Comic Recomendations

[sanakan]

my most favorite (well, perhaps second favorite, as nothing beats wattersons calvin & hobbes ) comics are by french artist marc-antoine mathieu. note that these are very different from american (DC-style) comics and mangas as mentioned above.
i like his comics for two things: the simple but yet detailed style of drawing, and the stories... it's hard to explain, but each of his book is mindboggingly astounding. with his ideas he even breaks the limitation of a "normal" comic. example?
- in one book there's a frame of the protagonist stating something along the lines of "it seems this has already happend". if you turn to the next page, you realize that this panes was acutally cut out and you've been reading it on the next page....
- he has written a whole comic with mirrored frames ("Le Début de la fin", the beginning of the end // the title on the back is "La fin du Début"..."): the whole thing is mirrored in the center of the book where the protagonist goes through a mirror. even the site-numbering is mirrored (begins as -32, goes to 0 in the middle of the book, then to +32)

on this german site you can find some sites from his book (click on the navigation at the left where it lists his titels "der ursprung" to "tote erinnerung").



my other favorite artists include the drawings of moebius and stories of jodorowsky who also write things to warp your brain

[Malt Refund]

Wow thats awesome, I thought I was the only Jodorowsky fan in the whole world. Metabarons for the WIN! I wish he'd write more.

My favorites right now are: Concrete, 100 Bullets, Hellboy, The Walking Dead and Invincible. Anything Chris Ware also wins. I run the tiniest Chris Ware community on LJ.

[Kennrr]

Battle Royale manga is great. i've read the book, seen the movie and I think the manga is the best. gorey and get all the cool side stories from each character.

[gambit]

Maus by Art Spiegelman. This won the Pulitzer back in 92, and it completely deserves it. It follows Art as he chronicles his father's time in Auschwitz during WWII by depicting Jews as mice and Nazis as cats (and other nationalities as other animals). It's funny, depressing, heart-wrenching, and just a phenomenal piece of art.

Channel Zero by Brian Wood. The religious right has taken over the American government, and has more or less outlawed free speech. Anyone trying to express an opposing viewpoint to the government risks death, but most Americans don't care. In comes Jennie 2.5, a performance artist turned freedom fighter, and she starts a revolution by hacking the airwaves. Originally written and drawn back in 97, I think, it's a pretty damn scary read now, but highly recommended.

Superman: Red Son by Mark Millar (and the artist I can't remember). Y'know how Kal-El landed in the heart of Kansas and was raised on American values? Well, scratch that; Kal-El landed in the Ukraine and was raised on Soviet values, becoming the heir to Stalin. Think about Superman's powers of sight and hearing, and he becomes the scariest Big Brother ever imagined. Just a great twist on a story we all know by heart.

[sanblaster]

Venom vs Carnage


Iron Man: House of M


the new Transformers comics, I think they win with the amerimanga fever.


Marvel Zombies (if only for the laughs)


Batman: Jekyll & Hyde



The Metal Gear comics are pretty cool too, but they are a transcription of the videogames, hence no interesting plot to discover if you already played them..

[Kennrr]

Originally Posted by gambit

Superman: Red Son by Mark Millar (and the artist I can't remember). Y'know how Kal-El landed in the heart of Kansas and was raised on American values? Well, scratch that; Kal-El landed in the Ukraine and was raised on Soviet values, becoming the heir to Stalin. Think about Superman's powers of sight and hearing, and he becomes the scariest Big Brother ever imagined. Just a great twist on a story we all know by heart.

holy fuck does that sound intersting. i think i'm going to drop by the comic store tomorrow for this.

another recommendation would be WE3. Homeward Bound + Robocop

[Malt Refund]

I hated Red Sun.. it could have been so much better then it was.

[gambit]

Bah, it was brilliant.

[adam]

Oooooh yeah! I'd second The Maxx! That comic is aces.