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Paul Tobin

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Jun 2, 2020 • 8 tweets • 4 min read • Read on X

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A short thread for today's "Books From My Shelves." I have a small section of books I can't read, thanks to my dumbass early 80's Iowa education that actively discouraged learning any other language. Here's some classic books, though!

A couple of books by my friend Karim Friha, and then one by Jacques Tardi, who I've never had a chance to meet, but I'm sure I'd totally fanboy out on him.

I'd love to learn how to read these damn books, dammit. I love the art in both of these.

I'll take any opportunity to look at Jose Munoz art.

Here's a video of Munoz drawing a page, complete with dramatic music.

Another book by Karim, and then a paperback book of Natacha comics, by Walthery, natch.

I first met Karim at a convention, when we were both hanging out at the Oni Comics booth. I miss meeting people at conventions.

@ColleenCoover

Another non-English book I have is this beautiful French edition of @ColleenCoover's SMALL FAVORS collection. It's my wife's first major work. Available in an equally beautiful English edition from @OniPress! Order one from your local shop! They could use the business right now!

I should point out that Small Favors is very definitely adults only. Naughty things are apt to occur with startling frequency.

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Paul Tobin

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Sep 25, 2020

Gonna post four more issues of Wow today as I continue posting my collection in reverse alpha-numeric order. These are the last four issues of Wow in my collection. Another pirate-oriented story in this one. Great cover!

Speaking of great covers, here's one of my favorite Mary Marvel covers. This is also my earliest issue of Wow with Mary Marvel. She wasn't in the first eight 8 issues, and the early ones with Mary are rare and $$$$$.

It's all pretty dang macho in this issue. Plus, pirates again.

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Paul Tobin

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Sep 5, 2020

Here's a kinda racy photo of Bela Lugosi posing with actress Sara Southern in a promotional image for the play ARABESQUE, from 1925. Note that the photo is signed, "To Clara Bow: Bela Lugosi / The Shiek." 1/3

Lugosi supposedly gave the photo to Clara after the two (allegedly, according to Hollywood legend) had a brief, but torrid, affair that began when Bow saw Lugosi performing in the stage version of DRACULA in New York in 1929. 2/3

Adding to speculation of a tryst between the two legendary actors, Lugosi commissioned Hungarian artist Geza Kende to create a nude painting of Clara Bow. Lugosi kept it with him until his death in 1956. You can see it on the wall, here in this 1930's picture of Bela at home. 3/3

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Paul Tobin

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Sep 3, 2020

I'm looking online at some GORGEOUS original Serge Pellé art, and it has me thinking about how cities are often depicted in sci-fi writing. It's always towering cities of unending levels, like cities piled upon cities upon cities.

I mean, don't get me wrong, I LOVE the look, and have used it myself, but I'd love to see a few more conceptions of what "future city" might look like. A more nature-integrated city, for instance? (BTW: that Serge Pellé art is from the Orbital series of books)

Even when future cities are depicted with strong nature-integration, it's SO often depicted as plants growing within the RUINS of a civilization, instead of a civilization that leaned into plants.

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Paul Tobin

@PaulTobin

Aug 31, 2020

Today's selection of comics from that box is a whole bunch of pathos-filled issues of My Love, a combo of great art and super questionable romance!

Four more of these hunka hunka hunks of burning love, with girls crying on every cover.

You might have recognized that cover to issue #25, since it was also the cover to issue #10 that I posted yesterday. Apparently the "Female Freedom" story was so good they just HAD to reprint it. Take a look at this fine fellow that Bev ends up with at the story's end.

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Paul Tobin

@PaulTobin

Aug 22, 2020

More comics from that box o' mine. This time... Tales To Astonish! I had a fat stack of these when I was a kid, gathered from garage sales, etc. LOVED them. Probably my "Most Likely To Constantly Re-Read" title as a kid, barring only Hulk and Defenders.

A couple more Tales To Astonish, and then a pair of Thunder Agents comics. I would LOVE to write a Thunder Agent series. Haven't really enjoyed any of the modern takes, maybe because I have too many of my own ideas.

This is my favorite issue of the ones I posted, because I love Madam Macabre (and yes I would write her) and also because I own a couple of original Bob Powell / Frankie Ray pages from the Giant Man story.

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Paul Tobin

@PaulTobin

Aug 15, 2020

Still cleaning. Just ran across a small safe full of old love letters and a coin collection. Vaguely remembered the safe but had no idea what was in it. Definitely a deep dive into my past, here. Some of these love letters date back to frickin' high school!

Okay, those love letters were strange to go through. I seem to have had ongoing romantic correspondence with girls I only remember meeting once or twice. There are a couple names I don't remember at all. (in my defense, this was like 30+ years ago)

Also, I consider myself a fairly brave person, but two of those letters turned out to be song lyrics I wrote in 9th grade, and I simply don't have the bravery to even look at them. I can only imagine the foolish angst.

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