Weekend Reading 131 coincides with the primary day of October 2022! You can wager that we’ll discover time to web page by way of a guide or two as we’re decking the halls for Halloween right here at Stately Beat Manor.
What will you be studying by way of because the season turns spooky this weekend? The Beat is ready to listen to from you! Give us a shout-out and tell us, both right here within the remark part, over on social media @comicsbeat, or by whispering our title backwards 3 times over the flame of a crimson and black candle (after midnight, in fact)!
AVERY KAPLAN: October could have solely simply begun, however my partner and fellow Beat author Rebecca Oliver Kaplan and I’ve already made it by way of about 25% of The Simpsons “Treehouse of Horror” specials. This has put me within the temper for extra Matt Groening, so I’ll be re-reading The Simpsons/Futurama Crossover Crisis from Bongo Comics, now in a pleasant hardcover assortment from Abrams Books. The two-part crossover is from a artistic group that features Ian Boothby, James Lloyd, Steve Steere Jr., Andrew Pepoy, Rick Reese, Nathan Kane, Joe Mason, and Karen Bates. Plus, the again matter features a variant cowl gallery with work by the likes of Sergio Aragonés, Kyle Baker, Evan Dorkin, Sarah Dyer, Geof Darrow, Alex Ross, Stan Sakai, Herb Trimpe, Michael Allred, Laura Allred, Jason Ho, Bernie Wrightson, and extra. As a devotee of the World of Tomorrow, my weekend is wanting vivid!
DEAN SIMONS: First up is the eye-catchingly spectacular The Only Child, by Guojing. I really discovered it within the kids’s image guide part of a bookstore however it’s a fascinating silent comedian loosely based mostly on the creator’s personal recollections of being a small youngster within the China of the Nineteen Eighties. Highly suggest a perusal – I hope to learn the entire thing not less than as soon as this weekend. On prime of that, at evening I’ve been studying some early Lee & Kirby Fantastic Four earlier than I nod off. I’m not at all times within the temper for classic however the first whiff of depressing autumn/winter climate undoubtedly helped. I’ll probably learn points 4 and 5 of the sequence underneath a heavy blanket over the weekend.
TAIMUR DAR: After seeing a sneak peek of the upcoming Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur cartoon in the course of the SDCC panel, I’m actually excited for when the animated sequence arrives this February. Can’t wait to see what new stuff they showcase at NYCC subsequent week. It dawned on me that I by no means learn the unique comics from writers Brandon Montclare and Amy Reeder and artist Natacha Bustos. So I’m going to rectify that this weekend by studying Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur Vol. 1: BFF this weekend.
ARPAD OKAY: I’m a giant fan of Núria Martínez and ordered some micropress anthologies from Spain that she’s in, which arrived earlier this week. I bought a number of problems with Amorcito which look simply superior, sci fi and horror and private and cute, bed room zine aesthetics, complete ShortBox feeling comics (Martínez’s guide for SB guidelines). Experimental and diaryesque. And I bought the 2 problems with Neodimio which might be in print, although they’re all on-line as pay-what-you-want PDFs. No much less ShortBox however far more sci fi, filled with tales and printed in monochrome. Mail-order remains to be enjoyable!
REBECCA OLIVER KAPLAN: I’m studying a few of the books that I picked up whereas I used to be volunteering at Clexacon in Anaheim, California. First up, I used to be completely bought on a lesbian noir comedian due to flying nipple clamps, Donna Manicotti Dyke Detective #1 by Noelle Messier, Laura Soret, and Juan Alarcón. Then, it’s formally October, so I made a decision it’s time to learn a guide that’s been on my checklist for a very long time, M is for Monster by Talia Dutton.
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