Moomin, Hugo Pratt, Sunny, Rust, Spanish Comics and More Recent Reads and New Acquisitions
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- Опубликовано: 12 сен 2024
- Recent reads and new acquisitions for the month of May included a slew of European comics: The Moomin Deluxe Anniversary Edition; Hugo Pratt's The Man From the Great North; the first volume of Jerome K Jerome Bloche adventures; and an anthology of Spanish comics all feature in this video. But Americans Royden Lepp (Rust Vol 4) and Noah Van Sciver (Fante Bukowski) also appear, as do the rest of of the volumes of Taiyo Matsumoto's excellent Sunny, from Japan. Join me for my end-of-month recap and share below what you've been reading!
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Moomin Deluxe Anniversary Edition amzn.to/2EKfeVe
The Man from the Great North amzn.to/2IatN5g
Fante Bukowski amzn.to/2JPUgby
Rust amzn.to/2MkCjE3
Sunny Book 1 amzn.to/2Wibntd
Spanish Fever amzn.to/2Iau0p4
Jerome K Jerome Bloche amzn.to/2Mmw6rg
Ape and Armadillo Take Over the World amzn.to/2MiAtn4
In India
Moomin Deluxe Anniversary Edition amzn.to/2JQlfDW
The Man from the Great North amzn.to/2WhPSc5
Fante Bukowski amzn.to/2EMsloB
Rust amzn.to/2JQQA9C
Sunny Book 1 amzn.to/2ENnMut
Spanish Fever amzn.to/313RBAz
Jerome K Jerome Bloche amzn.to/2Kl36O2
Ape and Armadillo Take Over the World amzn.to/2Xms8js
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I am really interested in the Moomin deluxe Edition, can you please review it.
Ps. I love your channel.
Marco Marco Thank you! And yes, a quick look at the Moomin book is definitely in the works already! 😀
me too. I used to watch a magical animated version on tv when I was a teen.
@@ftloc i hope it comes soon. i am wanting to get all the moomin books and i am not sure if it is just all comics or the stories in it too.
I know nothing about Moomin, except, like you, that it enjoys a good critical reputation. So I would love to see a seperate episode where you talk about this slipcase book. Same with Sunny. I have never even heard of this except briefly on your channel. So, he's my vote for a video about the whole series when you're done reading all the new acquisitions.
Rangersly Noted and I have a strong suspicion that both of these will see the light of day! 😀
Can't believe I just found this channel; such great content
Thank you so much and welcome to the channel! I hope you find plenty to enjoy here and have fun exploring! I have a bunch of playlists up that I hope make it more fun/ easy to browse: ruclips.net/user/FortheLoveofComicsplaylists
Would be great if you would do a review of that moomin deluxe edition sometime. It was one of my favorite childhood cartoons back in the day. I have this deluxe on my wishlist for a while now. I think they will put out a second deluxe collecting the rest of the comics by lars jansen as well.
Absolutely! As soon as I am done reading it, up goes the video! 😀
Glad you liked Sunny. Another one of these lesser-known, short series that you'd really enjoy is Children of the Sea by Daisuke Igarashi. It's a 5 volume series and just like Sunny, the protagonists are kids and the artwork is unique and stunningly beautiful. It's a slow paced mystery that revolves around sea life and marine biology. Quite underrated.
Memories of Emanon (the first volume of this 3 volume series just got published in English) and Wandering Island by Kenji Surata are two other underrated series that I also recommend.
Mutton I have and loved the first volume of Children of the Sea which I got after reading a glowing review online many years ago. The subsequent volumes weren’t available here then; I’ll be looking them up with your other suggestion, thanks!
Great video, I enjoyed it a lot.
The Groke will always send shivers down my spine. Moomin Valley was more horror for me than... well, Black Hole, for example.
But as a grown-up I'd like to revisit it, though, like with Pippi Longstocking and other franchises, I don't wanna spoil the childhood experiences, if you get my meaning.
Yes, returning to a childhood favourite is always fraught with the danger of ruining a perfect memory. There are dozens of examples I have where it was a disappointing return for me, and I ended up thinking "why did I love this so much?' or 'What a shame this isn't as good as I remember'.
While I only read Moomin (and only what's in this book) as an adult, I get the feeling that in this case, however, you may not be disappointed 😁
@@ftloc I've been looking into buying it. It's in a list. And you may be right, I have high hopes in the fact that these are the comics and my memories are of the cartoon.
Id love to hear your thoughts on moomin! I grew up reading moonin so it is a very comforting and nostalgic comic for me. My opinion Tove's work is therefore pretty bias so I am excited to see what you have to say.
I've really been intending to make a quick video on this collection at least, if not everything Moomin (which will take me more time to equip myself on). And I completely understand what you mean by bias from childhoods, I have the same thing on so many comics and find it impossible to be 'truly objective' but then again is there even such a thing I wonder 😁
@@ftloc thank you for your reply! I am excited for a moomin video.
You should google Tove Jansson (the creator of Moomin) and her paintings. She was a great artist.
I will, thanks! I've heard a lot about her but never seen any other art outside of Moomin.
@@ftloc Please do an overview of Moomin's deluxe edition! 😊
@@apjferreira1 I have a kind of fun one planned but am just not able to execute it right. Soon though! 😁
@@ftloc Thanks! 😊
Love the update! I don't see a lot of manga in your collection - is this an area of comics you're branching out into more? I've only read some Junji Ito work and Miyazaki's Nausicaa but have many many titles I'm eager to explore (Dorohedoro, Akira, Planetes, Summit of the Gods, Berserk, Monster, on and on). It's a massive unexplored terrain in the world of comics for me.
Peter Linfield Thank you, glad you enjoyed the video! Yes, I am trying to read more manga, which is an ocean out there indeed! I have read/owned some for years (Akira, the books featured in half of my Shelf 8 and Shelf 10 videos) and my newer reads featured in these ‘update’ videos. I’m working off off recommendations and suggestions from viewers here lately, and have been enraptured by not just Sunny but also the works of Jiro Taniguchi, among others. I hope this channel becomes a sort of journal in which my exploration of manga is charted!
Finished the Rust series last night. It was pretty good. I'm always a sucker for sepia tones. I feel like trying out Dave Steven's The Rocketeer now, haha
Yay! More people should read Rust, I feel - such an unusual action comic, steeped in melancholy and memory. The sepia works perfectly doesn't it?
Re: the Rocketeer, see if you can find the original, more muted colours. I got the more recent collected edition and it had this recolouring that I just did not like...
@@ftloc is this the recolored version? ruclips.net/video/jowyMejbrZY/видео.html
Seems like this has the original colors maybe? ruclips.net/video/eci6D8Rhy3Q/видео.html
@@ta5777 Yes exactly! Although mine doesn't have that slipcase, I too got the Deluxe Edition when I found it on sale and was really excited to read the whole series (I had only read one story, which I had quite enjoyed). I was disappointed with the bright-and-modern colours and shading, which (in my opinion) robbed the comic of al lot of its retro charm. I sought out as many of those original Comico issues as I could.
In the Deluxe Edition video you can look at the pages from 3:27 onwards to compare to the pages of the original issues shown from the start of the other video for a direct page-to-page comparison.
I see Mumin, i click like.
What a lovely comic!
Nice additions to your library :)
Now I need a comfortable reading chair! 😀
Jerome K Jerome interests me. I love these large format Eurocomics, I wish Claire Fauvel's Phoolan gets one soon.
Arindam Sen Me too! The pages I saw posted online looked good, and since it’s a standalone work, the chances of a hardcover from IDW/ should be decent. Fingers crossed!
Really happy you add
Jérôme K. Jérôme to the list, cause I'm really curious to know more about it, hope you do a review.
igor freitas Thank you! And yes, even if the whole series isn’t out for a while, if I enjoy this book I’ll do a mini review as part of next month’s recent reads!
@@ftloc Will look foward to that. I was watching some old videos and Saw that you really like the Brazilian twins. And I got curious, what more Brazilian artists do you know/like and If you want some recommendations, cause I'll be happy to give :)
igor freitas I’d love suggestions! Ba and Moon are the only Brazilian creators I know (I think) but as long as there are English editions (either original or translated from the Portuguese) available, I’m fair game for any good comics! 😀
@@ftloc OH, so before I can tip you of some, you really have to check it out those two editions of Marcelo D'salete's comics release by Fantagraphics.
The first ("Run For It") released last year won the Eisner and is gorgeous, but the new one, I think that just got release, "Angola Janga" is a masterpiece that is probably gonna win a bunch of awards overseas. I think you would love it, especially for the content, both books portrait an historical accurate and poetic tale of the slaves that fought back the owners here in Brazil.
Is absolutely beutiful and educational, especilly to know more of our roots and our culture.
Terrific, thanks! I'm off to add them to whatever lists they can be added to! 😀
Does this Moomins Deluxe Anniversary Edition include ALL comics, from Book 1 to 10?
What is included in it? What isn't included please?
It's almost impossible to find this info online.
I think the volumes that go up to 10 also include the Lars Jansson Moomin comics. This box set is the complete Tove Jansson collection, so I think that means till volume 5 or 6? I'm not sure because I have only this version, but let me confirm for you by checking Amazon.
@@ftloc Thank you. I'd love that help :) Really enjoyed your video.
Nice selection. Got really interested in Sunny, published by.... (?). I wonder if there's a kind of omnibus with all the volumes, or it will be in a near future. James Sturm is an old acquaintence since "Cereal Killings" series, wich was not republished in TPB or any other format (unfortunately). It was also his the first foray with anthropomorphic characters. Strangely this last work "Off Season" doesn't appeal to me. Maybe it's the colour. On the other hand, that little book is kind of neat. I will definitely seek that one! The Spanish Fever is great, because there is so much talent and an active comic scene in Spain with plenty of interesting stuff. Personally my all great spanish author is Max, who's work is also included in this anthology. Worth checking it out!!!
Eduardo Carvalho Thank you, I’ll definitely be following that guidance! And do give Off Season a shot. Not only is it a nifty little edition (i do like the format!) but it’s also a well told, achy sort of story. The colours work to create an overcast, melancholic coolness to a ‘cooling off’ relationship story, much like the warm colours in some of his other books evokes nostalgia. I wonder if I can get my hands on the other Saturn book you mention. I’m trying to get a copy of Unstable Molecules now - Sturm doing the Fantastic Four is something I’m dying of curiosity to read! 😀
Eduardo Carvalho oh an Sunny is published by the Viz Signature imprint, and they’re lovely hardcover books. Personally, an omnibus would be a bit to unwieldy for me, but so far it feels like a story worth checking out in any format.
I just received the first volume of rust so I'm just getting into the series and so far I finished it a couple hours ago it's not that bad it's actually pretty cool with the colors and the story where it's going for the very first volume so I'm very much kind of impressed with certain aspects of the book and the designs of the robots
Yes, I find it a lovely series of books. The art and the designs are, as you point out, wonderful, and the whole atmosphere is very unique. There's a sense of gloom and loss but also a sepia toned nostalgia that I found very interesting in a 'post apocalyptic' type of world. Rural dystopia? Glad you enjoyed it; are you going to get the rest of the books?
@@ftloc definitely I want to try and get the rest of the series when I get the chance right now I'm between a few other trades and trying to get in graphic novels definitely a few from a vault comics and after shock comics like the plot, wasted space, heathen, dark ark, babyteeth once I'm done with a few orders for that one I'm definitely going to get the rest of the series for rust
m o o m i n
I suggest you Homunculus about manga. I don't remember the author.
Thanks, I'll look it up!
I think u have nice vocabulary
Thank you 😊, a lot of it is directly due to reading comics!
@@ftloc keep up the good work man
Also can u please make some Tintin videos as they are
doing good on your channel and I am a fan
Oh yes, I will always have Tintin videos pop up from time to time. I just need the proper materials and subject for a decent video, and of course space it out so all my favourite comics (and there are HUNDREDS of favourites) get attention 😋
@@ftloc thanks for replying
I won't disturb anymore but only I want to suggest a topic for Tintin
Why is Tintin considered a racist? If you think this is worth doing plz do it 😄
Interesting! I don’t know if Tintin the character himself is considered racist, especially across all the stories, but there’s definitely criticism of Herge and his early works, as well as his continued work through the German occupation of Belgium during WW2. I may not be the most knowledgable person in history and facts (I tend to know the comics themselves best) but I can certainly think about a personal opinion sort of video (instead of a more comprehensive historical study, which others may be better equipped for). Does that sound like something you’d be interested in?
Tove Jansson is pronounced Too-ver Yan-sun ;)
Thank you! I'll make a note of it in my next video (the way I noted earlier gaffes in this one! )
The currently published softcover series of Corto Maltese by IDW were supposed to be printed in hardcover after the softcover series ended. But I haven’t heard about any hardcovers since, so they may have dropped it.
Ah how conflicted I am! On one hand, they would be lovely books. On the other, I’ve already gotten into the paperbacks and that’s a huge upgrade. I wonder why they’d bring HCs out after paperbacks though - seems counterintuitive for something being introduced to wider audiences, doesn’t it?
For the Love of Comics Well, the hardcovers were going to be 2 in 1, and also larger, maybe original art size. And I also read something about them being black & white. Maybe they want people to double dip. Maybe they can only work on one format at a time. You never know about the rationale behind these decisions.
But yeah, my wallet really hates it when they make a better version of a comic I already bought. Let alone a whole series.
Here in Brazil we got both formats from two different publishers, 6 in paperback and 3 in hardcover. I confess that despite the really carefull publishing work on the hardcover ones, the paperback ones are not bad. So I think is a series that is ok to have in one format or the other.
@Mar Rastapopoulos I would be really torn if they released hardcovers now! But the paperbacks are also black-and-white. I think Corto Maltese was always black-and-white, except for a few covers? I could be wrong about that though - I've never read any editions outside of the IDW/Eurocomics ones.
@igor freitas Weren't we just talking about jealousy? Now I am pretty jealous of Brazil for those editions! 😀. I know that Corto Maltese was being published by a different company just before IDW took over the rights, which is why books the first company had just published (Ballad of the Salt Sea was one of them, I believe) were kept by IDW to republish later, since demand would be low with an edition being recently put out there.
Re: the discussion we were having above, would you be able to tell us if the hardcovers were also in black and white or in colour (interior pages?)
Also, im as a momin fan the obvious recommendation is the books. Especially en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moominsummer_Madness
I've never read any of the prose books! I'm going to have to look them up!
@@ftloc they have such an unique feeling