Dec. 3rd, 2017
Will Eisner's A Contract with God
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"[Although] I am largely unfamiliar with the Jewish milieu that forms Will Eisner's memories [...] [w]hat he has given us here are those memories, as tales, and realized in a fusion of image and copy. They are simple and they are harsh; there are no easy morals to be gotten from them. The Good Guys don't win and the Bad Guys don't lose because there are no good guys and bad guys. Instead, there are lonely, frightened and ambitious people, immigrants seeking relief from poverty, despair and the dread that, unhappy as the present is, the future may be worse. A man remembering that way is not likely to depict heroes and villains; rather, he will be compassionate to everyone, winner and loser alike, and compassion is the pervading, unstated theme of Eisner's work."
--Denny O'Neil, Introduction to the 2000 DC edition
( 'If justice is not in God's hands--where else would it be??' )
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If I had to recommend a comic to someone who doesn't read them it would have to be Locke & Key. I've posted it a few times here but for those who don't know it's a horror/fantasy series about a family who inherits an old house home to keys that unlock more than doors. It's written by Joe Hill; Hill is Stephen King's son and a novelist in his own right but I think his strength is in comics. I've mostly given up physical comics for digital but the exception is anything by Hill.
The entire series is currently available in a variety of different formats and trade editions. It's also going to be made into a series from Hulu from the director of the new version of 'It'.
Here's a small selection from #1.
( Scans under the cut... )
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I posted about an anthology comic I edited and contributed to in October, but now I want to share a comic I've been working on since the start of 2016 :)

It's an LGBTQ+ urban supernatural action/suspense comic set in Metro Manila. Though the title is technically "Beloved Engkantado Horrors" I mostly just call it "BEHKomiks", 'beh' being the Filipino equivalent of "bae"
Been selling it in the Indie circuit here in the Philippines, but also I've been posting it in web comic format to Tapas.
( Read more... )

It's an LGBTQ+ urban supernatural action/suspense comic set in Metro Manila. Though the title is technically "Beloved Engkantado Horrors" I mostly just call it "BEHKomiks", 'beh' being the Filipino equivalent of "bae"
Been selling it in the Indie circuit here in the Philippines, but also I've been posting it in web comic format to Tapas.
( Read more... )