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louisjwyatt
Gender: Male
Age: 31
- #1
- Posted: 10/23/2015 18:00
- Post subject: Graphic Novels
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Anybody here read graphic novels? I recently got into them, looking for suggestions. I just finished Watchmen, which was absolutely fantastic and now I'm reading Charles Burns' Black Hole. I'm not totally opposed to reading superhero comics (used to read all the X-Men comics as a kid), but I'm more into drama and compelling stories more so than straight action. Any suggestions?
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- #2
- Posted: 10/23/2015 18:19
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You might dig Sandman (one of my personal favorites, and the source of my current avatar)
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The dialogue can border on sophomoric every so often it's still super engaging (and often very surreal). And the artwork is lovely
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Norman Bates
Gender: Male
Age: 52
Location: Paris, France 
- #3
- Posted: 10/23/2015 18:43
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All things Corto Maltese
Jimmy Corrigan
Epileptic
Peplum
676 apparitions de Killoffer
Livret de phamille
Fun Home
All things Doucet
Safari, monseigneur
to be continued when we vote for those.
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Norman Bates
Gender: Male
Age: 52
Location: Paris, France
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- Posted: 10/23/2015 18:45
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Oh one I read yesterday: 5 Is the Perfect Number by Igort. Also from Italy, try Notes for a War Story, by Gipi.
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louisjwyatt
Gender: Male
Age: 31
- #5
- Posted: 10/23/2015 19:25
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Thank you kind sirs. I've heard good things about Jimmy Corrigan and Sandman, but I haven't really looked into them.
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Applerill
Autistic Princess <3
Gender: Female
Age: 31
Location: Chicago 
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- Posted: 10/23/2015 20:27
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Dang, I almost read this as "Game Novels", as in things like Bee and Howling Dogs.
In any case, I love:
*Maus (obviously)
*Ghost World
*Ms. Marvel Volume 1
*Watchmen
*V For Vendetta
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- #7
- Posted: 10/23/2015 21:42
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for a possibly obvious contributions to the thread, I'd say Maus and all of Daniel Clowes's works, particularly Ghost World, are essential reading. also, be sure to venture outside of the long-form trade paperback "graphic novel" world to compilations like that great Smithsonian collection of short stories and strips and such to see some of the best comic art that's ever been done - Eisner's The Spirit, the works of R. Crumb, Krazy Kat, Calvin and Hobbes, etc.
also:
The Adventures of Tintin
Little Nemo
From Hell
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craola
crayon master
Location: pdx
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- Posted: 10/24/2015 04:03
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a chinese life (li kunwu / philipe otis)
cages (dave mckean)
dear beloved stranger (dino pai)
also, some picture books that may be of interest are shaun tan's works. his work is more poetic than anything else, but it's groundbreaking stuff.
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- #9
- Posted: 10/24/2015 05:39
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| craola wrote: | | also, some picture books that may be of interest are shaun tan's works. his work is more poetic than anything else, but it's groundbreaking stuff. |
Shaun Tan is indeed great. I was gifted a collection of three of his books by a friend who loves him and they're so very special. And very comforting/inspiring if you need it.
I haven't read a whole lot of graphic novels, but the ones worth mentioning, to me, are Big Questions by Anders Nilsen (lame title but it is soo bloody gorgeous and interesting and most of the characters are birds - just read a synopsis, you'll wanna read it) and Beautiful Darkness by Fabien Vehlmann and Kerascoët, which is about a bunch of little fairy-types being cruel to each other and getting violently killed by things. Also hanging about in a big rotting corpse. Some of the best art ever. So colorful and vivid. And then you have Bone by Jeff Smith which is one of the earliest books I loved, and its still killer, especially if you like fantasy.
And I'm currently reading Baker Street by Guy Davis and Gary Reed and its so up my alley it is ridiculous. A punk take on Sherlock Holmes. Or a Sherlock Holmes take on punk, if you prefer.
Ohh and I adore (ADORE!) the Guido Crepax book I managed to find, Valentina and the Magic Lantern, but I love erotica, especially the weird dream-world kind it exhibits, which isn't for everyone, obvs.
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- #10
- Posted: 10/24/2015 05:50
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I second Sandman, but love these vertigo titles even more...
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