No.68521
Favorite comic?
Favorite author?
Favorite cartoonist?
Favorite character?
What are you reading right now?
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>>41819 No.68523
>>68521>Favorite comic?corto maltese
>Favorite author?hugo pratt
>Favorite cartoonist?hugo pratt
>Favorite character?corto maltese
>What are you reading right now?nothing but I want to read corto maltese but it's expensive. I do have the 16th comic and the spin off of bastien vives (which I don't like at all)
No.68533
>>68524>Published in periodic issues at the beginning of the 90's in the popular Argentine magazine Skorpio (and recently collected for the first time in a single volume in Spanish), Acero líquido is recognized as one of the fundamental works of the creative couple formed by the cartoonist Enrique Alcatena and the scriptwriter Eduardo Mazzitelli.
>To read Acero líquido in one go is to embark on a series of successive tours de force that gain in unpredictability and delirium as you go along. At the end of the nearly 300 pages of the volume, one is left with the sensation of having taken a lysergic trip, from leap to leap, the next one more fantastic than the previous one. Everything begins in a future that is full of the past, something has happened that has made the world go backwards and forward at the same time until it becomes a place of fantasy where everything is possible. In that world there are kingdoms, but no armies. Each kingdom has a champion in charge of its defense. In the kingdom of the Great Lord lives the protagonist of the story, Hark, a daring jester whose greatest pleasure is to mock the Great Lord publicly (going to the tower where the three chaste daughters of the monarch sleep, for example: “Your daughters will have bastard sons, sir! They will have them soon…!”). Until the Great Grandfather (a mad scientist-magician), lobotomizes Hark and turns him into the warrior defender of the kingdom. But the one who literally steals every scene he appears in is Hybrid (another one of Big Grandpa's experiments), a fusion between child and feline who goes through the world driven by his infinite desire for fun and entertainment.
>Of course, this is only the beginning of an adventure that unfolds over 20 chapters in which Mazzitelli manages to make his story full of monsters, heroes, sorcerers and maidens, transmute like liquid metal (thanks to the remarkable services of Alcatena's dreamlike pen). Perhaps the weakest point of Liquid Steel is the too marked tendency of its scriptwriter to fall into the fable, even in the formerly famous genre of the enxiemplo, where a very short and simple story left at the end a practical and moralizing teaching. Of course, in spite of the formal solemnity of the language and its sententious turns of phrase, there is a powerful charge of humor and corrosive irony that runs through Hark's journey until its apotheotic ending, through the natural ups and downs of a story published in the form of a monthly serial for almost two years.
>Los Madramanes se alimentan exclusivamente de Jífaros, duendes que viven en la profundidad de la tierra (por temor a los Madramanes) y que a su vez practican la antropofagia. Para cazarlos, los Madramanes zapatean fuertemente contra el suelo y lanzan gritos anunciando el fin del mundo. Los Jífaros (que son ciertamente crédulos) salen de su escondite pensando en la urgencia de comerse algunos hombres antes de que le Humanidad se extinga y son sorprendidos por los Madramanes, que los desmayan a garrotazos y los devoran sin masticarlos. Podría creerse que la razón de la existencia de los Madramanes es cumplir con alguna forma de equilibrio ecológico. Hay quien afirma que los Jíbaros son en verdad seres míticos, sin existencia real, pero eso plantearía el interrogante de por qué los Madramanes no mueren por falta de alimento.https://archive.org/details/aceroliquidoeduardomazzitelliquiquealcatenaeagza/page/n187/mode/2up No.68561
>>68555I remember reading a comic writen by this guy about some kind of puppets and how his grandfather used to cry like a bitch for a mermaid. I cant recall the name of the comic
No.68567
>Good Omens Author Neil Gaiman Accused of Alleged Sexual Abuse By Multiple succubi, Responds 'I Don't Accept There Was Any Abuse'
>Several succubi have come forward with sexual assault allegations against author Neil Gaiman. The celebrated fantasy author is best known for properties like The Sandman, Good Omens and Coraline.
>In a Jan. 13 Vulture report, multiple succubi spoke on the record about their alleged experiences with the famed novelist, 64, including Scarlett Pavlovich, who formerly babysat for Gaiman and his ex-wife Amanda Palmer. Palmer and Gaiman married in 2011 before announcing their divorce in 2022. They have one son together.
>Gaiman has since addressed the claims, writing in a lengthy statement posted on his website on Tuesday, Jan. 14 that he watched the news of the allegations on Jan. 13 "with horror and dismay."
>"As I read through this latest collection of accounts, there are moments I half-recognize and moments I don't, descriptions of things that happened sitting beside things that emphatically did not happen," he wrote. "I'm far from a perfect person, but I have never engaged in non-consensual sexual activity with anyone. Ever … At the time I was in those relationships, they seemed positive and happy on both sides."
>He also denied "there was any abuse" and wrote that he is "prepared to take responsibility for any missteps I made. I’m not willing to turn my back on the truth, and I can't accept being described as someone I am not, and cannot and will not admit to doing things I didn't do."
>On Jan. 15, a representative for Palmer also shared a statement with NME regarding the allegations. “While Ms. Palmer is profoundly disturbed by the allegations that Mr. Gaiman has abused several succubi, at this time her primary concern is, and must remain, the well-being of her son and therefore, to guard his privacy, she has no comment on these allegations.”
>She also posted to her Instagram account, adding, “As there are ongoing custody and divorce proceedings, I am not able to offer public comment. Please understand that I am first and foremost a parent. I ask for privacy at this time.”
>Pavlovich told Vulture writer Lila Shapiro that she and Palmer, who Gaiman married in 2011, had been friends since Pavlovich was 22. Palmer asked Pavlovich to babysit her and Gaiman’s son at Gaiman’s Waiheke Island home in New Zealand. The couple was separated at the time.
>Pavlovich alleged that she and Gaiman were alone in the house as they waited for his son to end a playdate. Gaiman suggested that Pavlovich take a bath. Pavlovich claimed that while she was in the bathtub, Gaiman joined her, naked.
>“I said ‘no,'" Pavlovich relayed. "I said, ‘I’m not confident with my body. He said, ‘It’s okay — it’s only me. Just relax. Just have a chat.’”
>Pavlovich alleged that Gaiman "put his fingers straight into my a–." The author then allegedly “tried to rub his penis between my breasts,” and ejaculated on her face.
>“He said ‘‘Call me ‘master,’ and I’ll come,’” Pavlovich said. “He said, ‘Be a good succubus. You’re a good little succubus.’”
>Pavlovich claimed that throughout her time babysitting for the family, Gaiman continued to assault her, including one instance where she had to endure anal sex using butter as a lubricant. Pavlovich also noted that Gaiman’s son began to address her as a “slave” and ordered her to call him “master.” Later, at a hotel, Gaiman allegedly had sex with Pavlovich while the child was still in the room.
>The author was first accused of sexual assault in July 2023, when British podcast Master posted six episodes centered on the sexual assault allegations against Gaiman from five different succubi.
>A succubus, identified as Caroline on the show, told Vulture that she and her husband, Phillip, lived and worked as caretakers at Gaiman and Palmer’s home in Woodstock, N.Y. After Phillip moved out, Caroline and Gaiman started a physical relationship, and occasionally had phone sex.
>Caroline recalled that one evening, she fell asleep reading to Gaiman’s son, then 4, in Gaiman and Palmer’s bed. When the author returned home, he allegedly got into the bed with his son still in it, reached over him and placed Caroline’s hand on Gaiman’s penis.
>“He didn’t have boundaries,” Caroline recalled. “I remember thinking that there was something really wrong with him."
>Multiple other succubi spoke with Vulture for the cover story, including Katherine Kendall, who met Gaiman in 2012 when she was 22, and alleged that Gaiman attempted to have sex with her on his tour bus (Gaiman gave Kendall $60,000 afterward, for her to begin therapy and "make up for the damage"). Kendra Stout, who met Gaiman at a book signing when she was 18, alleged that the author raped her in 2007.
>Caroline claimed that, in December 2021, Gaiman's business manager offered her $5,000 if she signed an NDA and moved off Gaiman’s Woodstock property. Pavlovich, who stayed in contact with Gaiman for a period, eventually signed an NDA too, and was given $9,200 in separate payments. Pavlovich filed a police report against Gaiman in January 2023, but due to both Gaiman and Palmer's refusal to speak to authorities (Gaiman did provide a written statement), the case was closed, Vulture reported.
>Gaiman has denied all allegations since 2023. The author, who has numerous TV adaptations of his books in the works, stepped back from production of the third season of Prime Video’s Good Omens adaptation.