[quote=“stanton, post:20, topic:1204”]I don’t like McKean that much, and all his colaborations with Gaiman (Violent Cases, Black Orchid etc) lack the sensitivity of the Sandman comics.
For me most of the different Sandman pencilers are more intensive and therefore preferable for me to McKean.
His style is good to look at, at the first glimpse, but than it’s only cold and somehow emty.
But I have now also his own work Cages, in which he works with more reduced drawings, not in this hyperrealistic style, and it looks very promising. Question is, is he also a good writer?
Out of my experience I would say that generally the more easy penciled comics are emotionally much more involving, they reveal their qualities in the proces of reading.
Alk0, which are the best comics in your opinion?[/quote]
To be honest i’m not that much of a comic book specialist, i’ve only read some selected stuff i was given or got somehow interested in. When it comes to writing i loved Sandman and Preacher most. When it comes to artwork my fave has to be Arkham asylum. I think it demostrates how hillarious and emotional McKean work can be. Have you read this one, Stanton?
[quote=“stanton, post:16, topic:1204”]A so called graphic novel by Jaime Hernandez, his newest installment of his long ongoing Locas series.[/quote]I like his comics too but I haven’t read so much of them. There’s only one compilation book released in Finland.
Jaime is definitely better illustrator than Gilbert but I liked his Blood of Palomar too. And his porno comic Birdland is hilarious.
[quote=“Bill san Antonio, post:22, topic:1204”]I like his comics too but I haven’t read so much of them. There’s only one compilation book released in Finland.
Jaime is definitely better illustrator than Gilbert but I liked his Blood of Palomar too. And his porno comic Birdland is hilarious.[/quote]
Yes, Birdland is hilarious.
In Germany there were also released only a few of the Love and Rockets books, without any success.
But I read them in english anyway.
There are meanwhile cheap paperbacks (each about 280 pages for only about 15 $) which contain Gilbert’s Palomar and Jaime’s Locas stories complete from the beginning on.
Highly recommended.
Both Hernandez brothers are great story tellers and they have created so many wonderful characters.
And I wouldn’t underestimate Gilbert’s pencils, they may look plain simple, but they are very effective.
Faded Coat of Blue by Owen Parry. First installment in a series. If you’re a fan of the mystery genre and have an interest in the war between the states, then you’ll enjoy this. IMO Parry(pseudonym) is a master of his craft.
I picked it up at the library because the title caught my intention with its obvious spag nod . The book actually has a rather interesting concept but the story has let me down and Ive stopped reading it.
The avenger has teamed up with a group as a means to an end and Im sorry but I like my avengers to ride alone.
The last one I read is ‘The curious incident of the dog in the night-time’ by Mark Haddon. Great little novel about an autistic boy who wants to solve the murder of the neighbour’s dog. Seen through the eyes of the boy as he is writing a detective novel himself. Forget Rainman, this is far superior.
Currently reading ‘Wiseguy’ by Nicholas Pileggi. Great stuff, even though I’ve seen the movie adaptation (Goodfellas) a dozen times already.
How is the actual style of writing in this one? I’m always having it recommended to me by well meaning relatives and friends…though i don’t think any of them have actually read it!
Zulawski’s The Third Part of the Night
-Strange film… I’ve seen maybe three films by Zulawski now and I’m beginning to like them more and more, I don’t understand them but they’re strangely fascinating.
Brilliant writing from Ballard in which he captures the confusion and horror of a young boy’s experience during internment in a Japanese camp in China during WWII. This is a semi autobiographical novel and I’d love to know how much was written from Ballard’s direct experience and how much is fiction.
As a side note, the film adaptation sticks pretty close to the book although it ends at an earlier point and Christian Bale’s performance for a child actor is outstanding in the part of Jim. He really nails it. Extraordinary for someone of his age at the time. Probably my favourite Spielberg film and a pretty decent adaptation of a very good book.
Heretics of Dune.
The first Dune book is probably my fave novel of all time. I can’t help noticing that the next Dune books are getting more and more weird but can still be interesting.
Donald Rumbelow’s Complete Jack the Ripper. Very good book about all the basics info about Ripper. And yesterday I started Euan MacPherson’s Trial of the Jack the Ripper which concentrates on the case of William Bury who was sentenced to death for the killing and mutilation of his wife soon after the whitechapel murders.
I’ve had a big ripper enthusiasm again lately. Been reading lot of casebook.org too (awesome site) and watched three documentaries. Well, right now it’s been 120 years since the murders were committed.
[quote=“Bill san Antonio, post:36, topic:1204”]Donald Rumbelow’s Complete Jack the Ripper. Very good book about all the basics info about Ripper. And yesterday I started Euan MacPherson’s Trial of the Jack the Ripper which concentrates on the case of William Bury who was sentenced to death for the killing and mutilation of his wife soon after the whitechapel murders.
I’ve had a big ripper enthusiasm again lately. Been reading lot of casebook.org too (awesome site) and watched three documentaries. Well, right now it’s been 120 years since the murders were committed.[/quote]
Well, I’m not a Ripper fan, but a couple of weeks ago I saw a documentary on (I guess) National Geographic about the thories of Patricia Cornwell.
She identified a painter as Jack the Ripper. Some arguments of people who were interviewed for the program were pro, others were against.
Personally I found it hard to judge them, being not an expert, nor a Ripper fan.
I haven’t read this book, but I have read a few other Cornwell (‘Kay Scarpetta’) novels, and I always thought she was a fairly good writer and a very intelligent person. Have you read the book, and if so, what are your thoughts about it ?
[quote=“stanton, post:37, topic:1204”]Have you read Alan Moore’s comic From Hell?[/quote]Yes, one of my favorite comics, so beutifully illustrated and superbly written. The story depends on Stephen Knight’s theory of royal conspiracy which is utter nonsense but it’s good base for comic.
[quote=“scherpschutter, post:38, topic:1204”]Well, I’m not a Ripper fan, but a couple of weeks ago I saw a documentary on (I guess) National Geographic about the thories of Patricia Cornwell.
She identified a painter as Jack the Ripper. Some arguments of people who were interviewed for the program were pro, others were against.
Personally I found it hard to judge them, being not an expert, nor a Ripper fan.
I haven’t read this book, but I have read a few other Cornwell (‘Kay Scarpetta’) novels, and I always thought she was a fairly good writer and a very intelligent person. Have you read the book, and if so, what are your thoughts about it ?[/quote]Yes, I have read her Ripper book but not her novels (though this one is quite good book if you think it as a fiction). Her theory is basically this: Sickert was strange guy who painted morbid paintings so he must have been Ripper. She doesn’t give any proof but comes up with theories that Sickert was actually born with both sexes and was later operated to boy! Also, she doesn’t just leave it to the Whitechapel murders but insist that almost all the unsolved murders around that time were committed by Sickert. It’s too bad that she is so well known writer that people with little knowledege of Ripper case might actually believe her theory. I also heard stories that she bought paintings of Sickert and tore them apart in hope of finding his DNA. That’s just pathetic and sick!
Also, her theory isn’t really her own. There was books about the possibility of Sickert being Ripper already out but Cornwell doesn’t give any credit to her predeseccors.
