All PostsContent Topic: photorealism
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Oishinbo 1 and 2 by Kariya and Hanasaki
I knew I’d love this manga as soon as I heard about it, a long running series about food, not where food is just part of the setting but rather an integral part of each story. Oishinbo has been running in Japan since 1983 and totals over 100 volumes. Viz is here translating the “A La Carte” series, a repackaging of stories from across the title’s run into thematic volumes. That immediately tells you one thing: you don’t read this for the larger narrative arc or the character development.
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Dave Sim’s Next Comic
Woah. A new Dave Sim comic (“Glamourpuss”) coming in April that appears to be a photorealist comic strip style fashion magazine parody… I can’t even imagine what this will read like, but the art looks great, very Leonard Starr/Stan Drake. Curious to see how the backgrounds look without Gerhard there to do them. (Link from [...]