Tokyo: ends up, it’s pretty big!

I can’t really defend this but Tarantino instantly brought to mind the weird looking guy hidden in every Freakazoid episode

I also really want to praise the book itself. It is a joy to hold and read. Solid without being cumbersome, large but not awkward, and so many reader-first design elements, like giving the pages a bit of a white border so no text gets trapped in the spine. Also: the lettering is exquisite!

The second novel included here, Zib Zelub, involves a man whose limbs are constantly popping off his body and reattaching seemingly in random spots. The studied precision in how this constantly shifting body is illustrated moving or standing is so impressive.

The actual content - two graphic novels from the early 70s by Italian creator Guido Buzzelli - is fantastic. His art is the highlight; by trade a painter, his compositions are beautiful and grotesque but grounded in a perfect anatomy that gives it all an uncanny quality.

Just for fun, gonna post a little threaded review of a new-ish comic publication I was really happy with, The Collected Buzzelli Vol 1, The Labyrinth, by Floating World Comics (1/🧵)

There’s a DVD extra in season 1 of Archer where it’s just the pilot but they replaced Archer with a dinosaur, they could just do that and release it and still gross 9 figures

Saw a showing of Spirited Away at a local theater today. One thing I noticed near the start was this eye sign as they first enter the bathhouse area - I wonder if it was directly inspired by a similar frame in Nejishiki or if it’s just coincidence (or shared Buddhist source imagery)

I’ve been reading a book of Robert Benchley humor pieces, and it’s great when there are bits of 98 year old comedy that are so silly and absurdist that I can hear them in Conan O’Brien’s voice