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Ryan C's Four Color Apocalypse @fourcolorryan.bsky.social · 20/12/2024

I've read some fucked-up stuff in my time, but nothing has prepared me for "Shame" by Wolfe Margolies from Infinity Land. This makes even stuff like Peter Sotos or Delaney's "Hogg" seem like a walk in the park.

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Ryan C's Four Color Apocalypse @fourcolorryan.bsky.social · 18/12/2024

Still kind of wrapping my head around Paul Curran's "Generations Bloodbath" from @apocalypseparty.bsky.social . It didn't blow me away the way "Left Hand" did, but it offers a more cohesive core concept to chew on. I liked it. A lot. But it's going to require a second go-round.

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Ryan C's Four Color Apocalypse @fourcolorryan.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

Chris Cajero Cilla's THE HEAVY HAND is one of the most thoroughly-realized and wholly unique works of its, or ANY, time. A tour de force

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Ryan C's Four Color Apocalypse @fourcolorryan.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

Justin Green's "Binky Brown Meets The Holy Virgin Mary" was arguably the first book-length autobio comic, and remains as astonishing achievement in the present as I'm sure it must have been at the time of its release

BINKY BROWN MEETS THE HOLY VIRGIN MARY By Justin Green

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Ryan C's Four Color Apocalypse @fourcolorryan.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

Rick Altergott's "Doofus" is the funniest thing I've ever read in my life.

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Ryan C's Four Color Apocalypse @fourcolorryan.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

Kramers Ergot 4 is the single-most influential work of this century, it set the tone for where comics were at, more importantly, WOULD BE GOING for the next decade-plus. It's like holding artistic dynamite in your hands.

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Ryan C's Four Color Apocalypse @fourcolorryan.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

Call it what you will --- "comics journalism," travelogue, cultural study, dispatches from the front, Joe Sacco's "Palestine" is a masterpiece

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Ryan C's Four Color Apocalypse @fourcolorryan.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

Yoshiharu Tsuge's THE MAN WITHOUT TALENT ranks as my all-time favorite manga.

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Ryan C's Four Color Apocalypse @fourcolorryan.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

Alan Moore's and Jacen Burrows' Providence is a masterpiece of horror, forensic historical analysis, and cultural DE- and RE- construction, as well as an articulate exploration of the nature of reality itself. Moore's finest hour.

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Ryan C's Four Color Apocalypse @fourcolorryan.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

Michael DeForge is a true auteur in every sense, and in my opinion FAMILIAR FACE is his strongest, most compelling, and in many ways most prescient work

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Ryan C's Four Color Apocalypse @fourcolorryan.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

John Porcellino's KING KAT is the definition of sublime, and quite possibly the most intensely personal long-running project in the history of the comics medium

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Ryan C's Four Color Apocalypse @fourcolorryan.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

QOBERIOUS Vol. 1 by the enigmatic D.R.T. is one of the most multi-layered, mysterious, and at times impenetrable works I've ever read in ANY medium. But unlike, say, Finnegans Wake, it's eminently enthralling and not the least bit self-indulgent

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Ryan C's Four Color Apocalypse @fourcolorryan.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

Julie Doucet is one of the greatest living cartoonists and TIME ZONE J is her most personal, ambitious, and groundbreaking work

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Ryan C's Four Color Apocalypse @fourcolorryan.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

Everyone has their favorite Kirby comic --- mine is his most personal, his most philosophically substantial, and his most underappreciated, Captain Victory And The Galactic Rangers

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Ryan C's Four Color Apocalypse @fourcolorryan.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

EC produced way too many great stories to count, but towering above ALL others is Krigstein's Master Race

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Ryan C's Four Color Apocalypse @fourcolorryan.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

George Herriman's Krazy Kat is, I would think, on everyone's all-time favorites list --- unless, of course, someone's never read it

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Ryan C's Four Color Apocalypse @fourcolorryan.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

Everyone has their favorite Love & Rockets story, mine remains "The Death Of Speedy."

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Ryan C's Four Color Apocalypse @fourcolorryan.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

You couldn't have come of age when I did and NOT have EIGHTBALL as one of your all-time favorite comics. Clowes will always be one of the greats in my estimation.

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Ryan C's Four Color Apocalypse @fourcolorryan.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

"There is another world. There is a better world. Well, there must be." Morrison and Case's DOOM PATROL is my all-time favorite run on any superhero comic.

DOOM PATROL by Grant Morrison and Richard Case

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Ryan C's Four Color Apocalypse @fourcolorryan.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

"These dreams I worship --- and nightmares I love --- this together that lasts for never --- this farewell-colored blood love." J. Webster Sharp's FONDANT

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Ryan C's Four Color Apocalypse @fourcolorryan.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

Thimble Theatre/Popeye - I can read Segar all day, any day, no matter how many times I've read it before

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Ryan C's Four Color Apocalypse @fourcolorryan.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

Jim Osborne's "D.O.A. Comics" --- lots of people out on the "marginalized outsider" pose, Osborne lived it. The outermost limit of transgressive art, nothing lies beyond this but void. Enter at your own risk.

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Ryan C's Four Color Apocalypse @fourcolorryan.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

Milligan, Fegredo, the unsung classic of the 1990s. One of the first titles out of the gate for Vertigo, and remains the best thing they ever published.