Beneath the Dead Oak Tree by Emily Carroll

As you can see above, it’s got a late 50’s/early 60’s advertising art/UPA thing going on that’s unlike pretty much anything else you’re gonna see in comics (all done in illustrator, apparently, as you can see in this video). This book is worth checking out for its aesthetic alone. I’m still listening along with The King Mobcast as they go through the series.īeneath the Dead Oak Tree – Emily CarrollĪudubon: On the Wings of the World – Fabien GrolleauĪtomic Empire – Thierry Smolderen and Alexandre Clérisse

That third installment is a bit haphazard for sure, but the second volume–still my favorite volume–is pretty great even on a third (fourth?) read. I’ve been a big fan of this series ever since it came out, but had not read the full third series until now. The Invisibles volumes 2 & 3 – Grant Morrison Still, I’ll take what I can get from McGuire, who doesn’t do actual full-on comics very often. I enjoyed reading this, but there’s an air of of “remaking Stairway to Heaven” to the project. The basic conceit of the original strip this book’s an expansion of is so brilliant that it’s literally changed the formal language of comics. You see his process for one in this video. Some of the big panels and spreads in here are mind-blowing. The art style is a bit more neo-realistic than previous Bonhomme stuff I’ve read and the coloring is really interesting: it seems like an attempt to pair flat coloring of figures with limited palettes and extensive use of gradients for backgrounds. This book begins a multi-volume story of Carlota of Mexico. Note that there are most certainly books I’ve forgotten to add to my list that I’ll no doubt remember after I’ve posted this, and there are for sure a ton of mini-comics in particular that I read quickly then prematurely filed in my office minicomic heap without recording them.Ĭharlotte Impératrice (FR) – Matthieu Bonhommeīonhomme is a French cartoonist who is sadly not well-represented in English translation.

This year, that’s just not feasible given the amount of material I read and the time I have available… but here’s my list for 2019 with a few comments on things here and there.

In past years I’ve done a list of all the comics (and comics-related stuff) I’ve read, with a short write-up for each item.

Beneath the Dead Oak Tree by Emily Carroll