![]() It’s a straight-up retread of stuff like ET and The Iron Giant but without the space to develop any emotional attachment. ![]() He teaches the golem to be kind to the forest animals, and then the town finds out about it and turns up with the pitchforks. It’s the story of a little boy gearing up for a long boring summer who accidentally creates a golem out of a pile of rocks in the woods. I believe Golemchik was part of a little program they ran to debut new creators, and it falls squarely into their usual bracket of being beautifully-produced and gorgeous to look at, but frustratingly shallow and simplistic in tone. This is a Nobrow mini from a couple of years ago, found in a bookshop that gets a bunch of their back-catalogue on remainder – hence my reviewing a large number of Nobrow books. And people like Kago, of course, who are just indiscriminately disgusting and bizarre with seemingly no moral pose in any direction, or any choice in the way they express themselves. I still get some of that same bracing quality from stuff like Nagata Kabi’s My Lesbian Experience With Loneliness which uses honesty towards radical vulnerability rather than cruelty. Joe Matt) performing lower-than-average levels of human decency.Īt the same time I don’t find normal levels of wokeness to be brave or shocking either so it’s interesting to think about how shock value in art intersects with politics now. I feel like most creators who would have previously been identified as “edgy” just had shit views about being kind to people, and we’ve all seen too much now to be shocked or entertained by people (e.g. He turns my stomach too, occasionally, but I think his work derives some of its value and power from being confrontational and shocking, and those attributes still have currency. Wombatz I had the same thought about Shintaro Kago. maybe it helps that only every other bad joke can be translated so the general tex averyishness of the thing comes to the fore. Oh and apropos the festive season i've also read byrne's first appearance on the she-hulk that generally looks like this only less nice (that's daniel cantrell, he has work in that direction but sometimes is quite good): also i think there is quite an industry of transgressive/edgy comics still flourishing in the post-hardcore/noise/skateboard scene? the very busy, blackish stuff with snotty jagged lines and much skullfuggery?. for a more objective measuring, here's a standard dog ruler:ĭoesn't something like shintaro kago count as edgy (and there's a whole japanese scene of very beautiful but yucky stuff which they sell at the staalplaat store in berlin)? if maybe you're enjoying him for other reasons, delicate me is put off exactly because of that.
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