A GREAT HOLIDAY COMIC | Day 12 of 31 Days of Comics
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- čas přidán 23. 07. 2024
- Day 12 of 31 Days of Comics is here and brings a prompt just bursting with possibility! Here's some thoughts on what A Great Holiday Comic could mean, and my completely shocking pick for it.
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Power weirdness made my lights flicker while shooting - maybe we can all pretend it's firelight or Christmas lights or something like that?
Happy holidays everyone!
The yule log in the fireplace giving flickering effect 😛
@@DIZZYDAYS1 yes, yes, exactly what was intended!
Power weirdness could be your superhero name💪🏻Strong with unexpected abilities.
During my childhood, Christmas meant receiving a volume or omnibus of Asterix. Reflecting on those sunny seaside holidays now brings to mind not just the beach, but also the thrilling adventures beginning in a quaint Gaulish village.
That is zigackly, ferpectly right that it would! 😁
Receiving Asterix omnibus is always a good moment
Roger Leloup's Yoko Tsuno is a great comic for a family man. If one leaves a comic on a table, one can be secure that it won't traumatize any children. There is some sci-fi and mystery for the adult to enjoy as well.
That's a terrific consideration to keep in mind for some! Great pick! I have heard a lot of good stuff about Yoko Tsuno but I wanted to start from the beginning and the first Cinebook volumes seem hard to get, at least here.
Well Bone by Jeff Smith is my favorite comic to read during the holidays.
Great minds! 😁
Think alike😂🎉🎉
Christmas in Shack town by Carl Barks!
I think that's scoring high this category! 😁
Tintin and Asterix. But I do want to add Tinkle comics, which I used to buy at railway stations on our way to meet relatives during the summer holidays.
ACKs and Diamond Comics were my railway station staples! And every now and then Archie digests, although those were rarer outside the big cities...
Watership Down The Graphic Novel and A Christmas Carol: The Graphic Novel
Watership Down was excellent and I hope to talk a bit about it soon!
Ive already mentioned Calvin and hobbes in past days but this was a comic that my uncle had as a child and reading it at his house during visiting him in the summer was a ritual I never failed to miss. Even now the strips bring me immense comfort. I would also say hayao miyazaki's crimson pig is a short but fun holiday comic to read. Especially when you're flying.
Uncles and aunties I visited were judged and ranked based on what their bookshelves had to offer! 😁
And I've never read Crimson Pig, where can I find it?
The first Rappa Ray comic (by Sujog Bandopadhyay) I encountered was in the pages of Pujobarshiki Anandamela (the annual holiday edition of a popular childrens magazine) - I feel that for me fits the bill perfectly.
Anandamela quite effortlessly incorporated comics into its offer, didn't it, something rare even today...
I'm gonna go with Donald Duck. I was never a huge fan of those comics, to be honest, but I did love buying some of those collections to read during holidays in a tent or caravan.
Side-story: as I was trying to think of specific holiday-themed comics I'd read, I remembered reading a spider-man comic in which he (nearly) died and was having an out-of-body experience. Looking down on himself he realizes he always worried too much in life. He actually ends up fighting Thanos in that comic and convincing Death to return him to life. It's one of those comics that really made an impression on me when I was young and I had completely forgotten about it until just a few minutes ago. If I remember correctly that comic ends with him worrying about the fact that he dropped the barbecue sauce he was supposed to give to aunt May - maybe that was holiday related as well, possibly for Thanksgiving dinner or something - in any case, thanks for (inadvertently) reminding me of that one! According to Reddit it was Spider-Man #17 btw (not sure which iteration of the comics) and I'm going to try and find it in my old collection of comics tomorrow!
Sometimes I think the whole point of this channel is to trigger stories and anecdotes and merge autobiography with opinion. So I'm thrilled to evoke any such response, it feels meaningful 😁
Easy, you already choose Jordi Lafebre one of your fav reads this year. Maybe you can check ”les beaux étéz/los buenos veranos” by Zidrou and Lafebre. In english it should be ”the good summers”, but no idea if it was translated. Great stories about a family and their holidays
There are already three mentions of Glorious Summers in these comments!
It's a series I've wanted to read for a while now, but the English translation is only available as ebooks, with no plans for print. I was just discussing in another comment about how I may have to go digital here...
I don't know why but I always associated holiday reading with a adventure theme. In this catagory I would choose Castle in the the Stars series by Alex Alice. Great watercolor art and a fast pasted advendture story.
I too loved the escapist adventure as summer reading! Maybe because so many adventures happened to kids in stories while they were on holiday?
My kind of guy
My pick is the HELLBOY The Silver Lantern Club. Why this book because I’m on vacation and this is the comic I have with me. That’s what I love about these videos and this channel you can do deep cuts and pull a comic up from your memory or it might be a comic you just happen to have beside you. It’s all good when it’s for the love of comics.
You make my day by saying that - mission accomplished! 😁
One of my birthday gifts this year (I was born in the "holiday season") was the all in one softcover Bone. Really excited to dig into this classic
Happy birthday! And I'd love to know what you think of the comic when you're done!
With respect to both definitions of holiday, I'll say mine are:
Celebratory Day Holiday--the JLA/JSA thanksgiving issue, can't recall which vol/issue it is
Day off Holiday--anything that's a silly and easy read, currently I Hate Fairyland
Long term Holiday--Long runs that deserve serious attention while reading like Claremont X-Men or Lee/Kirby F4
Also, this was one of the funniest comic book channel thumbnails I've seen 😂
Haha this is what you get when you are already late with a video and you throw together a thumb in 5 minutes. Which is the way I always end up with what is apparently the most important thing in CZcams...
I see you have an answer for every definition! Which interpretation did you go for immediately on hearing the prompt?
12 - great holiday comic : 5000 km per second - Manuele Fior
11 - old comic : Little Nemo - Winsor McCay
10 - most beautiful scene in any comic : Nettoyage à sec - Joris Mertens
9 - comic that blew my mind : The hunting accident - Carlson & Blair
8 - gorgeous comic : Tales from the Inner City - Shaun Tan
7 - comfort comic : Sempé in New York - Sempé
6 - nonfiction comic to recommend to people who don't do nonfiction : Springtime in Chernobyl - Emmanuel Lepage
5 - first comic serie pursued : Blast - Manu Larcenet
4 - great love story : A sea of love - Lupano & Panaccione
3 - great adaptation from another medium : 1984 - Xavier Coste
2 - comic to recommend to anyone : The arab of the future - Riad Sattouf
1 - favorite comic : Rules of summer - Shaun Tan
why? for the warm colors, the atmosphere.
Terrific pick! I've been very impressed with the handful of Fior books I've read and I am looking forward to getting my hands on more!
- My favorite comic: Nausicaa of the valley of the wind by Hayao Miyazaki
- A comic to reccomend to anyone: Peanuts by Charles Schulz
- A great adaptation: 1984 by Fido Nesti
- A great love story: A taste of chlorine by Bastien Vivés
- My first comic pursued: Dampyr (various artists - italian comic series)
- Nonfiction comic: Pyongyang by Guy Delisle.
- Confort comic: Tin Tin by Hergé
- Gorgeous comic: Castle in the stars by Alex Alice
- A comic that blew my mind: V for vendetta by Alan Moore and David Lloyd
- The most beautiful scene: A sea of love by Wilfrid Lupano
- An old comic I've loved: The Eternaut by Oesterheld
- A great holiday comic: Your Wish Is My Command by Deena Mohamed
When I'm on holidays I usually like to read something enjoyable and that makes me travel somewhere far or imaginative. This graphic novel is an imaginative story set on a modern Cairo where magic exists. Three bootles that contain powerful wishes will chance the life of the protagonists. It's a nice tale of urban life, motivations and desires.
That sounds very interesting, and yes, I completely get that feeling of escape and 'far away' stories uniquely fitting holidays or vacations.
What a great list you have so far!
@@ftlocThanks Angshuman 🙂
I've decided to pick, partially in tribute to this channel, Jason's On The Camino. Essentially, he is on holiday throughout the comic, so I think that meets the brief. Plus, I think it's a pretty good book to read while you're on holiday. Quiet, relaxing and easy.
Haha thank you, and I have to say that is a perfect pick! Just the way that Jason may take some Kerouac on the road with him, folks can take Jason! 😁
My choice is when the perishes would go on beach holiday in the summer! The crabs in the rock pool were my fav characters in the strip :)
I don't know the Perishes, is that the name of the comic?
@@ftloc its actually called the perishers :) it was this popular newspaper strip over here in britain that was kinda like our response to charlie brown, except the world the kids in is way more run down and they kinda play with trash all day
For this one, I'm going with the most literal interpretation and picking Grant Morrison and Dan Mora's Klaus. It's up there as one of the most beautiful books I've ever read, with a particular nod to Mora's stunning colours, invoking a truly festive feeling. On my first read I was a little disappointed in how simplistic and by-the-book the plot and characters seemed, especially given Morrison's reputation, but upon annual re-reads I find it actually adds to the mythical/folk-tale feeling of the story.
I should re-read Klaus. I thought it was absolutely gorgeous and stunning to look at, but wasn't gripped by the story as a whole. I like the more mythic and iconic interpretation you're taking, though; that definitely works in so many of my favourites.
I recommend a re-read for sure, although you may need to wait another year now! I'm yet to read any of the sequels, but I've heard mixed things.@@ftloc
For this one I'm going to pick a comic called Kodi by Jared Cullum about a girl who befriends a bear and the two are then separated for a rather Disney-esque adventure to reunite. I feel that this book could just as well have been the next christmas movie blockbuster, so I don't even feel bad about picking this one :D
I loved Kodi! I think it starts or ends my Top Shelf Comics livestream, but I could definitely go for a sequel to fatten out that holiday read! 😁
Boule et Bill (Billy and Buddy) a Belgian sort of Peanuts was my favourite read at the municipal library during school holidays. Merry Xmas and Happy New Year!
Merry Xmas and happy new year to you! I don't think I've ever seen any Billy and Buddy - was it a newspaper strip?
It initially appeared in Spirou magazine in 1959 as a mini story. Then got its own series n was even adapted into a live action film in 2013.
Only one album is available in Finnish. I have that and been thinking of getting more. Cinebook has a nice selection available in english.
I'm reading comics books almost in the white gloves so I can't take comics to the beach :-D Usually I'm looking forward to holidays because I will be able to read longs comics (e.g. Collosal Conan) or long series in few days so I have more intense experience from that. But I decided select something with strong summer atmosphere. As first I wanted to select 'This One Summer' by Mariko Tamakiová. But at the end I think the best choise will be 'Oscuro en Rosa' by Tony Sandoval.
Yes, taking any book to the beach, but specially a comic, is an idea that chills me! 😁
I really enjoyed This One Summer but am unfamiliar with any Tony Sandoval. Do you know if their works are available in English?
@@ftloc Yes, some of them. Check books from Magnetic Press. I have Doomboy from them. It was my first book from Tony Sandoval and I fall in love into his art and atmosphere in this book.
although there’s a complete collection of Soulwind (Oni Press), i still enjoy the holiday read of all 5 volumes between xmas and new years
I'll have to take a look at Soulwind! And I often/always end up loving separate volumes more. There's something about the breath you take between volumes and the sense of micro closure that is a wonderful punctuation.
Good day. I think we were in the same mindset because I woke up Sunday morning thinking about a Batman/Catwoman story and made a video about it. I don't know why but when I listened to you discuss Bone I thought about Crossed, the complete opposite of Holiday reading. "How was your vacation?" "Well..." ! Happy Holidays:)
I've never read Crossed, but I know of its reputation, shall we say...time for me to check out a Batman/Catwoman video then!
As a kid my brothers and I would read Tintin and Asterix during the school holidays. But they tend to crop up frequently in these sorts of thing, so I’m going to go for Jordan’s Lefebre’s Glorious Summer series of graphic novels. These focus on a family and their summer holidays over the years that has good humour and some drama and great artwork.
I have heard so much about it, including in these comments, but there's no print version of the English translation, only an ebook.
It crossed my path because it was really cheap on comiXology a while back. I don’t think it is available in English in print☹️
Oh this was a stinker, the last three have had me in a tizz, my first thought was I've no idea about xmas comics apart from the highly silly Lobo's Paramilitary Xmas Special where our favourite rude bounty hunter accepts an outrageous contract hit. Then I thought, no, thats just too outrageous a pick .. what sums up holiday escapism, perhaps winter, maybe even epic storytelling with stunning art, something that captures the spirit of those quest movies I have loved since childhood that were shown over holidays like Sinbad or Jason and the Argonauts, of course, it has to be .. Mouse Guard.
Perfect!
Pretty much every Batman Adventures Holiday Special story featured in the special. If I had to pick any one, I'd pick "White Christmas" written by Paul Dini and drawn by Glen Murakami and Bruce Timm. It's a follow-up to the beloved episode, 'Heart of Ice' from the critically acclaimed show, 'Batman the animated series' the success of which spurned a number of great comic books in the 90s.
I have not read that, although I have watched the episode! I may just need to check this out!
I would recommend Stay by Lewis Trondheim & Hubert Chevillard. This one is a beautiful book on a woman who just lost her husband and still decides to go through their planned itinerary on this wonderful beach town. This one just has always stuck with me. Something about being alone and dealing with loss while being surrounded by people who are seemingly having the time of their life while on vacation is something that really resonated with me. Highly recommend this one. Also, I need to get on Bone, i do have the massive all in one collection, so I'll probably start reading that next!
That sounds lovely! Lewis Trondheim is someone I read a lot of books by in a stretch some years ago, but I never encountered Stay. Time to jump back in and see what I can find!
Without finishing the video my favourite holiday comic: Batman the long Halloween. Pick an issue or the whole trade. Always a great read, on free days, when travelling or during the holidays. Or just the best story that takes place during the holidays
Very, very fitting! And one could try and restrict oneself to one issue a week, still faster than a monthly! 😁
It’s not an original answer but I’ll go with Disney comics in general.
Whether it’s “Christmas on bear mountain” by barks or The Ice sword saga stories by Massimo de Vita
I have, alas, never even heard of the Ice Sword Saga!
@@ftloc Disney master vol 9 collects it and vol 11 has the sequel story. It’s a Mickey and goofy story.
Massimo de Vita is one of my favorite Disney comics creators after barks and Rosa
I also chose a comic that I loved reading while on vacation. In the sun, cold beer next to me,, getting lost in a wonderfull story. In this case a funny, tropical, sensual and kinda weird, story. My pick is De wraak van Bakamé ( Bakame's revenge). (Only in Dutch and French). Bone is still on the 'to read' pile. Maybe this summer! ;-)
I'm too afraid to take a comic to the beach! But swap in a waterless location, keep the sun and the beer and I'm in! 😁
Too bad there's no English translation of Bakame.
And if you do get to Bone in the summer, I'd love to know how it went!
I bought today Guy Delisles Hostage. I didnt have time to read it yet but that’s my choice. Not necessarily because on holiday you may end up as a hostage but because I’ll be reading it tomorrow and it’s my short holiday🤷🏼♂️
and you will make a great review of the book... 🎉😉 now you are under pressure!
See how well that worked out? Once the situation has been resolved, I would love to know what you thought of it.
I got a bit side tracked.😬 I found some missing volumes - in Danish- to Sillage so I´ve been Google Lensing mostly. You see Sillage overrides everything else.
So I´ve chosen a comic that I haven´t even read...Not sure if this is cheating or if I found a game breaking glitch. But I do have to say Hostage looks something that is hard not to like.
@@ftloc
Great timing!
It worked out😁!
Extremely hard question for me. Your pick is perfect. The comic I curently read most on my holidays is 2000AD (catching up) A comic I have discovered and been amazed by during old holidays woild be Starlin's Captain Marvel. Favourite Christmas comic is the Snowman by R. Briggs. Aaargh it's tough.
Ok my pick is A Very British Affair. The Best of Clasic Romance Comics. Those amazing british "girls" comics (ones my sister bought) I only read during my summer holidays when time was all I had and they have expanded my reading horizons!
Best wishes for a happy new year!
Oh wow, a comic I have never heard of but a perfect interpretation.
And with The Snowman and Father Christmas, Briggs has an incredible hold on Christmas comics!
12 - great holiday comic: A Very British Affair. The Best of Clasic Romance Comics
11 - old comic you love: H. Kurtzmann's MAD - The usual gang of idiots
10 - most wonderful scene: Rite of Spring (Swamp Thing #34) - Moore/Bissette/Totleben/Wood
9 - comic that blew your mind: From Hell - A.Moore and E.Campbell
8 - gorgeous comic : Acme Novelty Library HC - Chris Ware
7 - comfort comic : Peanuts - Charles Schultz
6 - nonfiction comic to recommend to people who don't do nonfiction : Andre The Giant: Life and Legend - Box Brown
5 - first comic series pursued : Asterix
4 - great love story : Ethel and Ernest - Raymond Briggs
3 - great adaptation from another medium : City of Glass - David Mazzucchelli and Paul Karasik
2 - comic to recommend to anyone : Fred The Clown - Roger Langridge
1 - favorite comic : 2000AD
I'm gonna go with a BD for this topic - Zidrou and Lafebre's Glorious Summers series is an absolutely great fit.
I'm still waiting for a print edition in English, but after reading Always Never, I may just be ready to bite the bullet on an ebook...
@@ftloc there is a high chance of no print edition coming. I think Europe Comics declared they'll only do ebooks from now on.
@@DIZZYDAYS1 I understand that as a business model, for sure. But that sucks for me.
@@ftloc oh so much!
This day, i'll choose 'A Christmas for Shacktown' by Carl Barks. It's obviously not gonna be a long graphic novel, but it's the best one i'd still choose!
We can make it work if we bundle it up with a few volumes of Barks! 😁
The only thing I can think of that fit your parameters and my tastes would be Maus by Art Speigelman
I actually read Maus over one summer off from college! It didn't last the whole summer, but it is dense and rich enough to take up a chunk.
@@ftloc yes it’s definitely that density that made me think of it immediately. The heavy subject matter wouldn’t deter me from picking it for my vacation as I love indulging in sadness and the feeling of a sinking heart. Sounds weird typed out lol
@@gianmarcotoval509 there's definitely catharsis, and I guess there's something to be said for reading the saddest things when you can come back to a holiday reality, kind of a tempering balance?
But I agree, the density and the space to be able to tackle it is the most valuable thing...
Hey you can give a try to manga(Japanese graphic novel)
To be very honest with you, this time the prompt felt a little bit all over the place. Throwing criteria based on the content of the works themselves together with reader experience based ones ans even completely external factos like different calendarizations and work/school planning felt a bit ... as Bilbo Baggins would put it... like butter that has been stretched over too much bread. But please don't take this as a mean-spirited critique. I actually took it more as a challenge to see if I could come up with something to harmonize the ideas that you conjured in my mind.
Saying I'm not a particularly religious man would be underselling it, so I don't tend to be much into the celebration of the faith-based parts of certain holidays. Than, however, has always made me focus on making those instances more about the people with which I share that time together... That, and my very probable focus on the needs of others due to upbringing and adhd type2, make me almost always end up not reading much at all during celbrations and such. I also can't really come up with a comic that is thematically somehow intrinsecally linked to some holiday. I know there are many stories set around christmas or halloween and such, but none really come to my memory as importat or memorable BECAUSE of it.
Now, going into your other definition, the very broad and weird one, I think I can get more inspired... but I wouldn't go the route of "comics that I read during that free-for-all times that are the holidays" (as in vacations). I think I'd like to twist the take and see if I can summon to my mind a comic that "feels" like vacations; one that becomes a period of holidays in your mind, heart, and memory; one that whisks you away and where you actually ended up spending those days in; one that even replaces your reality for a while. I think many of us have some sort of reading, comic or prose, that inhabited SO HARD that we feel we know that "place" better than the one we actually were in while reading; readings that we remember better than anything else that was going on around us at the time. In a certain sense those comics WERE that holiday, a vacation from our world.... I think it's not a half-bad spinn-off from your original concept, right?
And in that sense, I think I need to go with Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind. I was living in Sweden at the time I finally got my hands on the complete edition (the pretty one in 2 volumes in a box), the days were getting shorter, and I was sort of in a "floating" place mentally speaking. That first time I read it I probably went through it in two sittings. I was completely and absolutely immersed in that world. I was still getting familiar with Stockholm, so Nausicaä's world felt pretty much as new to me as my real enviromnent, its characters as strange and fascinating as any person I was getting in touch at the time. I hadn't been sucked in into a fictional world in this way probably since reading the Lord of the Rings in my teens. And it felt good, not safe, for that world was dangeous, but good... exhilarating, stimmulating... it had a brutal hook on me, and it somehow felt like going back into the summer holiday adventures of my childhood, when everything was new, you moved carefree through the town, riding your bikes with your pals in places you were not supposed to go, sneeaking into places, sharing stories and getting to know friends you maybe wouldn't even get to see ever again. Of course, I was very far from my teens and going so hard into my reading, taying awake for hours and hours, ended up throwing me really badly out of ballance and I ended up with some awfull stomach cramps, dizziness, etc. having to go to see a doctor (I'm lucky my Wife is a saint and somehow got me there while I was basically in a half-ghost state). I guess my advice is, even if a comic sucks you in and feels as good a the summer vacations you had as a kid, don't forget to sleep a bit. The comic will still be there on your night table next morning.
Sorry for that weird tangential story by the way.
Oh... I also got an idea for a future promt (in case you are ever in need of one). An interesting one would be "a comic that you would like to erase from your memory, so that you could experience it for the first time again".
tangential but funny! 😂😂😂
comics have long been seen as a strange thing for weirdos (let alone the mangas). I guess strangeness and weirdness are for most of us kind of our treatment!!!
I have a very different relationship with religious festivals and holidays than I do with religion 😁, which - as hypocritical as it may sound - is simply a function of stories, whether they are stories I encounter or stories I end up creating.
And yes, this is a lot of bread for this specific butter, but it is also honestly a phrasing that can be interpreted in so many ways that I did want to recognize as many aspects of it as I could think of. Of course, that doesn't mean every one of those parameters has to be hit, more like identifying which interpretation we want to play with.
And that's why yours is so wonderful! I had a similar thought about Calvin and Hobbes - evoking the sensation of childhood, summer, holidays, even if they are not literally similar to our experiences.
Thank you for that story about Nausicaa. It is a particular experience that you've captured wonderfully and I am grateful you shared it.