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1132400 No.1132400 [Reply] [Original]

can /lit/ recommend some graphic novels?

I'd never really read any ("lol comic books srsly? brb kafka") until i borrowed Maus from a friend last year and enjoyed it. So i'm open to any recommendations

>> No.1132406

>maus
Dirty propaganda

>> No.1132409

Lucifer is fucking amazing.
Sandman
Transmetropolitan

>> No.1132414

>>1132406
>implying that any work of literature isn't inherently propaganda.

>> No.1132411

Sandman is amazing
I liked Persopolis too.
haven't read many though

>> No.1132420

>MAUS
holohoax
>>1132409
>>1132411
yeh. if you are american or a teen

>> No.1132425

Blankets

>> No.1132429

Barefoot Gen
Swamp Thing (Alan Moore run ONLY)
Sandman
Animal Man (Grant Morrison run ONLY)
A Contract With God
American Splendor 1 & 2

>> No.1132441

>>1132400

>graphic novels

Presumably you mean 'comics'. Yes!

'League of Extraordinary Gentlemen' by Alan Moore (lit related), plus 'From Hell', 'V For Vendetta', and, if you haven't read it already, 'Watchmen'. also 'Tom Strong'
Volumes 2-5 of 'Cerebus the Aardvark' by Dave Sim (and v1 if you feel like starting at its humble roots - not an unrewarding experience)
'A Life Force' by Will Eisner
'American Splendour' by Harvey Pekar
'WE3' and The Filth' by Grant Morrison (if you like the latter, check out his run on 'Doom Patrol', and 'The Invisibles')
'Louis Riel' by Chester Brown
'Transmetropolitan' and 'The Authority' by Warren Ellis
'Palestine' and 'Safe Area Gorazde' by Joe Sacco
'Phonogram' and 'Singles Club' by Kieron Gillen
'The Exterminators' by Simon Oliver
'Tintin' by Herge
'Black Hole' by Charles Burns
'Persepolis' by Marjane Satrapi
'Preacher' by Garth Ennis, I guess
'Sandman' by Neil Gaiman
'100 Bullets' by Brian Azarello
'Hellboy' by Mike Mignola (and its slightly less good spin-off, 'BPRD')

Talking of Kafka, there's a quite good version of his 'Metamorphosis' by Peter Kuper. I hear the graphic version of 'Tristram Shandy' is quite good too, but haven't read it.

>> No.1132445

Mothercukin Jimmy Corrigan: The Smartest Kid on Earth

>> No.1132447

>>1132441

PS: also Grant Morrison's 'Animal Man', Alejandro Jodorowsky 'Metabarons'...'Army@Love' by Rick Veitch is alright, I guess, as is 'DMZ' by Brian Wood.

You could also consider asking on, oh, I dunno, the comics board.

>> No.1132448

http://www.klick-game.gauss.livando.com/joke-21.html
yes

>> No.1132456

Preacher
Y: The Last Man
The Walking Dead
The Boys

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1132462

Outside of the expected, traditional choices, if you guys want an extremely literary graphic novel, you should check out Moonshadow.

http://www.amazon.com/Compleat-Moonshadow-John-Marc-DeMatteis/dp/1563893436/

It's unbelievably beautiful. Even /co/ is ignorant of this comic, it's such a shame.

>> No.1132467

>>1132462
>The Compleat Moonshadow
>Compleat

Really?

>> No.1132488

everything posted here is shit. read the older metal hurlant. moebius is a classic. read the french BDs.
transmetropolitan is mostly for younger teens, it's "hunter s. thompson" ranting on about his future cyberpunk society with, to me, embarrassing results. it's like an immature futurama.

>> No.1132490

>>1132467
It's less a misspelling of "complete", than it is an actual word. Something along the lines of "Essential", only being cutesy/quirky in that most comics are "Essential/Absolute/Omnibus" when collected in its entirety.

>> No.1132495

Ghost World
Black Hole
Boulevard of Broken Dreams
Watchmen

to name a few
all on /rs/ I think

/co/ would be really better for this really

>> No.1132496

>>1132495
(ha) meant "/co/" would be better for this really"

>> No.1132508

>>1132490

It actually means "best" or "par excellence", and makes no sense in the context.

>> No.1132515

>>1132508
I'll hold the editors accountable, and still hold to my opinion that it's a simply beautiful book.

Shouldn't really hold a name against it.

>> No.1132533
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1132533

Maus is the only comic I've ever seen on a college class's required books list. You started out well, OP. I'll also recommend Y: The Last Man, Sandman and Alan Moore's stuff. And if you're not stalwartly against Japanese stuff, BLAME! and Yokohama Kaidashi Kikou are fantastic.

>> No.1132539

persepolis

>> No.1132543

>>1132425
Approved.
Also OP could try "Life, in pictures" by Will Eisner.
"Jar of fools" by Jason Lutes was fucking amazing.

>> No.1132548

>>1132533
Hell yes, YKK was wonderful.

>> No.1132571

Anything by Dan Clowes
Fun Home by Alison Bechdel
The Rabbi's Cat by Joann Sfar
One Hundred Demons by Lynda Barry
Curses by Kevin Huizenga
Promethea by Alan Moore and JH Williams

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1132675

>>1132533
This one too, here in Argentina.

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>>1132400
Transmetropolitan. It's like Hunter S Thompson in the future.

>> No.1133879

>>1132688
yes, it's like retarded hunter s. thompson fanfic. that's exactly the problem with it

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1133895

Here's some real art! Story is a little too goofy/weird, especially at the beginning. I guarantee you will never read anything else like it!

>> No.1133901

I like the work of Yoshihiro Tatsumi quite a lot. He is at the very end of modernism, and kindred to kafka or the existentialists. He has a sort of poetic clarity, which I've noticed in other Japanese writers, I know that this is inherently racist to say.

>> No.1133906

>>1132675
Shame there's no English translation. Online anyway.

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>> No.1133929

Y: The Last Man is definitely the best one.

I pirated it and read it pretty much cover to cover in one (very long) sitting.

>> No.1133986

Watchmen
V for Vendetta
Lians of Baghdad
We3
Bone

>> No.1134009

>>1132445

I totally second Jimmy Corrigan. I don't know of any other stream of consciousness-esque graphic novels, but this one certainly does an amazing and interesting job of exploring the main character's psyche.

>> No.1134657

>>1134009
third vote for Jimmy Corrigan. It is the most moving comic I have ever read.

>> No.1134685

Read Sandman, 100 Bullets, Preacher, The Walking Dead.

Whatever you do, DO NOT read Persepolis. Biggest piece of shit ever.

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1134695

buddha by tezuka osamu
akira by otomo katsuhiro
the invisibles by grant morrrison
sleeper by ed brubaker
cerebus by dave sim

seconding: blankets, black hole, the walking dead, anything by alan moore

>> No.1134718

no asterios polyp in here? /lit/ i am disappoint.
also, i just finished alan moore's "black dossier" recently and in the end i just couldn't stand his obession with the orlando character. every second sentence "the eternal ambiguity orlando" wtf? i consider "from hell" his best work by far.

>> No.1135035

>>1134685

>DO NOT read Persepolis. Biggest piece of shit ever.

He could just read it and have an opinion about it??

>> No.1135037

Watchmen. And V for Vendetta.

I think all comics are fucking stupid, but I found those two to be bearable enough to actually read through.

>> No.1135047

>>1134718
>I consider "from hell" his best work by far.

It's pretty damn good but I'd have to say "Marvelman" is his best; the book is everything critics tout "Watchmen" to be, only a thousand times better.

>> No.1135068

>>1135035
He could also just eat a pile of shit and have an opinion about it.
I am just saying it's not a good idea

>> No.1135072

Whoever said "anything by Dan Clowes" was right. But I'll put specific emphasis on "Like a Velvet Glove Cast in Iron" and "Ghost World".

Also, I'll second the votes for "Jimmy Corrigan" by Chris Ware.

And incidentally, here's some light reading if you're interested in graphic novels....Critical intros to the work of both Clowes and Ware, and then two other essays in comic-book-criticism which are equally fascinating.

http://danielraeburn.com/The_Imp,_by_Daniel_Raeburn.html

>> No.1135075

If you like crime stories, not much compares to Ed Brubakers runs on p much anything. Especially check out Criminal though, its godamn awesome.

>> No.1135096

logicomix, something i found quite on par with maus. others i liked-
sandman series,
bone.

>> No.1135112

blankets

>> No.1135122

If only there were already an entire board to discuss this.