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Her saying stay with me to Ambessa 😭

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Jhin is Actually Kinda Good pt. 1

Now that I caught your attention I thought that I'd make a giant thread about the Zed comic, what I've gleaned - I'm going to talk about Jhin mostly, what may be his main goal and about his character design! It's going to be full of wild guesses but if any is true... Lore and Ionia fans are in for a treat.

Let's start with my Artistic Spirit theory, how Hwei's ability names, Disaster, Serenity and Torment are the three state of artistic mindset. However these names indicate that they went wrong, and I predict that once they were Inspiration, Clarity and Empathy.

Inspiration is tied to acting and theater; Clarity is tied to music and community; Empathy is painting and showing - think of it as in Activity: acting, talking and drawing. But in the big picture, these three are the Ionian version of the media.

I will continue to call them the Media Spirits. Now their names indicate that they got twisted, and we have to think about the why, when and how, and at what event were they twisted/muted - and I think Jhin is trying to show what happened in the comic, in his own fucked up way. 

Each of the three Ionian artists match with these Media spirits, Jhin being Disaster/Inspiration, Sona is Serenity/Clarity and Hwei is Torment/Empathy. One is a psychopath, one is abroad and mute, and one was a shut in with depression... This could indicate the state of Ionians, even before the war started.

And so we should read the Zed comic with this in mind - knowing that Zed is an unreliable narrator, who lies all the time. He lies right on the first page, saying he killed Kusho, who was alive until the end of the comic. Then we have to look at Jhin's "art installations" as indications what Kusho may have done.

Because Master Kusho is the worst thing that could happen to Ionia - he wanted civil war, with the motto of "there is no greater power than the ability to kill". But due to Jhin's machinations, Zed realised his true intention and finally killed him.

About Jhin's machinations. We have to realise that by being the Worst, Jhin is serving the greater good, or the balance - Shen, as he became the Eye, somehow realised this and forbids Zed to kill him. Bc I think if Jhin died, it would be disastrous in some way😂

Let's take a look what Jhin did for the balance. The latest, he inspired Hwei to go out and realise his potential as Empathy, which is a pretty big feat. Before that, Jhin liberated the city of Quayanvi, this is shown by his LoR cards - Jhin did a reenactment of how the Noxians took over the city.

They first did a surveillance, and then came the sweet talk, the mind control and then total control. These four steps are symbolised by the bird, the clawed gauntlet and the two types of flower. Jhin, with this guerilla attack, sacrificing only a priestess, managed to take over.

In the Zed comic, Akali also learns that he stopped the weapon inflow from Zaun to Ionia. With this and Kusho being dead, that's 4 events he directed that made sure Ionia becomes a better place. Which is immense, and may not sound like Jhin at all - and YET these are the things he aimed to do and achieved.

I'd take a look at one of his LoR followers, the Maker - her design is one of my ultimate favorites, because she's this old forest witch but also she looks like a guardian spirit tree. She makes the weapon design but it's Jhin's magic which gives them power. 

And Jhin's using Spirit magic, which is really unique, only Karma and Vastayans that have this sort of magic. The proof here is in the comic; his magic is similar to that kid Zed mentions having Vastayan magic. So Jhin is on the Spirits' side as a human lol

Now how the heck is Jhin using Vastayan magic? I only have a wild guess, and that is that he was made into this. It has to do with the scalpel and spirit sword Zed and Kusho has. What if they did a Demacia, as in splicing human kids with a Vastayan spirits? It would be really interesting lorewise IMHO

Let me talk about shadow magic, which may be corrupted Spirit magic. Much like how the Black Mist came to exist, something horrible must've happened in Ionia, as in a huge amount of human suffering has been released. I think this is what Jhin tries to act out and implements even on his own costume.

Let's take a look at his character design - with his winglike cloak, and birdlike boots, he's dressed like a Vastayan. He wears black, skintight leather that could easily pass as him being covered in shadow ichor. He also wears a porcelain mask that is similar what the Kinkou has worn some time.

So... This makes him look like a weird "chimera" person, who's half Vastaya covered in muck and half a Kinkou student. This is my presumption, but if this is what's implied by his design… oh that would be a great story beat.

By the way, if he's a man with Vastayan magic, he gains the thickest plot armor one can have - the local authorities think him he's demon or Vastaya(so he doesn't get chased down like Yasuo), but then the Kinkou can't kill him because he's just a guy Kekw

Jhin was also called the Golden Demon, but he has no connection to that name whatsoever - Zed very much does, tho. His mask has golden horns, red eyes and a skull motif goming on. And I think this mask was made by Jhin becase it also resembles a dick with that random hole😭😂

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I won’t be the first or last person to marvel at how quickly February whizzed past, especially in comparison to January’s gauntlet. To be completely fair to February, it had the ongoing COVID-19 international epidemic, as well as the ABS-CBN shutdown crisis, the anti-terrorism bill, the reminder that historical revisionism re: the Marcos dictatorship is alive and well… and those were just the actual headlines.

I must digress before I spiral.

I read 12 books in February, half of which were newly released in this month. I’ve split my post up into three parts like I did last month: one-shots, parts of series, and re-reads. It seems to be working well for me.

  Prosper’s Demon by K.J. Parker

The unnamed and morally questionable narrator is an exorcist with great follow-through and few doubts. His methods aren’t delicate but they’re undeniably effective: he’ll get the demon out—he just doesn’t particularly care what happens to the person.

Prosper of Schanz is a man of science, determined to raise the world’s first philosopher-king, reared according to the purest principles. Too bad he’s demonically possessed.

After I read Sixteen Ways to Defend a Walled City last year, I knew that I wanted more by Parker. I considered delving into his back catalog, which I still will probably do, but I saw that he was releasing a new book in Feb 2020, so I jumped on that first. Prosper’s is exactly up my alley, what with the discussions of morality and the greater good with demons, and quite a bit of engineering. I’d admired the voice of the main character in Sixteen because he was dry and very caught up in doing what needed to be done, and the main character has the same appealing values. It’s a short read, but it sticks in the teeth and fills the belly.

  Paladin’s Grace by T. Kingfisher

Stephen’s god died on the longest day of the year…

Three years later, Stephen is a broken paladin, living only for the chance to be useful before he dies. But all that changes when he encounters a fugitive named Grace in an alley and witnesses an assassination attempt gone wrong. Now the pair must navigate a web of treachery, beset on all sides by spies and poisoners, while a cryptic killer stalks one step behind…

Kingfisher, also known as Ursula Vernon, tends to write capable and damaged characters falling in with each other and foiling plots. She also tends to write paladins very well, which is a personal delight. I always enjoy a Kingfisher story, because the characters do the sensible thing more often than not, and she deals with trauma very compassionately, from what I suspect is a personal viewpoint. Her books are also usually very funny, very disturbing, and no-nonsense, scratching that Terry Pratchett Witch itch when I miss him very much. Grace is along the same lines, with a good solid HEA that leaves everyone, including the reader, satisfied.

  Kindred, a Graphic Novel Adaptation by Octavia Butler, adapted by Damian Duffy and illustrated by John Jennings

I lost an arm on my last trip home.

Home is a new house with a loving husband in 1970s California that suddenly transformed in to the frightening world of the antebellum South.

Dana, a young black writer, can’t explain how she is transported across time and space to a plantation in Maryland. But she does quickly understand why: to deal with the troubles of Rufus, a conflicted white slaveholder–and her progenitor.

Her survival, her very existence, depends on it.

This searing graphic-novel adaptation of Octavia E. Butler’s science fiction classic is a powerfully moving, unflinching look at the violent disturbing effects of slavery on the people it chained together, both black and white–and made kindred in the deepest sense of the word.

Kindred, the novel, is on my Next 20s list. I had meant to read it before I read the GN, but picked up the graphic novel based on a friend’s recommendation. The graphic novel is searingly painful, and I enjoyed reading it, but there are parts of it that feel slightly disjointed. I’m not sure if it’s because of the time travel, or if it’s an adaptation problem. It made me want to read the novel immediately, which is what I am reading right now. I don’t think that I’ll be able to properly synthesise my thoughts about this book until I’ve read the original.

    Mirror: The Mountain and The Nest by Emma Rios and Hwei Lim

A mysterious asteroid hosts a collection of strange creatures – man-animal hybrids, mythological creatures made flesh, guardian spirits, cursed shadows – and the humans who brought them to life. But this strange society exists in an uneasy truce, in the aftermath of uprisings seeking freedom and acceptance, that have only ended in tragedy. As the ambitious, the desperate and the hopeful inhabitants of the asteroid struggle to decide their shared fate, a force greater than either animal or human seems to be silently watching the conflict, waiting for either side to finally answer the question: what is worthy of being human?

Recommended to me by a new friend who’d heard I was into sci-fi and graphic novels, who absolutely hit the nail on the head with this rec. The art is beautiful, dreamy, and layered, and it keeps you tied to the story as the authors build what is a magnificent construction in your head. The authors do some really lovely things with timeskips that I have no idea how to talk about without spoiling anything, and I only regret that we weren’t able to linger through the second volume. I’m don’t know why there isn’t more of Mirror, but I do appreciate how they tied everything up as well as they could in two volumes. Looking forward to more like this in the future.

  Heartstopper: Volume Three by Alice Oseman

In this volume we’ll see the Heartstopper gang go on a school trip to Paris! Not only are Nick and Charlie navigating a new city, but also telling more people about their relationship AND learning more about the challenges each other are facing in private…

Meanwhile Tao and Elle will face their feelings for each other, Tara and Darcy share more about their relationship origin story, and the teachers supervising the trip seem… rather close…?

You can read all of Heartstopper and its future updates here. Heartstopper is a lovely slice of life comic, PG13 at best, that really takes me back to my own mid-teens. The story is centered around the developing relationship of two young boys, Charlie and Nick, and it really deals with it respectfully. It tackles a lot of teen issues without being too preachy about it, which is probably the least inspiring thing I could have written about it, and integrates it deftly into the story. The art style is adorable and really complements the sweet story. This volume, just released this month, revolves around a class trip to Paris, and there are some shenanigans that you’ll have to read for yourself.

  Sixty Six Book 2 by Russell Molina and Mikey Marchan

Kuwento ni Celestino Cabal. Kabebertdey niya lang. Mayroon siyang natanggap na regalo na ngayo’y unti-unti niyang binubuksan. Ika nga ng matatanda, “Huli man daw at magaling, maihahabol din.”

The story of Celestino Cabal. His birthday has just passed. He received a gift that he now gets to open, bit by bit. As the old saying goes, “Better late than never.”

This is the synopsis of the first book. There isn’t an official synopsis for the second book online, and I hesitate to write my own. Sixty Six Book 2 was released during February Komiket, and since I had been waiting for it for a few years, I had to go to the event even though everyone’s been iffy about going into crowded spaces due to COVID-19. I was excited to read this but unfortunately, I don’t think it capitalised on the foundation set in Book 1. The artist was different, and I admired their work on a technical level, as well as their humorous use of WASAK as a sound effect. I don’t know if there’ll be a third book, but the author has made themselves a little leeway for that possibility at the end of this volume.

  Thank You, Jeeves, Jeeves #5 by P.G. Wodehouse

The odds are stacked against Chuffy when he falls head over heels for American heiress Pauline Stoker. Who better to help him win her over but Jeeves, the perfect gentleman’s gentleman. But when Bertie, Pauline’s ex-fiance finds himself caught up in the fray, much to his consternation, even Jeeves struggles to get Chuffy his fairy-tale ending.

This book was in my next 20s! So I’m accomplishing one of my 2020 reading goals, yay! But hot damn there is some racist language in this book. Every time I was finally sinking into the story boom! Racist language! And I know that it was because of the time it was published, like I know that academically, but oof. That aside, the story is solid. It’s a comedy of manners AND errors with Jeeves ex machina, as per usual, but this is the first full Jeeves novel I’ve read, the rest were short story collections, and it was good to see the characters take more space. It certainly made the comedic payoff a lot stronger.

But oof.

  Die Vol. 2: Split the Party by Kieron Gillen, Stephanie Hans, and Clayton Cowles

No one can escape DIE until everyone agrees to go home. Or rather, no one can escape DIE until everyone who is alive agrees to go home. The second arc of the commercial and critical hit of bleakly romantic fantasy fiction starts to reveal the secrets of the world, and our heroes’ pasts. Yes, they can’t escape DIE. They also can’t escape themselves. Collects issues #6-10 of DIE

CHARACTERISATION. There’s a lot more breathing space in this newly-released volume of Die and I live for that! The first volume was a lot of the characters running from one place to the next and we, as readers, were being given the sense of setting. But volume two, you can feel Gillen just finally branching out and hitting us with their joined histories. I want to see more of how these older players will be dealing with the actions of their teenage selves, and I think the third volume will really show what the comic’s capable of. I’m really looking forward to that.

  False Value, Rivers of London #8 by Ben Aaronovitch

Peter Grant is facing fatherhood, and an uncertain future, with equal amounts of panic and enthusiasm. Rather than sit around, he takes a job with émigré Silicon Valley tech genius Terrence Skinner’s brand new London start up – the Serious Cybernetics Company.

Drawn into the orbit of Old Street’s famous ‘silicon roundabout’, Peter must learn how to blend in with people who are both civilians and geekier than he is. Compared to his last job, Peter thinks it should be a doddle. But magic is not finished with Mama Grant’s favourite son.

Because Terrence Skinner has a secret hidden in the bowels of the SCC. A technology that stretches back to Ada Lovelace and Charles Babbage, and forward to the future of artificial intelligence. A secret that is just as magical as it technological – and just as dangerous.

The last Rivers of London book finished the first major arc of the series. It was a succession of explosions contained in a novel. So I was wondering what kind of tone Aaronovitch would be setting with False Value. Would it be all action, immediately? A filler story? I just wanted more Peter Grant. It could literally be an entire novel of Peter going to America to visit the Smithsonian museums and I would be on that.

False Value is a slow story but does a lot of table setting for the next arc. While the case of the book feels very small and contained, you can see that they’re being pulled into the larger world of magic. I did have a hard time with the first few chapters, but I’m not sure if this is a problem of the book, or because I sailed straight into it after the Jeeves book I had been reading.

I finished the book too quickly and now I have to wait for the next one. Bother.

    The Thief, The Queen’s Thief #1 by Megan Whalen Turner

The king’s scholar, the magus, believes he knows the site of an ancient treasure. To attain it for his king, he needs a skillful thief, and he selects Gen from the king’s prison. The magus is interested only in the thief’s abilities.

What Gen is interested in is anyone’s guess. Their journey toward the treasure is both dangerous and difficult, lightened only imperceptibly by the tales they tell of the old gods and goddesses.

It’s March now, so my friends and I are starting on the second book in our read-along of The Queen’s Thief. I wrote last month that I was worried about how my friends would take the series, but really I needn’t have thought about it at all. The book stands well on its own, and my friends all got into the story. I hesitate to say that they loved it because there are four more books in the series, but they were definitely into it. Some of them had a hard time sticking to the two chapters a day schedule because Turner’s prose really just pulls you in.

I still love Gen, and I’m excited to relive his character growth.

  The Farthest Shore, The Earthsea Cycle #3

Darkness threatens to overtake Earthsea. As the world and its wizards are losing their magic, Ged — powerful Archmage, wizard, and dragonlord — embarks on a sailing journey with highborn young prince, Arren. They travel far beyond the realm of death to discover the cause of these evil disturbances and to restore magic to a land desperately thirsty for it.

I’m reading Tehanu, the last book of the Cycle, now, and I’m scared of ending the series. It’s given me so much joy and peace these past few months. I slipped right into it after finishing The Farthest Shore, remembering that they overlap slightly, and that’s done a lot to soften the blow of the third book. Re-reading Farthest at this age, when things have been losing their colour and flavour, where I have to fight harder to keep myself honest and keep myself ‘good’, hits differently. I’ve been recovering, and the bitterness that Ged has over the loss of his mastery is too real to me. Of course, it’s a good book, but it hurts.

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All right, that’s it for now. I’ll probably be popping in to post a little about Komiket and some other things I’ve been reading next week or so, so please keep a weather eye out for that next post!

February Reading Round-Up I won't be the first or last person to marvel at how quickly February whizzed past, especially in comparison to January's gauntlet.

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Kreslířky komiksů/Female comics artists

Amanda Conner

CZ: Ani první neúspěch v získání práce pro Marvel či DC ji neodradil. Amanda zdokonalovala svoji techniku a zároveň pracovala v komiksovém obchodě. Až po opětovném předkládání svého portfólia ji Marvel nabídl pozici a tak začala kreslit 11 stránkovou Yellowjacket. Podílela se na spolupráci s Archie Comics a pozdějí přešla k DC Comics, kde se ujala práce na Power Girl a dalších členech Superrodiny jako např. Krypto a Streaky. V současné době kreslí postavu Harley Quinn a je kreslířkou oceněná jako 2. nejlepší komiksová kreslířka všech dob.

EN: After not getting the job at Marvel or DC Amanda haven’t given up and pursued to perfect her skill first while working at a comics store. After several interviews and sent portfolios she finally got a contract with Marvel and her first assigment which was an 11 pages long side story of Yellowjacket. She also worked with Archie Comics and later came to work with DC Comics where she took on Power Girl and other members of the Superfamily you know and love, I’m talking about Krypto and Streaky of course! Currently she draws Harley Quinn. Amanda is rated as 2nd best female comics illustrator of all time.

• Harley Quinn • Power Girl • Supergirl • She-hulk • Batgirl • Wonder Woman •

Fiona Staples

CZ: Držitelka několika ocenění Eisner, Harvey a nespočet dalších. Její jméno je vám určitě známo, je na obálce úspěšné komiksové série Sága. Kariérní dráhu začala u méně populárně známých děl -  Amphibious Nightmare, Trick ‘r Treat. Spolupracovala Frazerem Irvingem na 2000 AD. V roce 2012 vyšel první díl Ságy od vydavatelství Image Comics. Autor komiksů Brian K. Vaughan rád chválí jí a její styl, který získal velkou oblibu u fanoušku. Natolik velkou, že v roce 2015 byla Fiona zvolena 1. nejlepší kreslířkou komiksů.

EN: A multiply winner of the Eisner Awards, Harvey Awards a many more. You are surely familiar with her name after hearing of the worldwide fenomenon  Saga. Her carreer started off with less known titles such as Amphibious Nightmare or Trick ‘r Treat. Along with Frazer Irving she coloured art for 2000 AD. Under the Image Comics publisher the first issue of Saga was released in 2012. After that she immediatelly got recognized by loving fans who voted for her to be the number one best female comics artist. Her colleague and author of Saga Brian K. Vaughan often compliments her beautiful and unique style at every given moment.

• Saga • DV8: Gods and Monsters • T.H.U.N.D.E.R. Agents • Archie •

Becky Cloonan

CZ: První žena, která v roce 2012 kreslila prvního titulního Batmana od jeho vzniku roku 1939. Jeji práce byly nominovány na dvě Eisner ceny. Kreslí pro nejznámnější komiksová vydavatelství - DC, Vertigo, Marvel, Dark Horse. Pár děl vydávála i sama, pravidelně kreslí obálky ke komiksům. Podílela se i na vytvoření kreseb ke komiksu The True Lives of the Fabulous Killjoys, jehož autorem je Gerard Way. V žebříčku nejlepším komiksových kreslířek všech dob je na 3. místě a je jednou ze dvou žen, které jsou v žebříčku 50 nejlepších kreslířek a zároveň autorek komiksu. 

EN: The first woman to draw the main Batman title since 1939. Her works have been nominated for the Eisner Award two times and her list of publishers she worked for include DC, Vertigo, Marvel and Dark Horse. Some of her works were slef-published. In 2013 Becky created arts for Gerard Way’s comics series The True Lives of the Fabulous Killjoys. She was voted to be the third best female comics artist of all time and only one of two women to be on the list of the best 50 female comics artists and writers at the same time.

• Batman • Gotham Academy • The New Avengers • Young Avengers •

Emma Rios

CZ: Španělská kreslířka, spisovatelka a editorka komiksů. Její práci můžeme najít u vydavatelství Marvel, Image a Boom! Studios. Má vystudovanou architekturu a sama se naučila kreslit, při čemž následně přešla ke komiksům úplně. Na kontě má i jednu Eisner nominaci za Nejlepší ilustrátorku. Pro Marvel pracovala na titulech Doctor Strange a Amazing Spider-man. Spolu s Kelly Sue DeConnick tvoří titul pod názvem Pretty Deadly. V současné době spolupracuje s malajsijskou umělkyní Hwei Lim na pokračujicím titulu Mirror, který je popisován jako mysteriózní a mytologický s krásnou lehkou kresbou vodovými barvami.

EN: An artist, writer and editor of Spanish origin, Emma is worked with Marvel, Image and Boom! Studios. She graduated in architecture but soon switched to comics completely after self-teaching in drawing art. She was also nominated for the Eisner Award for The Best Illustrator. Her Marvel works include Doctor Strange and Amazing Spider-man. Together with Kelly Sue DeConnick she created a comic novel Pretty Deadly. Today Emma works on an ongoing series Mirror alongside her colleague Malaysian artist Hwei Lim. The art book uses a watercolor technique and the finished result looks very light and truly beautiful.

• Pretty Deadly • Hexed • Mirror • Doctor Strange • Amazing Spider-man •

Alison Bechdel

CZ: Znáte Bechdel test? Byl pojmenován právě po ni. Využívá kreslených karikatur k vyprávění často autobiografického příběhu. Její nejznámější dílo vycházejicí v letech 1983-2008 se jmenuje Dykes to Watch Out For a soustřeďuje pozornost na přehlížené lesbické postavy v popkultuře. Proslavila se v roce 2006 komiksovým memoárem Fun House, který byl uveden i jako muzikál a získal cenu Tony (muzikálový “oskar”) jako nejlepší muzikál roku 2015. Ve svých dílech si dává za cíl představit ženy, co nejvěrohodnějí, a to bez ohledu na jejich sexualitu nebo i gendrovou shodu, jak je tomu u samotné Bechdel, která se neidentifikuje žádným konkrétním pohlavím. 

EN: Have you heard of the Bechdel test? I bet you did and now you know it was named after Alison. She’s a cartoonist who tells her autobiographic stories. The most prominent one would be the long-running cartoon Dykes to Watch Out For that was published from 1983 and 2008 focusing on lesbian characters and their everyday lives. Bechdel came to commercial success in 2006 after releasing her graphic memoir Fun Home which was later adpted as a musical that won a Tony Award for the Best Musical in 2015. In her works she focuses on showing real women as true as possible regardless of their sexuality or gender conformity. Same as it is in Bechdel’s case.

• Dykes to Watch Out For • Fun House • Are You My Mother?: A Comic Drama •

Colleen Doran 

CZ: Vytvořila ilustrace pro díla Neila Gaimana, Alana Moora, Warrena Ellise, J. Michaela Straczynskiho a mnoho dalších. Je držitelkou ocenění Eisner, Harvey a International Horror Guild. V pěti letech vyhrála talentovou soutěž pořádanou Walt Disney a již ve svých 12 vytvořila první komiksovou knihu. Po dokončení umělecké univerzity se dostala ke spolupráci se světoznámými vydavatelstvími jako jsou Image, DC a Marvel. Pracovala na mnoha dílech, která všichní známe a tolik milujeme. Colleen je právě tou druhou již zmíněnou oceněnou komiksovou kreslířkou a zároveň autorkou. Takové ženy jsou v žebříčku nejlepších 50 jen dvě. Za svou kariéru často spolupracovala i přímo se Stanem Lee.

EN: She illustrated theworks of Neil Gaiman, Alan Moore, Warren Ellise, J. Michael Straczynski and many more. Colleen holds numerous Eisner and Harvey Awards, and also the International Horror Guild Award. At the age of 5 she won an art contest held by the Walt Disney Company and created her first comic bok when she was only 12 years old. After graduating from an art university she got to work some of the most famous comics publishers (Image, DC and Marvel). You are certainly familiar with many comic titles she worked on. With only two women being ranked as the best 50 female comics artists and writers at the same time, Colleen is one of them. During her carreer she often worked directly alongside Stan Lee.

• The Sandman • Wonder Woman • Teen Titans • The Walking Dead • The Legion of Superheroes •

Marguerite Sauvage

CZ: Působí především jako ilustrátorka, autorka komiksových obálek a zaskakujicí kreslířka pro DC. Mezi její klienty patří nesčetné množství vydavatelství a soukromí a firemní zákazníci. Tudíž nejen DC a Marvel, ale i spousta automobilových, módních a populárních značek. Celý výčet zde. V Paříži vystudovala právo a PR a po absolvování působila v mnoha různých kreativních odvětvích zahrnujících tisk, reklamu a publikaci. Je držitelkou mnohá ocenění včetně ceny Eisner a u populárních komiksů jste si jeji práce mohli určitě všimnout u série DC Bombshells. 

EN: She works primarly as an illustrator, comics cover artist and the backup artist for the DC. Her customers come from various backgrounds, from the famous publishers to personal and corporate clients. Which includes not only DC or Marvel but many famous motor, fashion and other companies. You can find the full list here. After studying Law and Communications in Paris she proceeded to work and gain experience in many other creative industries such as print, advertising and publishing. Marguerite recieved several prizes including one Eisner Award. You have probably heard of the now famous DC Bombshells series which Sauvage also worked on.

• DC Bombshells • Shade, the Changing Girl • Justice League/Power Rangers •

Emanuela Lupacchino

CZ: Italská kreslířka, ilustrátorka a autorka několika komiksových obálek. Emanuela nejdříve pracovala pro italské vydavatelství, kde pracovala na sérii  L'Insonne. Její první zkušenosti s americkým vydavatelstvím bylo IDW, pro než se podílela na titulech Angel: Only Human a Star Trek: Deep Space Nine. Časem však poslala své portfólie do Marvel a DC na posouzení a získala práci u Marvelu, kde dostala na starost X-factor. Netrvalo dlouho a Emanuela se stala jednou z nejžádanějších kreslířek na komiksové scéně. Dnes kreslí stále vycházející sérii Supergirl: Rebirth. 

EN: An Italian artist and illustrator, she first worked for the Italian publisher on series called L'Insonne. Her first experience in the US started with the IDW publisher where she worked on titles Angel: Only Human and Star Trek: Deep Space Nine. How the time went by Emanuela grew more ambitious and submitted her work to an open audition for Marvel and DC, leading her to get a job with Marvel’s series X-factor. It did not take long for her to gain recognition and love from her fans to become one of the most demanded comics artists today. You can follow Emanuela in her ongoing series of Supergirl: Rebirth.

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Shutter Brings Classic Image Characters Together… for Brunch

With its 25th issue, “Shutter” found a whole new way to be groundbreaking. How, exactly? Well, the book managed to crossover Image Comics’ flagship characters, including Spawn, Savage Dragon and Shadowhawk for a brunch — yes, brunch — of epic proportions.

In a conversation with the “Shutter” creative team of writer Joe Keatinge and artist Leila del Duca, we discussed the influence of the series, its merging of various art styles, what lies ahead, and of course, that crossover brunch that fans have been waiting for.

CBR: Why do you think Shutter is so popular among fellow creators?

Joe Keatinge: It’s not my place to speak on why anyone reads our work, whether they enjoy it or not, whether they make comic books or not, other than to say, “thank you.”

I will say the comic books I find myself enjoying most these days are by Emma Ríos. While she may be most well known for her visual art in titles such as “Pretty Deadly,” over the last few years she’s become one of my favorite writers, in comics and otherwise. The best work stays with you long after its over and this is certainly true of her graphic novel, “ID,” which was serialized in her anthology, “Island.” I think about it often, both in the high quality of its production, but what she examines in humanity, politics and the arts. I was happy to see this continue on with Mirror, the title she co-creates with artist Hwei Lin. Again, it’s not just the great quality of their collaboration, nor is it limited to how they both stretch the bounds of storytelling to do something wholly their own, but it keeps coming back to me – thematically, emotionally, symbolically. They do what so many strive to do, connecting in with a reader in a way which sticks forever and never fall into cliché. No question, “Mirror” is my favorite ongoing comic book currently on the stands.

Del Duca: I think my fellow comics creators really like the idea of “anything goes” in our series. My friend and studiomate, Terry Blas, said that he loved with every turn of the page he’s constantly being surprised by the crazy visuals, being blindsided and wowed on many an occasion. I’ve had other studiomates say they dig seeing the different styles implemented in the series. “Shutter” is a visual and storytelling playground for us, and I’m always thrilled that Joe is fearless in writing such an experimental story with vast room for exploring the medium.

What’s some inspiration for the meta nature of the series and how that’s reflected visually?

Keatinge: Comics is a relatively young medium when it comes to visual arts, but its history is rich with so many tools built by generations before – it makes sense to use them.

Ever since the early 2000s – I imagine correlating with comic book feature films suddenly being a hot commodity – there’s been a move to make comics more “cinematic,” a term I’m not entirely comfortable with, but does result in some of my favorite work. Look at an early example, with Brian Hitch and Warren Ellis on “Authority” or Brian Hitch and Mark Millar on “Ultimates.” Brian understands which storytelling toolsets can be adapted, while still making sure it works well as a comic book. Gabriel Hardman and Sean Philips are other examples of contemporary artists who do this phenomenally – and I recommend their work overall for great examples (“Invisible Republic” and “The Fade Out,” for more specific recommendations).

The danger gets into when you’re striving to make a movie on paper instead of a comic book, which are two different things. With Shutter, it was a conscious effort to make a comic book as a comic book to be a comic book, utilizing the history set before it as a tool set to tell our own story. Then there’s the challenge of what storytelling tools we can bring in, from other media besides the “cinematic” which we haven’t had the opportunity to implement. It’s been a fun experiment through and through.

Issue 25 didn’t take on different art styles, like you’ve done in the past with flashbacks.

Leila Del Duca: The only stylistic differences are with Owen’s coloring. As usual, present-day (more watercolor textures) is colored differently than the flashbacks (a more cell-shading style). This last arc, Joe and I wanted to stop doing the Other Styles. Joe is still being pretty damn creative with the writing side, but he kindly agreed that I could settle into my own style in this last arc. I had so much fun emulating other artists during this series, but after issue #22 I realized I wanted to concentrate on developing my own style more instead of furthering the exploration into styles that weren’t me. I do think that some day I want to revisit the Ligne Claire style we used once, but other than that I kind of want to delve deeper into my own stylistic evolution.

How did the Image founders’ characters come into play?

Del Duca: I love how randomly this came about! I was on a panel with Erik Larsen at Boston Comic Con, and on the panel someone asked if he minded when people drew his character, Savage Dragon, into comics, or something to that effect. Erik replied that he likes having his character in other books and doesn’t care if people use them or not. Joe is friends with Erik, and I think Savage Dragon is super cool, so I asked Erik if we could put him in “Shutter” and Erik was like “Sure, that’s fine.” I told Joe, Joe asked “Hey, why don’t we put each of the Image founder’s characters in there,” and I was like “What, no, that’s way more than I was imagining, I wanted to keep things simple” and then he was like, “Okay, what about six instead of seven, and there’s brunch involved? And by the way, this is perfectly timed because next year is Image’s 25th anniversary and it’s ‘Shutter’s’ 25th issue” I said, “Woah, that is a pretty cool coincidence, so sure, as long as you can get me script on time while you’re waiting for permission from all of these founders.” And then it magically worked out, thank you to all the Image folks, and I had a blast drawing them, especially Glory because I love her.

Keatinge: When Leila mentioned Erik’s Savage Dragon offer, it made me think about how grateful I am for the Image Founders for opening the door to make this book possible. They could have easily made a lot of money in 1992, called it quits and not offered what they built to others. Same goes for Robert Kirkman – again, he could have easily kept his successes to himself, but he formed his imprint, Skybound, and they’ve directly helped both my career and life ways direct, above and beyond. It felt right to make a tribute to them within “Shutter” and the confluence of events, timing, and most importantly, the story we were telling made it essential to have their characters appear.

Was there a particular character you’ve been eager to work on that you finally get your hands on with the special?

Keatinge: This might seem like a cop out, but I don’t think I can choose – again, it’s the group which makes this work, not just any one individual, not just for what they did but for how they allowed others to do the same. That said, “Spawn” #10 had a massive influence on me as a kid, which was Todd McFarlane and Dave Sim’s tribute to those who went before, so it was nice to have something which sort-of acted as an unofficial sequel, at least thematically.

Del Duca: Glory. I love Joe and Sophie’s version of Glory. But I’m also a huge “Invincible” fan, so drawing Mark Grayson was a dream!

Why are they having brunch?

Keatinge: Why not?

Will we see any more of those characters after issue 25? Would you like to work with those characters again, and in what way?

Del Duca: I think the brunch event will be referenced in a later issue’s flashback, but those characters won’t be featured more than that again in “Shutter.” I’m totally up for drawing those characters again. If anyone wants to commission me for pin-ups, that is something I’d be very interested in doing. I think it’d be a pipe dream to ever draw “Invincible,” but if Kirkman, Walker, and Ottley ever wanted me to do a fill-in issue, I’d very insecurely and vigorously draw the hell out of it and hope I don’t die of happiness during the process.

“Shutter” #25 by Keatinge and Del Duca is in stores now; “Shutter” #26 hits stands on January 25.

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