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ChastMastr
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Hi! Any other comics fans here? * 'm mainly Marvel and DC with some Dark Horse and Dynamite, though this is kind of general, but * thought * 'd see who else there is...
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Marvel girl! Not much time for DC, I like some Dark Horse. I really enjoyed Image back when they first came out, but I've not really been much of a reader in recent years. (grown-up life, blah blah blah)
our dear departed ken was a marvel man, as well.
My tastes run pretty mundane. I collected Spidey since I was about 6 until about 30. Also read a lot of X-Men (and various spinoffs) and I was a huge Alpha Flight fan, but it used to be hard to get those. Do they even exist anymore?
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ChastMastr
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Alpha Flight does indeed still exist, and is currently guest-starring in the Amazing X-Men storyline, "World War Wendigo." ![[Smile]](smile.gif)
I like both DC and Marvel traditionally, though I hate the New 52 over at DC and only like a few of those in spite of it, pretty much based on who the authors are.
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Kelly Alves
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I like weird indie stuff. Fantagraphics has put out a treasure of the old "Love and Rockets" comics form the late 80's -90's and I am getting sucked back into them all over again.
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Ariston
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Drawn and Quarterly, Pantheon, and some weird self-published indie stuff for me. SPX is one of my favorite weekends of the year. As for particulars, Chris Ware, Alison Bechdel, and Craig Thompson are good standbys; Ulli Lust's Today is the Last Day of the Rest of Your Life is an unusually good autobio comic (usually don't like those), and Asterios Polyp has such a great architectonic quality to its multi-layered drawings that it's worth seeking out. I've been meaning to find more Johan Sfaar and Art Speigelman, but I'm a cheapskate who likes abusing the local library collections, and there's only so much of either they have. Also need to start in on that Bone omnibus I got at the last SPX…
Sigh. You'd think it'd be even more incentive for me to finally finish reading about Hegel's religion, right?
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Brenda Clough
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I have been a comics fan for decades, and have a very nearly complete Batman collection (DETECTIVE, BATMAN, etc.) that runs back to the 1970s. Unfortunately I have recently fallen off the sled, and am thinking of selling my entire collection on Ebay.
However, I still adore Modesty Blaise.
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Kelly Alves
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quote:
Originally posted by Ariston:
Drawn and Quarterly, Pantheon, and some weird self-published indie stuff for me. SPX is one of my favorite weekends of the year. As for particulars, Chris Ware, Alison Bechdel, and Craig Thompson are good standbys; Ulli Lust's Today is the Last Day of the Rest of Your Life is an unusually good autobio comic (usually don't like those), and Asterios Polyp has such a great architectonic quality to its multi-layered drawings that it's worth seeking out. I've been meaning to find more Johan Sfaar and Art Speigelman, but I'm a cheapskate who likes abusing the local library collections, and there's only so much of either they have. Also need to start in on that Bone omnibus I got at the last SPX…
Sigh. You'd think it'd be even more incentive for me to finally finish reading about Hegel's religion, right?
We SERIOUSLY need to hang.
And you forgot Last Gasp.
Also,I recommend the "Barefoot Gen" series-- at least the first three books, it got a little preachy after that. Basically manga based on the author's experience surviving the bombing of Nagasaki.
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Kelly Alves
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Originally posted by Brenda Clough:
However, I still adore Modesty Blaise.
Have only just figured out what Modesty Blaise is about. Seems interesting.
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Brenda Clough
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Alas, Peter O'Donnell (her creator) passed away and there will be no more Modesty in comic strip or novel. But almost all the strips have been reprinted in large-format edition by Titan Press, and the novels are around.
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Love and Rockets, Sandman etc. were/are my favourites.
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I used to be. Before DC blew up their universe. More accurately I've a few shelves full of graphic novels but consider the DC universe in which John Constantine can have a crossover with Shazam and not have a clash in tone to be something I can't be bothered with. The artform itself is fascinating, as are the stories; I'm just not buying anything new as an ongoing (although have in the past month bought a collection of Hellblazers including the only Garth Ennis I'll ever own* and Rat Queens).
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I'll admit that Matt Fraction does an OK job, but most Marvel/DC stuff is nigh-unreadable to me now. It feels like the quality of writing in some ongoing web comics just utterly slays the over-hyped print stuff, and that's where most of my comic interest remains. Order of the Stick and Sluggy Freelance being a couple stand-out examples.
Which is not to say that I don't occasionally re-read my Watchmen / Cerebus / Sandman / Hellboy compendiums, because they're still awesome.
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Sandman, death, watchmen, V for vendetta grace my shelves.
As do Calvin and Hobbes, Gary Larson and Don Martin.
And Scott pilgrim.
I am looking for my next graphic novel series now but haven't found it yet.
I blame Neil Gaiman, he introduced me to the joy of graphic novels.
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Kelly Alves
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Originally posted by RooK:
It feels like the quality of writing in some ongoing web comics just utterly slays the over-hyped print stuff, and that's where most of my comic interest remains. Order of the Stick and Sluggy Freelance being a couple stand-out examples.
RooK turned me on to Sluggy Frelance. He's right, it kicks most of that slick, glossy DC stuff to shreds.
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This isn't really an AS thread - so you're all off to Heaven!
WW - AS Host
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Brenda Clough
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I really enjoy THE LEAGUE OF EXTRAORDINARY GENTLEMEN. And ASTRO CITY, which is just superb. People here would enjoy "Confession", the second arc in ASTRO CITY -- it is readily available in trade paper format. A Catholic priest turns super-hero...
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quote:
Originally posted by Kelly Alves:
I like weird indie stuff. Fantagraphics has put out a treasure of the old "Love and Rockets" comics form the late 80's -90's and I am getting sucked back into them all over again.
Fantagraphics! I used to live right up the street from one of their offices in Seattle. I had a disastrous interview with them once...(hey! how was I supposed to know NOT to dress up in a business suit?!) and some of my friends work there and have their stuff published by Fantagraphics. I love Love and Rockets and anything by Chris Ware.
I've loved Spiderman since I was about ten. I love Wonder Woman and some Batman/Dark Knight stuff. Ironman, Thor, X-Men.
I also had every single issue of the "V for Vendetta" series, almost all of the Sandman/Death series from Vertigo. Yep, I'm a nerd! ![[Big Grin]](biggrin.gif)
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Originally posted by Patdys:
Sandman, death, watchmen, V for vendetta grace my shelves.
As do Calvin and Hobbes, Gary Larson
yes! all of these. as well as Mutts and Get Fuzzy. and Maus!
also - dare I admit it? I was a crazy Conan and Sonja fan as a kid, and obsessive - OBSESSIVE! - about Elfquest. I had all of the graphic novels and they were worn out. I honestly don't know what happened to them, they disappeared somewhere in one of my many moves.
I... ![[Hot and Hormonal]](icon_redface.gif) ... my first tattoo came from Elfquest.
Don't laugh! I was young. and it's aged very well. so huh.
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both.
fabulous. you will cry, but it's okay. get it.
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I collect the Doc Savage comics, as well as the books. Used to haunt comic book stores searching for them...
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ChastMastr
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I think Marvel's doing really well right now overall, but I'm focused mainly on the writers--a whole bunch of whom (not all) were doing great stuff at DC a few years ago (pre-New 52).
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ChastMastr
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Originally posted by BessHiggs:
I collect the Doc Savage comics, as well as the books. Used to haunt comic book stores searching for them...
How are the current Doc Savage comics? They're on my "get when I can afford them" list.
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I don't read many comic books and have lost track of the Marvel/DC universes. I do like Alison Bechdel and also Girl Genius. I did like Sandman and Watchmen. Maus is very good if depressing. I do plan to pick up the locus award comic which is about Dr Who going to a Science Fiction Convention.
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Originally posted by Palimpsest:
I don't read many comic books and have lost track of the Marvel/DC universes. I do like Alison Bechdel and also Girl Genius. I did like Sandman and Watchmen. Maus is very good if depressing. I do plan to pick up the locus award comic which is about Dr Who going to a Science Fiction Convention.
Damn! ![[Yipee]](graemlins/spin.gif)
Very much agreed about the brilliance of Maus. Our local high school districts assign in in literature classes.
And Patdys-- why guilty? Tank Girl rocks!
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Kelly Alves
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Just to combine a couple levels of geekiness-- has anyone out there heard of Sam Hurt's Eyebeam? It's like if Seinfeld and Dr. Who had a baby.
Here's a good tip-of-the iceberg example
Also, if you are a gaming fan, look up some compendiums of Knights of the Dinner Table, a strip that focuses on the antics of a table top RPG group, which ran in Dragon magazine for many years before becoming a comic on its own. Really, really funny. Also, a comic series spin off developed around the gaming group's characters-- Hackmaster.
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I cannot expect people to believe “
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Kelly Alves, somewhere around 2003.
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Maus is required reading. I held off on getting it for the longest time (because, you know, required reading, why should I read it, I should already know everything in it, I've read enough about it there's nothing new in it, ooh, signed copy, okay, I'll read it, oh hey, there's a lot here I didn't know about, imagine that), but yeah. Once you've read it, the craft of comics will make sense. Also check out MetaMaus, Spiegelman's commentary and research notes.
Also worth finding: the Contract with God trilogy by Wil Eisner, along with Comics and Sequential Art and, if you can find it, Comics: The Invisible Art. There's not very much high-level criticism on the level of literary criticism in comics (well, unless you're sitting in on panels at SPX, in which case, gender studies, here we come!), but if you read the two "theory" books and Contract, comics and comic theory will make more sense. Actually, I prefer to use Craig Thomson's Habibi as a better example of the use of graphic and lettering theory—I don't think I own a more gorgeous book than that one—but to each their own.
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and tank girl.
I worked on the set of the film and really enjoyed it.
I hope to work on Comic.Con next year (as well as the Super Bowl...)
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Originally posted by Ariston:
Maus is required reading. I held off on getting it for the longest time ...because, you know, required reading, why should I read it, I should already know everything in it, I've read enough about it there's nothing new in it....
The entire family read it when it came out and really enjoyed it, including our then pre-teen daughter. First grapic novel I'd seen since ( the X-rated ) Fritz the Cat!
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The disconcerting thing for me reading this thread is that every time I see 'DC' I think D C Thompson.
And then I think of Desperate Dan in a skintight leotard, Beryl the Peril as a super villainess and Oor Wullie as a Dark Nicht the noo. And then I have to go and lie down.
Pay no attention. A British childhood in the '50s does that.
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Ariel
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Yes, nobody has mentioned Bunty, Buster, or Whizzer and Chips yet, either. Welcome to Heaven, btw.
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Brenda Clough
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The seminal book -about- comics is UNDERSTANDING COMICS by Scott McCloud. A marvelously entertaining book and illustrated (of course) by himself, it lays out all the tools for understanding and critiquing the sequential art form. Read it (and the two sequels) and you will truly understand comics.
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Originally posted by Ariston:
Maus is required reading. I held off on getting it for the longest time (because, you know, required reading, why should I read it, I should already know everything in it, I've read enough about it there's nothing new in it, ooh, signed copy, okay, I'll read it, oh hey, there's a lot here I didn't know about, imagine that), but yeah. Once you've read it, the craft of comics will make sense. Also check out MetaMaus, Spiegelman's commentary and research notes.
Shit, I saw that in a used bookstore the other day, and just assumed it was a compilation alone. Must go back.
I was following political comics and indie comics for years, but Maus really seemed to signal a shift in public perception of comics-- it's was the first ( and still the best) solid argument for comic art as a form of literature.
The only Craig Thompson I have read is Blankets, which is almost unbearably raw and touching.
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Am I the only one who saw the title to this thread as "Comic sans" and thought it was going to be about fonts?
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If you want meta comics; the books by Scott Mcleod starting with "Understanding Comics" give a huge insight in the art of making comics. It's worth reading even if, like me, you can't draw.
While "Maus" is definitely great, I remember with great fondness Speigelman's all black cover for the New Yorker the week after 9/11 and the comics he did shortly thereafter. Very moving art in a politically difficult time.
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Originally posted by Kyzyl:
Am I the only one who saw the title to this thread as "Comic sans" and thought it was going to be about fonts?
Yes.
Sorry about that
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The UK versions were 2000AD and Judge Dredd - and they weren't that easy to get hold of, the American versions were even harder - to the point that there were (are?) comic books shops in Covent Garden I used to visit.
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ChastMastr
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I have to watch my pennies a LOT right now due to poor finances (indeed, part of what interrupted my time on the Ship a few years ago was my parents' deaths, getting a house, then losing the house, having a sort of near-nervous breakdown, getting my life back together, etc. and now I have a nice but not-high-paying job in which I have found my niche, in an apartment with Cubby), but here is what is coming out I most recommend on the super-hero side of things from DC:
THE MULTIVERSITY (Grant Morrison)
JUSTICE LEAGUE DARK (J.M. DeMatteis)
SECRET ORIGINS
TRINITY OF SIN: THE PHANTOM STRANGER #22 (DeMatteis)
JUSTICE LEAGUE 3000 (DeMatteis)
WORLD’S FINEST (Paul Levitz)
EARTH 2 (Tom Taylor)
ACTION COMICS (Greg Pak)
BATMAN/SUPERMAN (Pak)
ALL-STAR WESTERN #34 (Palmiotti)
SENSATION COMICS FEATURING WONDER WOMAN
ADVENTURES OF SUPERMAN
BATMAN BEYOND UNIVERSE
ASTRO CITY (Kurt Busiek)
The Gentle Reader may note that many of these are not set in the New 52 at all:
THE MULTIVERSITY
SENSATION COMICS FEATURING WONDER WOMAN
ADVENTURES OF SUPERMAN
BATMAN BEYOND UNIVERSE
ASTRO CITY
(periodically, when they collect them, the digital-first non-continuity Legends of the Dark Knight stories)
Of the remaining ones, many are not set in (1) the present day or (2) the main New 52 Earth:
SECRET ORIGINS
JUSTICE LEAGUE 3000
WORLD’S FINEST
EARTH 2
ALL-STAR WESTERN (ending soon, alas)
Which leaves just these as my glimpse into the present-day main-Earth New 52:
JUSTICE LEAGUE DARK
TRINITY OF SIN: THE PHANTOM STRANGER (ending soon, alas)
ACTION COMICS
BATMAN/SUPERMAN
All of which I am getting for two reasons: J.M. DeMatteis and Greg Pak.
When I can afford them, which is not right now, I will go get back issues or trade collections of Gail Simone's Batgirl, Jeff Parker's Aquaman, and Dan Jurgens' Aquaman and the Others. Geoff Johns made an Aquaman I couldn't stand, but I am sure Parker and Jurgens can make him more suited to my tastes.
As for Marvel:
A few years ago, I hated, hated, hated Civil War and much that came from/led to it. Hated it. Passionately. To me, that was Marvel's Bad Period. I think things have much improved, especially due to Marvel having a lot better writing than DC overall right now. (In my opinion.) I think things have become vastly better with Axel Alonso at the helm.
My Marvel list of stuff, basically based on writers (Aaron (which is why Original Sin is the first crossover series I've actually bought in YEARS), Robinson, Davis, Remender, Moore, Slott, the whole Ms. Marvel team, Rucka, Cornell, Claremont, etc.) plus my Logan/Wolverine fix (which I will always buy unless it is by one of the writers I truly, truly dislike, not naming names here):
ORIGINAL SIN
FANTASTIC FOUR
ALL-NEW INVADERS
ORIGINAL SINS
SAVAGE HULK
MIRACLEMAN -- yes, by Alan Moore and Neil Gaiman BY THE WAY, IF YOU DIDN'T KNOW, MARVEL NOW HAS THE RIGHTS TO THIS GROUNDBREAKING EARLY 1980s SERIES AND IS REPRINTING IT ALL FROM THE START
UNCANNY AVENGERS
AMAZING SPIDER-MAN
MS. MARVEL
AMAZING X-MEN
CYCLOPS
WOLVERINE
SAVAGE WOLVERINE
WOLVERINE AND THE X-MEN
NIGHTCRAWLER
Marvel list of stuff for later when I can:
Everything not on the above list by Waid (Daredevil, Hulk), Slott, Aaron (Thor, etc.), and Remender (Captain America), with some other things possibly.
Dark Horse: Conan stuff.
Dynamite: Sometimes, when I can afford it, Warlord of Mars or Tarzan or Red Sonja stuff.
I have a LOT of stuff on lists for "getting when I can afford them as either trade paperbacks or in back issues."
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And there are some fantastic web comics. I highly recommend GIRL GENIUS, but plan to have a chunk of time in hand before you begin. You will wish to read it from the beginning (it's all on line for free) and it'll take you a while. They've been publishing three comics a week for more than ten years.
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Originally posted by Ariel:
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Originally posted by Kyzyl:
Am I the only one who saw the title to this thread as "Comic sans" and thought it was going to be about fonts?
Yes.
Sorry about that
Not a problem, it has been that sort of week.
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Ah, webcomics. I wasn't going to post on this thread, but then they came up! I avidly follow, and heartily recommend, all of the following (in no particular order):
Gunnerkrigg Court (mythology, mystery and schoolkids messing around)
Girl Genius (steampunk + mad science)
Order of the Stick (RPG pisstake becomes excellent story)
Dresden Codak (really intelligent, beautiful art, glacial update schedule)
Sinfest (one of the oldest web comics still going)
Sequential Art (slice of life + furries)
Questionable Content (slice of life + robots)
Darths and Droids (Star Wars if it was an RPG!)
Exterminatus Now (Sonic the Hedgehog meets Warhammer 40K. Yes, really)
El Goonish Shive (slice of life + magic)
Zebra Girl (dark, especially the more recent storylines)
Go Get a Roomie (NSFW)
Oglaf (VERY NSFW)
Dr McNinja (he's a doctor and a ninja. What's not to like?)
XKCD (natch)
If I had to pick one to recommend over the others, I'd pick Gunnerkrigg Court. After a shaky start the art is beautiful, and the storylines are incredibly detailed while never becoming impenetrable.
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Clearly I went and read Oglaf.
You really have to like looking at penii a lot to enjoy it.
It is a shame, cos the non-subporn sections are mildly funny.
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Originally posted by Doublethink:
Clearly I went and read Oglaf.
You really have to like looking at penii a lot to enjoy it.
Which at least makes a change from most NSFW stuff, that only tends to have female parts in it.
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I discovered Oglaf by accident a while ago and have been following it ever since.
I also regularly read YAFGC which I discovered after following a Doctor Who comic by the same writer
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I've kinda sorta heard of sinfest-- didn't they used to be part of keenspot?
I used to prowl keenspot regularly, but checking it out recently was kind if disappointing-- the occasional manga/ d& d knockoff is ok, but that seems to be all they got now. I like the unusual. ( one of my faves in that site was some soapy thing about a Canadian girls' school.). On that note, I was cheered to see that Chopping Block-- the single panel hijinks of a cuddly serial killer-- is still going strong.
Boxjam's Doodle seems to have faded into the blue. Sad. It was a pleasant little bit of weird.
I actually had a great discussion about graphic novels with a cousin yesterday, and I told him I really owe my love of comics to two books I read when I was abour 9 or 10-- one was A History of the United States Through Political Cartoons, 1776-1976 ( I don't think I was seriously interested in history before reading this) and The Brass Ring by Bill Mauldin, who was a cartoonist for the Army newspaper Stars and Stripes throughout WWII. The latter book I should not have been reading at age 10, but I highly recommend it both as a war narrative and a celebration of comic art and the power of political cartoons.
But this memory of clandestine reading brings me back to hiding in my grandparent's attic and reading through my grandpa's stack of Playboy 's -- for the cartoons. *One shock I remember was seeing the name of beloved children's book author Tomi Ungerer as the creator of some bizarre comic strip about anthropomorphic genitalia chasing each other around a desert.
* ok, the centerfold bios were pretty funny, too.
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I first started reading comics back when Green Arrow moved to Seattle and the stories were aimed at more mature readers - I loved Mike Grell's work, and was lucky enough to meet him at a Comic Con this year. That was the weekend I dressed up as Green Arrow and Captain Marvel on different days - I think Carol Danvers is brilliant, and why can't Marvel do a tshirt of her uniform top? I had to make my own.
At around the same time, I was another Elfquest fan (via a novelisation I bought at a Star Trek Con), but I never did get to find out if they ever found the space ship their race had arrived on the planet in.
Then there was a long gap, and now my Young Man is educating me - he's a long-time Captain Britain fan, and Paul Cornell, one of my favourite Doctor Who writers, did a series of stories featuring Captain Britain, MI-13, and various other characters like Spitfire and Captain Midlands - and a Muslim woman doctor who ends up wielding Excalibur! That led me on to a stand-alone Pete Wisdom/MI-13 story.
The Young Man can also explain long and complicated back stories of various characters, and stop me from making social faux pas like mixing up Marvel and DC characters!
I also dipped my toe in the water by buying the Neil Gaiman graphic novel, 1602, which introduced me to his version of Daredevil - I love Daredevil!
And just recently, I saw a trailer for a new John Constantine TV series, and I've started looking out for Hellblazer now.
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I first started with the Alan Moore Swamp Thing which I still love.
And of course all other Alan Moore stuff. Or Neil Gaiman but they have been mentioned before.
What about Grant Morrison?
Animal Man
Doom Patrol
His Justice League
His X-men stuff?
I Also like the Authority and Planetary by Warren Ellis.
As someone mentioned before get the Miracleman re-issues I loved reading those back in the 90's.
I recently re-read it and it still holds up for me.
More recent stuff The Unwritten, Saga, Fables.
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