What is your favorite comic book?

Hey I am still buying and reading comics, cartoons, etc etc of all sorts. I'm just not buying comic book series (unless they are collections).I realize my definitions may not be up to date, but then they probably never were. Formulated in my own little solipsistic world, I never needed better.Maybe a nice topic for a new thread is definitions for different artistic styles, including not only realism of the art but the nature of the storyline (lengthy, or one panel).Mentioning one panel cartoons I realized I missed one of my favorites of all time...Gahan Wilson.Charles Adams is okay too, but I think Wilson beats him on consistent weirdness while still being funny (instead of just esoteric). Maybe its because he knew Lovecraft.On Watchmen, I took away a lot more than what you described. It was also a breakdown of what comics mean for the writers and readers. Kind of a deconstruction hidden within a construction. Specifically the fake comic "tales of the black freighter", and the articles about its run as a comic and its author, are something I love to read wholly separate from the actual novel.I thought he hit the genre from many different angles, including the creepy angle for those who seriously contemplate such things. I was given the collection "sandlot peanuts" and my brother a more general compendium when we were younger. The sandlot collection was all about charlie brown constantly losing at trying anything in baseball. There were some pretty large storylines, which suprised me at the time. I credit reading that book for making me the guy I am today... a loser anti-hero.Since you are in Chicago, where do you shop? I haven't been to Quimby's since it moved (which was a while ago), and usually just pick stuff up from eclectic stores like Hard-Boiled.------------------
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What about Todd McFarlane, his artwork is really good.

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I'd reccomend checking out work by Art Adams. That's the guy MacFarlane got his schtick from, and Adams does it (far as I'm concerned) much better.Mind you, I'm only speaking about MacFarlane's stuff on Spiderman. I never really got into Spawn, so I don't know if his style changed over time. (Although from what I understand, he handed off the art chores to Greg Capullo pretty quickly.)

Ohhhh, yeah, Gahan Wilson. One of those ones that doesn't really occur to me, but every time I see his stuff I yell "DAMN!" Paul Pope was like that with me too, for a while.Charles Adams, I don't know anything about. The closest I've gotten to his work is Raul Julia and Anjelica Houston.

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On Watchmen, I took away a lot more than what you described. It was also a breakdown of what comics mean for the writers and readers. Kind of a deconstruction hidden within a construction.

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And I think that's part of the problem for me. It's going to have a hard time meaning something to anyone who doesn't already read superhero comics.There's so much circle-jerking in comics as it is, that a comic that analyzes the cookie isn't going to sit well with me.

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Since you are in Chicago, where do you shop? I haven't been to Quimby's since it moved (which was a while ago), and usually just pick stuff up from eclectic stores like Hard-Boiled.

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Chicago Comics when I can, Graham Crackers when I'm pressed for time. (Which, unfortunately, is most often.) I'm down in Hyde Park, so it's either 20 minute schlep to the loop, or a forty-five minute haul to Clark and Belmont.See, I'm originally from Rhode Island; anything over 20 minutes might as well be an epic journey across time and space.I've been meaning to get up to Quimby's for... damn, for years now. Funny how that happens. Still haven't gone.

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Chicago Comics when I can, Graham Crackers when I'm pressed for time. (Which, unfortunately, is most often.) I'm down in Hyde Park, so it's either 20 minute schlep to the loop, or a forty-five minute haul to Clark and Belmont.

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See, I'm originally from Rhode Island; anything over 20 minutes might as well be an epic journey across time and space.

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Hah!I know where you're coming from, since I spent most of my childhood in Hawaii. People think you're crazy if you drive half an hour for lunch. Somehow I became the opposite, though.When I was visiting my girlfriend in St Charles, we went to Clark and Belmont just to get some boots at the Alley. (you'd be surprised how hard it is to get good boots in St. Louis!) Last time I was back in St. Louis, we drove to downtown Chicago just to visit the Art Institute and have some Gino's and Goose Island. Hell of a day trip.

Good God, man! I like Goose Island as much as the next guy, but damn!

Damn it dan, some people love to eat that stuff up!uhm... by which I mean to say... ehr. Nevermind.------------------
holmes

Booooo...

My last attempt at humor on this forum. From now on I'll leave to the professionals.------------------
holmes

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My last attempt at humor on this forum. From now on I'll leave to the professionals.

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Does Rrhain have to do all the work for us humorless losers?I almost forgot Kyle Baker. Why I Hate Saturn and his satirical strips in New York magazine were sophisticated and hysterical.------------------
I would not let the chickens cross the antidote road because I was already hospitlized for trying to say this!-Brad McFall

I don't know if it's in poor taste to post this here, so I'm not going to give it its own topic. But I'm all sorts of excited about having my first comic published by a publisher that I'd heard of (and enjoyed) before I started submitting.If you all check out the Longplay section at Modern Tales, you'll see a five page comic by the one and only Dan Carroll. Yee-haw!

I didn't recognize you without the cigarette. Congrats.

Thanks! I'm grinning too wide to keep the cigarette in my lips...

In terms of humor value, I'll take Sluggy Freelance any day.

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