‘Comics Talk’ Archives
R.I.P. Ringo
I haven't been a comic fan for very long, only about 15 years. So in my lifetime none of my favorite artists have died. However Mike Wieringo died recently of a heart attack, and he was 44 years!! When I read this news I was shocked, even though I didn't really know him personally. But I love his work, I've been a fan ever since I read his [...]
TPB vs Floppies
It seems evey comics fan has an opinion about this, so I might as well blog my own. I cannot buy single issues where I live, actually I cannot buy any comics where I live. Shipping here is cost prohibiting. So I can only ask friends to bring books back from US. I order online to be shipped to their address, and when they come here from home [...]
My Comics Story pt.5: Manga
Read previous parts of this series of articles here. One summer in the mid-90s, my brother and I were in Taiwan for about a month. We didn't have much to do, but that year we had a couple of friends like us, living in Milano with Taiwanese origins. So we hung out with them. Their chinese was better than ours, so they could read chinese comics. [...]
Continuity: does it matter?
I often hear people saying "I won't read this because it's not in continuity". It might be referred to the Ultimate line at Marvel, or an annual/mini which is separate from the regular series. I can understand what they're saying, they are reading the regular series, and if a story does not impact what happens in the regular series why should they [...]
My Comics story pt.4 – DC Comics
his is part 4 of this series, please click here for previous parts. When I started reading Marvel comics, There wasn't a lot of DC comics being published. There was an athology which reprinted some second tier series, and an old series printing old Batman comics that nobody wanted to read. Then one day this last old series decided to skip [...]
My Comics story pt.3 – Image Comics
This is part 3 of My Comics Story, click here for the previous parts. After we started buying Marvel comics, Star Comics (one of the italian publishers of Marvel material) started publishing Image comics. The art was pretty, and me and my brother jumped on the Image wagon. The first title was Spawn, which included Savage Dragon. Spawn was a [...]
My Comics story pt.2 – Marvel Comics
Check part 1 of my Comics Story here. While I was still reading Italian comics, I started reading Marvel comics. I remember once I was on the metro, and I bumped into some guy I barely knew. He had an issue of Spider-Man (Uomo-Ragno in italian), and he started talking about it. He went into this propaganda promoting Superheroes against Italian [...]
Dreaming about comics
I am fascinated by dreams, especially recurring dreams. One of my recurring dreams is about comics. I don't remember when it started, but I've been having it for the past few years, up to a few weeks ago. And this is what happens: I am back in Italy, and I walking towards one of the comics shops in Milano. Sometimes it's a newstand (they sell [...]
My own SCC experience
The San Diego Comicon is the biggest comic convention in the US. Many comic creators and fans attend this convention every year, almost as a ritual. Living in Italy, I had no chance of going there, and was resign at the idea that I would be reading about SCC, but never being there. Fate was on my side in 1997 though. My family decided to visit [...]
My Comics story pt.1 – The Italian Comics
I was born and raised in Italy, and I started reading comics in 1990, when a classmate lent me an issue of Dylan Dog, a very popular italian comic. Before then I would read the occasional Disney comics I found in various places, like the doctor's waiting room, or from friends: Topolino (Mickey Mouse), Paperino (Donald Duck) etc... But Dylan Dog [...]