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humanoftheyear:
this past year i've become very enamored with graphic novels. as an aspiring artist myself, i've found a new level of inspiration from reading them.
as with most things in life that i enjoy, i want more, more, more. i'd really appreciate some suggestions for great graphic novels you guys have read. especially graphic novels that are memoirs, those are my absolute favorites.

my favorites so far have been:
fun home by alison bechdel
pyongyang by guy delisle
persepolis by marjane satrapi
maus by art spiegelman
blankets by craig thompson

two i have yet to read but received as gifts:
autobiographix - dark horse
safe area gorazde - joe sacco

i've read some frank miller but not too much. mainly his works that have been adapted to film. i'm also a fan of will eisner, but i haven't really gone beyone reading his version of moby dick.

i'm also curios as to what people think of graphic novels as far as literature goes. i've had a few professors in uni teach them in class, and some teachers just find the idea of a book with pictures too absurd for a college level (which i find ridiculous myself). what do ya'll think? are you less likely to take comics/graphic novels less seriously than classics that are taught to you in school?

i'm curious (:

mberan42:
My two favourites:

The Walking Dead by Kirkman & Moore (et. al.)
Y: The Last Man by Vaughan, Guerra & Marzan (et. al.)

I'm into post-apocalyptic type stuff. The Walking Dead is (obviously) about zombies. Y: The Last Man is about the last man left on Earth - every single male on Earth dies at the same time, except for one.

Both are phenomenally written, the artwork (b&w for Walking Dead, full colour for Y:TLM) is incredible and they're both so detailed. I highly recommend both.

humanoftheyear:
when my fiancee was in kuwait i sent him a few of the walking dead volumes. he now has the whole collection. i started to read the first one but i couldn't really get that into it but he insists it's amazing. i should pick it up again.


i also really love mouse guard. so cute and violent.

Noct:
I second all recommendations of works by Alan Moore, as well as Walking Dead.  Also highly recommend Transmetropolitain (10 volumes, but cheap on amazon and you can read the first few and see if you like it... it only gets better), or really anything by Warren Ellis.  I've pimped him before and I'll pimp him again, he is absolutely my favorite twisted, ornery bastard.  Kingdom Come if only for the artwork; having the whole thing illustrated by Alex Ross is breathtaking.  If you're a Marvel fan I also suggest the first few volumes of the Exiles TPB, the ones written by Judd Winick.  It's rejects from alternate x-men universes thrown into a Quantum Leap type setting.  Honestly, it's the only x-men related franchise I've read in the past 5 years that I've truly loved.

Edit: Just remembered Pride of Baghdad by Brian K. Vaughn.  Inspired by a news snippet coming from the Iraq war, it follows a bunch of lions who escaped from a zoo during the bombing of the Iraqi city.  Short, self-contained, and quite moving.

Edit x2!:  I just saw your question regarding the literary value of graphic novels and thought of something that might be relevant.  A month or two ago one of my friends and former roomate happened to introduce an anthropology professor to Transmetropolitan (he was over for a family event).  Unexpectedly, he was so enamored by the book that he made the first three volumes available to all of his students.  Not sure what this says about it's literary value or the sanity of said professor, but it's interesting....

tomselleck69:
Alan Moore is great, but if you want comic memoirs, the next logical step after all the ones you have listed is Epileptic by David B.

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