Weekly Weird Trigger Warnings 4

 Scott Shaw! Profile:

Amazon

About Comics released a collection of Scott Shaw!'s underground comix and creator-owned work in 2023. 

Shaw! has a weekly column at 13th Dimension highlighting even more of his Oddball Comics collection.

Because I'm a big John Candy fan (The Great Outdoors, Summer Rental, Uncle Buck), this article on Shaw!'s work on Camp Candy was a lot of fun.

Manga Reading List:

Found an intriguing book on Hoopla by Frederik L. Schodt called Dreamland Japan. It provides an essential portrait of the Manga industry in Japan in the early to mid 90s, during the infancy of the Manga explosion in the US (and also when I started reading Manga: Return of Lum, Gunsmith Cats, and random Osamu Tezuka series)

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Probably like every old person, my first recollection of reading Manga was Leonard Rifas' comic book version of Keiji Nakazawa's I Saw It (recently reprinted by Last Gasp).

Last Gasp

Also found this classic book by Frederik L. Schodt, Manga! Manga!: The World of Japanese Comics on Internet Archive. Unlike Dreamland Japan, it traces the roots of Manga back hundreds of years.

Internet Archive

New Hermann collection:

A selection of 15 historical shorts from 1965-70, originally published in Tintin and Spirou magazines. Lambiek shop

Poopsheet Foundation New Arrivals:

More from the Bill Fitts collection, including this classic from the Polyester Age of alternative mini-comics:

Poopsheet Foundation

Cassiopeia the Witch 28 by Perry Lake. Love the ad for Elizabeth Watasin's Adventures of A-Girl #2 on the back cover!

Larry Shell Benefit Auction:

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Check out some rare Peter Bagge, Hunt Emerson, Don Simpson, Gary Hallgren, and much more original art to help with living expenses after many health problems for former underground comix editor Larry Shell. Link to auction. (From downthetubes.net)

Comics Video Watchlist:

Adam Yeater (Blood Desert) shows us more of the mini-comics that have shown up in his mailbox:

Everybody's favorite Manga YouTube channel. Straight from Australia, the newest horror haul from Famicon Collects: