After the break, check out the latest episode of Comic Books Are Burning In Hell, where some of the greatest comics of 2015 are put under the microscope of conversation. The conversational microscope!
On this special, no-Joe episode, Tucker, Matt and Chris sit down and hammer out the books that caught ahold of them in the middle of a tumultuous year.
The books discussed in this episode are all deserving of some attention:
The Story of My Tits, by Jennifer Hayden
Band For Life, by Anya Davidson
The Terror Assaulter: One Man War On Terror, by Benjamin Marra
Demon, by Jason Shiga
Blubber, by Gilbert Hernandez
Pope Hats, by Ethan Rilly
Crickets, by Sammy Harkham
Optic Nerve, by Adrian Tomine
Sky In Stereo, by Mardou
Men's Feelings, by Ted May
Copra, by Michel Fiffe
Providence, by Alan Moore & Jacen Burrows
Eat Eat Eat, by Tom Van Deusen
Invisible Ink, by Bill Griffith
Fante Bukowski, by Noah Van Sciver
Generous Bosom, by Conor Stechschulte
Inner City Romance, by Guy Colwell
SuperMutant Magic Academy, by Jill Tamaki
Volcan, by Various Artists
If you'd like to know what sort of order they ended up in--well, you'll have to listen to find out!
Guys, have you had a chance to read Josh Simmons' HABIT #2 yet? A late dark-horse contender for best one-man anthology--although it might not count, since in HABIT #2 Simmons collaborates with Eric Reynolds, Ben Horak, and (yes!) Tom Van Deusen.
Posted by: Craig Fischer | 2015.12.19 at 11:19
Naw but that cover is da bomb
Posted by: Matt Seneca | 2015.12.19 at 13:27
Van Deusen! No, but i'll definitely keep an eye out for it. Thanks for the reminder Craig!
Posted by: tucker | 2015.12.19 at 14:20
The collab with Van Deusen in Habit #2 is fucking hilarious.
I'm surprised that Black River by Josh Simmons wasn't part of the list. If Providence is about the dread that's outside the pages, underskin, then Black River is dread right in your fucking face. It's so alive, so palpating and it's Simon's at his absolute best. It's also his darkest, nihilistic work I've read to date. It stuck with me for days after I read it and it's the best example of how to do a horror/post-apocalyptic comic.
I can't wait for Beto's bible re-telling and hope to get awkward hard-ons like I did when I read Moore's and Gebbie's Lost Girls.
Posted by: Lawrence B Vossler | 2015.12.28 at 12:33
One more thing: Beto is a national treasure. A goddamn national treasure!
It's amazing how much he churns out every year and the quality of them. I don't know how he does it.
I would love for y'all to talk about the magical realism and deformism that is prevalent in his comics; more the latter than the former, maybe.
Posted by: Lawrence B Vossler | 2015.12.28 at 12:36