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PostPosted: Aug 26, 2004 6:08 am    Post subject: Re: For those that have read Kabuki, which volume... Reply with quote

I read intros and go through all the awesome extras packed in the back.
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PostPosted: Aug 26, 2004 9:41 am    Post subject: Re: For those that have read Kabuki, which volume... Reply with quote

stien wrote:
Probably CoB, but that was the first so that might be part of the reason. I really like your black and white stuff.
Although I love the colour and collage, after a while the lace and feathers start to bore me. I can put more of myself in the b/w art if you know what I mean.
I'm re-reading now so my opinion on this might change.


btw are you going to the Paris convention? If you will I will.


Hi Stien!
I'm hoping to go to Angouleme in January. Not sure yet, though. And if I do, I always do a signing in Paris afterwards at the bookstore ALBUM on St Germaine.

I'll keep you updated on this board.

And thanks for reading my books, and for the feedback!

You're in Amsterdam, right?
How are things there? I've been there a couple times. Really liked it. I did a signing at some stores in Holland, and at the convention in Haarlem.
What book store do you go to there?
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PostPosted: Aug 26, 2004 9:47 am    Post subject: Re: For those that have read Kabuki, which volume... Reply with quote

Murdocks Girl wrote:
i read cover to cover.
every single word.
its hard not to...esp when im reading a trade to tide me over until the next issue comes out.
ok. more kabuki goodness!
MG


Thanks for the feedback on this.
Were some afterwords, introductions, or other extras, more interesting to you than others?

Do any of you also read the Reflections (four so far) books ? Do you like the format and content of that? Interesting to you, or not your thing? Why or why not?

Thanks Smile
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PostPosted: Aug 26, 2004 12:08 pm    Post subject: Re: For those that have read Kabuki, which volume... Reply with quote

MACK! wrote:
I'm really looking forward to doing a self-contained story for each of the Noh operatives (Like the one with Scarab) in the future.
I'm hoping to work with Alex Maleev on one of them as he mentioned at his Joe Q board.


Duuuuuude! I would love to see Alex Maleev on the Kabuki universe. He'd kick on any of them.
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PostPosted: Aug 26, 2004 12:11 pm    Post subject: Re: For those that have read Kabuki, which volume... Reply with quote

I read every single word to. Intros, extras, the process. I love all that stuff.
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PostPosted: Aug 26, 2004 1:56 pm    Post subject: Re: For those that have read Kabuki, which volume... Reply with quote

MACK! wrote:
Out of curiousity, when you read the trades do you also read the introduction? How about the afterword?


You're paying for the whole package, why not read the whole package? Smile
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PostPosted: Aug 26, 2004 5:32 pm    Post subject: Re: For those that have read Kabuki, which volume... Reply with quote

MACK! wrote:
Murdocks Girl wrote:
i read cover to cover.
every single word.
its hard not to...esp when im reading a trade to tide me over until the next issue comes out.
ok. more kabuki goodness!
MG


Thanks for the feedback on this.
Were some afterwords, introductions, or other extras, more interesting to you than others?

Do any of you also read the Reflections (four so far) books ? Do you like the format and content of that? Interesting to you, or not your thing? Why or why not?

Thanks Smile

i don't know what 'reflections' are - i've seen the covers online but no description... Sad
can someone further explain?
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PostPosted: Aug 26, 2004 5:51 pm    Post subject: Re: For those that have read Kabuki, which volume... Reply with quote

MACK! wrote:
Do you like best?

Why?

I'm doing research Smile


David,

I like Circle of Blood and Metamorphosis as much as everyone here, easily my favorites. I really like Masks of the Noh though because I got into seeing the other agents and how their specialties are.

I like reflections but I think I would prefer more issues of the big story instead or just more Kabuki material. But I would collect all of the things you would normall collect in Reflections and release a really cool Kabuki Companion book that would come out once every two years or so.

Afterwords, commentary and intros are all good especially with a trade or hardcover. A cerebral book as Kabuki is, I think it really adds to the story and allows us to see what you see the book to be. Whether it's different than what we get out of it I think it's awesome to see the personal vision of the artist/writer and those kind enough to share that with readers stand apart from others. Now you want to balance it all so that you have time to put out new material and I'd prefer that above all other things and when you sit down to collect everything together to make a kick ass package. It may cost you and us more, but I think in the end it's worth the price to buy it. I ulitmately don't know how much time you would have to spend on it though.


I think something that would be interesting is how different regions of the world see the comic. Does Japan react differently or similarly to Kabuki? Europe? Something like a tour book on you and Anh's convention trips and travels.

Thanks for asking for our opinions, David.
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PostPosted: Aug 26, 2004 8:23 pm    Post subject: Re: For those that have read Kabuki, which volume... Reply with quote

secretasiangirl wrote:
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i don't know what 'reflections' are - i've seen the covers online but no description... Sad
can someone further explain?[/quote]


So far I've done four, and all are 48 page squarebound books. Sort of art books, or sketch books.

They show a lot of the art process. How I work. Lots of my non comic book work, and non-Kabuki work. personal sketches, figure drawings, color studies, sculptures. Large formate oil paintings.

Album cover stuff I've done for Jazz albums, and Japanese label rock albums. Stuff I did for Paul McCartney. Stuff for Japanese comic books. Covers I did for novels.

Also some of the process for Kabuki work and Daredevil and ALias. Like the initial sketches for things that turn into covers and pages. And the sketches and layouts that I gave Joe Quesada for my DD story and DD covers we did together.

Also collected are many different non-Kabuki covers that I figure many people have not seen.

Early oil paintings. Early Kabuki designs. How I take my photo reference and work from it.
Sketches and designs I do for the sculptures and 3D work.
Some photography and poems and sketches right from my travel sketch books.
In the back of each one there are Lots of Photos of Me and Bendis and Andy Lee, Oeming and friends at conventions and behind the scenes stuff.

And all kinds of other art process commentary and images I figure no one has seen before.

I recommend REFLECTIONS for people who want to see more of my non-kabuki and non-comic book work. And for people interested in seeing the process of how I work with my comments on it.
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PostPosted: Aug 26, 2004 8:25 pm    Post subject: Re: For those that have read Kabuki, which volume... Reply with quote

first time i read em, i read just the story

then the first rereading i read every word cover to cover

and then i usually alternate reading and not reading everyword when i reread em over and over again
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New postPosted: Aug 31, 2004 4:23 am    Post subject: Re: For those that have read Kabuki, which volume... Reply with quote

Right on!

Cote did you get your books in the mail yet?
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New postPosted: Aug 31, 2004 4:25 am    Post subject: Re: For those that have read Kabuki, which volume... Reply with quote

MACK! wrote:

In the back of each one there are Lots of Photos of Me and Bendis and Andy Lee, Oeming and friends at conventions and behind the scenes stuff.


I LOVE the art, but I also love the pics. Cool seeing the MOB together.

RC
(who would love to put some of them on her sites if you ever want to send them her way... Wink )
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