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arecomicsevengood · 8 months

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TRIP REPORT: SPX 2023

I went down to the Small Press Expo in Bethesda, Maryland this past Sunday. While I lived in Baltimore for a number of years, and it was essentially a local show, this is the first time I've been since moving to Philly in 2019. It took a year (or two?) off on account of COVID. I don't have much to say about the show itself, I enjoyed walking around talking to people, I probably didn't see all the stuff I would've liked, I'm not really in a good place to judge trends. I missed some people I would've liked to have met, like Drew Lerman, who left before I got there. He won an Ignatz though, and good for him. I do believe that the thing about SPX and the Ignatzes is that everyone essentially occupies very different spheres of interest and sets of influences. As I walked around, seeing little cards on people's comics saying they were nominated for an Ignatz, I would ask them if they had heard of or were familiar with the thing that won, they almost never were.

At the one panel discussion I attended, about drawing detailed backgrounds as a way of of establishing worldbuilding, Rosemary Valero-O'Connell cited Taiyo Matsumoto's approach as an influence, and as I sat in the audience thinking "Yes! Let's talk more about that!" everyone else on stage, quite reasonably, talked about their own influences instead - which for Daria Tessler, who I came to see, included Mark Beyer and Jim Woodring. The panel was generally good and interesting, and it's not meant as a slight to the moderator Rob Clough to point out that the best questions came during the Q+A from the audience. One member asked the question, how do you handle tonal shifts when you are using detailed visuals for plot purposes, and everyone agreed that that at emotional climaxes or at moments of more interiority they reduce the level of background detail.

Daria Tessler was the artist I was most excited to meet of anyone at the fest. Since my local shop, Partners And Son, is on top of it, I had already read her newest comic, volume 2 of Cagelessness, which absolutely rules, and so I had to shell out the big bucks for a copy of her fully-silkscreened book Dust, that uses multi-color collages as a backdrop for the cowboy characters who, in Cagelessness, move through ornately designed drawn worlds. Her work is beautiful, another high point of the panel discussion was her talking about how Marc Bell calls the tiny details cluttering up the backgrounds of his comics "chicken fat," and while Clough cited the term as originating from Will Elder, Tessler described chicken fat as "what you put in the soup to make it taste better, if you're not vegan," perfectly capturing what makes these artists work such a delicious meal for the eyes.

A similar "I already have all of these" experience was behind my purchase of Tales Of Old Snake Creek, by Drew Lerman, which collects his anthology contributions from recent years and adds watercolor to them. I love these comics in their original formats but I'm not going to say no to the convenience of this, which is also printed at a size larger than the digests in which some things ran.

Shout-out to Bread Tarleton, who pointed out to me the Paradise Systems table, where everything looked good and lavish, but what I picked up was Cry by Yan Cong. I believe Paradise Systems to be a reprinter of self-published comics from China. Cry features cartoony figures in a charcoal textured world, and follows a man having a sexual experience with a prostitute with a weird visual punchline.

Adam Szym directed me to the Strangers Fanzine table, where I picked up Shony Glassware 2 by Manning Coe, which is in some ways probably the sort of zine a lot of people go to SPX to get. Pretty funny stuff, maybe Ben Jones influenced, by a 26-year-old who lives in Osaka. Drawing himself in a Beat Happening shirt but with a bio where he talks about listening to 100 Gecs, there is a definite vibe at work here and while I don't remember the price point of this one I feel like it had to be cheap because it's that kind of comic. If you're ordering the new printing of Bhanu Pratap's Dear Mother from Strangers and want something else that's not too genre-y make sure you throw this in there.

Adam Szym's Their Use Continues is a horror short about the current trend towards reviving dead actors as CGI phantoms in movies currently in the news. Feels nice and relevant, I think I would've liked this to be a little bit bigger (it's printed digest size) and hi-res. Adam uses some digital collage elements for backgrounds and borders that I mostly felt was making the book smaller and fuzzier still.

I nonetheless liked it better than another horror comic I picked up, issue 1 ofJenna Cha and Lonnie Nadler's The Sickness, published by Uncivilized. Both people are more mainstream-comics, which I think is fine, but this does something I really associate with the dumbest kind of attitude that can be present in horror stuff, the kind of tonal miscalculation the comics I like avoid: Presenting a mid-century American setting where characters nonetheless are using a high degree of vulgar language, of a sort that would be stylized and off-putting if it were depicting the modern era but really just completely pulls me out of something set in the past. The second printing changes the color palette on the cover in a way that makes the drawing better, but this is not the sort of thing I would recommend anyone track down, which is sad, because it's likely far more readily available than anything I liked.

Tim Lane's Happy Hour In America 1, from a few years ago, was available at the Fantagraphics table. Presumably because Tim was signing, but I never saw him. I haven't read the big books collecting his short stories, but I like his contributions to anthologies. He's a guy who can really draw, in a way that you don't often see at small press shows, or that feels more appreciated by a mainstream-comics crowd. If his stories aren't as psychotically involved on a plot level as Mack White, he's nonetheless interesting as like a Gen X'er talking about American masculinity and what animates it. I would gladly read it in single issue comics format, though I missed these the first time because it wasn't what I felt I was in the mood for.

Another thing I picked up as a half-off copy of David B's Incidents In The Night, volume 2, from Uncivilized. I think volume 1 did pretty well, and is now sold out, but now that that's unavailable, volume 2 is a harder sell. David B is one of those dudes, like Joann Sfar or Christophe Blain, that got the big bookstore push like fifteen years ago but now no one wants to put out their books in the U.S. David B is also a guy, like GIpi, who had a comic put out by the Ignatz line Fantagraphics had. I bought issue 1 of Babel at the time and didn't care for it, and would've told you I didn't iike David B's work. But lately I've been tracking down books in the Ignatz line I skipped the first time (along with the First Second books of Gipi and Sfar from roughly the same time) and enjoying them, and this fits into that trend as well. A pretty involving plot, involving booksellers, the occult, criminal organizations. I both want to track down a copy of volume 1 and am frustrated that the volume 3 advertised at the end of this book was never translated into English.

Yasmeen Abediford's Death Bloom won an Ignatz, for best minicomic. All of the Ignatz awards are really ill-defined categories, and this is one is a $25 risograph thing, which to me seems like it should exist in a different category than cheapo xerox stuff, but whatever. Anyway, I believe Abediford will also be in the new issue of Freak, which I have seen Instagram posts indicating contributors got an advance copy of but have yet to be for sale online. Abediford is from the Bay Area, but this book was printed by Lucky Pocket Press, based in Baltimore, but from people who either moved there or didn't have the press going until after I left there. They sold me the comic in a little printed bag, which included a family tree for their little mascot guy, citing the "onion peow guy" as "(father, deceased)" and "(comics legend)," which is interesting to me insofar as I don't think of any of the Peow stuff as being interesting to me, though I'm happy it found its audience and made a mark. I don't really get this one either but whatever, I'll reread it tos ee if my opinion changes.

I would also put the output of publisher Silver Sprocket in a similar category to Peow - Not for me, seems like it's for younger people, in a way that dominates SPX as it's currently constituted. I have the deepest sympathies for them not being able to dominate SPX this year though, due to a misplaced/inaccessible pallet of books that they didn't get until halfway through Sunday. They had flown out Leo Fox from England, to debut his new book Prokaryote Season. I had seen Fox's stuff on Twitter last year and thought it looked good/interesting, but was also frustrated by the fact that he had apparently released a comic that was only for sale for 24 hours - maybe a way to create demand so that people actually order a thing, but in an artificial scarcity kind of way I resent. Anyway, I bought one of his self-published things, My Body Unspooling, and yeah I think it looks really cool and interesting, though the approach taken, a sort of simple narrative about the notion of the self rather than something that seems interested in having characters interact is again the kind of trend I blanch at in work made by people younger than me. I nonetheless liked the comic, and thought it was cool, and am going to read his book soon.

I bought issue 9 of Mike Centeno's Futile from the Radiator Comics distro booth. It is explicitly labeled as No Previous Readin' Necessary, so while there were two older issues of Futile at the table, printed at smaller dimensions, I didn't pick them up. This was cool, a mostly black and white (but with pages in the middle in color) comic about a musician taking mushrooms . It looks great on a flipthrough, though Audra Stang, working the table, tried to close the center-spread of my flipthrough so that the burst into full-color I was admiring didn't spoil the story's progression and surprises. Format and cartooning kinda reminded me of Nate Doyle's series Crooked Teeth. (Nate had a larger-formatted barbarian fantasy comic available from Strangers Fanzine, which I passed on.)

I also bought Beth Heinly's Girls Named Meghan from her, though Heinly is Philly-based and I've had plenty of chances to pick it up before. It's a memoir of her teenage years, growing up in Delaware County, which is where I went to high school, and the friendships she had that veered into rebellion and her apprehensions about being around people more "troubled" than she was. It is basically black and white but there's little red-pencil edits throughout, like maybe the wrong PDF was sent to the printer or something, sourced from a file where she was noting what she wanted to fix. I don't think of the other copies I have seen were like this though. Again, I think this is the sort of self-published autobio thing that many people go to SPX to find. I can see the places there this could be stronger or more impactful but there is still a fine sense for who all the characters were, and what the era was like.

I got a few other things but this is all I have read so far, at this moment when I felt like writing. Andrew White gave me a copy of the new Yearly, and a name I recognized from his writing for The Comics Journal, Henry Chamberlain, gave me a copy of his book George's Run, a biography of a Twilight Zone writer published by Rutgers University Press. I also got issue 3 of a comic called Cat Scratch Fever by a woman named Emily Zullo, and Soumya Dhulekar's Flash Valley. Both of these are in the classic digest sized minicomic format with black and white throughout, though Dhulekar opted for a a cardstock cover. This is the sort of thing I am most happy to buy from a stranger at a show and basically not even care about the quality as long as the price is right, though of course the price for both of these is higher than it used to be. I also bought and haven't yet read Leo Fox's Prokaryote Season, the theoretical "book of the show," although another contender for that title, the collection of Liam Cobb comics, What Awaits Them, looked great but I will pick it up when it comes into my local shop.

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deweydecimalchickens · 1 year

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On Saturday, me and my 72-year-old mother and my agoraphobia and my OCD and my social anxiety and my veganism and my extremely rudimentary language skills are going to Japan! AAAAAAAAAAAA! Via Dubai, where I will do my very best impression of a heterosexual who is not carrying prescription brain meds, has never had gay porn on her phone, and has no strong opinions about anything! AAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!

My brother moved to Japan in early March 2011, with classic timing, scaring the hell out of my parents in the process (Osaka is nowhere near where the earthquake hit, but we didn't know that). I've never been, on account of the above factors. This is the first time the borders have been open to tourists since my dad died, and my mum can't go on her own.

I have enough Covid vaccinations to satisfy border control, which is not enough for any actual immunity, a situation I consider insane and terrifying. Tests and masks, tests and masks. I'm actually on the SARS chapter of David Quammen's 'Spillover' right now, because I think knowing stuff is understanding stuff and I don't know how to be happy. My mum at least has had a recent booster.

Gomennasai, Igirisujin desu - I'm sorry, I'm English

Chotto no Nihongo ga hanasemasu - I can speak a little Japanese

Nihongo ga amari hanasemasen - I don't really speak Japanese

Niku to sakana to tamago wa tabemasen - I don't eat meat, fish and eggs

Kore wa yasai desu ka? - Is this vegetables?

Kyou kara saraishyuu made Japan Rail Pass o ni mai onegaishimasu - Two Japan Rail Passes from today until the week after next, please.

(The only Arabic I know is as-salaam alaikum/wa alaikum as-salaam, and I'm fervently hoping it won't come up if I never step outside a flight connection in an international airport.)

#Japan trip #I AM VERY ANXIOUS #We're all just winging it #Some of us extremely badly #Learning Japanese

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cruella-devegan · 6 months

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OKO / Osaka, Japan

Vegan gyoza and vegan-option okonomiyaki 🥟

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misusyaya-vlog · 1 year

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🍄 Osaka Vegan Eats & Super Nintendo World! (Japan Vlog Ep.3)

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faustochou · 10 months

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Yesterday I had Deep-fried caulilower with sweet and sour sauce set for lunch. the food in the picture that looks like sweet and sour chicken is actually sweet and sour cauliflower 🥦. This is the first time I've had such a creative sweet and sour dish😋

#japan #Osaka #deep fried #caulilower #food #vegan #vegetarian

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hippocampinae · 2 years

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Pour la fin de mon séjour au Japon, mes parents ont eu la chance de venir me voir. On ne l'a pas crié sur les toits, car ils n'étaient pas admis pour tourisme : ils étaient admis pour voir leur fille vivant au Japon.

Ces visas pour la famille immédiate avaient plutôt comme objectif de permettre aux grands-parents de rencontrer leurs petits-enfants, qu'ils étaient dans l'impossibilité de voir depuis le début de la pandémie. Mais mes parents étaient admissibles aussi, alors on en a profité.

Mon père a entrepris de faire un récit du voyage et, lorsqu'il l'aura complété, je publierai nos aventures décrites par lui.

En quittant mon appartement, j'ai roulé ma grosse valise et ma valise de cabine jusqu'à l'arrêt d'autobus, avec mon sac de katana sur le dos. Je me suis rendue à l'aéroport de Kumamoto et pour la première fois j'ai failli manquer de temps avant mon vol. Lorsque Steven était venu chez moi, il avait oublié un chargeur portatif externe. Il m'avait également prêté un sac réutilisable. J'ai mis ses choses ensemble dans une de mes valises, puis j'ai oublié. Eh ben, c'était dans ma valise qui allait aller en soute, donc ça a causé problème à la sécurité. J'ai à peine eu le temps de courir au dépanneur après avoir fini par réussir à enregistrer ma valise pour m'acheter à déjeuner avant de passer la sécurité et entrer dans l'autobus menant à l'avion.

Arrivée à Tokyo, je me suis dirigée vers chez Gabrielle, une autre JET de Montréal qui était en vacances au Québec et qui nous a loué, à moi et à Steven, son appartement en son absence pour qu'on puisse y laisser nos valises. Il pleuvait et j'ai eu de la difficulté à trouver son appartement car son immeuble n'apparaissait pas dans Google Maps. J'ai fini par me rendre, rentrer mes valises, changer de pantalons parce que ceux que je portais étaient trempés, puis je suis ressortie pour diner des ramens.

Je suis rentrée à l'appartement, faire une sieste et attendre mes deux autres valises que j'avais envoyé par la poste depuis Kumamoto.

Le lendemain, le 27 juillet, mes parents arrivaient au Japon. Nous avons tous les trois quitté notre destination le 26 juillet pour nous rendre à Tokyo, mais avec le décalage horaire eux quittaient le 26 (date de Montréal) pour arriver le 27 (date de Tokyo). Le matin, avant d'aller les chercher à l'aéroport, j'ai été dans le quartier Shibuya. L'appartement de Gabrielle étant dans le quartier Adachi, ça aurait été plus complexe de me rendre à l'aéroport qu'à partir de Shibuya. Je me suis donc promenée, j'ai été au Nintendo Store et au Pokemon Store pour voir. J'ai diné des ramens, encore, mais vegan cette fois.

Puis je me suis dirigée vers l'aéroport, pour accueillir mes parents. Malgré leur long voyage pas reposant, ils étaient de bonne humeur. Nous avons pris la direction de leur hôtel, dans le quartier Amakusa. Je les ai aidés à faire le check-in, puis nous avons été acheter des sushis au dépanneur, que nous avons mangés dans leur chambre. Après avoir mangé et discuté un peu de la journée du lendemain, je les ai laissés pour la nuit et je suis retournée à l'appartement de Gabrielle.

Pour le reste de l'histoire, ça viendra éventuellement.

Mais en gros nous avons été à Tokyo du 28 au 30 juillet, Kyoto du 30 juillet au 7 août. Pendant cette période où nous avions une chambre à Kyoto nous avons également été à Osaka et à Nara. Du 7 au 11 juillet, nous dormions à Hiroshima. Nous avons également été à Miyajima et à Ōkunoshima. Nous avons ensuite été dormir à Fukuoka du 11 au 15 août, période pendant laquelle j'ai fait visiter ma ville, Kumamoto, à mes parents. Nous sommes retournés à Kyoto du 15 au 19 août, pour finir à Tokyo à partir du 19 août et repartir vers Montréal ensemble le 23 août.

#Parents

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ailtrahq · 8 months

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Billy Markus, who created the original meme coin DOGE together with Jackson Palmer in 2013, in an active X app user who receives income through the monetization feature implemented by its owner Elon Musk.After the collapse of the FTX crypto giant in November 2022, Markus criticized Sam Bankman-Fried heavily, even when the latter admitted his wrongdoings on TV and apologized to Customers and creditors publicly on Twitter.Now, Markus published a post, saying that "the most famous vegan is sam bankman-fried." Thus, Markus' disaffection to SBF seems to have taken a new angle.This comment of the DOGE co-founder, apparently, comes from the fact that SBF, when he was put in prison, requested a vegan diet but did not get it. Nor was he provided with Adderall he needs to manage his ADHD (attention deficit hyperactive disorder), according to Guardian.FTX managers seeking to get payments made to celebrities recoveredAccording to a recent article News/articles/2023-09-08/ftx-probing-if-payments-to-shaq-naomi-osaka-can-be-clawed-back?utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter&utm_content=crypto&utm_campaign=socialflow-organic">published by Bloomberg, FTX Group advisers, who are currently managing the bankrupt exchange and striving to pay the funds back to the creditors, are seeking an opportunity to recover the money which SBF paid to celebrities to endorse and promote FTX before it sank.Among those celebrities who received millions of U.S. dollars from FTX are Shaquille O'Neal, tennis star Naomi Osaka and many other sports celebrities. This may be a hard job to do, though, since after filing for bankruptcy, FTX did not keep detailed Information on books and records.In December this year, the new FTX managers stated that several parties who received substantial payments from Sam Bankman-Fried for FTX promotion were willing to return the funds so that the Customers and creditors of the platform could get their compensation.Thodex exchange boss gets 11,000 years in prisonIn an ironic turn of events, the founder of Turkey-based crypto exchange Thodex, a platform that went bust in 2021, Faruk Fatih Ozer, has been sentenced to 11,196 years of imprisonment, News/articles/2023-09-08/turkish-crypto-boss-sentenced-to-over-11-000-years-in-prison?utm_content=crypto&utm_campaign=socialflow-organic&utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social">according to Bloomberg. The crimes for which this sentence came included fraud and money laundering.According to Chainalysis, the total worth of crypto lost to Thodex by its Customers stands at $2.6 billion.Several commentators on the X app noted that SBF should get at least 30-50 years in prison, which is nothing compared to the 11,000 years Ozer was sentenced to.

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jordanprice · 10 months

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June 20 - Osaka

Today we went to Osaka. It was my third time this trip visiting there, but there was still a lot I hadn’t seen or done yet. It is like an hour away from where we are staying, but I would say it was worth it to go multiple times as there is a lot going on there.

When we arrived in Osaka, we split for lunch. Professor Smith gave us an extra 30 mins, which I appreciated and it made me feel validated as I was the one who suggested it earlier that morning. Lauren and I went with Emily and Bianca to some vegan restaurant to eat. We ended up having to take a taxi, as it was much faster than walking or taking a train. I got some noodle dish, which ended up being quite the mistake. You see, two things, one I was not expecting there to be peanuts in some noodle dish, and two I was not expecting to be allergic to peanuts. I was allergic to them as a kid, but they didn’t show up on my most recent allergy test. I most certainly am allergic to them though after that. My breathing was a bit worse and my throat closed up a bit, but I took some Benadryl, did my inhaler, and I was fine. I felt so bad for Lauren though, as she was really worried about me, and I didn’t want to stress it out. I have no idea how people with allergies or any eating conditions in general survive in Japan. Like I guess I took it for granted being told on a menu if a dish has peanuts. Because of this, I ended up making us late for the group meet up time. I felt bad about it, but people were understanding.

As soon as our group got to the meeting point, we then headed to the Osaka Castle. We did not go in it, but we went up to it. It was quite pretty in my opinion.

After the castle, we went to America Village. It was nothing at all like America, except for it had a McDonald’s. There was one very American thing I did see though. Which was a black Silverado with a toddler and a pit bull in the back of it, so there’s that.

After that, we headed to a shopping street. We saw the famous running man advertisement from the bridge, and it was definitely a large billboard. The street on the other side of the bridge was quite cool. There were a bunch of 3D advertisements, some of which were moving, and there were a ton of different shops, a lot of which was street food. Lauren got strawberry ice cream and a strawberry smoothie, and we both got a strawberry tart which was pretty good.

We were then released for the day, and Lauren and I decided to stay in the area and walk around for a while and look at the shops. She especially wanted to find gacha machines, so we looked around and found some. We also went back and found the ones she saw on the way there that she wanted to check out. I ended up getting a like $40 Pokémon card from a $15 gacha, so that was pretty cool. We then also got matching keychains of cinamaroll as a bee. We got two of them from one grab in a claw machine, which was really fun.

I wasn’t feeling well at this point, so we headed back. I got two more chicken and cheese quesadillas from the one place we had gone to before, then I was feeling better.

This was an amazing trip and was such a great experience overall. I learned a ton about Japanese culture and got to be there in person to see it. The four weeks both feel like they’ve went on forever and like I blinked and it’s gone. I’m so glad I met Lauren on this trip, as spending it with her has made it a lot more enjoyable. I’m also happy that I got Vishnu as my roommate, as he is a nice guy and we got along well. By the end of the trip, I am definitely ready to go home, and in some ways am even getting tired of Japan. Overall, I will say I enjoyed Tokyo a lot more than I did Kyoto, but both had a lot of value in seeing. One final thing is I’m really looking forward to sleeping in a bed again man.

(Bonus photos from the last day)

Academic Reflection

Today I learned about the characteristics of the cityscape of Osaka. One thing the reading mentioned is that Osaka has weak zoning regulations for businesses, meaning there isn’t strong legislation on what businesses can and cannot operate in the area. I personally don’t know enough on the topic to be able to tell seeing it in person where this would come into play, especially since the business really all seemed to just be like food, clothing, or arcade type stuff.

I also learned about how they frequently destroy and then rebuild buildings and even entire blocks. They do this to constantly modernize the city and to upkeep the contemporary Japanese city aesthetic and complex spatial structure. That is one thing I did notice walking around Osaka is that there were practically no old buildings at all, they were all new from what I could tell. I suppose this is intentional and does make sense. Constantly tearing down and replacing buildings ensures they are always modern, but it just seems like such a costly endeavor to keep up. I suppose if the buildings are profitable enough, it then makes it worth it to keep them as contemporary as possible. In a way, cities like this in Japan feel like they are from the future, and definitely more advanced than what I am used to seeing in Florida.

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brianinjapan721 · 10 months

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June 20 - Osaka

Today was our Osaka day trip! I wasn’t really sure what to expect from Osaka, but I discovered that I really loved it. Upon arrival, we broke for lunch. I found a restaurant that had vegan burgers using an app. The burger was alright and definitely very overpriced, but a vegan does as a vegan does. Our first official stop of the day was Osaka castle. The castle was large and cool to see from the outside, but we didn��t go inside (which I didn’t really care too much for anyway). After this, we walked over to the American Village area. There were plenty of high-end stores in this area and it was very interesting to see how different the Japanese version of America is from the America that I am familiar with. After this, we went to Dotonbori. I loved this area. There were tons of animatronic advertisements and such all over the place. It was bustling with activity. This really locked in my liking of Osaka. Once the group broke, some of us went to get some fresh melon pan, which unfortunately was not as good as the 7-11 melon pan. We then went thrift shopping and I found a really nice ring, which I was hoping to find at some point on my trip. Overall, it was another amazing day in an amazing Japan.

Today’s reading was about the urban development of Japan, but Osaka in particular. One thing that I found especially interesting in today’s reading was the part that discussed how common it is for buildings to be demolished and the plot of land be used to build something new. I feel like this is not as common in America, where it is more likely that a building simply be repurposed rather than completely torn down. Walking through Osaka today, I found myself thinking about this and wondering what buildings that were here when I was there would be demolished within the coming years and what buildings will be erected in their places. The reading again mentioned something from our earlier urban planning reading that was focused on Tokyo: building types are kind of mish-mashed together all over the city. Although there may be designated places for certain types of activity, the regulations are generally pretty loose, so buildings of many different types and uses are often right next to each other. I saw this today both on the way to and from Osaka and in the city of Osaka. Residential buildings and restaurants appear to be right next to each other in many areas.

I’d like to conclude this final blog post by thanking Professor Smith for an amazing experience, as well as the World Strides staff that helped make all of this happen. Y’all are the best!

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