Thread 149409896

RAGING CLOUDS out tomorrow!

Amélie is a brilliant woman trapped in the restricting social mores of high Dutch society in the mid-16th century. Her marriage to Hans, a swashbuckling merchant, is a terrible match. While he charms the townsfolk, at home he is her intellectual inferior and treats her with cruelty and sexual violence. Expected to be a devoted housewife, Amélie can only be her true, free-spirited self when Hans travels away on business — when she can explore the town alone, lose herself in literature, and study winged animals to learn about the mechanics of flight. She looks to the skies and dreams of flying far away. Her life changes when Hans returns from his journey with Sahara, a slave mistress from a distant land. The two women are drawn to each other — each recognizing their confinement in a world dominated by men — and work together to seek their freedom.Told as a fiercely feminist story and spectacularly illustrated, Raging Clouds is the dazzling graphic novel debut of Korean comic book artist Yudori. In her lush manga style, Yudori imagines the period in rich detail with careful attention to settings and costumes, while evoking the cultural and societal standards of the time. She creates complex women characters who grapple with indignity over their social position, engage in lustful fantasies, and ultimately relish in seizing agency in their lives. Raging Clouds is a powerful story about the role of women in society, the reality of existing within a non-consensual relationship, and the struggle to push back against the boundaries these women have been boxed into.

>>149409896 (OP)
>men weren't feminists in the 1500s? fucking woke propaganda

>>149409896 (OP)
part of me thinks this is going to be kinda gay, but part of me thinks that Yudori is too straight to do that
do any pages or art from the comic exist already?

>>149409896 (OP)
buy an ad

since she's done writing, I wonder if she's going to start making instagram comics again.

>>149409896 (OP)
Seems interesting

>>149411020
She's into bareback. Should I feel surprised?

how common was it to have an East Asian slave in the 1500s as a European?

>>149409896 (OP)
>named Sahara
>clearly east asian
This bothers me. Why not call her Shanghai or Manilla?

>>149411020
>Loves: boys with expensive cars
>hates: condoms
>Fetish: infidelity
SMDH

>>149409896 (OP)
>Told as a fiercely feminist story

>>149413843
I don't know if she described it as that, or she'd describe herself as a feminist sincerely

>>149410618
yes on fanta's X account

>>149409896 (OP)
>yuri shit
No

>>149414684
is it confirmed it's going to be yuri outside the fact that the cover has two women on it?

>>149415637
>It’s not a yuri story though, in spite of the misleading cover image.
https://cinemasentries.com/book-review-raging-clouds-by-yudori/

>>149409896 (OP)
>fiercely feminist
I'm not reading propaganda for the latest reincarnation of Gnosticism, thank you.

>>149413987
>>149414001
I mean it's very obviously pretentious, but she seems like a solid cartoonist.

>>149413987
>>149414001
I think the art has a charm to it, I'm tempted to read more.

how long has she worked on this? I feel like she's been promoting this forever, I'm surprised this is just coming out

Might be interesting
>lush manga style
Fucking dropped

>>149418462
It came out two years ago in France, so it was probably just a matter of finding a publisher.

>>149414001
what's the context here?

>>149416870
>>149417099
It looks alright. Might pirate.

>>149420358
The skull is quoting period philosophical doctrine at her, I would assume.

>>149409896 (OP)
Loved the illustrations yudori used to post on tumblr 100 years ago so might pick this up

>>149420358
Her novelty keychain is informing her that she is a flesh robot. Am I the only person here who has taken DMT?

>>149409896 (OP)
>Her life changes when Hans returns from his journey with Sahara, a slave mistress from a distant land. The two women are drawn to each other — each recognizing their confinement in a world dominated by men
Buy an ad

>>149410618
>Rabid insane woman who got raped once and turned into a man-hating whore immediately afterward
She's nuttier than squirrel poop but I can't hate her style

>>149413954
Yeah see she does absolutely nothing for me sexually but I can't hate her game
The strip where she's "apologizing" to the baby she aborted was good too

>>149416258
>HELLO I AM AN IRRITATING CHRISTFAG

>>149409896 (OP)
Setting aside the promo fluff description and the author being kind of weird I figure I'll give it a read at least since she's a good cartoonist.

>>149423980
>got raped once
I feel like that experience is perhaps not quite as trivial as you're making it out to be, anon.

>>149424567
I feel like you haven't read her strips about men

>>149409896 (OP)
>The azn slave girl self insert liberates the white woman
Oh Yudori I had high–well, higher hopes for you but if you're still pretending to be Japanese 10 years late, I should know better

>>149424748
Her strips prove anon's point. The author is nuttier than squirrel shit, and the strips read like maladaptive cope which they are lol.

>>149413742
Yudori's Korean and clearly still self conscious about being the wrong kind of Asian
There was an episode of "Hill Street Blues" where a black female character was named "Jamaica" and her performer on set said "why not just name her Jemima"

>>149424815
>maladaptive cope
Her own "me at age X" strip treats every successive fucked up as a new form of empowerment where for some reason it still leaves her unhappy but honestly Joe Matt and the rest of the Fantagraphics guys were identical in this regard

>>149409896 (OP)
Lesbians?

>>149409896 (OP)
>OH SASHIMI YOU ATE MY PUSSY AND NOW I AM ENLIGHTENED ABOUT THE PATRIARCHY
I expected better from Yudokidoki for some reason

>>149424831
At least in that instance when I hear Jamaica I think of islands and black people. A slip like that lowers my expectations, and the author won't be able to look past her hangups to make this good.

The only thing funnier than self-hating straight white guys writing yuri is frustrated cock notching "born again" faux-dykes doing same. I have to be honest, her style reminding me of Josh Luna isn't helping but I'll read it.

>>149424878
Just calling it out for what it is. Whether others have done it too or not doesn't change anything.

>>149425006
My cynicism tells me the character's actual name was too complex for her owner so he simplified it just in case you didn't get the memo having a slave is bad.
Why Yudori sunk to this "Single Asian Female" nadir, I couldn't tell you. Maybe she's angling for the YA market in hopes of public library cred.

>>149425067
>Whether others have done it too or not doesn't change anything.
I'm saying it's funny to me because I associate it with loser men cartoonists, so the irony is delicious.

>Japanese slang for fuck doll is "dutch wife"
>Protagonist is literally a Dutch wife

>>149414001
WOOLIE!?

>>149425033
Review of Raging Clue:
Josh Luna connection confirmed

>>149424035
We'll be around long after everyone agrees your ideology was a mistake, whatever it is.

>>149425223
My ideology is old greek words aren't a shortcut to pretending you understand things

>"Safari, you have shown me so much about myself and the plight of women around the world"
>"My name is Grubdon"
>"Did I say you could talk"

>>149425184
>born Korean
>growing up among Flips before being moved to the US
>ending up in the UK
Jesus fucking Christ. Considering that history, she's a 100% well-adjusted adult. An person of lesser qualities would've self-terminated.

>>149425253
>The Patriarchy = the false reality
>Men/Masculinity/Male Gaze = the evil god trying to imprison you
>Feminine behavior = the false consciousness that keeps you trapped (see how they rage against women who actually want to be housewives)
>Feminist theory = gnos, the saving knowledge that will free you
>Academics = the special people who can acquire gnos
>The narcissists Feminism appeals to most = the narcissists Gnosticism appeals to most

I think my comparison is quite apt, dipshit.

>>149425536
>Undergraduate philosophy student
Your parents must be so proud of you

>>149424567
well, that and it started when she was very young so it had an even bigger impact on her life

>>149425948
I could have fixed her
I wouldn't have fucked her with my brother's dick because Asians don't do much for me, but I could have been a decent bro
>What about Jen from Downtown
SHE'S SPECIAL, SHUT UP

>>149425938
So now my crime is knowing too much instead of nothing at all?

>>149425948
So it's a man?

This is gay.

>>149425948
>>149425948
What a fucking loser. These bitches all have the same excuses for acting like a grown child and whoring out later in life

>>149426351
>knowing too much
It's conflating knowledge with wisdom. The former comes from reading and classes, the latter comes only from experience.
The generation raised by iPads has no conception of the gulf between a priori and a posteriori knowledge, or the importance of that difference, and the extent of this ignorance is substantially different from previous generations.
People under fifty throwing around Greek terminology who aren't actively preparing to join the clergy are no different from the guy who can't stop using psychological terms he just read for class.

pages from one of her other published books so you can check the art
Enfants De L'Empire 01

the cover for Enfants De L'Empire 01

>>149414001
>Bush
I'm sold

>>149409896 (OP)
This is a self insert isn't it?

>>149425536
>"Feminists are just like Gnostics"
>"How so?"
>"They both believe some things are true and some things are false"
By that logic it's impossible not to be a gnostic unless you go full radical skepticism and deny that anything can be known at all.

>>149428544
>Female writer
What do you think?

>>149428544
the white woman or the Asian woman? or both?

>>149428409
>>149428418
We've never once debated her skill, merely her toxic personality