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What comic books do you read?
offcitylimits:
I'm fairly new to reading comics regularly. We studied Watchmen at Uni and that made me dig deeper. Recently:
Y: The Last Man Vol. 1 TP
Astonishing X-Men: Gifted
Alex Robinson - Box Office Poison
Craig Thompson - Blankets
Derek Kirk Kim - Same Difference & Other Stories
Jason Lutes - Jar of Fools
kiwibrombeer:
as being no particular fan of superhero-comics (come on, the ARE in fact crap; that's like the mainstream of comics, and you guys want to be indie..) i might not gain many friends with my selection, but some of the following you should definitely have a look at. as there would be:
Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi (i don't know how many of them have been translated in english so far, in french, there are 4 volumes) - an autobiographic comic, telling the story of M. Satrapi, born in iran some years before the islamic revolution (about her childhood in iran, then her youth in austria as a foreigner, then her retourn to iran); black&white, rather naive drawing style, but extremely interesting. there is some other stuff by her as well, not (necessarily) connected with the persepolis-series
Lewis Trondheim in general, french artist, doing both 'album'-comics (like the hilarious 'donjon'/'dungeon'-series with j. sfar) and more distinguished black&white/philosophical/weird stuff like 'moins d'un quart de seconde pour vivre' with j.c. menu or the terribly good 'mildou'
a very, very good webcomic (though being published as an album in austria in a few weeks) is 'Death And The Maiden' by Nina Ruzicka. which can be found (also in the english translation) at http://www.cartoontomb.de.
i also like very much Jirô Taniguchi, a (obviously) japanese artist who thanksworthyly does not join in the manga-style of most of his fellow countrymen but does sort of graphical novels as you might find with craig thompson (though somewhat less autobiographical). unfortunately, i believe there is only very little by him translated into english (i could not find the equivalent of 'le quartier lointain' in a quick research..)
more to come, i guess..
Garcin:
Superb. I knew about Persepolis, the others are new to me. Keep the recommendations coming!
The Thief:
Ultimates
Ultimate X-Men
Ultimate Spider-Man
Runaways
The Goon
The Walking Dead
Ex Machina
Batman
100 Bullets
Invincible
Godland
Y: The Last Man
Gryff:
--- Quote from: kiwibrombeer ---as being no particular fan of superhero-comics (come on, the ARE in fact crap; that's like the mainstream of comics, and you guys want to be indie..)
--- End quote ---
I doubt you'll find too many people who agree with such a sweeping statement. Try reading Alan Moore or Frank Miller's superhero comics. Or The Authority. Or Planetary. Or Ex Machina...
There are plenty of great superhero comics around that are aimed at a more mature audience. Oh, and also, I don't care if reading Spiderman makes me un-indie.
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