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ExPresidents

Wow, no one mentioned any of mine.

3.) Transmetropolitan

2.) 100 Bullets

1.) Y: The Last Man
 
gregormilligan

gregormilligan

I would recommend It's A Good Life, If You Don't Weaken by Seth. Brilliant story, beautiful artwork. Also, everyone should read Maus.

I'm a big comics fan but I'm drawing a blank on other books that haven't been recommended already.

My favourite Batman comic was definitely Year One, with TDKR a close second.

Arkham Asylum: A Serious House on Serious Earth is also brilliant, really chaotic.
 
LickTheStar

LickTheStar

Sad Flower in the Sand
Y The Last Man is probably one of the smartest comics in existence. Just brilliant all around, from beginning to end. Especially great because they tell you what happened, they just don't tell you which solution they provide is actually the correct one. Brian Vaughan is definitely my favorite comic writer (yes, even more than Alan Moore). Ex Machina is in the last three issues and is also excellent, but much different.

And Arkham Asylum is a great Batman comic. Grant Morrison is good, most of the time (but the Black Hand\RIP storyline? WTF?).
 
zenguru

zenguru

I have all the trades from 100 Bullets and Y.

One of the best stories being collected into trade right now is Scalped. A great, gritty Indian saga in the modern west.
 
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october bird of death

Would anyone be interested in seeing Buk poems and short stories turned into graphic novels? I have been rolling the thought around in my head. I have a few short stories in mind. I am just not sure if anyone would be interested.
 
hoochmonkey9

hoochmonkey9

Art should be its own hammer.
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I just read the first 3 issues of Y: The Last Man.

good stuff. I'll keep reading.

hey, who's yelling GEEEEEEEEEEEK! ;)
 
esart

esart

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I tried to get into the From Hell books but they just weren't my thing and gave them to someone who appreciated them. I kind of got into the Love & Rockets books (Hernandez), but I still think the all-time greatest graphic novel is and always will be Art Spiegelman's Maus. Perhaps a bit heavy, but it just has all the elements there nonetheless.

I've been really into this chick, Miriam Libicki, who makes her own comix named "Jobnik" (among others) and I find myself going back and buying more and more of her books. She is a Jewish American/Canadian who went to fight in the Israeli army, so some of her stories begin there.
 
Bukfan

Bukfan

"The law is wrong; I am right"
I still think the all-time greatest graphic novel is and always will be Art Spiegelman's Maus. Perhaps a bit heavy, but it just has all the elements there nonetheless.
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It's one of my favorite graphic novels! It's one of the best there is, I think. You have good taste. ;)

Miriam Libicki's comics looks very interesting. Thanks for the link!

(Btw, I had a look at Miriam Libicki's site in the "Comix" section. At the bottom there's a link saying, "read the full essay at jewsy.com". I tried and a large red sign popped up saying the site was "infected" or something like that. I'm just mentioning it as a warning.)
 
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zenguru

zenguru

Maus is one of my favorites as well. It's one of those I can reread every once in a while without getting tired of it.

Joe Kubert's Fax From Sarajevo is also really good.
 
LickTheStar

LickTheStar

Sad Flower in the Sand
Maus is indeed fantastic. I don't know how mice and cats can break my decade long indifference toward anything Holocaust related, but it worked...
 
Bukfan

Bukfan

"The law is wrong; I am right"
You could almost call Maus for "Graphic History" instead of a Graphic Novel because everything in it took place in real life, which makes it even more fascinating.
They say it was the first "comic Book" to receive the Pulitzer Award.

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d gray

d gray

tried to do his best but could not
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just finished this -

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man i wish crumb would do a BIG bukowski adaptation.
 
jordan

jordan

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i think love and rockets will always be a singular achievement, just due to the insane depth of the storylines. i'm partial to gilbert hernandez's half of the work, but you're talking about THOUSANDS of pages following a clan of hundreds of people through a half-century-long timeline. other graphic novels may be more technically perfect in terms of form and construction, but to me, there is nothing that even approaches love and rockets in terms of overall greatness.

i also want to recommend paul hornschemeir, and not just because there's a chance press project with him in the works. the three paradoxes is one of the best constructed graphic novels i have ever read.
 
Bukfan

Bukfan

"The law is wrong; I am right"
just finished this -
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Ah, a new cover! Here's the old cover (although it's the Danish edition called Kafka For Beginners) with a nice portrait of Kafka:

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miriambeetle

carol,

wow, thanks for your plug! do you come up to san francisco ever? i'll be there soon-ish for wondercon....

bukfan,

thanks for checking it out! i just checked, & jewcy.com is coming up as a "possible attack site" for me, too.

jewcy's just an online magazine/culture site about american-jewish stuff that published an essay of mine, but they may have been hacked at one point... you can see the cover & read the first couple of pages of that essay if you click on the cover image (clicking on any cover image on the comix page brings up an excerpt of the comic).

miriam libicki
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Bukfan

Bukfan

"The law is wrong; I am right"
i just checked, & jewcy.com is coming up as a "possible attack site" for me, too.
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Right! I just tried to Google the site and Google has a warning too saying it might be harmful to one's computer. Oh well, Jewsy will probably get their site fixed.
 
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LickTheStar

LickTheStar

Sad Flower in the Sand
Let me also take a moment to talk about Alan Moore's run on Swamp Thing.

I'll admit I was skeptical. But the first couple volumes (even through the third and most of the fourth) are spectacular. Incredibly inventive writing, great horror, some funky use of the DC universe... just great overall. Even when Moore gets a bit lost on a couple of self-fellating issues, a vegetable-based character is consistently more interesting than it has any right to be.

I'm now awaiting delivery of the first five issues of Brian Vaughan's 20 issue run on Swamp Thing from back before Y\Pride Of Baghdad\etc. *sigh* I always said I wasn't going to turn into a comic nerd... Ah well, what's one more level of nerd-dom, eh?
 
zenguru

zenguru

Moore's run on Swamp Thing is timeless. #21's "The Anatomy Lesson" was both creepy and fascinating. I think the most fun issue in the run, for me, is #53. Abby has been arrested in Gotham City on a sex offender warrant (the offense of having sex with Swamp Thing). Swamp Thing wants her released right now. Gotham says no. So ST brings nature to Gotham City. Really a great read. And Batman, too!
 
zenguru

zenguru

I liked when Swampy fought Solomon Grundy on that blue world. But after that, I could barely read it. It's like Moore turned his pencil inside out or something.
 
Ponder

Ponder

"So fuck Doubleday Doran"
RIP
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The triumphant return of one of comics' greatest talents, with an engrossing story of one man's search for love, meaning, sanity, and perfect architectural proportions. An epic story long awaited, and well worth the wait.

Meet Asterios Polyp: middle-aged, meagerly successful architect and teacher, aesthete and womanizer, whose life is wholly upended when his New York City apartment goes up in flames. In a tenacious daze, he leaves the city and relocates to a small town in the American heartland. But what is this "escape" really about?

As the story unfolds, moving between the present and the past, we begin to understand this confounding yet fascinating character, and how he's gotten to where he is. And isn't. And we meet Hana: a sweet, smart, first-generation Japanese American artist with whom he had made a blissful life. But now she's gone. Did Asterios do something to drive her away? What has happened to her? Is she even alive? All the questions will be answered, eventually.

In the meantime, we are enthralled by Mazzucchelli's extraordinarily imagined world of brilliantly conceived eccentrics, sharply observed social mores, and deftly depicted asides on everything from design theory to the nature of human perception.

Asterios Polyp is David Mazzucchelli's masterpiece: a great American graphic novel.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LX8hZEHS8dc&feature=relmfu

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QI5_F46JzCA
 
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