Posted on their Instagram.

https://www.instagram.com/p/CrtN3niM17s/

I’m not clear if this is a 12 panel comic which will be put out online and then published in NOW or another book like it, or whether this is a teaser for a longer story. Looks cool though and I am delighted there’s more Al Columbia out in the world.

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Hey, the Kickstarter for Hundo is live! Limited to 100 copies.

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/darkfantasy/hundo-an-underground-comic-book-experience-by-geff-bartrand?ref=user_menu

"The Second Fake Death of Eddie Campbell & The Fate of the Artist" comes out July 29th. Although I'm super excited to have some new Eddie Campbell, I'm not thrilled about repackaging it with an older work.

I love Campbell's books (every single one except some early Eyeball Kid stuff), and have them all. I hope this is a decent sized work, and not just a short piece padded out with the reprint (which is excellent, but personally I already have a copy so I'm not too keen on buying it again). Does anyone have any details?

No matter how you slice it, it's still great news.

Hopefully I could get the one I'm thinking of across is you happen to know it, it's slightly hard to describe because of being so meta- and english not being my mother tongue.

I was hoping to find it because a) I haven't read it and it looks absolutely sick and b) I kinda want to make a little writing on how I think it'd be useful to have a word that is "a comic that isn't a (graphic) novel". A graphic novel is a comic, but there is no real word for a comic that is not a novel. In practice a lot of people happen to use a "comic/graphic novel" dicthonomy wherein they are implying that a graphic novel is a more "serious/adult" form of the medium, if not outright implying that a graphic novel equals "a comic that actually counts as art".

But the comic is the only artform where transtemporality is possible*. I want the Shintaro Kago work that I mentioned because it's an incredible example of this possibility within comics. I essentially want to make an argument for how not only is not-being a novel not a disqualifier for "being art", the cultural baggage of a comic vs a graphic novel kinda undermines and under-incentivates the exploration of many of the artform's unique qualities and strengths (I feel that this subreddit in particular will kinda get what I'm talking about). EDIT: Also because Shintaro Kago is a fairly accepted figure of what counts as quote unquote "art" comics.

Anyway thanks if you happen to know the Shintaro Kago manga or even if it rings a bell.

*I thought for a moment that videogames counted too but realized that even if videogames have player-defined sequences they still are very much sequential. Correct me if I'm wrong but I don't believe any other medium is actually capable of transtemporality aside from comics. And it's super cool, lol.