>be Slav >never seen a comic book irl ever >only read on cdisplay >fast forward to current year >irl comic books finally arrive to slavland >it's a tiny thin fucking booklet the size of a tourist brochure with microscopic fonts
Why the FUCK would I pay money for this? I've ordered certain single issue comic books online before because I really liked the art but they were never like this. They were big, printed on nice thick and glossy paper and had regular sized text.
American comic books are literally shittier than those Disney suck tales comic books we had here in the 90s
Has it always been like this? Have comic books always been this tiny? How can people stand it? I read comic books on my 24 inch monitor. How is it acceptable for rl comic books to be this small? It's eye rape.
pic related. it's the first comic book I ever saw irl
>it's a tiny thin fucking booklet the size of a tourist brochure with microscopic fonts
What are you buying?
I recently got some Metabarons and the font size and the books themselves are perfectly fine.
t. Serb
Parker White
Bulgaristan here. The ones I saw were Sandman and Transmetropolitan and one other I can't remember. But I'm pretty sure it was Vertigo.
Hunter Torres
From Vertigo I only got Lucifer, but again, the size was decent and the font wasn't small either. Never looked into Sandman or Transmetropolitan though.
Christian Foster
just went to YouTube to try and find a video but I couldn't. watch this:
the comic books behind her are what I consider regular size. the ones I saw were half that
Isaiah Scott
Yeah, those are regular sizes. I have no idea what you came across. Some kind of weird pocketbook edition?
Luis Jones
This is the preview pic for that video. The Saga one is the size I saw I think. How common is that?
Brayden Perez
Huh, never see that kind of stuff here. Not from the major publications like Vertigo. Not to mention it looks really low quality.
By the way, do you have them translated or not? Sometimes local translators package it in different formats.
Carson Thomas
Yeah it looks and feels like shit.
I've seen some marvel shit in Bulgarian here. Mainly Spiderman. It's weird, it's like they aren't translations but original stories because the art is really bad and it's different from American art. That said, they're still slightly larger than the sandman ones I saw
Jaxson Moore
Bump? I don't post here so I don't know how fast this board is and If my thread is dying.
Can a westerner weigh in? What's with these tiny comic books?
Leo Martin
post pics of weird Spider-Man please
Levi Russell
Can you take pics of it?
Nicholas Miller
attached the cover of one. this is from last month. this can't be art from 2017 marvel, right?
no, sorry, i didn't buy it. i got a beautiful watchmen hardcover collection from that store but there was no way i was about to buy those tiny shitty booklets. should give you an idea of the size i mean
Mason Price
Are you talking about single issues? They usually range from 20-35 pages, sometimes 40-60 for annuals/special issues.
Jason Jones
That's Humberto Ramos. Recently one of the main Spider-Man artists. He working on Champions now.
Oliver Butler
I don't know the proper term in english for it. I'm talking about single issues like for example a comic from a 60-issue run, like punisher max or sandman or preacher or transmetropolitan
are they all this sizemy dream is to own the whole miracleman/marvelman run. it'd be a huge letdown if it was this small
Jordan White
well shit dude. is that considered good art?
Elijah Jones
not whatsoever
Camden Scott
well good, I thought I was going crazy. if you ever get in an argument with someone over the art quality feel free to tell them about how I didn't buy it because I thought it was a cheap eastern euro knickoff
Nolan King
Here is a comparison with a single issue and a trade. They're usually the same size except of course trades are longer because they collect a bunch of single issues.
William Hill
The one on the left is a hardcover right? If that's the case, then both are still bigger than what I saw. It's hard to tell because they are only compared to each other and not something else. Anyway, I expected them to be 24-25 pages, it's the size itself that bothers me. It's shorter (in inches/centimeters) than a fucking envelope. Look at the pic I posted of the Sage comic. I want to know how common that is.
Jayden Russell
What are the dimensions? Any sensible unit is fine.
Kayden Ward
here's a comparison between what i consider a regular size vs. what i saw in that store.
i guess the numbers are unreadale, but the regular is 11 inches/28 cm and the one i saw was about 6-7 inches or 15-18 cm
honestly, the response to this thread is making me nervous. are we the only ones who get these small comic books?
Isaiah Fisher
pic related shows some book sizes:
largest is A4, 21 x 30 cm middle is 17 x 24 cm smallest is 12 x 16.5 cm
Not in pic, my Gunnerkrigg hardback is 16 x 22 cm () and I find it too small compared to my old Tintin hardbacks.
When I was last in Belgium the comics I saw in people's collections were all pretty much A4-ish hardbacks,
Yeah, as a European 18 cm is too small for me to tolerate, years ago I once bought a US webcomic printout and was shocked at how small it was, like the tiny booklet in my pic. Never again. I was eager to buy the KSBD print until I saw how tiny it was.
Bentley Jenkins
that's fucking weird Manga in the USA is sold small like that too, but I think it's sold small when collected in Japan as well. Comic books are typically the size of an American piece of paper, 11x8.5 inches. Your comics provider is probably printing out and binding (poorly) the pirated versions out of the Win-O-Thread, if I'm being honest here.
Henry Sanchez
sending me some mixed signals there.
but yeah, i expected the comic book to be a standard A4 piece of paper size (11x8.5 inches) and i was shocked that it wasn't. at least i'm relieved to know that this size isn't considered okay and that it does exist in some places in the west
Bentley Thompson
Let me bust out my camera. This is what every single mainstream comic book issue (called a "floppy") is going to look like, in the center there, with cassette tape, beer, microphone jack, and hamburger buns for scale. That's probably 11x8.5 inches but I haven't measured it. On the left is the collected editions, called "trades". They're the same size, but thicker. On the right is Japanese comics, they're tiny. No idea why. The toy gun was included for general American ambience.
Brody Butler
I want to notice that Europeans had it good with the >Disney suck tales comic books we had here in the 90s
Lincoln Morgan
Also: A4 is slightly larger than an American piece of paper. I learned that in school or something. I think it came up when I was really into paper planes at one point.
Connor Martinez
well that's a fucking relief. thanks for breaking it down for me, because a breakdown is exactly what i needed. honestly, after seeing those tiny things i would never have ordered comic books online ever again if i thought that that's what i was going to get.
but if that's the case i'm honestly stumped as to where the small comic books come from? apparently they exist in the US toobut why the fuck would any company release those? and why would people buy them?
Nathaniel King
yeah, it was supposed to be duck tales but i was on my phone when i made that post. these fucking touchscreens are hard man, i only ever got a smartphone two years ago.
Colton Roberts
Dude you probably have some weird printing that someone over there maade, I have some weird walking dead books that someone printed here on Chile, they're slightly smaller than regular floppies and they have 3 issues each but they look nice and the paper's really good. Basically what I'm saying is it's most likely some knock off some guys printed.
Mason Price
the ones she's holding are the same size as the ones in my picture. Probably a bit thinner than the one on the left but the same paper size. Sounds like your shitty tiny bullshit is a pirate/bootleg/knockoff job.
Ayden Allen
shit, now you got me all confused after and agreed with me. i can't believe knockoff comic books are even a thing. how much can you even profit off of that, especially here where nobody reads comics.
and those fucking kikes were selling them in their goddamn hipster store like they were quality items. shit.
Caleb Gonzalez
Webcomics are different from mainstream comic book store stuff, because they're usually just self-published books, and can come in all sorts of nonsense sizes. Also: when you're the only supplier you can pretend to be hot shit. Fucking kikes.
Caleb Hill
french bandes desinee are almost twice as big as american floppies
Adrian James
>twice as big What are the dimensions? Unless you're talking about page count, in which case fuck off.
William Brooks
can't remember exactly but I held a blacksad issue in my hands and it was the size of my forearm.
Jaxon Wright
Just looked it up, it's A4 size instead of 8.5x11, which is going to be a quarter of an inch skinnier but half an inch taller.
Parker Stewart
Serbia has great classic comics paperbacks.
I have a great Flash Gordon newspaper strip reprint and it's a huge book.
Justin Clark
what kind of nigger you are? We have deluxe versions of the comics long before US have, and sometimes even exclusive, like Asterix with extra dictionary hardbook edition.