It’s now June and five months have past in 2010.
How much have you spent on comic books and comic related entertainment (games, DVDs, Iron Man 2 – include the popcorn)? Are you within your budget? Do you even have a budget?
How much have you spent on Collected Editions? Have they been worth the money? What were you expecting? Would you buy them all over again?
Now how does your budget look for the rest of the year? Or is it time to start one.
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Collected Comics Library Podcast #271
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Week in and week out bloggers, podcasters and critics alike talk about the artists that makes comic books great. But every artist has to start somewhere. Today on the show I veer off the regular Collected Edition path to talk about a couple of great beginning (and I mean beginning) instructional books. The first is Cartoon Cute Animals by Christopher Hart (Watson-Guptil). Yost is an accomplished artist in his own right and his books have sold over 2.5 million copies in over 18 countries! Secondly, is How to Draw Fairies and Mermaids by Fiona Watt (Usborne Books). Now you may be asking, how is Chris putting these books to use? The answer is, I’m not, but my daughter is using her Giant 194 Piece Art Set.
Also on the show today, Wimpy Kid Book 5, Library Binding and the Waco Bookbindery, Underground and Independent Comics, Comix, and Graphic Novels and I need help with the Golden Age Aquaman.
All this including the New Releases of the Week.
Chris
Cartoon Cute Animals, How to Draw the Most Irresistible Creatures on the Planet by Christopher Hart
Watson-Guptill, 2010
160 pages, 9.9 x 8.4, $21.99 US
A copy of this book was supplied to me by Watson-Guptill
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Collected Comics Library Podcast #270
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On the show this week, I talk about my adventures at the Motor City Comic Con including what I bought, what I should have bought and what I saw. Overall it was a good Con and even the kids enjoyed it.
Lots of other news this past week including, that hulking Woman of Marvel Omnibus, Big Ben Bolt and Batman/Starman/Hellboy. All this including the New Releases of the Week.
Chris
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For a few years now I’ve been a fan of Dan Nadel without even knowing it. Not only is Dan the Editor of PictureBox but he is also one of the founders of Comics Comics – a magazine and blog that you should be reading. I’ve been picking up Comics Comics since I first heard about it on though my friends at 11 O’Clock Comics. It’s up to issue 4 right now and you can even get the first three issues as a free download. Dan is also an accomplished author and has just published Art in Time Unknown Comic Book Adventures, 1940-1980 (Abrams) which is a follow up to his 2008 book Art Out of Time Unknown Comics Visionaries, 1900-1969. I never put the author of the blog and author the books together until recently. I couldn’t be more happy that the two are the same. Dan has just posted a wonderful audio panel of himself along with Jeet Heer, Seth and Evan Dorkin from the Toronto Comic Arts Festival. Readers of the CCL will love and appreciate the conversation on the ins and outs of editing/designing/publishing/consuming comics history with a great candid focus on talk on Collected Editions. It is a must listen to show. I hope to have Dan on the CCL Podcast soon. Keep and eye on the blog for more info.
Now on to a few links:
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Collected Comics Library Podcast #269
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It’s that time of year again: the kickoff of the Summer Blockbusters!
Iron Man 2 came out last week and I pick up where I left off two years ago with a rundown of Iron Man Collected Editions that have been published since the first movie. A lot has come out: Classic material from Tales Of Suspense, New trades of the entire Armor Wars Saga, his Heroes Return in the late 1990’s and his current run (which is to be expected). I tell you what to buy and what to hold off on and even what you may want to purchase as a digital edition. Speaking of digital, check out my review of the Iron Man Central App over at my sister site DGTL Comics.
Also on the show this week there are printing concerns with the recent Absolute GL Rebirth, advanced notice on The Flash: The Dastardly Death Of The Rogues and War of Supermen hardcovers and the passing of Frank Frazetta. Finally a reminder that the Motor City Con is this weekend May 14-16 and the Summit City Con is May 22.
All this including the New Releases of the Week.
Chris
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