i really need to own this:

its 720 pages long and is the size of a brick. apparently the story takes place over 6 hours.
http://www.dashshaw.com/bottomless.html

Oof I just read it, it's so good, I've been itching to get it since... months ago but I couldn't find it in Canada until now (I don't know why I didn't buy it in the States/Europe durp). It's like some sort of awkward, but more obscene, character-driven Wes Anderson film, well it definitely has that feel. I recommend it highly, it's pretty engaging and I had a hard time putting it down. Once I finished it I wanted to read it again but read select spots and was like wow some of this shit is personally fucked-up, dang yo! I'll definitely put it aside and read it again when it's not still fresh in my mind.

I don't know where you heard it takes place over six hours, days definitely pass in the book. It's over a weekend or something.

And heck the binding and book itself are most lovely printed!

I picked up Skim at SPX. Beautiful work!

Also: Venice Chronicles by Enrico Cassarosa http://enricocasarosa.com/wordpress.1/. Just got my copy and its gorgeous.

AUGH, GOOD CHOICE ANDRE, I'm slowly reading it too and just, the next time I go on a big trip I am going to make sure I am set up to do something like that (not that I shouldn't have been inclined when I first read through Carnet de Voyage by Craig Thompson http://www.amazon.com/Carnet-Voyage-Travel-Journal-Thompson/dp/1891830600), okay I tried to do something like this in Paris but oof. Venice Chronicles is so beautiful it's actually made me break out my inks and watercolors again.



I also just read We Can Still Be Friends by Mawil

http://www.forbiddenplanet.co.uk/index.php?main_page=product_music_info&products_id=44887
Mawil is becoming one of my favourite new european artists. His style is just so loose and carries the right amount of emotion for his books. I have his first English-print, Beach Safari, as well, but I'm liking this new one more since I was actually so into it, COME ON MAWIL YOU'LL GET THE NEXT GIRL. WHAT, NO??? WHAT THE HELL WOMEN. He goes through 4 attempts at love, and you never really feel that it's simply a pity party with a witty and humourous undertone he has to his storytelling (this particular set being him regailing his drinking buddies of his love woes). And god I love his play with panelling!

i was gonna try & composite it in there better but i got too caught up looking for a bazooka to place in your left hand & i gotta get going in a few.

-J

AAAAHAHAHAH!! Not surprising at all. Kudos Kuro haha.

Mon Fiston by Olivier Schrauwen

While only in french from what I can find, Mon Fiston is still worth a look at with an understandable visual narrative if you cannot read the french (it is not that wordy anyhow). With that, the vintage style, reminiscent of Windsor McKay and other such turn-of-the-century comics, alongside a sort of pushed sense of morbid absurdity and surrealism, it's a fucking hoot! I can read a little french but I still ended up laughing my goddamn head off, its just a sort of removed story with the retro style, but good lord if it can convey beating women with brooms in visual manner that made me laugh so hard out loud, I'm won over hahaha.

Though a short read, excellent illustrations with an obvious care and attention in developing and researching the style to work with the story!




Nage Libre by Sébastien Chrisostome

I can't lie, I picked this up because the cover made me laugh. This is the second comic I've come across about salmons. There you have it, its the adventure of three little salmon (I might be wrong haha), and the loose cartoony-brush work style works fantastic! Again, in French, but still can easily be followed with a little understanding of the language and the good sequential work. Cute and funny read (definitely added with how the bloody fish are drawn).



& of course, when in Belgium/Holland:


Lucky Luke! by Morris (and later Goscinny, etc)

I love westerns so this is no surprise.


Lucky Luke, the cowboy known to shoot faster than his shadow.
I hadn't REALLY realized how few were in English, and how many more there were in French, Dutch etc!! Morris and Goscinny are my favourite writers and team for Lucky Luke. I can never get over Morris' art style, especially his characters! I, again, "visually" read the non-English comics I could find, but I highly encourage finding any of the English translations!!
I grew up on European comics like this and they are still a bad ass read. While kid friendly for the most part, still good story-telling, and good marksmanship.


And of course I'm all over that keen motherfucker, Tintin. Herge is a master.

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PROTESTING YAY!!! I'm in the front with the guitar. and apparently i have groupies. with makeshift signs that say "GO SHANE"
that damn photographer took the picture while i was flipping the bangs out of my eyes...

ass.

Since I can't read those signs, I have no idea what you're protesting (and don't care), but damn if a protest sign reading "THE arts" doesn't make me laugh.

I also enjoy how the shim holding that sign also looks strikingly like Elio. As we all know, he is dead serious about "THE arts"

I do believe that is a dame.

whooooa i already know how tall Jho is in real life, wei is a beast.

Fish that is a rad tattoo, i love the linework!! are you going to color it in?

good comic book stores should carry the usual Tintin giant Euro-sized books, but there are also small hardcover collections of issues you can get ala:


http://www.amazon.ca/Adventures-Tintin-1-Herge/dp/1405228946/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1206394741&sr=8-1
I'd suggest Amazon if there's nothing in your area. Everyone needs Tintin.

Sean, despite how awesome you are, I'm going to whomp on you so hard if you don't draw more/post more pertaining to art. this is not a threat, its just how it is.

ahh your anatomy is lovely, i definitely suggest you keep rolling with these things and put together a portfolio for concept art for game companies etc, if you're interested in that sort of thing. is that tablet or tablet, i can't really tell but the fuzziness makes me think it might be tablet, either way fantastic grasp of form.

it was Family Day/Louis Riel Day in Canada, and since my family is far away i decided to celebrate the latter. YEAAA CANADIAN HISTORY, I'm kind of metis. yeaaaaa. delicious. he looks like he should now work in Willy Wonka's factory.

what cures being a mad sad panda?? CHECKIN YO MAIL.

mickey shirts yessssssssssssss!!

its sooo soft, but pretty big for a men's small. i thoroughly enjoy the blue!! this takes place over my beastie boys shirt as favorite tee, over the mother fuckin beastie boys! what!

Dicks.... everywhere....

I think your icon has the perfect expression for this quote  *o*

ALSO i think i heard you were still in Chicago when this went down, but like you were leaving this day? the 5th? there coulda been Monday-drawn wangs... dang.

that's a longass paper, amazing shit

yea i bought a roll of bond paper for the occasion, i think it was 3 ft by... 25 yards or something massive like that haha! subsequentially, i'm doing the exact same thing again tonight back in Canada with art school friends and a new roll of paper, i highly recommend such get togethers, possibly accompanied by beer. unless you want to draw good.

i have not gone snowboarding this season yet, you're killin me with those photos!


anywho, while strolling down Belmont in the lovely city of Chicago:





window front features and big ol haters!


next time we walked by there, Jhonen Vasquez was inside doing autographs... but we all went and had sushi at the restaurant beside it again.