Comics and Fun at super*Market Animator Show

    Had a great time this weekend at the super*Market comic book show! Got to see a lot of friends and meet a lot of cool people!
    super*Market comic book show at Meltdown

    Ted Seko and Javier Hernandez had piles of their work for sale.
    Ted Seko and Javier Hernandez at the super*Market comic book show at Meltdown

    My table was right next to awesome painter, cartoonist and storyboard artist Pete Von Sholly. During the slow parts I got the chance to chat with him and look at his eye-poppingly beautiful paintings!
    Pete Von Sholly at the super*Market comic book show

    I'm glad I got to see Louie Del Carmen...I haven't seen him since he went over to Dreamworks.
    Louie Del Carmen at Meltdown's super*Market comic book show

    ---and Dan Goodsell's table was right across from me! He's the co-author of one of my favorite books: "Krazy Kids' Food," the curator of The Imaginary World's Ray Patin Exhibit and the creator of Mr. Toast. And a really nice guy!
    Dan Goodsell and Mr. Toast at the super*Market comic book show at Meltdown

    That's me muggin' for the camera. Thanks to Jessica Gao for taking this photo and for putting on a really fun show!
    Sherm Cohen at the super*Market comic book show at Meltdown
    Also (not pictured)... had a chance to catch up with Erik Wiese and Jessica Chaffin from The Mighty B, Stuart Ng, Sean Kreiner, and Anson Jew. I got to meet Jerry Beck and Scott Shaw, and of course I got to meet a lot of rabid comics fans! See you at the next one!
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Comics and Fun at super*Market Animator Show

    Had a great time this weekend at the super*Market comic book show! Got to see a lot of friends and meet a lot of cool people!
    super*Market comic book show at Meltdown

    Ted Seko and Javier Hernandez had piles of their work for sale.
    Ted Seko and Javier Hernandez at the super*Market comic book show at Meltdown

    My table was right next to awesome painter, cartoonist and storyboard artist Pete Von Sholly. During the slow parts I got the chance to chat with him and look at his eye-poppingly beautiful paintings!
    Pete Von Sholly at the super*Market comic book show

    I'm glad I got to see Louie Del Carmen...I haven't seen him since he went over to Dreamworks.
    Louie Del Carmen at Meltdown's super*Market comic book show

    ---and Dan Goodsell's table was right across from me! He's the co-author of one of my favorite books: "Krazy Kids' Food," the curator of The Imaginary World's Ray Patin Exhibit and the creator of Mr. Toast. And a really nice guy!
    Dan Goodsell and Mr. Toast at the super*Market comic book show at Meltdown

    That's me muggin' for the camera. Thanks to Jessica Gao for taking this photo and for putting on a really fun show!
    Sherm Cohen at the super*Market comic book show at Meltdown
    Also (not pictured)... had a chance to catch up with Erik Wiese and Jessica Chaffin from The Mighty B, Stuart Ng, Sean Kreiner, and Anson Jew. I got to meet Jerry Beck and Scott Shaw, and of course I got to meet a lot of rabid comics fans! See you at the next one!
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Summary: Arakure (Wild Ones), Vol 3, Chp 14

    The chapter starts with Sachie recalling a dream . She says, "I dreamed of a boy who smiled with sorrowful eyes. My first love (hatsukoi). In this opening there is a picture of Igarashi as a little boy only Sachie still hasn't put together that this boy and Igarashi are the same.

    The usual introduction is given with Sachie explaining her living situation and the oddness of Igarashi who is smiling like a prince while offering his hand. Sachie is in a lovely-dovey mood brought on my the dream of her first love love she had that morning. Her classmates are annoyed by her happiness and ask if she's in love. Sachie explains about her first love and how they went out once when she was 5-years old. Her friends are unimpressed and ask her about her current love life since she seems so close to Igarashi. Sachie, still lost in her dream comes to with Igarashi standing there very close to her. She is startled and Igarashi, not understanding her reaction, asks if she has changed yet. She thinks that Igarashi is not a bad person and then makes some excuse to leave (she just received a text message on her cell phone) because she has suddenly become very aware of Igarashi. Her heart is pounding and her face is red, but she's thinking to herself that her friend Kayo-chan doesn't have to worry because she's not in love with Igarashi.

    Igarashi follows Sachie as she looks at her message. Sachie explains that she is going with her friends to the kendo tournament. Igarashi is happily wide-eyed and surprised and asks if she is really going. This time Sachie is surprised by Igarashi's reaction. She doesn't have the heart to tell him that she's going because her friends pressured her into going. Rather she tells Igarashi that she going to cheer the school on so he should do his best. Igarashi then asks for Sachie to do him the favor of making him a lunch. He's leaning in face-to-face with her as he asks and smiling sweetly. "A lunch?" Sachie thinks ... she is a little surprised but doesn't seem that enthusiastic about the request, nor does she seem to consciously comprehend the meaning behind that request.

    The morning of the competition, Sachie wakes up early to make the lunch (my guess is subconsciously she understands the lunch request). She is very unhappy with her lunch making skills (although the lunch looks fine to me). Her grandfather comes down and sees her making the lunch. He says he's up early to go meet an important customer/associate and that instead of them staying in a hotel, he has invited them to stay at the house for a few days. He will be returning home with the guests in the late afternoon. Sachie has written "Do your Best" on the rice in the lunch with seaweed flakes. Her grandfather notices and then asks whether this is the weekend of Igarashi's kendo tournament. He then remarks how Igarashi never tells anybody about things like this. Sachie, then realizes that he hadn't told her either. She wonders whether he wanted it that way. Then she remembers his enthusiastic face when she said he was coming and realizes that he was just too humble to invite anybody to see him. Her grandfather then asks Sachi to help prepare for the visitors.

    Off to the tournament Igarashi and Sachie go. Their journey is delayed a few times as Igarashi stops to help an old lady, a lost child, and a man who has lots his contact. Next they spot what looks like a pack of thugs trying to shake down a kid for money. Self righteous Sachie jumps into the middle of the situation and tells the punks to get a job. Igarashi with a menacing grin completes the punk vanquishing. The kid is surprised and when the punks are gone, Sachie hugs the little boy like a mother, calming him saying that it must have been scary for a little boy all alone. The boy, deadpan, says that he could have handled punks like that himself and that Sachie had gone overboard. Sachie questions whether she is hearing things (she can't believe the boy is not thanking her), and then counters the boy saying it was a one time rescue so there was no need for him to thank her. Then they do some weird pose thing (a photo perhaps???). While Sachie is bent down posing the little boy flips the back for her skirt up which pisses off both Sachie and Igarashi (he's livid) who now are smiling with pissed off squinty eyes. And then it's back off to the kendo tournament.

    They arrive a the tournament a little bit late. Sachie is tired from all the action that happened just getting to the tournament. On the other hand, Igarashi doesn't seem tired at all and is kicking some ass in the tournament. Sachie is a amazed and Igarashi looks like a glowing prince as he takes off his head gear. She then notices that there are a bunch of girls cheering for Igarashi. It is now lunch time and Sachie goes to get the lunch she's prepared for Igarashi only find that it's been messed up because it was jostled in her bag. Still tries to give the lunch to Igarashi and in the process, is trampled by a mob of enthusiastic girls who are all trying to give lunches to Igarashi too. One girl goes so far as to insult Sachie, which doesn't go over well. Igarashi instead stops Sachie from leaving the scene. He comes from up behind her, places on hand on her should and with the other wraps around and takes the lunch from her lunch saying, "excuse me, but this lunch is for me." Sachie blushes and Igarashi smiles very warmly.

    They sit to eat and Sachie is worried about the taste of the food even though she tried hard to prepare it. She tells Igarashi that everyone else's lunch may taste better. Igarashi tells her that it would be bad for him not to eat before the continuation of tournament in the afternoon. Sachie, then hands over the lunch with much enthusiasm. Igarashi asks if what she's cooked came from watching TV to which Sachie explains that it's her homestyle of cooking. Igarashi then explains that he has been in the care of the house since he was 5, and, in all that time no one has ever prepared a lunch for him, making this his first. Sachie counters that girls offered him lunches just now. Igarashi says that to accept them would have been troublesome. He tells Sachie not to worry because her worry because the first lunch that was made for him will taste good. Igarashi then eats while Sachie nervous sits beside him. They are outside on the lawn under a tree. She thinks back to what her grandfather said about Igarashi not telling people about things like the tournament and then thinks about all the things that Igarashi has suffered through in his childhood. Sachie notices that it's late and tells Igarashi to hurry back to the tournament. As she goes into motion, Igarashi grabs her hand and asks if she will go with him to see the upcoming fireworks presentation because he wants to thank her for the lunch. Sachie says there's no need to thank her, but Igarashi points out that she went through the trouble of waking up early to prepare the lunch. Sachie says that she will let him thank her if he wins the tournament to which Igarashi tells her to watch him. Igarashi fights well and Sachie admires his fighting form while still trying to convince herself that she's not in love.

    They return home to find the lower yakuza scrambling to get ready for the guest. The guest arrives and it's the little boy Igarashi and Sachie saved from the thugs earlier in the day.

    End of Chapter


    Sneaking a peek ahead, it looks like it's Igarashi vs. the kid, with Igarashi getting extremely jealous. His jealousy causes him to have a couple of melt downs resulting in some behavior that is "lost in translation" -- as in it seems that over possessiveness is meant to be romantic in the manga, but in the US, Igarashi's behavior would be considered physically abusive. For us his behavior and level of jealousy is indicative of a guy who should be avoided because he will become more abusive as time goes on. I wonder how Viz will handle this. The easiest thing would be to PS the sign of abuse or to simply remove the offending image and fill in the blank space with something else. Hmmm ...
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Manga Review: King of Cards

    Main character, Minami, by extreme luck obtains a super rare card, Sahgan, for the card game "Chaos." People from all over challenge her to take the card away. At night, Sahgan visits her in dreams to give her card playing tips. This manga is basically a lame attempt at combining Yugi-oh, or whatever card battle card is popular now, with Shoujo. I flipped through most of it because it was boring card battle crap. 1/5 for a pointless manga series.Source URL: http://aminefairy.blogspot.com/2008/03/
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Anime Review: Gundam Seed

    This is 52-episodes of Gundam soap-opera goodness. In the future, humans created super humans and then became afraid of them. Accidentally a war was started and hatred upon hatred built leading to Armageddon. Friend against friend, in gundams, fight with their princesses cheering them on. Ah, yes, then there's the tainted love of the deliciously irritating Filay. It was addicting. Watch it if you haven't already. 5/5Source URL: http://aminefairy.blogspot.com/2008/03/
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Manga Review: Ion

    "Ion" is a 6 chapter (1 volume) manga by Arina Tanemura. She wrote this manga early in her career and it shows. The drawing style is hers but primitive and the characters and story are nowhere near as rich as "Fullmoon o Sagashite", "Kamikaze Kaito Jeanne", or "Shinshi Doumei Cross" ("The Gentleman's Alliance" in the US). As with her other stories, the main character, Ion, draws her strength by defying sadness that is rooted in the pain of missing parents. However, doesn't really deal with Ion's pain or her weakness. As for the male rivals, neither of them come close Tanemura's other male leads. Get this manga if you must complete your collection, otherwise read it at the library (I'm sure many of you will just read it at your local bookstore.) I'm sorta peeved that this manga cost $9 -- not much bang for the buck. I actually had a hard time reading the whole thing because it was it was so formulaic and, in general, overly cheerful. 2.5/5 for a mediocre manga series. Thank goodness they let her continue to publish after this one.

    Tanemura's other series, "Fullmoon o Sagashite", "Kamikaze Kaito Jeanne", or "Shinshi Doumei Cross" (currently running in Ribon magazine) are EXCELLENT. So please support these manga, so we can see more from this wonderful artist.Source URL: http://aminefairy.blogspot.com/2008/03/
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Count Screwloose vs. Harry the Hoople Snake! Rare 1948 Comic Book Scans from Milt Gross

    Here's another never-been-reprinted, scarcely-seen cartoon blast of brilliance from that Napoleon of nonsense, MILT GROSS! (Applause!!!)

    Harry the Hoople-Snake chases after Count Screloose by Milt Gross

    This frenetic five-pager from 1948 was hidden in the back of issue #14 of ACG Comics "The Kilroys," which is otherwise just a run-of-the-mill teen comedy Archie-wanna-be. I gotta thank Eddie Trigueros for turning me on to this book. He was even nice enough to let me scan it, but like a doofus, I lost all the scans when I was resizing the images in Photoshop.

    Freaky cartoon guy pops out of a tree with a big cartoon worm on his nose milt-gross-count-screwloose

    So I had to find the comic on eBay, and rescan my own copy. Good news is that these oddball funnybooks can be gotten online for not too much dough! I always try to find these golden-age cartoon and funny-animal comics in the worst condition possible. As long as they're readable, that's fine by me! I'd rather get four or five old crumbling comics for five bucks each than just one that's in more decent shape. Anyway, here are a few preview panels to get you warmed up...

    Count Screwloose is scared of Harry the Hoople-Snake insane guy in the background runs with his umbrella

    Harry the Hoople-Snake chases after Count Screloose by Milt Gross

    There's no explanation for Harry the Hoople-Snake. He is what he is. It's a cartoon!

    Harry the Hoople-Snake chases after Count Screloose by Milt Gross

    milt-gross-count-screwloose bounces over the wall of the insane asylum

    milt-gross-count-screwloose falls back to earth

    So after escaping the nuthouse, Count Screwloose ends up as a contestant on a radio quiz show...

    milt-gross-count-screwloose lands in a game show

    milt-gross-count-screwloose on a game show speaks into a giant microphone

    milt-gross-count-screwloose the audience applauds

    What great crowds! Every face is hideously different. A real horror show for our hero.

    milt-gross-count-screwloose all the ugly ladies love Screwloose and line up to kiss him

    WHAPPO! Man, I love the energy in this drawing below --

    milt-gross-count-screwloose whaps the emcee with the big microphone stand

    As usual, Count Screwloose escapes back IN to the Balmycrest Booby-Hatch where life is not so crazy!

    milt-gross-count-screwloose dives back into the BalmyCrest Booby-hatch insane asylum

    The WHOLE five-page story is available to click on and download below.

    milt-gross-count-screwloose

    Wow! The crowd LOVES it!


    Just CLICK on each of the images below and a nice BIG comic book scan page will open in a new window. Enjoy!
    Count Screwloose comic book scans by Milt Gross



    Count Screwloose comic book scans by Milt Gross

    Just CLICK on each of the images below and a nice BIG comic book scan page will open in a new window.
    Count Screwloose comic book scans by Milt Gross

    Count Screwloose comic book scans by Milt Gross

    Count Screwloose comic book scans by Milt Gross

    Fun + anarchy + cartooning genius = Milt Gross

    A few months ago I posted a fantastic seven-page Count Screwloose comedy epic from ACG's Kilroys #5. Just CLICK below on the goofy dude smoking a mouthfull of cigars to jump over and see that delicious set of vintage comic book scans!
    Milt Gross  comic book scan detail of a funny man smoking seven cigars at once

    John K. wrote a couple posts that really sum up all that is wonderful about Milt Gross. Check out his insightful and heartfelt articles on Milt Gross HERE: all kinds of stuff: WOW. MILT GROSS. style, observation, sincerity, humanity
    ...and HERE: all kinds of stuff: Milt Gross comics, drawing with every principle EXCEPT construction

    And the Asifa-Hollywood Animation Archive has some super scans of Milt Gross newspaper comics like Count Screwloose and Dave's delicatessen HERE.
    UPDATE: There are a LOT more comic book scans to look at and download! Click HERESource URL: http://aminefairy.blogspot.com/2008/03/
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Count Screwloose vs. Harry the Hoople Snake! Rare 1948 Comic Book Scans from Milt Gross

    Here's another never-been-reprinted, scarcely-seen cartoon blast of brilliance from that Napoleon of nonsense, MILT GROSS! (Applause!!!)

    Harry the Hoople-Snake chases after Count Screloose by Milt Gross

    This frenetic five-pager from 1948 was hidden in the back of issue #14 of ACG Comics "The Kilroys," which is otherwise just a run-of-the-mill teen comedy Archie-wanna-be. I gotta thank Eddie Trigueros for turning me on to this book. He was even nice enough to let me scan it, but like a doofus, I lost all the scans when I was resizing the images in Photoshop.

    Freaky cartoon guy pops out of a tree with a big cartoon worm on his nose milt-gross-count-screwloose

    So I had to find the comic on eBay, and rescan my own copy. Good news is that these oddball funnybooks can be gotten online for not too much dough! I always try to find these golden-age cartoon and funny-animal comics in the worst condition possible. As long as they're readable, that's fine by me! I'd rather get four or five old crumbling comics for five bucks each than just one that's in more decent shape. Anyway, here are a few preview panels to get you warmed up...

    Count Screwloose is scared of Harry the Hoople-Snake insane guy in the background runs with his umbrella

    Harry the Hoople-Snake chases after Count Screloose by Milt Gross

    There's no explanation for Harry the Hoople-Snake. He is what he is. It's a cartoon!

    Harry the Hoople-Snake chases after Count Screloose by Milt Gross

    milt-gross-count-screwloose bounces over the wall of the insane asylum

    milt-gross-count-screwloose falls back to earth

    So after escaping the nuthouse, Count Screwloose ends up as a contestant on a radio quiz show...

    milt-gross-count-screwloose lands in a game show

    milt-gross-count-screwloose on a game show speaks into a giant microphone

    milt-gross-count-screwloose the audience applauds

    What great crowds! Every face is hideously different. A real horror show for our hero.

    milt-gross-count-screwloose all the ugly ladies love Screwloose and line up to kiss him

    WHAPPO! Man, I love the energy in this drawing below --

    milt-gross-count-screwloose whaps the emcee with the big microphone stand

    As usual, Count Screwloose escapes back IN to the Balmycrest Booby-Hatch where life is not so crazy!

    milt-gross-count-screwloose dives back into the BalmyCrest Booby-hatch insane asylum

    The WHOLE five-page story is available to click on and download below.

    milt-gross-count-screwloose

    Wow! The crowd LOVES it!


    Just CLICK on each of the images below and a nice BIG comic book scan page will open in a new window. Enjoy!
    Count Screwloose comic book scans by Milt Gross



    Count Screwloose comic book scans by Milt Gross

    Just CLICK on each of the images below and a nice BIG comic book scan page will open in a new window.
    Count Screwloose comic book scans by Milt Gross

    Count Screwloose comic book scans by Milt Gross

    Count Screwloose comic book scans by Milt Gross

    Fun + anarchy + cartooning genius = Milt Gross

    A few months ago I posted a fantastic seven-page Count Screwloose comedy epic from ACG's Kilroys #5. Just CLICK below on the goofy dude smoking a mouthfull of cigars to jump over and see that delicious set of vintage comic book scans!
    Milt Gross  comic book scan detail of a funny man smoking seven cigars at once

    John K. wrote a couple posts that really sum up all that is wonderful about Milt Gross. Check out his insightful and heartfelt articles on Milt Gross HERE: all kinds of stuff: WOW. MILT GROSS. style, observation, sincerity, humanity
    ...and HERE: all kinds of stuff: Milt Gross comics, drawing with every principle EXCEPT construction

    And the Asifa-Hollywood Animation Archive has some super scans of Milt Gross newspaper comics like Count Screwloose and Dave's delicatessen HERE.
    UPDATE: There are a LOT more comic book scans to look at and download! Click HERESource URL: http://aminefairy.blogspot.com/2008/03/
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