HotFingersClub wrote:
Heather Benjamin - Cavegirl Monologue
This is an art book rather than a comic and there’s not really too much to say about it, but I wanted to namecheck it because it’s my first exposure to Heather Benjamin. It looks like she’s more of a zine creator and a fine artist if anything, since she doesn’t seem to have done much sequential stuff. Her images are meticulously detailed depictions of demonic sex, filled with blood and savagery and usually centred around gaping ravenous vaginas. She holds nothing back, evoking the sexual horror of people like Johnny Ryan and Suehiro Maruo but turned up to eleven. Having said that, in this collection she seems to have mellowed a little – there’s noticeably less of the bloodthirst that I’ve seen in preview images of her earlier stuff, like Sad Sex. You don’t have any of the insane images of women impaling themselves on giant cocks, but Benjamin also hasn’t replaced those images with new enquiries, instead she’s just narrowing down, coming back again and again to an vision of a single woman with wild floating braids and muscular furry calves, huge pussy always on display and leaking beads of blood. Her art is always a marvel to behold, and if there’s less variety than you might hope for from a $35 art book, there is also an intriguing sense of seeing an act of worship being committed on the page, what once was many women now becoming just one woman over and over again, Benjamin’s near exclusive focus on this figure turning her into a devotional song to sex and destruction.
HotFingersClub wrote:Where did you order that from Wbatz?
HotFingersClub wrote:I lold when I saw that Brian Beaver comic wasn't from 1993. What is it about that heavy ink n scratches style that looks so inescapably retro. Maybe that comic is the start of some kind of reclamation for the 20s. I for one would not be in favour
Wombatz wrote:HotFingersClub wrote:I lold when I saw that Brian Beaver comic wasn't from 1993. What is it about that heavy ink n scratches style that looks so inescapably retro. Maybe that comic is the start of some kind of reclamation for the 20s. I for one would not be in favour
that beaver looks like something i'd hugely enjoy. i agree there's a retro feel to the page ... but then again i struggle to come up with 90s stuff that's really like that. it's a topic we've almost talked about in passing here. like i don't see that bayer's wendy could come from panter (totally different linework, fractured in panter, splashing in bayer), or i don't see that a gfrörer drawing looks like tony millionaire (e.g. totally different use of hatching, for space and texture in millionaire, for psychology and composition in gfrörer). i'm sure in both cases there will be a direct influence (or is it rather dame darcy in gfrörer's case?), i'm also sure that all these artists stare at old master drawings a lot, but the comics read so different anyway.
just as an intro to the question: what are everybody's favorite 90s comics that are like the beaver?
Michele Nitri wrote:"It is with great regret that I am forced to give my version of some untrue and defamatory voices that are running on social media concerning the publication of 'The Biologic Show' by Al Columbia. I didn't want to make this bad story public but at this point I'm forced to.
I have been unjustly accused of not respecting the artistic vision of the work. I mean how things unfolded, based on the email exchange - saved and conserved - I had with Al Columbia in recent months. After showing the cover to the author, receiving enthusiastic compliments by him on the work done, we showed a pattern for the inner cover that triggered something, absolutely inexplicable and crazy, in his mind, that led him to flood us with tons of insulting emails. Then, I've of course kept the highest level of professionalism, and above all ignored the violence and aggression against me, and immediately showed my availability in asking how the author preferred the rendering of the same (receiving 'simple solid black' as an answer).
Then I tried to reassure the author that everything was done as he requested, but the author preferred to continue his personal delirium by insulting me going way beyond the point of 'veiled' death threats and harassment against my family.
I would like to confirm that the volume is already in print and will be published, having paid everyone involved in the project and having absolutely met all the contractual terms. I also want to reassure that the comic has not been manipulated in any way and will be absolutely faithful to the original. I sincerely apologize in advance to Hollow Press' readers who will be enjoy this single volume by the author as, due to recent events, Hollow Press has no intention of continuing to collaborate with Al Columbia, who proved to be quite "unstable" from every point of view.
I would like to conclude by reiterating that Al Columbia is, as far as I'm concerned, one of the most extraordinary underground cartoonists ever. Unfortunately, an artist, however formidable, is not always respectable (at least as far as I'm concerned) in equal measure as a person. From my side there will be no other reply on the matter, which in case of need, will be resolved in the appropriate civil and criminal offices."
Levi Mizram wrote:"Hey is it just me or is it fucked up michele nitri has be butchering al's classic biologic show imagery by digitally manipulating and drastically re-working much of the book, according to nitri, to improve on al's work because nitiri has determined al's fans are bored with the art after seeing it for 30 years what he called the "shitty" fantagraphics versions. He describes the book and material inside as a "mess" and that he cant sell it otherwise. This book will sell itself to me. Al was very alarmed by all this, coming so late, and told nitri to cease and desist all work on this reprint immediately and call him before he touches it changes al's work again. Nitri has ignored al and posted this cover instead, announcing the book instead, offering al zero reassurance about anything in meantime. Al had wanted to do this collection a long time before michele abducted it and made it his personal private "creative" pleasure. Al doesnt want to back this up if his work is being destroyed and changed by nitri. Having no idea what nitri's true intentions are as of this writing al very much considers this a pirate reprint that he does not and no longer can in any way support or authorize, nitri having broken his trust on so many levels at this point. I know i would rather see al columbia's biologic show, not michele nitri's. Just my opinion."
(I believe the original image was just a single head)Levi Mizram wrote:"this is an example of nitri's brillaint and you can see, very necessary improving and re-working of something al columbia (and i'm sure us too) liked the way it was. Nitri also promised Al he was doing this throughout the whole book too. This all was sprung on Al by Nitri very recently too, very much last second."
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