Tuesday, July 31, 2007

      liz


      stopped using a mechanical pencil for a while, having fun with ye old plain hb pencil. great fun, good for warming up, even better after a couple of hours of drawing. still somewhat messy, though. mazzucchelli's batman: year one's probably the book i've mostly been looking at, lately. duncan fegredo also has a bit of that. toth, of course. don't get me wrong, i still love the ocd joy of peeps like frank quitely or seth fisher, but this feels more like a way to go.

      yellowish scans because of the moleskine notebook...

      posted by tonci at 18:52 1 comments

      Monday, July 30, 2007

      manga report

      so, i've been reading quite a bit of manga in the last month or so, and thought i could sum some of it up. maybe someone finds it useful. note- i read most (ok, all) of these as scanslations, so you can easily find and check out any of them. also, a big part of them is available in english (or french) as well.

      - - -

      since reading 20th century boys, which is amazing, and Monster (both by naoki urasawa, monster volumes 1 through 10 or so available in english), it's been tough finding something interesting. i googled some lists of best manga, and most of them had these as top three- one piece, death note, and bleach. one piece i just can't stomach since i really don't like the drawing style (and also, hear it's very similar to naruto, so might just as well read that). bleach i discarded for similar reasons.


      death note, however, turned out excellent. i've read the first seven books, and it's been the best fun since monster. lots of twists, good pacing, good drawing, interesting characters, and it's been very thrilling through all of the first seven volumes. it totals at 12 volumes, available in english (i got the first 6).


      homunculus is equally excellent, or better even. it's a completely different thing, weird, sometimes scary, and drawn wonderfully. there's no sign of it being translated and published in english (dunno about french), so it's just scanslations (7 volumes, read all of them). highly recommended.


      biomega (from the creator of blame!; same universe, same stuff again) is quite popular, but not very good, actually. some good cinematic moments, and a surprisingly non-annoying combination of giger and such biomecha/dark art (with a fascinating drop in quality in volume 2); complete lack of plot and characterization on the other hand. bummer. if you don't need the plot and are around 14, check it out, otherwise no need.


      akane-chan overdrive was on someone's list so i read the first volume. had some bright moments, but didn't really feel compelled to read the second book yet. classic boy-girl bodyswap.


      genshiken is quite a popular one, or so it seems. it's about otakus (manga geeks, basically), and it's understandable why people like it. it wasn't bad, since i read all of the 8 volumes i could find, but missed something to make it really good. definitely worth reading, though.

      team medical dragon is another random download, which started out as a GTO-ish medical thing, but got more serious in the second chapter. art is erratic, but it's an okay read.



      uzumaki/spiral by junji ito is one of them classic mangas. only three volumes, read the first two, and it's good. scary stuff.


      dragon head is responsible for the whole manga download mania for me. i saw a panel in a taschen book and loved it, however... it starts out wonderfully, as a lord of the flies/postapocalyptic thing, and gets kinda boring along the way. read the first six books or so. worth reading, you might find it better than i did. the first couple of books are nice, at least.


      king of thorns seems grossly overrated. even though i like postapocalyptic, "what's going on", survival stories, this one just doesn't do a thing. also, the drawing part seems very fan-made, or a sideproject or something. dunno. i liked the atmosphere, but then again, i liked the atmosphere in the first resident evil movie.



      maison ikkoku is a classic manga, and i love it! it was wonderful reading this after king of thorns, laughing my ass off through all of the 15 volumes. great characters, great drawing. this one's for everyone, check it out, at least the first book.


      ranma 1/2, also by rumiko takahashi (as maison ikkoku) is great as well. read the first 8 volumes and it keeps cracking me up. stating the obvious again, but wonderful stuff, also a classic.


      my balls is a good way to close up- this is a perfect example of why i love the japanese. only they can make a funny, sexy comic about the queen of darkness sealed in a poor guys balls. there's no sign of it being released in english, but the kind people are scanslating it chapter by chapter.

      next on the read list - mushishi, alive, gto 8+, tokko.

      - - -

      ok, that's it. if anyone even reads it, or especially finds use in this, good. i'm off to cook something now, and draw.

      hope you're enjoying the summer and stuff.

      p.s. there's seems to be some interest in these little reviews of mine, so i'll post some more in a few weeks.

      posted by tonci at 13:40 18 comments

      Friday, July 27, 2007

      bighead


      need to fix some things, but like the mood. two and a half pages to go, four days. plus inks.

      posted by tonci at 20:13 0 comments

      Wednesday, July 18, 2007

      few lines


      look at this guy, not a care in the world! then, (kind of) suddenly-

      so tired, it's not even funny. i'm amazed the boards i just finished even resemble anything. some of the panels i even like. so it goes. off to bed... and yes, it's 7am.

      posted by tonci at 07:15 0 comments

      Tuesday, July 17, 2007

      old news


      ... five (?) years ago? wasn't even shaving yet, then.

      posted by tonci at 23:36 1 comments

      Monday, July 16, 2007

      casablanca burns


      sleeping way too much these days... not good for the head. the rest of the time is effectively consumed by reading death note (fantastic!), playing on the psp and being cranky. doing more writing than drawing, which is strange. need to get up at 7am tomorrow. i think that would help.

      posted by tonci at 22:29 0 comments

      Tuesday, July 10, 2007

      kid voodoo


      we're allowed to post these now, so here- the fighter i did for this round of sam hiti's fistacuffs. below is a "smak talk drawing" done for the last round he was in.

      posted by tonci at 13:18 6 comments

      Monday, July 09, 2007

      franges



      went to this robert franges mihanovic exhibition today. sketched a bit on the run (i already posted some sketches of his stuff last year). love that guy. it's enough to see how he approaches hands to see the genius. today was the last day of the show at klovicevi dvori, but they have a lot of his stuff at gliptoteka. if you're in zagreb, croatia, check it out, it's quite worth it.

      p.s. the blue three-armed girl was one of the students watching over the show. she wasn't blue in real life.

      posted by tonci at 00:33 2 comments

      Tuesday, July 03, 2007

      soon, i think

      posted by tonci at 05:52 4 comments

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