Must See! DAVE GIBBONS Joins Cartoonist Kayfabe to Share Bits You MISSED in the FINALE of WATCHMEN!
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- Опубліковано 8 вер 2024
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It's so funny hearing Gibbons apologize for going on too long about things when, as an audience, this it the type of shit (actual content) we live for & couldn't have even dreamed of years ago. Great work, guys.
Exactly, this is the kind of thing that nourishes our geeky, obsessive little souls. Any anecdote, any insight, any thought about such a genius on what is a masterpiece is wonderful and important. I almost cried a couple of times, I had goosebumps throughout the interview. I mean, fucking Watchmen, man! It's the seminal work of western comics. It definitely is my own favorite comic. This was beautiful. I'll watch this video over a couple of times.
This channel has almost single-handedly reignited my love for comics as a grown man. Both Jim and Ed deserve every ounce of success that comes their way. As fans, we're happy to come along for the ride. 🤙
I started collecting again after 20 years because of this channel
Yup! I recently moved from Ohio back to Florida where my love of comics started. Because of this channel, I wandered into a local comic shop, and because I have adult money, dropped some bucks on new books! I'm more into Sci-fi...any recommendations?
@@jeffnicholas6342 The Metabarons
@@jeffnicholas6342 I would say strange tales 178 thru 181 (70s) and Warlock 9 thru 15 (70s) and avengers annual #7 and marvel 2 in 1 annual #2
@@jeffnicholas6342 I love cosmic/ sci-fi also, also silver surfer in the 90s, the first 70 issues are pretty good especially issues 34 thru 50
Imagine if Alan Moore would give them an interview... Dave Gibbons is truly a gem to give so much of his time.
Boys, please continue to bring back Uncle Dave whenever possible. His presence, commentary, and humility is incredibly rewarding to hear, and when combined with your insights: top tier
Dave is incredibly lucid in his speech and such a natural conversationist. What a gem
I'd never seen an interview with Master Gibbons! He's such a rad dude! Can't wait to read his autobiography
Thank you guys for getting Dave Gibbons to sit down with you! And THANK YOU to Dave Gibbons!! The man is an absolute legend!
I can't be the only person that wants to read those scripts in full can I? I know DC have reprinted the hell out of Watchmen, but man... those scripts would be a huge new insight into a story that all comic readers are already familiar with.
At midnight , all the kayfabers 🧡
This whole series has been fascinating to watch, and getting Dave in for the final issue is a real surprise finale. What a gentleman genius Dave is, and seeing Jim and Ed genuinely engaged and blown away by some new revelations, is brilliant. Well done everyone, a great New Year's gift.
Having watched every episode of Kayfabe, I am speechless. This is such an amazing document for comic book fans, Watchmen fanatics, Ed & Jim, Dave Gibbons, everyone else involved with the production of the 12 issue run, and yes, even Alan Moore. What an absolute treat...You guys should consider a DVD or Blu-Ray set that collects all 12 episodes, and You couldn't have ended any better. Dave is such a delightful person and talented mind and artist. Thanks so much.
I’ve loved your analysis of every issue but having Gibbons walk through with you makes it more incredible!
BAH GAWD! THAT'S DAVE GIBBONS' MUSIC!
Best comment ever. - Jim
This is how to ring in the new year. Hell of a job, lads. Getting Dave to sit in providing color for the last issue was genius. He's an amazing artist and has been very generous with his time on this channel. It's a testament to your ability to communicate your passion, kowledge, and insight that so many wonderful creators are willing to come on and share their stories. Keep it up, and let's get Frank Miller in '22.
Honestly, how do you not just sit up nights thinking, "Dave Gibbons is a fan of the channel!"?
what a great final watchmen episode... I guess I have to go back and watch the few I missed. Would be so great to hear Mr. Moore's thoughts too... if he just ever got over the shit DC pulled on him and see the value of his part of the story from an artistic point of view...
It amazes me how down to earth and unassuming Dave Gibbons is despite his legendary output. I can’t wait to get a look at his autobiography. In your SRB interview, he mentioned going to England to meet Alan Moore and being surprised to see that Alan was also doing thumbnails for his Swamp Thing stories. I wonder if he had done the same for Watchmen (this may be covered in WTW) and if Dave ever saw them. The Kayfabe team delivering the coup de grace for the end of the year. Looking forward to see what 2022 has in store.
I think I've heard interviews where it's mentioned that Moore does do thumbnails (or at least did in the earlier days) for him to get a better idea for the script and how to write it. I guess that's how he gets to give such a vivid and detailed description when he's already sort of seen it.
There's no words for the combination of joy, amazement, and fascination that I feel watching this. I need an Alan Moore panel description to sum up all this wild emotion!
Ain’t no better in the biz. Outstanding year gentleman. Please never stop doing you. We are here for it. Ride or die. 🤘🏼
I've been following this channel for a few months and never commented anything just out of laziness. What an amazing content you guys put out. Thank you!
Wow! Thank you for this year of Watchmen. And wow an incredible finale with Dave Gibbons, amazing additional insights. It's really awesome how it feels so relevant for today too. This idea of playing with magical realism is so fascinating. Thanks again everyone, best wishes for an amazing 2022. :)
It's been a heck of a year and CK has been a stable source of entertainment and comfort the whole time. Thank you for taking the time to talk comics with us, to talk to Dave Gibbons and so many other legendary creators, and for spreading the word about great comics. I can't thank you enough
This is just fantastic guys, what a kicker for the new year, all the best for 22 and thanks for all the incredible content, love and peace ✌
This was amazing! Dave Gibbons is a well of knowledge. You guys please make best friends and have him on as much as possible!
Those drokkin' tachyon particles must have been messing around my house today, because those two hours simply flew by. I have read Watchmen so many times since the eighties, but Dave Gibbons still managed to point out half a dozen things I hadn't noticed before.
This was a wonderful climax to a great series. Thanks guys.
I literally got shivers when he compared the motion of Ozymandias' hand to Duchamps Nude Descending a Staircase. Makes me want to dust off my old Art history books.
The $500 desk fan is how successful artists drip. Thanks for the last year of excellent content.
Another fantastic episode. Thank you so much for this. I've read Watchmen many times yet I've discovered new things about it with every Kayfabe deep dive. You're doing awesome work on this channel, not that you need me to tell you that.
You guys are a gift to the medium. Thanks for all of your hard work. Happy New Year.
Thanks, Team Kayfabe, for having this talk with Dave Gibbons. What a treat.
HOLEY MOLEY, GUYS!!!! 😲😲😳😳😳😲🤯💯💯💯
Your can't imagine the expectation and joy related to this issue. Waiting for it's release to answer questions raised by the last eleven issues to be answered.
Unbelievable finale! Congratulations! Having Dave Gibbons at your disposal to go through the final issue is mind blowing. Imagine browsing through those original Alan Moore scripts, though...
Wow! What a treat. Dave Gibbons is a class act!
Wow what a fucking way to close out 2021 & start 2022 You guys are killing it with these videos its been such a treat being a kayfaber you guys spoil your fans THANK YOU 🙏🙏🙏
Great series guys, and what a way to end it! Would love to see this continue on in 2022 with another monthly series!
Oh. Mah. Deah. LAWD! Helluva way to come outta the gate for 2022!! Dave, thanks for the insights into how you created this masterpiece: could you come back to discuss MARTHA WASHINGTON? Pleeeeeeze? 🖖♾
This is the most perfect way to end the year! Thank you.
Best video I've seen in awhile. I've always been a huge Watchmen fan, read it many times over the years. Also, a big fan of Dave Gibbons artwork. Great video guys.
The most incredible video I have watched for years. I would pay anything to hear Dave talk about Watchmen all day.
Thanks for this. So awesome to hear him talk about this issue with you guys. Always wanted to know if they ever planned for a sequel to Watchmen or was it always intended for a one off? Great video gentlemen 👏
Wow! Just WOW! What a great surprise for the final issue! I'm 100% satisfied with this entire video!!! Keep on truckin, Kayfabe!
I can't thank you guys enough for doing these videos, especially your interviews with creators, especially artists like Dave Gibbons and all the other 2000ad crew thank you so much .
No waay! This is amazing! I'm ready for this trip, guys. What a treat!
Hands down my favourite episode from you guys, thank you for a excellent year of content
Starting 2022 by setting the bar really high! Happy New Year, and continued success!
Incredible, Gentlemen.
So Ed and Jim: What's next?...
HAHAHAHHHAHAAHAAHAHHAHAH! So good!
Wonderful interview. Excellent way to cap off the year. Gibbin made insightful conversation. It really is a great to see the sheer amount of work that goes into a masterpiece. Great video.
I seem to remember seeing some of the Watchmen originals for sale in Comics Showcase for about £90! I thought they were a bit pricey, so bought some McMahon Judge Dredd pages as they were only £25 to £40 - Crazy looking back now.....
that's amazing. Happy new year to everyone!
This is fantastic, like a really good director's commentary. What a gift.
This was incredible. I'd love to see you guys do this with Stephen Bissette walking us through some old Swamp Things/Taboos.
Welp I guess Jim and Ed have no choice but to start over from issue 1 and invite Dave for commentary.
Thanks so much for this. I'm in the process of making my second issue of my comic and this has been beyond inspirational. I can't believe I got so much quality content for not even a penny paid. Love the work you're doing. Adding Red Room and Street Angel to my wish list as well.
Holy smokes guys, I found something in my eye there too! Absolutely appropriate reverence for the guvnor.
Boys, ya done it again. Happy 2022, thanks y'all! 100k and preliminary Kayfabe-Con plans coming this year, Ed!
Edit: It's hard to comprehend hearing Dave Gibbons read Alan Moore's script notes. Amazing.
Just listened to the Geoff Darrow interview and came out of it to this! What a treat
Every swing is a hit with you guys
Fantastic episode! Love hearing from Dave Gibbons.
Thanks Dave Gibbons, Ed and Jim, brilliant!
This is one of the best videos ever made.
This is like god describing how he made the universe
Such a pleasure to see in the New Year listening to one of the great modern masters of the medium! Gibbons is a true professional and gent too, great content guys!
Hell yes! Happy New Year!!!
Most amazing thing gat dammit!!! You guys pulled it off! Bravo! 🙏🙏🙏 thank you.
Happy New Year's cartoonist kayfabe crew happy New Year 2022!
You Transcend just a conversation about comics around the 1:20m mark, well Done Men. Thank You. It's About excellence & The Things To Do With.
27:57 - I recently reread Watchmen (the copy I’m reading from is 2005) and the DC job number also appears in issue 1/page 1/panel 7 and issue 8/page 1/panel 9.
Great read along series, guys. It was cool to have Mr. Gibbons on the last issue. Thanks for the delicious content.😋
What a way to end the series, and to start the new year. Loved this in depth look with the legend himself. Thank you for consistently providing incredible content. Happy new year!
What a fuckin way to bring in the new year boys 👏
What a finale for your channel! Cool!
Amazing. Absolutely amazing...
The work you do on this channel is just inestimable. The behind-the-scenes of comics is too often ignored, and let's not talk about the voice of the artists... The quality of tour analysis, all those unseen perspectives from all those incredible guests. This is seriously high-value content.
And when it comes to classics like Watchmen here, I'm pretty sure a video like this will be referenced by articles for years to come.
Thank you so much!
Dave is such a great guy man, I'm so happy that y'all got him on here for this dope ass discussion
So good! Thanks for all your work this year. It's been a rough couple of years to work in a hospital, but your channel has helped keep my mind on the fun stuff.
A PAGE A DAY OF THIS + LETTERING holy fucking shit. I mean I always kinda understood the grandeur and importance of this book, but it's wild to hear the artist looking back on his own work with amazement.
Ultimate way to ring in the new year! Thanks kayfabe fam
Fucking hell, I think I have a new favorite CK video (sorry Sergio). This was majestic, it deserves to be submitted to the Library of Congress for preservation, or at least into that University in Michigan State (?). Not only have your reviews of Watchmen been superb, but you guys giving us this prize is marvelous.
Your prior interview with Dave was very interesting and he is very generous with his time, comments and anecdotes. To have him going over this book with both of you... no words. You can tell he was very happy and comfortable with you both. I'm very glad that you both were able to convey the awe that he deserves. His reading of Moore's script was great, because we get to hear how detailed and evocative he writes to his artist, but also because we see how Dave interpreted it and made it his own. I get the feeling that Moore knows very well that he asks for impossibilities and he almost wants to know what the artist comes up with; I get the feeling that he gives the artist room for interpretation. Fantastic stuff.
Mentally, I was begging Jim or Ed to ask Dave to read Moore's script for the last panel... god, that was glorious.
What a fantastic episode! Dave Gibbons is a wealth of knowledge and talent.
This channel is going to grow big time!!!! Everyone feels invited here!!!! Kuddos, guys!!!
What a saga this has been! It's been so interesting watching this right after I finished reading Watchmen for the VERY first time just a few days ago. Had a copy since I was extremely young but always knew I wasn't ready until i was "old enough" and yeah i think that was smart of me! Seriously though watching this has been so much fun and seeing an appearance by Uncle Dave is just the icing on this amazing cake!
This is really why I love CK. You two go through such lengths to make such fantastic and unique video's comics and it makes me want to convert someone any chance i can get. The amount of comics I've been reading cause of this channel is kinda staggering cause at a point I didn't read too much, but yall really got me back into it!
Never stop doing such great work guys, I'm my book for comic channels you're #1!
Oh this is gonna be amazing! What a way to end/start the year!
Love, Love, Love the channel. I have been following along with your commentary since you started. I've always been an avid reader and cinephile so I love how this channel provides a space for an academic conversations that you would find in any college course that analyzes fiction. That being said, I hope I can put in my two cents and have hopefully have one of my "Peers" help me understand the work better.
1) Gibbons' reveal that that Adrian's victory pose on pg. 19 actually symbolizes the hands of a clock is mind blowing. Using this I want to point out something that this channel might have accidentally omitted. His arms are at 5 minutes to midnight. At the beginning of the Issue the clock is exactly at midnight. So after his unspeakable act and the panicked world peace that ensues, Adrian has succeeded in bringing back the clock five minutes. That is still dangerously close to destruction, however, and as Dr. Manhattan says, nothing ever ends.
2) Right before Rorshach is disintegrated and he says Do it one final time, his word bubble is no longer wavy but uniform. Is this to suggest that this was a final sane thought from Rorschach? His lucid realization that he needed to be put down like a rabid dog? I just noticed it was not addressed.
3) One last remark. I remember as a kid I never understood the whole alien thing. I always felt it came out of nowhere. I did not remember the whole psychic clone thing actually until a recent re-reading of the final issue I picked up at a swap meet. But this psychic guy they used to create the alien, Robert Deschaines, was he mentioned in a previous issue or in the back matter?
I lost my original TPB and have not gotten around to re-buying it. I know they mention the Institute of Inter-spatial Studies and the an artist collective working on something big but other than that it all seems to come out of left field. I know many have criticized the ending. I even recall an interview with another comic book creator who read an early draft of the script and advised him to change it. Don't remember who it was. It might have been during the Gibbons interview or someone else, Valentino comes to mind though that might be unlikely. The interview was either here or on Comic Tropes since those are the only comic channels I follow.
Moore, of course, refused and we ended up getting that pretty cool squid alien. But I still thought it was weird. Rugg has even said that it was strange people would not have figured it out as soon as they analyzed it. I guess Veidt employees might help cover it up, but wouldn't Adrian just have to keep killing people? Now I guess I might get lose some credibility here, but I actually prefer the ending in the Watchmen movie. Hear me out.
I read the book well before the movie came out in theaters, even before I had any idea it was in production, so this isn’t a case where my original perception has been tainted by the movie. I even tried to trick my friends into thinking I saw it by just going off what I read in the book. My mom wouldn’t take me to watch it because it was rated R, go figure. Of course when I mentioned the alien my whole story fell apart. When I did see it, there where parts where I definitely thought they dropped the ball but the ending always made more narrative sense to me. With Dr. Manhattan being the reason for the attacks, Humanity has a more tangible threat than some vague inter-dimensional creature. Everyone on earth knows what Osterman is like. He could be viewed as angry about the media barrage he received after he did so much for the world. Simply an angry God enacting his wrath. And the attack taking place in several cities only serves to bolster every countries allegiance. It also gives a good reason for Manhattan to never return to Earth since doing so would only trigger world wide panic.
I might be mistaken though and this ending might have been foreshadowed issues in advanced. Has anyone found any Easter eggs or hints?
P.S. Could Adrian himself be a low-grade psychic? He does seem to have some sort of connection with the boy reading the Black Freighter at the newsstand or at least someone familiar with the comic. On pg. 27 he does recount some jumbled imagery from the finale of the fictional comic when he meets with Jon one final time. Maybe he wasn't lying about feeling the deaths of all those people.
Some input from some would be appreciated. Once again, awesome content. Thank you.
Great start to 2022!
My 2021 go to channel and cant wait to see what 2022 brings us. Thanks again and Happy New Year everyone. 😀
1:35:50 - Oh, Naoki Urasawa, the creator of Manben that you're referring to here, he has a UA-cam channel! Manben is a great series, by the way. Love it.
Oh my GOD, the Alan Moore script needs to be published! Hopefully along the pages Gibbons drew and Higgins colored! Somebody needs to do it! I mean, we need to see it!
The story, the ingenuity of the characters and how real they feel, the colour pallete, the naturalistic styling... a grand slam out of the park.
What a finale! I'm blown away. Thank you so much!!
I like that the illustrators' perspective on this channel is foremost in y'all's content (something other comic book channels don't thoroughly address). I could tell Master Gibbons was stoked to look back on his old work and you conducted the interview/read-thru masterfully!!
Happy New Year, Indeed!
Wow!! What a great end of the series!! Happy new year!!
I don't know if he'll mention it but the handles of the two hoverpads look like birds of prey which is cited in the All Along the Watchtower quote I think
What an episode! Historic. Thank you, guys.
Yet another incredible interview Gents. Thanks again.
Great behind-the-scenes information and anecdotes from Dave Gibbons! Also nice shoutout to NHK's "Manben"!
Thank u so much for that Guys. I wish you guys a awesome year. Cheers.
Amazing deep beautiful discussion of great artistry, thank you!
This video is amazing. Having read Watchmen perennially for the last 20 years, Dave added new things I've never caught on my 20+ reads of the book.
Also, the notes on colors to me demand a side-by-side reading of an original issue and a recolored issue to discuss the changes. Even better if John could join that one!
Starting the year With awesome video
Hearing Gibbons read (what i assume are) Moore's original script notes was awesome. Even more awesome hearing him work out how the hell he's gonna translate a paragraph of flowery Moore prose into a single panel. What a commentary.
What a gift this video is for comic fans. Amazing insights.
Thanks guys. This is gold.
An Absolute classic Video.
LOVED this.
Keep it up !! 🤟🤟