Comics and graphic novels

Im currently re reading trough all Tintins by herge, good stuff.

Other comics ive enjoyed are:

Metabarons.Gimenez/Jodorowsky -Scifi/fantasy
Bokko(in french aka stratege).Sakemi/mori -Strategy/historical
Lone wolf and cub.Kojima/koike -Samurai
Blame. Tsutomu nihei -Scifi/cyberpunk
Abara. Tsutomu nihei -Scifi
Donald/scrooge comics.Carl Barks -I dunno.Disney?
Batman black & white -Superhero
Calvin and hobbes
Blacksad.Canales/Guardino


There are others but i wont bore you further with long list.
 
Seymour the spore plant said:
Lots of french stuff in there... ever read Arthur: Une Epopée Céltique? I loved the art, plus the way they just embraced the most outlandish aspects of Arthurian legend instead of going for realism like the current revisionist fad. Also, Les Compagnons du Crepuscule is pretty good, oldschool stuff.
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negative. probably those weren't mainstream enough for me to notice.

and yes, we got a lot of french comics up here. i quite like their style, so i don't mind.
 
Seeing as there is already a comics thread here I'll go ahead and add this here. Yesterday I was in Books-A-Million and read the newest issue of the Deadpool comics, and during the comic he made a slight reference to Fallout 3, mentioning Radroaches and Molerats. Deadpool ftw
 
Just been reading the new(ish) League of Extraordinary Gentlemen.
Another good 'un from Moore & O'Niell:

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Being a zombie fan, i was reading the Walking Dead.

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But... is that a graphic novel or a comic book? What is the difference?
 
A graphic novel is when you are being an artsy fartsy snob that can't be reading just comic books.
 
No, ya furry 'tard.

A graphic novel has a narrative, a beginning and an end, usually in the same book, as opposed to ongoing comics series.

By the way, bought the V for Vendetta re-issue in English the other day. With extra episodes and cover art and all. It seems my kind requests for more quality stuff and scorning laughs about the bulk of manga crap sold to weeaboo teenagers are starting to work.

Oh, and got Black Hole about a month ago.
 
Wooz said:
A graphic novel has a narrative, a beginning and an end, usually in the same book, as opposed to ongoing comics series.
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So Disney's The Story of Scrooge series is a graphic novel?
 
So V for Vendetta is a comic series but not a graphic novel or is it a graphic novel that came out in a comic? I have some of the comics it appeared in.
 
Graphic novel that came out in a comic. Warrior magazine, IIRC. So's Moebius' Incal and Bilal's Nikopol trilogy.

So Disney's The Story of Scrooge series is a graphic novel?
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Your face is a graphic novel. :D
 
Brother None said:
Wooz said:
A graphic novel has a narrative, a beginning and an end, usually in the same book, as opposed to ongoing comics series.
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So Disney's The Story of Scrooge series is a graphic novel?
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Pretty much everything from Disney is a graphic novel, by that standard, I guess.
 
Trying to define what a graphic novel is? Try to find a good definition of a novel while you are at it will you?
 
Wooz is right.

Some graphic novels get serialised before they get published as a whole, though. In fact, pre-2000, pretty much every graphic novel got serialised before going into print as a complete book. That trend has died since the growing popularity of the medium throughout the world, there are just too much of the bloody things being made to publish all of them as comics as well and still make a profit. A shame really 'cause I prefer the comics format to the book format.

Compare stuff like X-Men, Spider-Man, The Fantastic Four, ... (i.e. comics) to soap series: sure there's a story, but it goes on forever, new plots are added, new characters constantly introduced.
Compare graphic novels to movies: they are well-defined projects with a beginning and an end that fit between the cover. Of course you could have a series of graphic novels (just like you could have a series of films like the LotR trilogy), but you get my point, I'm sure.

Last ones I have "read" were Sticks and Stones by Peter Kuper and He Done Her Wrong by Milt Gross. Both are wordless grahic novels. The last one was drawn in 1930 and is like a Chaplin movie on paper, a true gem worthy of yearly reprints. Check it out if Chaplin, graphic novels and slapstick are your kind of thing.
 
One thing i dislike about american comics is the endless use of same superheroes. Oh and that they HAVE to be about superheroes. I might be exaggerating a bit, but it does seem most american comics are centered around superheroes.
Also, how the hell am i supposed to keep up with so many insane spin-offs and mini-series ? Its just insane.
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I am currently reading the lone wolf and cub, rather enjoyable thing.
 
Patton89 said:
One thing i dislike about american comics is the endless use of same superheroes. Oh and that they HAVE to be about superheroes. I might be exaggerating a bit, but it does seem most american comics are centered around superheroes.
Also, how the hell am i supposed to keep up with so many insane spin-offs and mini-series ? Its just insane.
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pretty dumb post, dude.

Jim Woodring, Chris Ware, Charles Burns, Art Spiegelman, Robert Crumb, Chester Brown, Brian K. Vaughn, Daniel Clowes, Peter Bagge, Mike Mignola, Jhonen Vasquez, Gilbert and Jaime Hernandez, Adrian Tomine, Tony Millionaire, Joe Sacco, Lynda Barry, Brian Azzarello...i mean...what the fuck? i could go on all day.
 
So Walking Dead is still a comic book because it has no defined end? Its graphic because it uses pictures instead of descriptive narrative? However, its a comic book despite not having a super hero character nor having comedy? My guess is that Walking Dead is not written for children - should that matter?

Update- I did notice that graphic novels are more expensive than comic books.
 
Lets see...

I been reading

Crossed by Garth Ennis... Pretty disturbing and dark...

Hack/Slash Omnibus 1 - Pretty entertaining

Deadpool - Always funny

The Life and Times of Martha Washington in the 21st Century - by Frank Miller.... Pretty good for a dystopian post apoc story.
 
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