Favorite Comic

[JJ86]

Heavy Metal magazine has always been a favorite although it hasn't been the greatest the last few years. So I like the work of Moebius, the Ranxerox series.

 

[KillaKilla]

The boondocks, FoxTrot, Doonsbury, dilbert

 

[The Deliverator]

Moebius is awesome, I forgot.

 

[Briosafreak]

Heavy Metal magazine has always been a favorite although it hasn't been the greatest the last few years. So I like the work of Moebius, the Ranxerox series.

We`re not talking of Bande dessiné but just comic strips right? If so i`ll have to say Calvin&Hobbes too, with all i`ve buyed, together with what my wife and kid bought i think i have everything from the kid and the tiger, love them.

Now for Heavy Metal/Métal Hurlant , Moebius and so forth i`ll get back later, you still have an impecable taste JJ, good to see that

 

[alec]

We`re not talking of Bande dessiné but just comic strips right?

If you look at the history of sequential art, you'll soon learn that "comics" are a typical American medium. Comics are originally low budget productions, printed on cheap paper, often in black and white or - if colours are used - with flat colours. The first real comics were about superheroes and stuff like that. They're an all American product (they fit nicely in the American way of thinking).
The 'bande dessiné' you are talking about is basically European. The quality of the product itself is usually much better (I'm not talking about the content), the size differs and so does the printing technique. The content of the stories told differs too: no superheroes in Europe, but rather rogues and rascals. (There are exceptions, of course, like 'Little Orphan Annie' by Harold Gray, but these comic strips were printed in newspapers). Anyway, even Canada has its own traditions (which, imho, are superior to the American traditions).
Today these differences and traditions have almost completely disappeared: there are now Dutch and French and German and... comics (lowbudget, superheroes, blahblahblah), and American comics which look far more European (story/plot: Clowes, Ware, ...).
So: it's kind of stupid to make a distinction between the two anno 2003 (I mean, what about manga then?). That's why Eisner prefers the term 'sequential art': an art and literary form that deals with the arrangement of pictures or images and words to narrate a story or dramatize an idea. It's a discipline alongside film making - to which it is truly a forerunner.

That's why I included Hergé in my list.

 

[Ugly John]

Dilbert

But if you go in bande desinné Hergé's Tintin is good but not as good as Astérix.

i don't read webcomics.

 

[TheWesDude]

in print it was Lucifer, online it was "the adventures of bone dewd and plate dewd"

 

[donperkan]

I used to read a lot of comics when i was yunger alan ford was on the top of my favourites list. now i follow only naruto

Mybe you guys can help me i forgot the name of one comic i was reading a long time ago. It was a sci fi comic the protagonist was a male detectiv or a cop. i think there ware mechs or robots involved.

 

[Gonzalez]

Gravedigging some? My god, guys, the last post on this thread happened before I joined.