My MOST MEMORABLE COMICS READS of 2022 | Part Three
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- čas přidán 23. 07. 2024
- Here's the third and final part of my Most Memorable Comics Reads of 2022 list, featuring another mix of old and new, familiar and unfamiliar, fiction and nonfiction.
Part One here: • My MOST MEMORABLE COMI...
Part Two here: • My MOST MEMORABLE COMI...
Other videos of mine I mention in this video:
My Favourite Discoveries of 2021 ❤ Sunday Livestream!
• My Favourite Discoveri...
THE INCAL in black & white, LIFE OF CHE by Breccia and Osterheld, THE FOREST by Thomas Ott • THE INCAL in black & w...
Comics from Friends, Comics from Stores! Sunday Livestream! • Comics from Friends, C...
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The Forest, by Thomas Ott amzn.to/3wm0UMX
Ducks, by Kate Beaton amzn.to/3XIG8m8
The Eternaut, by Héctor Germán Oesterheld and Francisco Solano Lopez
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Introductions and reviews of some of my my favourite comics gathered in this playlist:
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Despite the brevity in most of Ott's books, one truly has to take the time to digest each page to really enjoy it. "The Forest" is one of my favorites from last year too, so I'm very happy to see someone else talking about it too.
Absolutely. Brevity of one type - page or even panel count, - is balanced by the invitation to not just longer but burrow into every image. Its a fascinating, and illuminating subversion of density!
Loved all three of these videos. Thanks! 🎉
Thank you! I still feel I need to up my reading game though; when admiring videos from folks like yourself, I feel positively glacial in my approach!
Thanks for all these amazing recommendations over the past three videos. Putting pretty much all of them on my wish list to hopefully get sometime soon!
Tha k you so much, and that's terrific to hear! Happy reading, and do let me know what you thought of them!
Great series of videos and to tell you the truth I haven’t read The Eternauts . It has been on the non ending list of books. Looking forward to see what you will be reading this year.
The non-ending list is called that for a reason! There will always be something ridiculous on it and I am only a couple of months separated from you myself. But I do think that you will enjoy it whenever you get a chance to read it.
Thank you so much!
Kate Beaton’s Ducks was certainly on my list of most memorable reads too. I finished that book and needed to spend an hour just sitting with thoughts before doing anything else.
It really does that have that effect, doesn't it? Particularly because it doesn't take any easy cliches out in its approach, something I really appreciated in spite of being perplexed by it at first.
Loving these videos. It astounds me that the quality of content in comics format(and cinema) from decades ago is so, might I say, mature/seasoned. Loved your personal thoughts and take aways from the books , esp. the last one, as ever.
Thanks so much!
And I have to admit, I am also surprised when I find works from long ago that feel modern and timeless.
I have realized though, that the more attention a work pays to individuals and the more honestly it observes human details, the more it bases itself of character truths and the better the chance it has of being universal.
Ideologies and philosophies fall in and out of fashion, but honesty in observation and storytelling remains evergreen, it seems to me.
I could listen to you all day. I'm currently unwell, so I'm on a binge of your videos.
While I am very flattered by the idea of anyone bingeing my videos, I do wish you a speedy and complete recovery!
The thing about an emotionally driven memorable comics list is that some other people might not feel the same. Well, I am not one of those! I loved your list and particularly to find El eternauta in it. BTW, I am not super fan of Kate Beaton, but your word is enough for me to get book. ¡Gracias y feliz año!
Muchas gracias! 😁I think no matter what kind of list you make, unless it is purely quantitative (most number of copies printed) there will always be people who feel differently. And I love that, otherwise why would I seek out more than one person's list? All lists are personal anyway, I just like to add extra layers to mine haha!
So glad you enjoyed the video, I really appreciate the kind words, and if you do check out Ducks, I'd love to know what you thought of it.
Cheers!
Thank you for these videos. I’ve picked up several of these books since watching the videos 😊
So great to hear! Which ones did you go for?
@@ftloc I’ve started out with Pinball, The Book Tour and People of the Indus. I already own Rain Like Hammers.
Thanks for this wonderful video series! I'm very excited to take some of these recommendations.
So glad to hear you enjoyed the videos! What are you thinking of trying out?
@@ftloc Apart from Rain Like Hammers I don't think I've read any of the works in your trio of year-end wrap-up videos... but the ones that especially intrigued me were The Forest, Ducks, and Eternaut. Hope to pick them up soon!
Thank you for sharing your favourite reads. Would try and go through few of them.... :D
Thank you! And I would love to know what you decided to check out!
I was lucky enough to grab the english edition of the eternaut as soon as it came out and it took me by surprise just how much how i loved it. The pacing of the story was astounding, every time our main cast overcome one obstacle a new and more complex obstacle appeared and pushed the story and characters forward. Never boring, always chugging forward at a good pace and for fans of stunning art and classic science fiction its a beaut! Loved these three parts! 👏🏻👏🏻
Did you grab it in 2015? Or the recent reprint? I had all but given up hope for a reprint and would surely have bitten the bullet at ebay markup prices, but I was glad to see Fantagraphics step up their game. And was it ever worth it. There's honestly so much to praise in this book - the pacing, the4 characters, the twists of the plot and above all the grounded, doomed tone of it all - that I think it deserves a parliamentary debate/ discussion style approach more than a piddling summary.
So glad you enjoyed the videos; I had a great time making them, in a completely unplanned and haphazard manner of course.
@@ftloc I grabbed it in 2015-16 and it’s one of those books that is in the shelves for good! The videos worked perfectly so haphazard seems to work wonders!
@@ftloc forgot to say too…did you see fantagraphics just released a hardback of the chuckling whatsit? I haven’t read Sala as yet but read a good chunk online and grabbed the HC. I remember in your video marking his death you hoped they would release a HC.
!!!!! just watch all three parts and really great videos :)
So glad to hear that; thank you for your kind words!
@@ftloc a lot of comics/books i added to my TBR haha📝 !!!!Thank You
Fantastic 3rd part here. Really glad to see Ducks on this list and agree with everything you said here about it (and once again, thanks for pushing me over the edge to pick it up, very glad I did). The Eternaut has been recommended to me so many times it’s finally time to just take the plunge. Lopez is an absolute incredible artist.
Thank you so much!
What are the other works by Lopez you would recommend I check out? Unless I am going senile, I believe this is the first work of his that I have read.
Another excellent pick for 2022. Like you I’ve been resisting getting on the Breccia-oestereld “train” but I think i’ll take the plunge soon. Thomas Ott is a marvelous “outsider” with its very particular look and feel, somewhere between an illustrated novel and a comic book. I can’t help feeling nostalgic for this kind of narrative. As for Kate Beaton I’m waiting for the local version of “Ducks” to have a more precise opinion. If you can, tough they’re not all from 2022, try to read the excellent “Ballad for Sophie” by Filipe Melo, “Universe!” and the adaptation of “Slaughterhouse-Five” both by Albert Monteys. Looking forward for more good reads this year. Cheers…
I really enjoyed the Slaughterhouse Five adaptation, and I think we may even end up making a book club video with two or three of us CZcams folks talking about it one day.
Universe I have to get to and Ballad of Sophie is a book I started reading digitally, then decided to get the print book instead and somehow just lost track. Thanks for the reminder and I will be ordering it posthaste!
So glad you enjoyed the video and I would be interested to see what you think of Ducks.
After Mort Cinder and Life of Che, I was quite enamored with Osterheld anyway, but the Eternaut was just such an exciting read, nearing but just skirting pulp to instead feel sad and wise and rich, that I now wish to seek out everything that he wrote.
Cheers!
Lovely video. Did you change your grading method or have you changed the lighting. It looks good👍
Thank you - so glad you enjoyed it! As for the lighting/grade, yes, I made a few small tweaks.
I actually had a self-destructing livestream (unlisted after broadcast) which wasn't about comics at all, just me trying out new settings and lighting etc in one corner of my room with whoever was online giving me feedback, that's probably where the current setup was born. 😁
@@ftloc i did watch that and completely forgot😁
I am hoping that HGO's Ernie Pike stories get translated one day. It was one of his first classics and featured art by Hugo Pratt. One of my favorite reads last year was Borderline by Carlos Trillo and Eduardo Risso. Such a good chunk of Argentine cyberpunk.
Wow, Osterheld and Pratt is definitely a combination I want to see! And thanks for the recommendation; I will be looking up borderline posthaste!
2.5/3 on part 3 bringing my overall total to a whopping 5.5/10.
I have shelved Ducks halfway, hoping to finish it later this month.
Your thoughts on these? Also, I saw your recent list of comics read, and I have definitely made some additions to my own list. Except for the Raymond Briggs, that seems horrendously OOP.
@@ftloc Eternaut was eternally taut, and relentless. It also has that "sci-fi of the past" quality, I can't really explain what it is, but somehow sits between retrograde dread and wistfulness. It was a beautiful read that leaves a mark
@@ftloc Ducks tired me, but not because the book is boring or the narrative is monotonous (although the monotony of the locale and the habit is clearly there), but it felt too real. Plus got me worried about my own student loans. So I'm ostriching it for the moment 😅
@@ftloc The Forest is beautiful and psychologically lush. It is a book that I can come back to over and over.
Will look out for Ott's work, looks amazing. In tradition of Lyn Ward. "Eternaut" is an incredible piece, but the horrific real world context behind its makers and their country is what elevates it to classic status for me. "Ducks" was a hard read for me, but not for topical or emotional reasons. I was actually pretty underwhelmed by the pacing, the command of form overall. The episodic, vignette like nature didn't feel fully realized in a way that a book of this length and depth really needs. I often couldn't tell who was who (even with the character guides), when a scene changed, or how much time elapsed from moment to moment. Perhaps the scale and emotions of the work, great as they are, got the better of KB's capacites of controlling the movement of the story, moment to moment. I think it could have been edited down. She did push her drawing well beyind her work with Vagrant, which is great for any artist, but this was an ambitious leap and not all of it worked for me. It's generally a well lauded book, so I know I'm an outlier with this opinion!
I think being an outlier is great, because you have very closely observed, genuinely reflected upon, and articulately expressed your view on a work, and what more can anyone ask? Jumping on a bandwagon with nothing new to add is ok (I do it often myself! 😁) and hating on something purely as a reaction to others enjoying it is stupid (I hope I never do this 😁) but this is much, much better than either.
And I will agree with you that the narrative is loose, wandering, and vignette-ish, but I feel that is what contributed to the power of the story. In particular creative non fiction, especially autobiography, I deeply enjoy structures that replicate or summon up the way our memories and reflections work. When autobiography feels too constructed toward a point, toward a thesis, I feel the presence of didacticism or manipulation.
Of course, all writing is manipulation, and all storytelling is crafted, so I completely understand what it is you find disappointing, or least what keeps you from connecting.
I liked the character guides, but also the names of the regions they were from, which combined with the map, then combined with the various conversations and accents scattered through the book - I was able to stitch them together to create a sense of tribalism, stereotyping, pride and condescension.
These things then worked very interestingly with gender roles, the earning of money, the supporting of families.
Those linked to the pressure of being away from families.
Suddenly a flight delay taking a day away from a three day break became a pressure cooker.
In short, it was exactly the fragmented, scattered approach that you talk of that allowed me to take all the pieces separately without thinking of them as having a shared point. And that allowed me to create the point myself, something I felt very happy with the editorial manipulation getting me to do! 😁
The Eternaut forever…forever The Eternaut!
Indeed!
Great channel! Reading different comics, right now Sandman and sometimes manga such as Vagabond. Where in India do you live? I am there from time to time. Mostly in Maharashtra and Pune.
So glad you enjoyed the video and I hope you find plenty to enjoy on the channel, including my sandman playlist 😊.
I live in New Delhi.
Amé que leyeras un libro de autores latinoamericanos. (I loved that you read this book from latin american authors)
Muchas gracias! I feel I have missed out for so many years, and even now I find English translations hard to get my hands on. What would be your top recommendations for me?
Never heard of Thomas Ott nor The Eternaut. Thanks for correcting that.
Although our tastes do diverge on rare occasions, i get the feeling both of these are books you would enjoy. At the very least you can see i did not refer to either as 'charming' 😁
Both struck me as essential immediately. I've just bought The Forest but The Eternaut will have to wait. Funnily enough last month I bought a couple of very cheap D&Q Moomin books (after your Moomin / Naussica video). Absolutely loved them. They were so... what's the word? Charming!
Hahaha, i am so glad to hear that!
If you get to grab any other Ott books (they pop up second hand from time to time) i would highly recommend them all,. Cinema Panopticum is probably the most well known.
I checked out the availability of the other Thomas Ott books online and unfortunately they are all OOP it would seem. There are a few going on eBay for around £30-£50 which is a bit out of my price range right now. I'll wait patiently and see if they turn up a bit cheaper. Meanwhile I very much look forward to The Forest. Thanks for a trilogy of great videos.
The Forest arrived yesterday. Really, really liked it. The art reminded me a bit of the detailed cross hatching of later Robert Crumb with some Edward Gorey thrown in yet it's definitely its own thing. Some of the images were suitably sinister and unnerving so full marks must be given for that. A book to be pored over multiple times despite its brevity.
I also managed to buy RIP The Best of Thomas Ott for a reasonable price on eBay which I very much look forward to.
Interesting portrait edition of The Eternaut shown here: czcams.com/video/SS-vA1KZOag/video.html
Indeed! Although i believe I prefer the larger strip format, one of the rare occasions where the European album is not necessarily the most celebratory format for a work!
@@ftloc same! Although, it’d be a fun exercise to compare in hand.
great review as always!
the chapters of your video are erroneous!
"Docs" > "Ducks"
"The eternal" > "The eternaut"
Thanks! I didn't put chapters in - must be CZcams's auto chapters having trouble with my accent!
@@ftloc ok! your accent is very light, and your are very easy to understand.
I had some colleagues from India, and I had great difficulties to undestand them because of their accent. but I have no problem to understand you.