Great Graphic Novels...

[NickP]

...or comics.

Another thread drifted onto superheroes and comics and I thought I'd own up to being a fan. My favourite run of comics was the Ditko Spider-Man run from Amazing Fantasy 15 through to number 38 with a couple of annuals chucked in. But there's Neil Gaiman's Sandman running it close (75 issues of genius) and I've read loads of worthy mentions.

Words AND pictures! What could possibly go wrong?

So what are you favourites? I've probably read 'em! And which do you think deserve wider recognition, as "literature" if you like?

 

[Jennifer Stone]

I'm a new comer to the world of comics, I'll admit, after a childhood of being told "they're for boys". My friend usually buys me a Harley Quinn graphic novel for Christmas. I have three atm. My hubby is a fan of Todd McFarlane and the Spawn series, J.O. Barr and The Crow. Several years ago, I bought him a print of Brandon Lee as the Crow, drawn by (and signed by) the artist. I was officially the best gf ever at that moment

 

[Nicole Wilson]

I'm also new to graphic novels and comics. The only ones I've read so far are the graphic novels for Firefly and a handful of the first in the timeline for Star Wars.

 

[KG Christopher]

Gota be TinTin, or ... Persepolis... or Maus....Asterix and Obolyx...Arriety...

 

[Jay Aitch]

Dark Knight Returns by Frank Miller and (drawn by) Miller and Klaus Janson.

 

[NickP]

Tintin! The Crab With The Golden Claws! Red Rackham's Treasure!

Captain Haddock, Professor Calculus, Snowy, Thomson & Thompson, Bianca Castafoire, Rastapopoulos, what a cast of characters!

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[NickP]

Ah, The Dark Knight Returns. Batman gives the boy scout Superman a kicking, Very satisfying.

 

[Emurelda]

Gota be TinTin, or ... Persepolis... or Maus....Asterix and Obolyx...Arriety...

Asterix and Obolyx!!!! nostalga right there!

 

[NickP]

Asterix is fun too. Maus a classic...not read Persopolis...there's one for my Christmas list.

 

[KG Christopher]

Asterix is fun too. Maus a classic...not read Persopolis...there's one for my Christmas list.

I forgot 'When the wind blows' a massive hit in the UK around early 80's tells the story of an old couple who are following the instructions on 'how to survive a nuclear attack', the Tory government tried to get it banned in the UK, haha.

 

[NickP]

I remember that one. Raymond Briggs (?) I think he did Fungus the bogeyman too?

 

[KG Christopher]

I remember that one. Raymond Briggs (?) I think he did Fungus the bogeyman too?

Yes, thats it, of course Fungus the bogeyman.

I suppose I find comics extremely more potent when they tell a real story?

The idea of good versus bad, superheros, is a bit shallow if I can't relate it to anything.

 

[Jay Aitch]

I forgot 'When the wind blows' a massive hit in the UK around early 80's tells the story of an old couple who are following the instructions on 'how to survive a nuclear attack', the Tory government tried to get it banned in the UK, haha.

Yes, why DID they try to ban it? Concerned we might know the truth?

 

[NickP]

Don't get me started on Thatcher, for gawd's sake.

 

[Paul Whybrow]

I got into graphic novels a few years ago, after seeing that The Road To Perdition movie was adapted from a comic book series by Max Allan Collins. This intrigued me, for as with the later Sin City films, the style of the art was carried across to the moving image.

Super heroes are fun, but I also like the representations of ordinary lives, such as the work of Will Eisner and Harvey Pekar, who collaborated with many artists including Robert Crumb.