{"id":10755,"date":"2024-10-08T10:49:03","date_gmt":"2024-10-08T15:49:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/?p=10755"},"modified":"2024-10-08T10:49:03","modified_gmt":"2024-10-08T15:49:03","slug":"makes-my-own-projects-look-a-little-more-reasonable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/2024\/10\/08\/makes-my-own-projects-look-a-little-more-reasonable\/","title":{"rendered":"Makes my own projects look a little more reasonable"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\nSo I was googling the other day for Steve Gerber and Val Mayerik&#8217;s ill fated <cite>Void Indigo<\/cite> series for Epic Comics as you do and found <a href=\"https:\/\/totally-epic.kwakk.info\/2019\/12\/17\/1984-void-indigo\/\">a review<\/a> from somebody who had started a project to <a href=\"https:\/\/totally-epic.kwakk.info\/\">read every comic Epic ever published<\/a>. What&#8217;s more, that&#8217;s not the only company Lars Ingebrigtsen has done this for. He has done similar projects for:\n<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/lars.ingebrigtsen.no\/2021\/05\/06\/renegades-aardvarks-redux\/\">Aardvark-Vanaheim and Renegade<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/totaleclipse.blog\/\">Eclipse<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/lars.ingebrigtsen.no\/fantagraphics\/\">Fantagraphics<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/kitchen-sink.kwakk.info\/\">Kitchen Sink<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/pacific.kwakk.info\/\">Pacific Comics<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/lars.ingebrigtsen.no\/2020\/10\/16\/into-the-vortex-redux\/\">Vortex<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\nAs well as projects documenting the work of <a href=\"https:\/\/lars.ingebrigtsen.no\/2021\/04\/29\/elaine-lee-comics-redux\/\">Elaine Lee<\/a> and the alternative eighties <a href=\"https:\/\/lars.ingebrigtsen.no\/punk-comix-index\/\">RAW crowd<\/a>. Every one of these projects require a level of obsession and sheer graft that&#8217;s hard to imagine, making my own pet projects seem reasonable by comparison. Hats off for Lars for doing this. It can be hard to find any discussion of pre-internet comics online, especially from now defunct publishers and he not only reviews them, he also provides context by looking at contemporary fanzine reviews and such. Very helpful indeed when I was interested in why <cite>Void Indigo<\/cite> only lasted two issues.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nOne of his projects deserves a special mention: <a href=\"https:\/\/kwakk.info\/\">Kwakk.info<\/a>, a &#8220;research site for magazines and fanzines about comics&#8221; which allows you to search the content of a rather large selection of English language comics zines. Again, this has already proven its worth to me because I needed to find some information on <a href=\"https:\/\/kwakk.info\/mag\/?s=Michael%20Thibodeaux\">Michael Thibodeaux<\/a>, somebody obscure enough to not have even a Wikipedia page stub. Just knowing where to read an interview or review means I can dive into my own pile of yellowing fanzines to read it rather than having to first flic to all of them to find it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So I was googling the other day for Steve Gerber and Val Mayerik&#8217;s ill fated Void Indigo series for Epic Comics as you do and found a review from somebody who had started a project to read every comic Epic ever published. What&#8217;s more, that&#8217;s not the only company Lars Ingebrigtsen has done this for. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10755","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-comix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10755","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10755"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10755\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10757,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10755\/revisions\/10757"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10755"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10755"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10755"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}