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tuna ketchup x:
Anything by Daniel Clowes (but especially Like a Velvet Glove Cast in Iron, that thing gave me nightmares)

Love and Rockets by Los Bros Hernandez (magically realistic Latin American punk rock stories, awesome black and white work)

Anything by James Kochalka (you can read his daily comic journal for free at americanelf.com, and yes that's where my icon comes from)

I'm not so much a fan of superhero stuff. The Goon is funny, though.

JD:
Bone! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bone_(comic)

CamusCanDo:
Shit guys, I got back home half an hour ago from a big spend up at Borders where I spent $600 on books and graphic novels. I got a bunch of Will Eisner, some Sandman spin-offs and a couple of anthologies. So I'm actually looking at my pile now and thinking that most of what I have is what you're asking for.

Flight - A series of anthologies, each with about 20 short stories written and illustrated by various people. With 5 books in total you can pick up any volume, read away and you're guaranteed to read something you'll enjoy.

The Contract With God Trilogy - Will Eisner. This series consists of A Contract With God, A Life Force, Dropsie Avenue. Will Eisner pretty much made grapgic novels into an acceptable form of reading material, and these are the books that did it.

New York: Life in the Big City - Will Eisner. These collections (New York, The Building, City People Notebook, Invisible People) each deal with different inhabitants of New York. I wish I could tell you more but I basically bought them on the recommendation on a friend who's opinion I take highly.

Since you guys are recommending all things Alan Moore don't forget The Ballad of Halo Jones. Also anything from his Americas Best Comics line. Goddamn.

Right. Back to small collected semi easy to find graphic novels!

Planetary - Warren Ellis. Is 4 volumes too much? If so, you're really missing out man. A team of archaeologists of things weird, and not always from Earth, try to uncover why a group of people have been hoarding these discoveries for themselves and not propelling the world into a fantastic future. I love this series so much.

Blankets - Craig Thompson. The most sweet and brutually sincere graphic novel, sometimes a little overly so. This is a definite must.

Fell - Warren Ellis. Another Warren Ellis graphic novel, also illustrated by Ben Templesmith. Richard Fell, a detective, is relocated across the bridge to Snowtown where he tries hard to uphold what little justice that's left.

The Umbrella Academy - Written by Gerad Way and illustrated by Gabriel Ba. So yeah, the lead singer from My Chemical Romance wrote a comic. And it is really really really good. I was all set to hate the shit out of this, because I am shallow like that. Seven orphans all born at the exact same time taken in by an alien posing as a humanDr for what other reason than to save the world? Yes, yes indeed.

Locke & Key - Written by Joe Hill and illustrated by Gabriel Rodriguez. Joe Hill is the son of Stephen King, let's get that out in the open, first of all. So like his father he writes horror. I was impressed by his debut novel released last year, Heart Shaped Box, and with Locke & Key getting so much high praises I thought I had better check this 6 comic mini series out, right quick. I'm glad I did because it is great and one of the few comics where it has actually creeped me out.

That's all I can think of, other than what everyone else has recommended (Bone, Scott Pilgrim, Demo, Alan Moore-ness, The Arrival, Maus, Dan Clowes, Scott McCl-fuck basically everything Dark Flame said) I'll throw some longish series at you that if you ever change your mind about multi volume works, you should definitely look at.

The Authority
Transmetropolitan
Y: The Last Man
Ex Machina
DMZ
The Invisibles
The Boys
Preacher
Books of Magic
Lucifer
Powers
100 Bullets

Joseph:
Completely forgot about Warren Ellis.  Transmetropolitan is a favourite of mine, and he's written some other great things as well.  He's also currently doing Astonishing X-Men, which a lot of people seem to hate, but I love.

100 Bullets I've had a lot of trouble getting in to.  Granted, I've only read the first trade, but I found the quality was really mixed throughout, and none of the stories really got me excited.  Maybe it gets better?

michaelicious:

--- Quote from: CamusCanDo on 08 Dec 2008, 21:21 ---Blankets - Craig Thompson. The most sweet and brutually sincere graphic novel, sometimes a little overly so. This is a definite must.
--- End quote ---

This is what I was going to suggest! I love his drawing so much.

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