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RESTRICTED
FREQUENCY
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Edition: 096        Date: October 28, 2017         Subscribers: 1,270





There are a couple of texts sitting in the back of my head that I'd like to write specifically for the newsletter –one of them being a short work of fiction– but I haven't had the time this past week, so this edition of the newsletter is largely a filler.

Check it out though, and I hope you stick around for the goods to come.

Cheers,


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WORKS

Introducing: Mickie Stardust
(A W.I.P. excerpt from THE SOLAR GRID)

Micki Stardust was tired of walking, but he made it. The neon sign of “Free Fall Cafe” stuck out from behind the waterfall like a helping hand. And he needed it. He couldn’t see the sign or the waterfall, but he knew they were there. He was broken, homeless, and grayscale. Disconnected from “Hively” and the magic of augmentation that came with it. It was just him and Lou, his malnutritioned pet from Enceladus, against the backdrop of hyper-colors, personalized bleeps, messages, news, and advertisements that everybody was seeing except them.
 

WORKS

Sneak Peek: TSG #4

Another little peek at what I've primarily been working on. I've got a grueling 30-page interrogation scene in this thing, and that's only half the chapter. Size aside, it is actually rather emotionally stressful.

"There's an old Chinese adage that if the artist doesn't feel excited, or sad, or happy when he's drawing the picture, he has no right to expect the audience to feel those emotions." – Alan Moore, 1987
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WATCHES

Manben: S4E2 – Itou Junji

Sometimes, to create the illusion that I am not entirely alone in my graphic novel pursuits, I leave Urasawa Naoki's MANBEN on in the background, a Japanese television series where he visits the workplaces of manga artists and chats with them about their process. It's the closest thing to pretending you're sharing your space with other hard-at-work artists. This newly subtitled episode featuring horror master Itou Junji is very good.
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CORRESPONDS
FROM: Yumna
SUBJECT: Re: RF095: Mixing It Up


I’ve only barely scratched the surface of the graphic novel world (habibti, persepolis, etc) and I really want to get into more with strong female leads, or even just young badass early teen leads for some good inspiration for my film. Any recommendations? Less romance, more action and darkness and important messages about the evils of the world. 
You've obviously got impeccable taste if you're scratching the surface with PERSEPOLIS and HABIBI. Both are glorious works that are difficult to match in the anglophone graphic-novel-scape. Graphic novels with strong female leads are especially difficult to come by... adding darkness and action and relevance to the equation makes what you're asking for an even rarer beast. Now that you mention it, I think you just pinpointed what comix very much need A LOT MORE OF.

(Like you, Kelsey –the wife– is very fond of both PERSEPOLIS and HABIBI, but isn't much of a comicbook reader. She reads mostly literary fiction and very serious academic books, and very few comix tend to appeal to her, which –in my view– highlights a huge gap in the comicbook market right now.)
 
Bu, like Kelsey,I think you might very much enjoy SECONDS by Bryan Lee O'Malley. Not necessary a whole lot of action, but it is intense. And it is brilliantly crafted, and by God is it a page-turner! It's about a girl who runs a restaurant, and wants to open a second one, comes upon these magic mushrooms that allow her to fix certain mistakes which upon trying out may be leading to compounding mistakes. It's kind of hard to "pitch", but damn, its one of the best graphic novels I've ever read, and I've read a lot.
 
LOST GIRLS by Alan Moore and Melinda Gebbie is probably in no way what you're looking for, but it is a peculiarly unique book in that it centers around the sex lives of 3 of the most popular women in fiction: Alice (from Alice in Wonderland), Wendy (from Peter Pan), and Dorothy (from Wizard of Oz). It's a very pornographic book, but... not entirely erotic. Probably due to Melinda Gebbie's art style, which... in many parts is... somewhat childish? Some of the parts in the book are outright disturbing, and there is no action to speak of, but it is important in its utilization of pornography to present a historical social examination and an almost kind of criticism of war. I think its an important work, but I'm somewhat hesitant to fully recommend it because it is an awfully peculiar book.
 
GHOST WORLD by Daniel Clowes is really damn good, but again... no action to speak of.  Not a romance story either though. It's a coming of age story centered around two teenage outcast girls in a typical American suburb. It's one of the best graphic novels ever created featuring female protagonists, but it's more of a slice-of-life drama that is concerned with the very specific lives of two young girls, and nothing at all to do with the evils of the greater world. It's seminal work though that should be on every comicbook enthusiast's shelf.
 
But shit, Yumna. This question of yours is driving me crazy now. Most of the female action comics out there is corporately produced superhero garbage that has very little concern with the evils of the actual world. I think I'll relay your question in my next newsletter, to see if any of the other readers might have appropriate recommendations. Anyone?
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