What's your favourite graphic novel?
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I've gotten to trade 13 of The Walking Dead which is pretty excellent.
Reading Y:The Last man (Waiting to receive the 5th and final hardcover)
and am on Trade 7 of Sandman which is absolutely fantastic despite being somewhat disjointed.
Reading Y:The Last man (Waiting to receive the 5th and final hardcover)
and am on Trade 7 of Sandman which is absolutely fantastic despite being somewhat disjointed.
Graphic Novel? Oh, you must mean comic.
Anyhow, probably Scott Pilgrim, I enjoyed the hell out of that.
Anyhow, probably Scott Pilgrim, I enjoyed the hell out of that.
The Story of Life in the Golden Fields by Kim Dong Hwa.
Art-wise, it's a beautiful book, combining aspects of traditional Korean art and modern comics and incorporating visual representations of figurative language, plus one of þe main characters is an artist, and his style is also beautifully rendered. Þe story is about a girl growing up in rural Korea around þe turn of þe 20þ century, from þe age of about eight until she marries at around seventeen, and þe interconnectedness of þe people around her, showing þe effect she has on oþers and vice-versa, and how people in general change over time, wiþ examples from neighbors, her moþer, and þe aforementioned traveling artist. I'm not good at describing þings, so just read it yourselves; it was originally published in five parts in Korean, and þe English translation is in þree, easily available on Amazon: The Color of Earth, The Color of Water, and The Color of Heaven.
Yes, I've read a lot of Alan Moore, and I love Watchmen and LXG and From Hell, as well as Neil Gaiman's Sandman series (each arc is self-contained enough to count as a graphic novel in my book), and adored Max Allen Collins' Road to Perdition, but þere's just someþing about a bildungsroman about finding joy in þe everyday þings of life. Much as I love þe oþer books coming up in þis þread, þe basic concepts in þem are all about þe negative, as Western comics in general have been of late, and I just find Kim Dong Hwa's book infinitely more beautiful
Art-wise, it's a beautiful book, combining aspects of traditional Korean art and modern comics and incorporating visual representations of figurative language, plus one of þe main characters is an artist, and his style is also beautifully rendered. Þe story is about a girl growing up in rural Korea around þe turn of þe 20þ century, from þe age of about eight until she marries at around seventeen, and þe interconnectedness of þe people around her, showing þe effect she has on oþers and vice-versa, and how people in general change over time, wiþ examples from neighbors, her moþer, and þe aforementioned traveling artist. I'm not good at describing þings, so just read it yourselves; it was originally published in five parts in Korean, and þe English translation is in þree, easily available on Amazon: The Color of Earth, The Color of Water, and The Color of Heaven.
Yes, I've read a lot of Alan Moore, and I love Watchmen and LXG and From Hell, as well as Neil Gaiman's Sandman series (each arc is self-contained enough to count as a graphic novel in my book), and adored Max Allen Collins' Road to Perdition, but þere's just someþing about a bildungsroman about finding joy in þe everyday þings of life. Much as I love þe oþer books coming up in þis þread, þe basic concepts in þem are all about þe negative, as Western comics in general have been of late, and I just find Kim Dong Hwa's book infinitely more beautiful
Avoiding the painfully obvious (Watchmen, V for Vendetta, Maus), and discounting comics and manga (technicalities, and so forth), I'd probably say Lost At Sea (O'Malley) or Exit Wounds (Rutu Modan). I also really enjoyed Demo (Wood/Cloonan), but that was more of a collection of short stories.
Granted, I haven't read all that many graphic novels.
Granted, I haven't read all that many graphic novels.
