1988 / Ecomics / 72 pages / USA/France
**
A post-Dark Knight gritty prestige miniseries drafting in a respected artist from adult comics was promising in principle.
I forgot Marvel was crap.
I forgot Marvel was crap.
Jean "Moebius" Giraud and Alexandro Jodorowsky, Mœbius ½: The Early Moebius and Other Humorous Stories
1963-91 (collected 1991) / Ecomic / 66 pages / France*
These collections can't have been doing too poorly if they could scrape the barrel this clean. Going even further back than the previous early years and retroactivrly zeroed volumes, this presents Moebius' vintage "funnies," which are as humorous as is conventional for the form. It can't even fall back on nice art or imaginative zaniness this time, looking more like Viz.
1996 / Ebook / 112 pages / UK
***
Prioritising style over substance, the author and other quoted scholars strive to visualise the complex architecture of the work, fractal or otherwise. I have no idea how this relates to what I'm listening to, but it all sounds clever.
2014 / Ebook / 112 pages / UK
***
The artist's enthusiasm for vibrant colour is infectious, until he calms down and recounts the history and science of colour for a few dozen pages so it's just about long enough to be a book.
2014 / Ebook / 160 pages / Australia
*
Reading this tedious meta-analysis of an artistically vacant mashup of two artists I don't care about was something of a cultural low point for my year.
