Leon K

Egotist | Absurdist | Occasional blogger

[Leon K @LeonKpow]

@RadLounge - you gents might like to check this out given that you carry a torch for Aussie comics and have shown an appreciation in the past for comics made for younger audiences.

[Leon K @LeonKpow]

I’ve been reading a lot of YA comics of late. This lovely example from @goodsniff_, incidentally, has both satisfied this current interest and succinctly described, within its pages, the motivations behind my reading impulse. Thoughts here: https://t.co/hGDJvFZftY

[goodsniff @goodsniff_]

Hey I made a comic!
// Return to Houndstooth College //
It's a coming-of-age comic filled with young dreams and many dogs. I’m publishing it online every Monday and Friday until completion. And I hope you’ll enjoy it!
#houndstoothcollege
https://t.co/mU7rTLAeZI

[Leon K @LeonKpow]

@jeremy_sorese I’m pretty sure I know which one of these is mine. I love where you took my too-simple cue. It’s much quieter than I was expecting and I adore how that makes its moment-in-time snapshot all the more tender. Thank you Jeremy.

[Leon K @LeonKpow]

@snubpollard @patchworkearth Ooh, that would be great! Us comics obsessives sequestered away on the other side of the globe would appreciate the opportunity for yet more of your musings on the enigma that is Ditko.

[Leon K @LeonKpow]

@factualopinion https://t.co/NnGlg8FCz4 — these guys brought up the Haneke comparison too but they rely on Lanthimos’ taboo-tweaking dark humour to justify the film as more than pastiche.

[Leon K @LeonKpow]

@RealAsianFriend @arthistorybabes Ooh, thanks! That's going on the listening list for later tonight ;)

[Leon K @LeonKpow]

@RealAsianFriend Your tweet about a Piece of Work from a while ago brought it to my attention.I think you may also like this podcast https://t.co/T5An9q5vbT

[Leon K @LeonKpow]

@jasonshiga do you have any hot tips for a comics fan who'll be visiting Angouleme outside of the festival dates?

[Leon K @LeonKpow]

@snubpollard That's a good way of putting it. Reinforcing tautologies as a counter to the perversions of subjectivity - "A is A" and whatnot

[Leon K @LeonKpow]

@snubpollard There's something about the cadence of the one-two beats of lingual redundancy that feature in his prose style that I find oddly appealing.

[Leon K @LeonKpow]

@snubpollard ... I still see him struggling in that series against the demands of his audience and the commercial realities of the industry at the time.

[Leon K @LeonKpow]

@snubpollard So, while I agree that the series read like a freer exploration of Kirby's ideas than he was getting in contemporaneous capes titles...

[Leon K @LeonKpow]

@snubpollard This is wild speculation on my part, but I see something deliberately insipid in Kirby's use of a child who demands that X-51 be a superhero

[Leon K @LeonKpow]

@snubpollard They demanded continuity via a central protagonist. In my estimation, pressuring Kirby, who responded with the intro of Machine Man

[Leon K @LeonKpow]

@snubpollard If my memory serves me right, the letters columns revealed a selection of fans who balked at the every changing focus of the series.

[Sarah Horrocks🐾 @mercurialblonde]

So you will hear a lot about this going forward, but I started up a Patreon for my comic art and critical writing:
https://t.co/Dp45zEd0e4

[Leon K @LeonKpow]

@snubpollard I also think your wider take on the story is far less single minded and selective than mine 😝

[Leon K @LeonKpow]

@snubpollard I'd agree with that. This was my first encounter with her work and I didn't see it as pastiche. It hit me in on a level of raw delivery.

[Leon K @LeonKpow]

@snubpollard I saw a lot of Kirby in it, specifically in the translation of personally held existential ideas into an intense, cosmic, pulpy setting.

[Leon K @LeonKpow]

@snubpollard But we fail to gain anything from our momentary feasts, best intentions turning to hatred as we burn our collective memory as it's formed.