Colin Wilson

DJARABANE TOME 1 by Adjim Danngar

SILLAGE TOME 12 by JD Morvan and Philippe Buchet

FROM GLENAT.COM:

1/18/23

SOURIRE D'ACIER TOME 1 by Fabien Dalmasso

SIRIUS by Ana Christina Sanchez instagram twitter

According to her instagram this is available in English (further investigation says Tokyopop).

2/01/23

LE GRANDES BATAILLES NAVALES: LES CINQ ILES art by Fabio Pezzi

LES FILLES DES MARINS PERDUS TOME 2

LA FORET DU TEMPS TOME 2 by Teresa Radice & Stefano Turconi

FROM LELOMBARD.COM:

1/20/23

VAGUE DE FROID by Jean Cremers

LA FORET DU TEMPS TOME 2

1/27/23

THE FRONTIER TOME 1

FROM ATRABILE.ORG 1/20/23:

HYPER LOTO ESPACE

FROM DARGAUD.COM 1/27/23:

MADEMOISELLE SOPHIE by Zabus & Hippolyte

JUMELLE by Florence Dupre la Tour

LES SAUROCTONES TOME 3 by Erwann Surcouf

FROM REPRODUKT.COM 2/06/23:

DONJON 9: TRANEN UND NEBEL by The Usual Suspects

FROM COCONINOPRESS.IT 2/03/23:

IN CARNE E FERRO by Killoffer. Only listed on amazon.it

FROM LACUPULA.COM:

2/02/23

LAS CRONICAS DE ODIO VOLUMEN 4

1/19/23

DUERME PUEBLO by Nuria Tamarit and Xulia Vicente (3rd edition of this epic collaboration!)

FROM DUPUIS.COM:

1/20/23

IN MEMORIAM TOME 1 by Mathieu Salvia and Djet

MADONES ET PUTAINS by Nine Antico

1/25/23

SPIROU #4424 (No, that's not a typo!)

1/27/23

LES AVENTURES DE THEODORE POUSSIN TOME 14: ARO SATOE by Frank Le Gall

MADELEINE RESISTANTE CAHIERS TOME 4 adapted by JD Morvan and Dominique Bertail

My Science Fiction Reading List

I've got about a hundred science fiction paperbacks sitting around unread, so here's my adaptation of Mike Nickell's #my500comicgoal Twitter hashtag for 2023. I do read digital also, so we'll start there...

0. THE DEVIL'S NEBULA by Eric Brown

This is my favorite type of science fiction, just plain weird situations and characters with a more grounded character moving through the story. This is one I finished from last summer! Yikes. It may be a short list, folks.

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1. THE EMPLOYEES by Olga Ravn (Martin Aitken: translator) [read on Libby app]

Christ! This is one creepy story. I thought it was going to be a workplace comedy, ffs. Everything pulls together in the end to make a good dystopian space opera, just told in HR exit interviews as things slowly fall apart on a generation ship.

2. A HERITAGE OF STARS by Clifford D. Simak

I read this one before, but I've read so many Simak books I misremembered quite a few parts of the book. Quite an unusual (and complicated) back story for a post-apocalyptic tale. My favorite characters are the dad who talks to plants and his daughter whose perceptions reach across the universe. Yeah, it's my kind of book...

Ebay Finds: kochcomics sets

The view outside and inside of Joseph Koch's Brooklyn warehouse (images from yelp.com, 2011 and 2014, respectively). Wall to wall from floor to ceiling comics and stuff. I'm pretty sure they have a loading bay because they buy comics by the palette load.

 I first bought sets of comics from kochcomics in the 90s (Back when they advertised in CBG) and rediscovered them on eBay a few years ago. They have pretty much everything under the sun (you know you need some 8-Track tapes), but still have over 3,700 sets of comics: big and small. I'll just list the first ten sets that catch my eye...

FREAK-OUT ON INFINITE EARTHS #1#2 Blackthorne doesn't have a very good reputation, but I love the covers on this parody series. I want to buy them, in fact, just to see who paints that second issue cover!

SCATTERBRAIN #1-#4 Dark Horse humor anthology with Evan Dorkin, Dave Cooper, Jay Stephens, Daniel Torres, and many others.

CREEPSVILLE #1-#5 Another humor comic, this one by Franklin J. Kurtz.

MISSPENT YOUTHS #1-#5 A Brave New Words series by David Lee Ingersoll

DIK SKYCAP & DR. IAN DEFROST #1#2 A Rip Off Press series I've never seen before, by Philip Groves. Holy shit, this is most likely the same person in this profile.

TRUFAN ADVENTURES THEATRE #1 #2 B/W parody of superheroes, I actually remember reading this at the time it came out and not knowing what the fuck to think of it! Good but far from the mainstream I was used to.

3X3 EYES: CURSE OF GESU #1-#5 Dark Horse Manga by Yuzo Takada. Kochcomics has many Manga sets, here's a random one.

FOREVER NOW #1-#3 An unknown-to-me series from the publisher of DELTA TENN and MAN FROM U.N.C.L.E.

SORT OF HOMECOMING #1-#3 Damon Hurd and Pedro Camello series from Alternative Comics (which, amazingly, still posts on twitter). The creative team behind Eisner-nominated MY UNCLE JEFF.

CASANOVA #1 #2 Eurotica by Ricard from Aircel. 

(all images taken from kochcomics, except for FOREVER NOW #3 and DIK SKYCAP #1 #2 from GCD. Kochcomics differs from other comics ebayers in that they use actual photos of their comics, rather than stock images.)