Recommend a graphic novel?

[DotCommunist]

I'd have to disagree with Sin City, it's just as unpleasant in comic form. Don't much rate miller tbf.


Oh and Judge Dredd Raptaur is a stone cold classic IMO.

 

[Louloubelle]

Maus also Maus II

Only graphic novel to ever really engage me

Very powerful, gripping, sad, moving, terrifying just a masterpiece really

 

[DotCommunist]

Maus also Maus II

Only graphic novel to ever really engage me

Very powerful, gripping, sad, moving, terrifying just a masterpiece really

German girl I know read that at school as a young 'un. It's not my style of art, but the story is powerful.

 

[henrytheoctopus]

michelle tea's rent girl doesn't fall in this category exactly, but it floats along the outskirts and is truly incredible.

 

[Autonomous]

Oh yeah, if you want something about the real world I remember reading Joe Sacco's Palestine and thinking that was very good. I think he went to Palestine as a journalist and just did a comic book instead of a write-up. Informative, stirring, humourous in parts and featuring a more cartoonish style of art.

 

[purves grundy]

Fun Home by Alison Bechdel is fantastic. Unlike anything you've ever read before.

 

[Uncle Fester]

Harry Sadist

The Harry Sadist comic strips - featuring extreme violence, drugs, dalek sex, royal peversions and cocktail recipies.

Wholesome.

 

[rollinder]

Maus also Maus II

Only graphic novel to ever really engage me

Very powerful, gripping, sad, moving, terrifying just a masterpiece really

^ this. Bought the combined edition on holiday this summer and read it while holed up in a hotel room in rainy W-S-M, and it broke me.

 

[Louloubelle]

^ this. Bought the combined edition on holiday this summer and read it while holed up in a hotel room in rainy W-S-M, and it broke me.

Impossible not to read in one sitting
The relationship between the author / artist and his father is very well depicted
You really feel for him as a child of survivors. The cartoon within a cartoon about his mother and her death was almost unbearable to read.

 

[In Bloom]

The first two volumes of the Invisibles are pretty good. After that, it just becomes kind of bizarre and incoherent (I still have absolutely no idea what is supposed to be going on at the end and I've read volume three over several times).

If you're into superhero stuff, you could do worse than Dark Knight Returns or Batman: Year One. Avoid Dark Knight Strikes Back though, it's wank.

 

[Part 2]

Anyone else read Skin?

About a Thalidomide skinhead. One of the first 'serious' comic books I read, only short but a great story and top artwork.

 

[May Kasahara]

for something a bit more emo, try Blankets or Castle Waiting.. fantastic art in both

 

[May Kasahara]

I love Bill Sienkowitz (sp?) esp Stray Toasters and Electra Assassin.

you beat me to it!

 

[fogbat]

The Harry Sadist comic strips - featuring extreme violence, drugs, dalek sex, royal peversions and cocktail recipies.

Wholesome.

I've just been reading a couple of these.

Infantile, violent, sex-obsessed and grotesque.


Excellent stuff!

e2a: I particularly like the lines
"Brian might've been a violent little nazi, but... well... he never interfered with no children"
"Indeed. Who could ask for a better epitaph?"

 

[Flashman]

I remember reading one about King Arthur in space, must have been the late 80s, full of stuff like;

"tarry a little and I will grant thy boon"

I think it was shit but I was mad on King Arfur in them days.

 

[ATOMIC SUPLEX]

ken akamatsu just hits the right level of plot folating in a sea of very nicly done fanservice it's a romance comedy witch is both funny and sweet i think it serves it target market perfectly

as for the 15 volumes spanning 10 years... takahashi just doesn't know how to stop writing

Nahhhh, Masion Ikkoku wraps up very nicely. (I cried).

Urusei Yatsura never even finishes (sort of)

Ramna and Inu Yasha - Well maybe you have a point.

I love her other short stories

 

[Flashman]

Ahhh found it:

ha ha

 

[eme]

Fun Home by Alison Bechdel is fantastic. Unlike anything you've ever read before.

this is on my list of 'to read'

 

[ada]

Seconding the rec for Fun Home. I was suspicious of it (sounded a bit worthy) but was impressed when I read it.

Noone has stuck up for V for Vendetta? I rate it.

How about Charles Burns 'Black Hole'. Any other fans here?

 

[killer b]

Ahhh found it:

ha ha

i remember that! it was proper shite, like.

i've just read the whole of zenith front to back today. it's brill.

 

[boohoo]

for something a bit more emo, try Blankets or Castle Waiting.. fantastic art in both

I like Castle Waiting. Was there anymore story too it?

 

[boohoo]

The first Tank girl graphic novel is alwways worth a re-visit.

 

[ATOMIC SUPLEX]

The first Tank girl graphic novel is alwways worth a re-visit.

No it's not. I liked it in the Deadline days so bought Vol one a few months ago. I never finished it, I really don't think it stood the test of time.

An old 'friend' of mine is now drawing the new tank girl so I give it my full support (he is a top fella).

 

[May Kasahara]

I like Castle Waiting. Was there anymore story too it?

My thoughts exactly.

 

[Rainingstairs]

Sandman Series and Watchman...as been pointed out.
Neverwhere
Hellboy series
From Hell

 

[catinthehat]

Palestine - Sacco is really good I think also Persepolis. There is an interesting trend of graphic novels being used to get around censorship (political) laws but a lot of them are not translated but the knock on seems to be increasing ones with similar slants being written outside of those countries.

Blue Pills is also good. I always try and find a rationale to put at least one on my students booklists - I am always surprised by how few people have ever read them or realise they are not the same as Beno Annuals.

 

[PursuedByBears]

Another vote for Maus, can't believe I forgot this one! Truely awesome

 

[FridgeMagnet]

Grant Morrison is good when he's not left on his own. When he's left on his own he just wanks himself into a coma, as with the Invisibles and the end of Animal Man. However, when he's given a focus he's terrific - he's written some of the best X-Men stuff ever for instance.

The Filth is good actually, it does make a certain sort of sense and it's a lot shorter than the Invisibles.