One of the best online comics I ever read became finaly availible as a comic book in Germany. The comic is called „Same Difference & Other Stories“ by Derek Kirk Kim and can also be read entirely at the creator's webpage at: lowbright.com
testcard.de : "Discover America, benannt nach dem gleichnamigen Titel einer LP von Van Dyke Parks aus dem Jahre 1972, lädt ein, ein Land neu zu entdecken. Viele Linke erliegen hierzulande dem sie mit der Rechten wundersam einenden Kurzschluss, dass US-amerikanische Kultur und Mentalität ja längst bekannt seien und sich auf McDonald’s, Hollywood und Michael Jackson - kurz: auf so genannten Kulturimperialismus - reduzieren ließen. Der in Deutschland neu erstarkte Antiamerikanismus, dem nicht nur linke Antiimp-Blätter und rechte NPD-Organe, sondern auch die bürgerlichen Medien zum Großteil erlegen sind, macht sich nicht nur der dummen Gleichsetzung eines zugegebenermaßen gefährlichen Präsidenten mit "den USA" oder "den Amerikanern" schuldig, sondern spielt auch der seit drei bis vier Jahren massiv vorangetriebenen"
Aus dem Inhalt:
Alle gegen einen. Ursachen und Folgen desAntiamerikanismus.
Die Guten und die Bösen. Beobachtungen zum amerikanischen Aufstand gegen George W. Bush.
Befreite Klänge. Die neue Lust an Experiment und Kollektiv – von BLACK DICE bis Load Records.
Christoph Jacke: Quiet Is The New Loud – neue stille Songschreiber in den USA oder das Dazwischen von Punk und Techno.
from fabpress.com :"With Tetsuo: The Iron Man, Tetsuo II: Body Hammer, Tokyo Fist and Bullet Ballet, Shinya Tsukamoto has become one of the most widely praised filmmakers in Japan today. Edgy, intense and overwhelming, Tsukamoto's films are nightmarish visions of a world in which man's greatest enemy is his own environment of cold concrete and twisted technology.
Shinya Tsukamoto rejuvenated the Japanese film industry, paving the way for an entire generation of young Japanese directors like Takashi Miike (Audition) and Hideo Nakata (Ringu). He has been credited as a direct influence on modern Western cinematic masters including Quentin Tarantino (Kill Bill), David Fincher (Fight Club) and the Wachowski Brothers (The Matrix)."
China Miéville is my Sci-Fi author of the moment. I only read one of his books (Perdido Street Station) so far, but his other books are on my list of books to read.
Perdido Street Station takes place in the fictional town of New Crobuzon. The town is a stinking moloch, modeled after London. The residents are humans, wingend creatures, little goblins, scientists, magacians and lots of other crazy folk.
One ofthe maincharakters unintentionally sets free a bunch of soul sucking creatures. With the help of some friends, a giant dimension hopping spider and a living garbage dump he's trying to capture those beasts.
The story needs a couple of pages before it lifts of, but his extraordinary language also made this part worth reading. I didn't like everything in the book. For example the living garbage dump, I think that's an unnecessary "charakter", the story wouldn't suffer without it.
The book doesn't have a happy ending, I usually insist in happy endings, the world is grim enough so at least books should offer some soothing, but still this is one of my favourite SciFi books so far.
Perdido Street Station has one several prices. In Germany the book and also its translator won the "Kurd Laßwitz Preis 2003" for the best foreign SciFi book.
Note for the german edition: Amazon is offering a special edition of the book. The normal german edition for bookstores contains of two volumes, but the one Amazon.de is seling is a single volume hardcover edition, for only 10 EUR! The original english edition is a single volume too
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Hunter and Painter
By Tom Gauld. A fifteen part daily comic strip which appeared in the Guardian between 20th December 2004 and 7th January 2005.
When I am finaly making BIG money I will spend my first pay cheque for all those gems from the carbonpress. The complete Hunter and Painter comic strip and some other comics can be found here: www.cabanonpress.com
Marjane Satrapi was born in 1969 in Rasht, Iran. She grew up in Tehran, where she studied at the Lycee Francais before leaving for Vienna and then going to Strasbourg to study illustration. She currently lives in Paris, where she is at work on the sequel to Persepolis and where her illustrations appear regularly in newspapers and magazines. She is also the author of several children's books.
Persepolis , originally published to wide critical acclaim in France, where it elicited comparisons to Art Spiegelman's Maus, Persepolis is Marjane Satrapi's wise, funny, and heartbreaking memoir of growing up in Iran during the Islamic Revolution. In powerful black-and-white comic strip images, Satrapi tells the story of her life in Tehran from ages six to fourteen, years that saw the overthrow of the Shah's regime, the triumph of the Islamic Revolution, and the devastating effects of war with Iraq. The intelligent and outspoken only child of committed Marxists and the great-granddaughter of one of Iran's last emperors, Marjane bears witness to a childhood uniquely entwined with the history of her country. More
testcard.de : "Discover America, benannt nach dem gleichnamigen Titel einer LP von Van Dyke Parks aus dem Jahre 1972, lädt ein, ein Land neu zu entdecken. Viele Linke erliegen hierzulande dem sie mit der Rechten wundersam einenden Kurzschluss, dass US-amerikanische Kultur und Mentalität ja längst bekannt seien und sich auf McDonald’s, Hollywood und Michael Jackson - kurz: auf so genannten Kulturimperialismus - reduzieren ließen. Der in Deutschland neu erstarkte Antiamerikanismus, dem nicht nur linke Antiimp-Blätter und rechte NPD-Organe, sondern auch die bürgerlichen Medien zum Großteil erlegen sind, macht sich nicht nur der dummen Gleichsetzung eines zugegebenermaßen gefährlichen Präsidenten mit "den USA" oder "den Amerikanern" schuldig, sondern spielt auch der seit drei bis vier Jahren massiv vorangetriebenen"
from fabpress.com :"With Tetsuo: The Iron Man, Tetsuo II: Body Hammer, Tokyo Fist and Bullet Ballet, Shinya Tsukamoto has become one of the most widely praised filmmakers in Japan today. Edgy, intense and overwhelming, Tsukamoto's films are nightmarish visions of a world in which man's greatest enemy is his own environment of cold concrete and twisted technology.
China Miéville is my Sci-Fi author of the moment. I only read one of his books (Perdido Street Station) so far, but his other books are on my list of books to read.
Marjane Satrapi was born in 1969 in Rasht, Iran. She grew up in Tehran, where she studied at the Lycee Francais before leaving for Vienna and then going to Strasbourg to study illustration. She currently lives in Paris, where she is at work on the sequel to Persepolis and where her illustrations appear regularly in newspapers and magazines. She is also the author of several children's books.
, originally published to wide critical acclaim in France, where it elicited comparisons to Art Spiegelman's Maus, Persepolis is Marjane Satrapi's wise, funny, and heartbreaking memoir of growing up in Iran during the Islamic Revolution. In powerful black-and-white comic strip images, Satrapi tells the story of her life in Tehran from ages six to fourteen, years that saw the overthrow of the Shah's regime, the triumph of the Islamic Revolution, and the devastating effects of war with Iraq. The intelligent and outspoken only child of committed Marxists and the great-granddaughter of one of Iran's last emperors, Marjane bears witness to a childhood uniquely entwined with the history of her country. 