Icon post :)

[sigune]

Some time ago, I amused myself with making a number of icons out of pictures that I like. You can find the lot of them (= 37) here, but below are a few samples. Please feel free to use any that you like. (This is my first time using my LJ Scrapbook. If there is anything that doesn't work, please let me know and I'll try and sort it out as fast as I can...)

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Some of them look odd in the gallery, but click them and you'll see the real thing :). Oh - and when I made the woman with the moon sickle I had lunafishin mind, so if she'd claim that one I'd rather nobody else did.

Comments

[penguin2006.livejournal.com]

Thanks for the Ted Naifeh icons, Sigune. I'm not going to snag any because I don't have space, but I DO want to come over and read your comics collection so badly. Your Courtney Crumin and your Hellboys. I think I'm going to buy some on Amazon. Which ones do you recommend as being your favourites?

[sigune.livejournal.com]

Well, they're both series, so it's not easy to pick separate tomes... I guess my favourites are, for Courtney, Courtney Crumrin and the Coven of Mystics, and for Hellboy, The Chained Coffin and Other Stories.

Chained Coffin is a book of short stories, and I'm one of those people who think that Mignola is at his best in those :). My absolute favourites are "The Corpse" and a Japanese ghost story he did as an in-between. The art is gorgeous as well.

As for Courtney, I think that when you read Coven of Mystics (but all three Courtney stories are worth your while) you will see at once why I like this so much. Underlying Courtney's adventures there is always the theme of good and evil - not just of the good and evil around the main character, but especially within her. Though this is supposed to be a children's series, it's far from childish. Naifeh's approach is simple, but the result is complex and subtle - and the art is of course absolutely gorgeous. Actually, I think I can say that in my humble opinion Courtney Crumrin is better than Potter - perhaps in part because its scale is much smaller and thus it has greater perfection. I think you will also find that it's much easier on your conscience to like Uncle Aloysius (*smooch*) than to like Snape ;). Oh, and Ted Naifeh has an LJ: tednaifeh.

Oh - another nice thing is Clamp's XXX-Holic, a manga about a boy called Watanuki who gets a job in a very strange shop that turns out to be run by a witch. I wasn't sure how I felt about the first tome, but I've read six now and it keeps getting better and better; I'm quite a fan.

My comics collection isn't that large; I'm so very particular :D. My expert friend Nout (bettyboopcomics) keeps finding fault with my taste...

[penguin2006.livejournal.com]

Thanks for the comics recommendations, Sigune.

Great Ted Naifeh site http://www.tednaifeh.com/ I think I'm in love with Uncle Aloysius already by his picture. What issue is he in that dressing gown and those furry slippers in? That is wonderful. I want that one.

(Already checking out amazon for delivery, salivating)

[sigune.livejournal.com]

The dressing gown and slippers are Uncle Aloysius's usual getup when he's inside his spooky mansion :). The picture you mention is from the very first Courtney book, Courtney Crumrin and the Night Things. Isn't it wonderful? I was contemplating asking Sylvana to make me one of her wonderful moving icons, this time with Aloysius Crumrin and saying, "Real Warlocks Wear Fluffy Slippers" :D...

[penguin2006.livejournal.com]

Real Warlocks Wear Fluffy Slippers
Laugh out loud - really laughed.

Okay, thanks for that recommendation. I am off to buy as many comics as my grubby little conscience will allow at amazon. I was just waiting for your reply, because once I'd seen Uncle Aloysius in fluffy slippers, I knew nothing else would do.

Oooh, I'm so excited.