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Condemned Wraith JOG @snubpollard.bsky.social · 21h

Parts of the book kinda recall the Selecciones Ilustradas guys who’d contribute to Vampirella, in that you’ll get a bunch of panels with ‘cartooned’ figures and then BOOM, a really heavy, photo-referenced drawing of the same character… a LOT of ‘70s heavyweights get name-checked in another panel

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Condemned Wraith JOG @snubpollard.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

The French women’s anthology Ah! Nana is also on display! That ceased publication in 1978… given the first issue of Rom, the photo ref used is probably from late ‘79, ‘80? Some of these covers are not ‘real,’ so the comics are probably a mix of what was already in the photo and deliberate shoutouts.

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Condemned Wraith JOG @snubpollard.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Frank Miller’s cover to issue #1! Even in shōjo manga, Miller is beckoned…

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Condemned Wraith JOG @snubpollard.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

(Based in part on the real Chicago retail shop Comic Kingdom!)

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Condemned Wraith JOG @snubpollard.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Idealized American comic book store as depicted by a shōjo manga artist in Star Clock Liddell (Yoshimi Uchida, 1982-83; Eng. edition 2026, Glacier Bay Books)

A handsomely dressed fellow poses plaintively before a rack of incongruently diverse comic books of various nations circa 1982. “Trapped… inside a dream…” he thinks.

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Condemned Wraith JOG @snubpollard.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

REAL-LIFE SCENES FROM A RELIGIOUS TRACT: I’m passing a preacher on the corner at a Labor Day festival. Guy with a mohawk walks by yelling “Bible’s FAKE.”

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Condemned Wraith JOG @snubpollard.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Walked into the late nite coffee shop, some college freshman starts barking at me. Kid, I’ve been the dogman longer than you’ve been alive.

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Condemned Wraith JOG @snubpollard.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

From the opening movie to “70s-style Robot Anime Geppy-X,” a PS1 era side-scrolling shmup interrupted at regular intervals by scores of FMV clips (CG, anime and live-action) evoking a ‘lost’ super robot tv series. Remastered English translation in July…

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Condemned Wraith JOG @snubpollard.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

Frédéric Coché, “Infini” (FRMK, 2026)

A spider kisses a young boy, who will become an old man.

A spider kisses an old man, who was once a young boy.

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Condemned Wraith JOG @snubpollard.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

[insert joke about comic fan sex lives]

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Condemned Wraith JOG @snubpollard.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

He’s around 50, but a number of the Fremok artists have cultivated multilingual skills… IIRC both Yvan Alagbé and Dominique Goblet can speak English too.

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Condemned Wraith JOG @snubpollard.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

It was an online event, so it was close to one in the morning for him in Spain (where he apparently now lives)…

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Condemned Wraith JOG @snubpollard.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

English! He mentioned being very stressed having to speak so much English, but I thought he sounded fine.

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Condemned Wraith JOG @snubpollard.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

I was very happy to attend and ask exactly one question at this Frédéric Coché event - I think his first ‘long’ interview in English…?? Much of it consists of Coché walking through each of his major works and explaining his whole deal, and it is therefore invaluable to admirers of this artist!

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Condemned Wraith JOG @snubpollard.bsky.social · 01/02/2026

(In a way it’s like that one Furuya book where he put the gross art on uncut pages, so to see the art you have to take a blade to the book or rip it with your hands, symbolically ‘becoming’ the assailant…)

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Condemned Wraith JOG @snubpollard.bsky.social · 01/02/2026

I think a critical element is the cover art to the Hollow Press edition, with a shadow falling on the women’s utopia… the shadow is positioned to be you, the reader holding the book. The assailant is never shown, because it is you doing this. You must untie the book to read it. You are guilty.

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Condemned Wraith JOG @snubpollard.bsky.social · 19/01/2026

IIRC he’s said the intent was to “illustrate my feelings as a kid,” tho that does not necessarily mean it’s strictly autobiographical… certainly informed by his life.

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Condemned Wraith JOG @snubpollard.bsky.social · 14/01/2026

Hi, hello, I wrote a few words today about Silent Pictures, a pair of no-dialogue color comic albums which represent the final works of Kevin O’Neill, co-creator of Nemesis the Warlock, Marshal Law and The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen.

Cover art to Feartreland, one of two books contained in Kevin O’Neill’s Silent Pictures.

Cover art to The Balaclava Kid, one of two books contained in Kevin O’Neill’s Silent Pictures.

Comic page by Kevin O’Neill in which a cartoon black cat obtains a magic lamp, from which a sinister djinn emerges.

Comic page by Kevin O’Neill in which characters leap around outside an elevated trolley car as explosions boom in the distance. It’s exciting!

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Condemned Wraith JOG @snubpollard.bsky.social · 14/01/2026

LOL… no fear of Ireland in this book, as far as I can tell…

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Condemned Wraith JOG @snubpollard.bsky.social · 13/01/2026

Really extraordinary interview with Hiroshi Harada, the independent animator who adapted Suehiro Maruo’s Shōjo Tsubaki to film, among many other endeavors: aarondylankearns.substack.com/p/life-in-th...

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Life in the Zashikiro: A Discussion with Hiroshi Harada

An in-depth interview with Hiroshi Harada of the independent Kiryukan production company: covering his filmography, personal history, political views and more...

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Condemned Wraith JOG @snubpollard.bsky.social · 11/11/2025

I can’t comment on the accuracy from the Japanese, since my Japanese reading is very poor, and I don’t have a JP language edition anyway. It flows well in English. There is a production error on one page (205) where part of a panel gets garbled, but that may be an issue with the JP files, I dunno.

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Condemned Wraith JOG @snubpollard.bsky.social · 11/11/2025

Haha, it *is* kind of a noir riff, the comic…

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Condemned Wraith JOG @snubpollard.bsky.social · 11/11/2025

Not the same guy, he’s been dead for years. But it’s a very popular tv show now, so there’s probably a bunch of parodies…

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Condemned Wraith JOG @snubpollard.bsky.social · 11/11/2025

ATTN GLUTTONS: Please savor this mouth-watering review of The Solitary Gourmet, a comic about eating in the age of loneliness (1994-present) by Jirō Taniguchi & Masayuki Kusumi, up today at TCJ (The Chowbell Jouissance)

1990s interior page from The Solitary Gourmet

21st century interior page from The Solitary Gourmet

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Condemned Wraith JOG @snubpollard.bsky.social · 08/09/2025

Ok, then they are running the classic fundie apocalyptic prophecy line, makes sense

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Condemned Wraith JOG @snubpollard.bsky.social · 08/09/2025

None, thanks, tho I’d kind of be interested in knowing the title selection… there’s no way This Was Your Life isn’t also lurking around, but they did at least one really explicit Jews-need-to-convert title for U.S. dissemination years ago…

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Condemned Wraith JOG @snubpollard.bsky.social · 08/09/2025

I’m so sorry to hear that the indie manga publisher Matt Haasch of Star Fruit Books has died; he was undergoing treatment for lymphoma. I very much enjoyed their releases, including some great Hideshi Hino classics. Rest in peace! www.gofundme.com/f/donate-to-...

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Donate to Matt's Journey: Healing and Comics, organized by Matthew Haasch

With your support, I can focus on healing from lymphoma while continu… Matthew Haasch needs your support for Donate to Matt's Journey: Healing and Comics

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Condemned Wraith JOG @snubpollard.bsky.social · 15/08/2025

This is the best podcast in the universe!!!

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Condemned Wraith JOG @snubpollard.bsky.social · 15/08/2025

I was pleased to assist in proofreading the super-deluxe issue #2 of “dummy,” the editorial project of longtime comics-focused journalist and museum director John Kelly. It’s 92 pages dedicated to a century of artists parodying America’s best friend, Mickey Mouse. Recommended!

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Condemned Wraith JOG @snubpollard.bsky.social · 28/07/2025

ATTN all shivering vampires, I wrote a little about Anthology Editions’ new, first-ever English publication of 1967’s Saga de Xam, a notable early adult-oriented French comic album from artist Nicolas Devil, working from scenarios by soon-to-be cult filmmaker Jean Rollin.

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Condemned Wraith JOG @snubpollard.bsky.social · 28/07/2025

They also updated the character portraits to make them more boring.

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Condemned Wraith JOG @snubpollard.bsky.social · 28/07/2025

Big news, I impulse bought the “Memoire” version of Ys Oath in Felghana on sale; same game, but as a novelty they decided to have Adol talk. This is done *without* changing the text, however, so all the parts that narrate Adol’s actions now have him sorta talking over the text narrator. Kinda funny!

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Condemned Wraith JOG @snubpollard.bsky.social · 28/07/2025

You’re laughing… I have been ferociously attacked by the Adult Content label, and you’re laughing…

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Condemned Wraith JOG @snubpollard.bsky.social · 28/07/2025

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Condemned Wraith JOG @snubpollard.bsky.social · 03/07/2025

Hi, I have a long article up today about Kazuichi Hanawa, artist of grotesque, folkloric, metaphysical comics, sometimes all at once, who’s just had two books published in English: Red Night from Breakdown Press (which the article is mostly about) and Light of the Moon from The Mansion Press. ENJOY.

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