Our Complete Comics Collection: SHELF FIFTEEN!
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- čas přidán 21. 07. 2024
- Mouse Guard, Classics Illustrated, Love and Rockets, and collections of Jaques Tardi, Joe Sacco, Rick Geary, Daniel Clowes, Chris Ware, Alison Bechdel, Rutu Modan, Sarah Glidden, Gabriel Ba and Fabio Moon, and many many more make up Shelf Fifteen, the almost-last shelf in our complete comics collection tour. Settle in for a detailed browse of one of our widest ranging gatherings, featuring some our my personal favourites and earliest reads.
#SHELF15
Timestamps for ease of navigation
00:00 Introduction
01:26 Main Titles
01:36 Section 1: Mouse Guard, Kate Beaton, Thi Bui, Kristen Radtke, Daniel Clowes, After the Deluge, Chris Ware and Acme Novelty Library, Heck, Sin Titulo, Blue and more!
13:00 Section 2: Jiro Taniguchi, Harvey Pekar, Lilli Carre, Adrian Tomine, Rutu Modan, Sarah Glidden, Mary and Bryan Talbot, Richard Sala, Alison Bechdel and more!
27:10 Section 3: Joe Sacco, The Nao of Brown, John Stanley, Frederik Peeters, Gabriel Ba and Fabio Moon, Fumio Obata, the Thrilling Adventures of Lovelace and Babbage and more!
37:58 Section 4: The Fantagraphics Jaques Tardi library, Classics Illustrated from Papercutz, Rick Geary and the Treasury of Victorian Murder / A Treasury of Twentieth Century Murder and more!
41:25 Section 5: Love at Rockets: Locas and Locas II, Palomar, Luba; Marble Season, The Love Bunglers, Dicks and Deedees, Julio’s Day; Matt Kindt and Pistolwhip, Two Sisters, Dept H , Mind MGMT and more! - Zábava
Timestamps for ease of navigation:
00:00 Introduction
01:26 Main Titles
01:36 Section 1: Mouse Guard, Kate Beaton, Thi Bui, Kristen Radtke, Daniel Clowes, After the Deluge, Chris Ware and Acme Novelty Library, Heck, Sin Titulo, Blue and more!
13:00 Section 2: Jiro Taniguchi, Harvey Pekar, Lilli Carre, Adrian Tomine, Rutu Modan, Sarah Glidden, Mary and Bryan Talbot, Richard Sala, Alison Bechdel and more!
27:10 Section 3: Joe Sacco, The Nao of Brown, John Stanley, Frederik Peeters, Gabriel Ba and Fabio Moon, Fumio Obata, the Thrilling Adventures of Lovelace and Babbage and more!
37:58 Section 4: The Fantagraphics Jaques Tardi library, Classics Illustrated from Papercutz, Rick Geary and the Treasury of Victorian Murder / A Treasury of Twentieth Century Murder and more!
41:25 Section 5: Love at Rockets: Locas and Locas II, Palomar, Luba; Marble Season, The Love Bunglers, Dicks and Deedees, Julio’s Day; Matt Kindt and Pistolwhip, Two Sisters, Dept H , Mind MGMT and more!
WOW, This was a great tour. Thanks.
Glad you enjoyed it! Cheers!
All hail to shelf fifteen 😃😃😃😃😃😃
The number is a brilliant comic! I got it in the mail yesterday and start-finish in one go. The was to present the story is really good and because is driving by the numbers instead of people talk make it even more interesting to my eyes. The pages being black and all the vignette being same size and same distribution trough the comic help to the continuity of it. Really felt in love with that drawing that at priority look simplistic but if you stop to look at it, start to discover new traces and details that you didn't see it in first place. Half comic in I knew where the story was going to turn, but that didn't mean I want to stop read it or got bore of. I will definitely re-read it again soon and delight more with the details. I'm going to put Thomas Ott in my radar from now on and give a try to other of his work, expect really good things from him
Love it that you appreciated so deeply, it's completely deserving! Check out Ott's Cinema Panopticum if you get the chance!
I'm curious as to your opinion of Clowes' "Like a Velvet Glove Cast in Iron." Certainly characterized by (among other things) a paucity of likeable characters, but I think it's very good.
I feel the same as you, which I actually feel about several of Daniel Clowes' works : the characters may not be the most 'likable' but they are interesting, and their stories always engage me. It's a thing that I think is very difficult to pull off, and therefore something I admire!
Nice tour trough this shelve. Love it! I only read 'You are there' by Tardi so I would love to see more of his work. I was never attracted to the work of the Hernandez brothers but i love to stretch my bounderies. Also what i would love to see is a video on the best waterpaint collored comics. Its a way of painting that i find very attractive in comics. Based on this tour that are my wishes for futures video's.
When done well, watercolour comics are amongst the most gorgeous comics of all!. Now you've made me curious as to what I would out in a top 10 watercolour painted comics list! 😁
I bought Radtke's Imagine wanting only this at an online sale recently, glad to see it has your approval.
I'd love to know what you think once you've had a chance to read it!
This shelf is killer. I'd love to see more about Jim Woodring and Tom Gauld. Peeters is one of my absolute favourite creators and you're so right about his range. Surreal, personal, funny, unsettling, he's just incredible. I haven't read The Smell of Starving Boys, which I believe he illustrated but didn't write, but it looks gorgeous.
I need to work on my Woodring, and should go hunting for more Peeters as well! I'll look up Starving Boys as well, thank you!
Great collection
Thank you! Anything here you'd like a closer look at?
Ok, just finished watching all the videos in this playlist and I have noted a lot of comics to look up! Thank you, it was a very enjoyable tour! By the way, I know you said you don't have many manga, (me neitheir) but one of my all time favorite comics is a mange and I wanted to suggest it to you as you may like it: "Kurosagi corpse delivery service". It has amazing black humor, but it's also quite sensitive. Plus there has been a very good work with the translation and they have lots of interesting notes on the back translating the sounds (they left them in the original language so as to keep the art as intact as possible) Oh and one more: "Blade of the immortal" I got one because I loved the cover illustration and fel in live and got the whole series!
So glad you liked 'the tour'! I've heard great things about Kusagi Corpse Delivery and have been trying to see how many volumes it is/ if all are easily available here before I take the plunge. I'm always a little worried about not being able to find the full story if I enjoy something!
@@ftloc I understand ompletely and I agree. There are some elements of the story that are being slowly revealed throuout the series but it also can be read as standalone stories very easily. I searched to see availability and read this article which seems hopefull. I didn't know the series was continuing in Japan (arg.. I need to learn French and Japanese at some point!) but it seems Dark Horse will continue with the series (even though it's going to be in pmnibus edition). I have until vol.14 so it will be a bit anoying to get 13 and 14 again so I can get 15 in the Omnibus 5 (whenever it comes out) but I'll fet it anyway!
Love this shelf, this and shelf three are my favs.
Please do a video on acme novelty comics, i just bought rusty brown and its soooo chris ware (hope u do a video on
That too)
And also intrigued with frederick peeters work video on him will be great.
Thanks
Thank you! And yes, Chris Ware is due for a revisit; just waiting to get my hands on Rusty Brown first! 😊
Thank you for showing your book collection shelf 15 😊
So glad you liked it! Have you had a chance to check out our other shelf videos?
@@ftloc yes, building my collection based on the mentioned books from your videos and shelves. Thanks a million.
I really like this shelf so far! It's a long video so I'm seeing it in small bits on different days, but I had to comment about Lynda Barry: Her only book I have is "One! Hundred! Demons!" which I really enjoyed. It was lively and not as much crumbed text as the one you have (as far as I could see), which is usually what mekes some comics more dificult for me. I recommend it!
Thanks, I'll definitely keep an eye out for it!
Damm! I didn't finish the video yet and already bought The number. That comic catch my eyes too much and couldn't resist :)
I will like to know more about about Thrilling adventures of Lovelance and Babbage. Could you make a full video?
And I have a question. I noticed that you don't have many superheros stories. Do you like superheros?
I do like superhero stories, but Marvel/DC aren't my top priorities as far as what interests me these days, and I'd say about 10 per cent of my collection is superhero comics. You can find most of them on Shelf One, Shelf Two, Shelf Four and Five , of you haven't seen those videos!
I don't know if you already read it, but if you don't read read "Little Lit" by Art Spiegelman and Françoise Mouly is very good man, you have to review I'm new here and great video I'll see the rest of the collection, a big hug!
I love Little Lit and briefly mention it in my Best Comics for Kids video here: czcams.com/video/583k41sYsTk/video.html
I need to find a way to talk more about it in another video. Welcome to the channel and I hope you find a lot to enjoy here!
I’d love to see a video on Jacques Tardi’s work. That’s one hole in my comic book reading that I’ve always wanted to fill.
I have a feeling you'll see one sooner rather than later! Thanks for the nudge! 🙂
Another great video. At least half a dozen books now on my wanted list. A more in depth look at Joe Sacco would be my choice. Will you be triple dipping on the Daytripper absolute?
Thank you - and Joe Sacco is definitely on the shortlist already, thanks for another vote for that! And yes, the Absolute will probably be a quad dip (I also have the 12 individual issues!) although I may sell my Deluxe after that. The usual practice of jettisoning the TPB will of course not be possible in this case...
love the effort in editing
Thank you so much! I'm trying to figure it all out as I go along! 😋
I’d love to see a video covering all of the ACME novelty library books!
Absolutely on the cards! I've been meaning to for a while now; I just haven;t been able to figure out the logistics. Due to the incredible variation in size and layout, I'd have to change the camera and the setup several times, so it actually needs a bit of puzzling through. But I'm definitely making one and thank you so much for egging me on and adding that extra bit of inspiration!
Some of them do appear in my Rusty Brown video, if you haven't yet caught that czcams.com/video/_bxK1h852zQ/video.html
And all of my Chris Ware videos are all collected here: czcams.com/play/PLf2B7UoR9NKXdm3WEPCixItAMI-TdGWRL.html
For the Love of Comics I’m looking forward to
It! And I have already watched all of your Chris Ware videos. You’re the key cog in the reason I jumped on the Chris Ware bandwagon.
@@TaylorTalksComics I'm so happy and proud to hear it!
I do hope you're enjoying the ride on this fine wagon! 😋
Love your collection! Could you make videos about the Bros Hernández and Matt Kindt?
So glad to hear it, and absolutely I can, and will! 😁
Love your collection! What kind of book cases do you get? I have heavy collections and want a book case that won’t bend due to heaviness or break off/fall apart
To be honest these aren't the most solid shelves - they're whatever decent I can find on sale when a new shelf can be put off no longer. So I'm already seeing some sagging in many of them after five or six years. High quality shelves are so expensive, and I need so many of them, that I need to save a lot to upgrade in a proper way. But for now the cheaper shelves that can do the trick for the time being are my budget measure.
I've read at least one of the prequels to mouse guard it's really good when I get the chance like I always say in the comments I'm going to order this one and let you know when I have the time
Yes, they're all great!
Love your vids :^)
Thank you so much, and long may that continue! 😁
I loved the joe sacco book, his artwork is also very unique i am going to buy joe sacco's footnotes in gaza
You will not be disappointed!
Footnotes in Gaza is a tremendous work. I found it very difficult emotionally and affecting, so ultimately didn't keep my copy though I really did love it. Sacco is remarkable.
@@peterlinfield I wondered if I would return to Sacco when I first read his books, for the same reason as you I suspect. But they've held up and invited revisitation over the years, sometimes in pieces, and I now do not think I could imagine my shelves without them.
I have the Classics Illustrated #19 drawn by Mike Ploog. I just stumbled upon it, and being a fan of Mike Ploog I bought it.
Which one is it?
@@ftloc Tom Sawyer
And ofcourse ultimately u came with jaques tardi series and yes now i found the self video of your where u showed the Jaques Tardi murder in street of paris sellf seven, lets see the video again thanks
One vote for Tardi! 😁
Where do you buy your books from? And how often? Any suggestion on how to get favorite titles in an affordable way? Sorry too many questions 🙃
No such thing as too many questions! 😁
I usually buy from online stores like Amazon, Infibeam, Flipkart and Bookswagon, depending on price and availability.
Every now and then, of I am lucky enough to travel abroad or someone I know is traveling, I'll buy something from eBay or Amazon US/UK (usually shipping to India is ridiculously expensive).
I buy all the time, it seems to me; the current lockdown and stopping of deliveries has created the biggest gap between purchases I can remember.
What I do is add a whole bunch of favourite titles to my shopping cart on, say, Amazon and save them for later. I check back to see if prices have fallen and grab whatever I want based on how badly I want it. If I can find used books in good condition, I will always try them - maybe a quarter of my collection or more was purchased used. Sometimes I buy stuff from other collectors and readers in India, using Facebook buy and sell groups but that's the rarest because it's hard to find exactly what you're looking for.
Basically a lot of hunting and a lot of waiting! 😁
Hey, are you going to follow the tour up with an overview of new comics you've added to shelves 1-14 in the last year? And then finish that by doing the same for comics bought whilst filming THAT? Although I can see that beginning a rabbit hole of recursive fractally-nested overview vids... ;)
Haha the neverending shelf tour did cross my mind as this series of videos went on and on! But I think most of the notable additions have been concurrently on display in my 'Recent reads and new acquisitions' videos, collected in this playlist here: czcams.com/play/PLf2B7UoR9NKW6PaYxog7Z7Rz4SizRYdiS.html
Maybe in a few years there will be enough of a recalibration for some update videos, but for now I'll just work on suggestions and requests drawn from these 😁
Will you be doing a dedicated Joe Sacco video this year or next? His new book Pay the Land is out and I hear it’s very good!
My order of paying the Land got cancelled for some reason and I need to re-order it! Thanks for the reminder and yes, I definitely plan to do a video (maybe even more than one)on Sacco as soon as I can work out the 'shape' of it, as I like to say!
Video of the comics of Jaques tardi
Coming this year for sure, just need to figure out when and how! 😋
Hey, I'm curious, would you ever create like a discord channel? So your subscribers and followers can gather, and talk, and hang out and discuss our favorites?
I can barely manage a CZcams channel😁! It sounds like a wonderful idea, and I've always enjoyed warm, low key communities so it's definitely a possibility, depending on the size and enthusiasm of such a group. Of course I'd have to make myself familiar with different platforms and find the time, which is always in short supply. I'd love to hear more about the kind of thing you were thinking about and work towards it over time.
@@ftloc Sure no rush, just an idea...I belong to a Discord community that is like a Fantasy and SciFi Book club, called Legendarium. And what Discord offers is a free chat room basically with different rooms that you can make for different topics. so you can have one channel be about General Comics, another channel be about comic movies, and another one be for independent comics etc etc. It's all free, and the best part is, it allows for real time chatting and conversing. etc... Check it out, it may give your channel here a central meeting place for discussion
Forgive me if this is mentioned on another video, or this one (I've just started it) but do you own, or have you read, Midnight Diner? Sounds great and I'd like to know more about it.
No I haven't! Is it a manga?
@@ftloc I believe so! Seems hard to get here in the UK. Sounds intriguing though. I like anything set in a cosy, diner like environment. I'm a big fan of all things Americana, and road stories etc. Do you have recommendations of that ilk? :)
Now the Daytripper is getting the absolute edition treatment, should I wait for it or go with the deluxe edition.?
One can't really say until we've seen what they end up doing - I'm thinking of the recolouring of the Swamp Thing Absolutes for example, which kind of put me off considering them - and the Daytripper deluxe is beautiful indeed. But if you are a fan of the Absolute dimensions and production, it would be a lovely way to read the book for the first time, at at 12 issues, it shouldn't be too fat, something I personally am not that much a fan of.
@@ftloc I too don't like the fat books, especially the DC omnis. I always fear they might fall off its ribbon some day.
Mouse Guard!
I can't wait to get to it, but I also want to do it justice, so I should reread it. Oh the tribulation! 😋
I've only read the Fall and Winter volumes but am keen for more!
@@peterlinfield I love the Black Axe and the Legends books, but I too am jonesing for more of the 'main' story!
Was that an intentional jump scare cut?
Boo! Did it work?
@@ftloc haha well yes!
Hernandez please
Finally a vote for Los Bros!
Hey I'm a big fan, I make comics myself. I would love to have someone read my comic
Is it online?
Damn! I stopped buying comics because of space considerations. And now I see no less than 14 books I can’t resist to check out. I should really unsubscribe.
I would like to see more of Frederik Peeters, Rick Geary, the Talbots and Richard Sala. I mostly ignored those artists because I didn’t like them when then. But I may have to take another look at them.
Glad to hear it and that's a great selection of choices to work with! And I hear you - there have often been people I didn't cotton on to the first time but found a return to change my mind.