Comics Commentary - The Shifting Sands of My Genre Tastes

Initially, when I went into comic stores and first started really reading studying and collecting comics, aside from superheroes and some manga, the only thing I read were newsprint texture, floppy black and white indie comics on the underground American scene. Comics with readerships of 3,000 or less. It made me feel special kind of. Like I had this cool thing only I knew about just all to myself.

My Favorite Comics in the 90s were Books. Comic  books with incredibly skill design and textural levels like Jim Mahfood's Zombie Kid, Oni Double Feature, Johnny The Homicidal Maniac, Jeff Smith's Bone, Frank Miller's Sin City, Rob Schrab's Scud The Disposable Assassin, The Waiting Place, Clerks, Evan Dorkin, Ted Naifeh, Paul Pope, Chynna-Clugston's Blue Monday

But my focus shifted with the later into the 2000 era it got. I discovered Japanese manga online and in comics and books.

And more recently I discovered the underground sci-fi and heroic fantasy and fantasy movement going on in the French comics, or "bande dessinee" scene that almost no one in America  besides me knows about. ESPECIALLY in the South.

Though the three cultures (American, Asian, and French) are different, the creative product they produced in some ways is not. I'm drawn to these three genres of comics because they are the most creative, inventive, design-y kind of comics there are. Right up my ally. As an artist this is mostly what I copy my drawings from. My private collection of indie comics, manga, bande dessinee, and superhero books from Marvel, DC, Dark Horse, IDW and Image.