i've been on a comic book hunt for a while, trying to find some stuff that's actually worth reading - anybody know of anything?

hey Jeremy,

there was a comic book reccomend onslaught starting on page 14 of the book talk thread. lotta good ones there for a start.


hth




Faiz

The Cerebus stuff is great, if you haven't read it already.

I'm not big on the comics these days, but I did just find a copy of 'Madwoman of the Sacred Heart', a collaboration between Moebius and Alejandro Jodorowsky. Pretty cool, if you are into that sort of thing.

some of these might be really obvious, but hey:

-Mother Come Home by Paul Hornschemeier
-Or Else 1- 4 by Kevin Huizenga
-Babel, Epileptic by David B
-Persepolis, Poulet aux Prunes by Marjane Satrapi
-King Cat 1 - 65 by John Porcellino, or A Perfect Example
-It's a Good Life if you don't Weaken by Seth, or any of his Palookaville series
-I Never Liked You by Chester Brown
-Peep Show by Joe Matt
-Anything by Chris Ware or Daniel Clowes
-If you can get hold of anything by Richard MacGuire, he's the mack daddy
-Pulpatoon Pilgrimage by Joel Priddy
-Optic Nerve 1 -12 by Adrian Tomine
-Anything by Robert Crumb

For my money the best graphic novel ever written is Ethel & Ernest by Raymond Briggs. Not strictly a "comic" but it is fucking amazing.

In the mainstream world, Joss Whedon's Astonishing X-Men is gold. GOLD.

Red Son.

Superman crashes as a baby in the Soviet Union, craziness ensues.

awesome. thanks, faiz, for the link.

as for everyone else, i'll check those out too.

jeremy

David Lapham's Stray Bullets is consistently great and the new hardbound collections are absolutely beautiful. Definitely a big influence on my writing. Lapham's stuff is often compared to Sin City, but Stray Bullets is far superior to that Frank Miller pap.

I've been enjoying Y the last man. I had forgotten how frustrating reading a monthly title is after reading the first half of the series in one chunk and am now having to wait a month to read a few pages. Its about the last man left alive on earth after a virus wipes all male animals on the planet apart from his pet monkey.

on this topic - has anyone been able to get their hands on any of the rapeman comics? i've only had the opportunity to read one once and it's near impossible to find on the internet.
anyone?