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Dan Carroll Inactive Member |
Spun off from the Dinner Party thread in the coffee house forum. A quick list for anyone who's interested. The comics listed here are a mix of American, Japanese, English, and French. Every single one is available in English, though.
Love & Rockets - 15 volumes - by Los. Bros. HernandezMagical realism and Punk... together at last. Special Reccomendations: Chester Square, Death of Speedy Ortiz, Poison River Hate - 6 volumes - by Peter BaggeThe adventures of the greatest detestable slacker in history. Special Reccomendation: Buddy the Dreamer Bone - 8 volumes so far - by Jeff SmithFantasy with a semi-Disney cuteness to it. Cerebus - read up to volume 6 and stop because it gets awful - by Dave Sim and Gerhard26 years in the life of an aardvark. No, really. Special Reccomendation: Jaka's Story Usagi Yojimbo - 16 volumes so far - by Stan SakaiA samurai tale set in feudal japan, in which all characters are anthropomorphic animals. Special Reccomendation: Grasscutter, Space Usagi Dragonball/DBZ - 22 volumes translated so far - by Akira ToriyamaBoomboomkickpunchYEAH! Adolf - 6 volumes translated - by Osamu TezukaHistorical fiction (more emphasis on the fiction than the historical) set in WWII. Ranma 1/2 - 22 volumes translated so far - by Rumiko TakahashiGender bending comedy. Wonderfully, unapolagetically stupid. Blackjack - 2 volumes - by Osamu TezukaThe world's most talented surgeon. OUTLAW SURGEON, THAT IS! Phoenix: A Tale of the FuturePhoenix: Dawn by Osamu Tezuka Tezuka's grand life work, covering the entire fictional history of the universe. The Complete Hutch Owen - by Tom HartThe collected ravings of an anti-establishment homeless character. X-Men: The Dark Phoenix Saga - by Chris Claremont and John ByrneSilly superhero melodrama at its finest. Essential Fantastic Four volume 3 - by Stan Lee and Jack KirbyThe best superhero comics have ever gotten. (At least in my opinion.) Ethel & Ernest - by Raymond BriggsBriggs' biography of his parents. Charming, but fairly dark as well. ChampsDon't Call Me Stupid White Flower Day by Steven Weismann The various adventures of the... I guess the best way to describe it would be "the little rascals from Hell..." From Hell - by Alan Moore and Eddie CampbellJack the Ripper as midwife of the 20th century. Possibly the best comic ever released in America, if not the world. Pay no attention to the awful Johnny Depp/Heather Graham movie based on it. Watchmen - by Alan Moore and Dave GibbonsSuperhero deconstruction meets 80s right-wing facism. Maus - by Art SpieglemanSpiegleman's autobiography/biography of his father, revolving mainly around his father's experiences as a holocaust survivor. Akira - 6 volumes - by Katsuhiro OtomoNormal manga apocalypse culture, but without the usual My Little Pony aesthetic. Domu: A Child's Dream - by Katsuhiro OtomoMuch like Akira, but shorter and cheaper. Signal to Noise - by Neil Gaiman and Dave McKeanA dying screenwriter works on his last film. Violent Cases - by Neil Gaiman and Dave McKeanA child witnesses extreme violence, but doesn't really understand what he's seeing. Sandman - 10 volumes - by Neil Gaiman and variousSpecial Reccomendations: Season of Mists, Kindly Ones The life and death of Morpheus, the personification of the act of dreaming. Scary Godmother: Ghoul's Out For Summer - by Jill ThompsonFairy tales for grown-ups? Best description I can muster at least... Epileptic - 1 volume translated, one to come - by David B.The author recounts his brother's struggle with epilepsy. Cowboy Wally ShowWhy I Hate Saturn by Kyle Baker Dialogue-driven comedy. Hysterically funny. Peanuts - pick up any of a number of collections - by Charles SchulzDamn straight. David BoringGhost World by Dan Clowes Horribly depressing, but wonderful. Three Piece SuitHow to Be an Artist After the Snooter by Eddie Campbell Autobiographical comics, told via the thinly-veiled protagonist "Alec MacGarry". Jar of Fools - by Jason LutesAn escape artist who wants to commit suicide. Berlin - by Jason LutesHistorical fiction of Berlin between world wars. Paul Auster's City of Glass - by David MazzuchelliAn adaption of the novel. Safe Area Gorazde - by Joe SaccoJournalism comic about Bosnia shortly after the fact. Heavy Liquid - by Paul PopeDrugged up bounty-hunter pounding through streets under foglit neon lights. Hicksville - by Dylan HorrocksPart history of comics, part mystic nature of art. Cages - by Dave McKeanA story in which all artist, from a corner saxaphone player up through God, are portrayed as equal participants in the ongoing creation of the universe. Jimmy Corrigan - by Chris WareBeyond depressing. If you have a history of depression, do not allow yourself contact with sharp objects while reading this comic. More to come as they occur to me. If anyone else has reccomendations, throw 'em down!
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Dan Carroll Inactive Member |
And two more occur to me:
Abe: Wrong for All the Right Reasons - by Glenn DakinA collection of short meanderings Eagle: The Making of an Asian-American President - by Kaiji Kawaguchi5 big volumes or 22 small volumes, depending on which edition you buy. The story of a third-generation Japanese-American running for president. Political intrigue alongside a concurrent murder mystery. I'll shut up for a while now.
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zephyr Member (Idle past 4550 days) Posts: 821 From: FOB Taji, Iraq Joined: |
Transmetropolitan: a certifiably insane journalist seeks the Truth in a corrupt future society, aided by filthy assistants and oodles of drugs.
Preacher: have only started this one, about an ex-pastor who decides to find God and tell him a few things. First issue looked pretty cool. Y - The Last Man: every guy in the world dies except for one. What would you do?
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Dan Carroll Inactive Member |
Preacher... eh, Preacher's okay. I would stop after the fourth volume. After that it goes through a long, repetitve, overly melodramatic stretch, then starts building the plot again way too fast, and builds and builds toward a really unsatisfying ending. I'm also not crazy about Ennis' implications that engaging in anything kinkier than a heterosexual blowjob will result in utter perversion and at times outright evil. And personally, I don't like the art.
However, if you like the first couple volumes, I would highly reccomend both the Preacher one shot "Cassidy: Blood and Whiskey" and the Hellblazer volume "Dangerous Habits". They're probably the two best things Ennis ever wrote. I keep meaning to try "Y: The Last Man" but haven't gotten around to it. I hear it's really fun, though. Transmet is really, REALLY fun, even if it is kind of "Hunter S. Thompson 2099." [This message has been edited by Dan Carroll, 07-23-2003]
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zephyr Member (Idle past 4550 days) Posts: 821 From: FOB Taji, Iraq Joined: |
quote:That's a problem why?
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Dan Carroll Inactive Member |
Fair point.
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crashfrog Member (Idle past 1467 days) Posts: 19762 From: Silver Spring, MD Joined: |
I'm glad to see that some of the comics I've read are on this list. For instance I loved Bone - as much of it as I've been able to read - to the point where a few of my college friends and I got drunk and wrote a song called "Three guys named Bone".
It's not very good, so I won't inflict anyone with transcripts. Glad to hear that "From Hell" is better than the movie. When I saw the movie (on someone else's dime, thank Stan) I was all like "This is the oldest Jack the Ripper theory in the book, and this is supposed to be based on some groundbreaking comic?" Jimmy Corrigan makes me cry. I haven't been able to finish it (because I haven't been able to buy it) but when I flip through it in Barnes and Nobel I want to die.
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PaulK Member Posts: 17822 Joined: Member Rating: 2.2 |
You might like the Bone "prequel", Rose. Less of the cutesy stuff and Charles Vess art.
And talking of Charles Vess, Stardust by Neil Gaiman is excellent. On a quieter note Strangehaven by Gary Spencer Millidge is worth a look. I'm not sure how to describe it. An English Twin Peaks perhaps ? The mix of strangeness and soap is about right - but it is less violent and without the sleazier elements. Hellboy (and the BPRD spin-off title) by Mike Mignola - A demon summoned from Hell as a child (really!) battles assorted monsters and Nazis.
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Dan Carroll Inactive Member |
From Hell... can't say enough good things about it. It's the same killer as in the movie, but it's not done up as a whodunit. We know who Jack is by chapter two, and the next thirteen chapters are about his motivations, and why a person would possibly want to mutilate five women. The whole things wrapped up in mystic Freemason rituals, lectures on occult architecture, and general themes of gender persecution and all sorts of fun stuff. It's also meticulously annotated at the end, pointing out panel by panel what is historical fact, what's taken from conspiracy books, and what Moore made up himself.
Jimmy Corrigan... hoo boy. Pick up a copy if you want Sob-Fest 2003. The worst part is that every time you're about to cut your throat in a display of solidarity with Jimmy, the plot shifts back to Jimmy's great-grandfather when he was a boy, and shows us someone with waaaay worse problems with Jimmy. So you feel awful about yourself for feeling awful for Jimmy when this kid in the past really has it rough, and... oh, Jebus, I'm getting sad thinking about it.
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MrHambre Member (Idle past 1393 days) Posts: 1495 From: Framingham, MA, USA Joined: |
quote:I'm a big 'Eightball' fan, especially the surreal serial 'Like a Velvet Glove Cast in Iron.' quote:Baker's comics in New York mag were hysterical, and 'Saturn' was great. My favorite line: "You could have heard a pin drop, except that we were both screaming 'FUCK!' at the top of our lungs." No props for Chick Publications' ongoing series of cartoon pamphlets for born-again folks? Clowes himself parodied the format with his 'Devil Doll.' I figured their anti-evolution diatribe 'Big Daddy' would have made someone's list. ------------------Quien busca, halla
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Dan Carroll Inactive Member |
quote: Been meaning to read Rose for ages, but haven't for one reason or another. One of those books I always forget when I'm in the store, you know? Same deal with Stardust. Although I don't mean to slam Smith with the disneyish description. He's a great artist, it's just shows through that he used to work in animation.
quote: Hunh. Haven't even heard of this. Have to check it out, thanks! And yes, Hellboy is always fun. Did you read "Amazing Screw-on Head?"
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Dan Carroll Inactive Member |
Baker's genius. I've never laughed so hard as at Cowboy Wally, except maybe at Saturn.
quote: Hey, I love Chick, in an "Ed Wood of Comics" kind of way. [This message has been edited by Dan Carroll, 07-23-2003]
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Dan Carroll Inactive Member |
One for the Creationists... (because there are several on the forum, and a lot of these comics work from the assumption that Christianity is bunk. Might as well provide something for everybody!)
Creature Tech - by Doug TenNapel A very fun comic that works from the assumption of intelligent design as a necessity to the plot. Don't believe it myself, but don't have any problem with it being used in fiction.
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PaulK Member Posts: 17822 Joined: Member Rating: 2.2 |
I'd rate _Stardust_ as one of the best things that Neil Gaiman has done. Don't forget it again :-)
Strangehaven is a self-published job with an irregular schedule so it's not surprising that it's relatively obscure. Definitely worth a look, though. Two collections so far.(This reference may mean nothing to anyone outside the UK but the closest thing I know of was a TV series _Children of the Stones_ ) I Don't recognise the "Amazing Screw-on Head" title. I have all the Hellboy collections, as well as the BPRD collection, all three "Hellboy: Weird Tales" comics, and Soul of Venice.
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nator Member (Idle past 2169 days) Posts: 12961 From: Ann Arbor Joined: |
Our copy of Maus is autographed!
We went to hear a talk/exhibit by Speigelman about 6 years ago, and he drew a great picture of "himself". Did you go see the touring exhibit of his work? I saw it in Philly. I also loved the Watchmen.
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