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Best graphic novels?

>> No.2359668
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You'll probably get better answers from /co/, but I've enjoyed Persepolis, Habibi, Maggie the Mechanic, and Heartbreak Soup.

Anything by the Hernandez brothers, really.

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>>2359659
>Graphic novels
They're comics faggot.

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>>2359672
>seconding this, because I hate when people try to fake an air of legitimacy by calling comics anything but.

At any rate, it's not very well known, but Moonshadow is really good. It follows the entire life of a boy whose mother was fucking nuts and whose father was a space alien or a god, I forget which. But the art is really good, the story is awesome. Pic related.

>> No.2359694

>>2359668

I remember someone on this forum I used to frequent having the face in the upper left as an avatar. Mustve been a fan.

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>>2359659

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It's worth judging people over whether or not they enjoyed and appreciated this.

>> No.2359743

Read Bodyworld. Its book-form is fucking brilliantly presented, but you can also read it all online here:

http://www.dashshaw.com/prelude.html

It's brilliant. Trust me.

>> No.2359765

I have to read Fun Home for my Intro to Literature class, has anyone here read it? If so, then how is it?

>> No.2359769
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This.

>> No.2359770

>>2359765
I really enjoyed Fun Home.

Also, seconding Persepolis.

Also, Y the Last Man, Scalped, and Northlanders

>> No.2359775

Asterios Polyp and Black Hole
>>2359769
Good man.

>> No.2359780

>>2359765
Oh yeah. It's really good.

>> No.2359786

>>2359672
This.

and
>>2359680
That.

Seriously, Moonshadow is one of the greatest comics ever written, I wish it weren't so expensive because it's something that needs to be owned.

Other than that, Cerebus (specifically the High Society arc), Starman by Robinson, Daytripper by Gabriel Ba, anything by Craig Thompson/Chris Ware/Daniel Clowes, I Kill Giants, etc.

Also, Enigma by Milligan should be mandatory reading.

>> No.2359798

ITT: OH GOD the pretentiousness.!

>> No.2359808

>>2359798
Wut?
All this stuff is good shit.

>> No.2359810

*except DMZ

DMZ sucks.

>> No.2359811

>>2359769
nice artwork, but besides that what's so good about it?

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>> No.2359818

I personally loved Maus and Persepolis, but those are really like intro level. If anyone's read graphic novels, they've read those.

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>> No.2359833

>>>/co/

>> No.2360009

>>2359769
>>2359769

Honestly like the most depressing shit I've ever read, fictionwise.

>> No.2360022

>>2359811
It doesn't have "artwork" in the purely visual sense. It's not written in the literature sense of it either. It's a graphic novel, the greatest achievement is not in the drawings or the literary text, but it's merit relies on the visual narrative in itself. Did you read the manual?