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Dav · Posted: Sun May 28, 2006 11:26 am Post subject:

I read some stuff about the watchmen on the internet (here is a cool interview of Alan Moore about watchmen : http://www.twomorrows.com/comicbookartist/articles/09moore.html ), seems like there's a lot of things that i missed Sad

now i want to read it again...i got to admit that i'm quite obsessed about it lately....i was quite surprise that the comic book won the "Victor Hugo price", it's the only comic book that won it, that's quite impressive, writers like K dick or Zelazny won this price too.
Did some of you read the Amber Princes saga ?
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joeletigre · Joined: 21 Dec 2005 Posts: 95

yeah comic books

i don't know anything about superhero comics so i wont suggest anything about them, there are too many japanese stuff to suggest one too, as they actually make manga about mostly every single subject (i just read one about that guy that test wine called sommelier, i found it bad anyways, although pretty absurd)

comics i can recommand,
- i think Maus from Art Spiegelman is one of the best book i've read in years
- De mal en pis ( french title), Box Office Poison (english title) by Alex Robinson, it is huge but so great
- Ghost World by Daniel Clowes (the movie is great too), also David Boring
- Understanding Comics by Scott McCloud, some kind of theory about comics and how to make comics, you really want to read this one
- Jimy Corrigan, the smartest Kid on earth by Chris Ware

french ones :
- anything by Lewis Trondheim, like Les formidables aventures de Lapinot ( aka The spiffy adventures of McConey), Lapinot et les carottes de patagonie which is a masterpiece, Mildiou, or less fictionnal stuff he made like Désoeuvré, wich is a graphic 'essai' about comics or Approximativement, wich is more autobiographic
- a lot of stuff by Joan Sfar, the classical Le chat du Rabbin, but in the same kind i found his new Klezmer a lot better, then you have Le petit monde du golem, his sketchbooks (Piano, Harmonica, Ukulele) are really awesome too, and all the Petit Vampire or Grand Vampire, more for kids but good anyways, and a lot more
- and in any way a lot of graphic novels published by L'association
- this Italian guy named Gipi makes great stuff too
- Retour au Collège and Le manuel du Puceau or No sex in New York by Riad Satouf
- Isaac le pirate (5 vol.) by Christophe Blain
- La fille du Professeur by Emmanuel Guibert & Sfar

and a lot more coming later
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Dav · Posted: Sun May 28, 2006 12:24 pm Post subject:

héhé thanks for all those tips Joele tigre !
Do you got your name from the lapinot book ?
About french comics i mostly read "fluide glacial", i'm hooked on Jean Claude Tergall.
About manga, i got your point, the last insane subject i found pretty stupid was a serie about bread, boulanger in old japan, it was pretty funny tho, i liked it.
I'm not that familiar with american comic culture, except for marvels, i used to collect "strange" and "nova" when i was a kid, i had a load of it, i wonder where they are now.....I just read the watchmen and i was really impressed, the story is very deep, the characters are great, i just want to read it again now that i know the whole story i'm pretty sure that there's a lot of things that will be clearer with a second lecture.
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joeletigre · Joined: 21 Dec 2005 Posts: 95

actually my name comes from an 80's comic book called "la jungle en folie" from a guy name godard (like the director but it's not him)
and joe is my real name anyways
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Dav · Posted: Wed May 31, 2006 6:29 pm Post subject:

I just baught V for vandetta yesterday, if it's bad i will have to ask for a refund, j/k i'm only at the 100th page and i like it a lot....
today i borowed a few comic books today, top 10 and a batman from alan moore, the first sandman volume, pussey by daniel Clowes and Clumsy from Jeffrey Brown , i rent this one cos it make me think of Jack Lewis drawings for some reason....i guess i know what i'll do the next two weeks Smile

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ema · Joined: 31 Oct 2005 Posts: 1074 Location: france

i just read pussey and clumsy...and i appreciated both of them!
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Rosie · Joined: 09 May 2006 Posts: 6

Thanks to everyone for posting the names of all these good comics- i bought six indie-comics in london the other day (that bagged every comic on the shelves, so you only had the covers to choose by), and they were all badly drawn/written/or full of people getting killed and tortured. I guess I'll save up and get one of these graphic novel thingys like Watchmen.

Dav · Posted: Sat Jun 10, 2006 12:27 pm Post subject:

I was about to buy Watchmen the other day, so i can read it again and pass it to some friends, but it's very expensive, so i got V for Vandetta instead Wink

But Watchmen is just amazing
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Will Oldham · Posted: Thu Jun 29, 2006 9:11 pm Post subject:

i bought v for vendeta the other day but i haven't started iot yet as im reading a book called yes man by danny wallace which is very good
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Will Oldham · Posted: Mon Jul 17, 2006 5:40 pm Post subject:

really enjoyed v for vendeta but its left me craving another graphic novel, any suggestions?
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Dav · Posted: Mon Jul 17, 2006 5:52 pm Post subject:

I really enjoyed "bighead" by Jeffrey Brown, try to google it to see how that looks, it's funny, don't excpect a story a la v for fandetta it's more like funny super hero story
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Will Oldham · Posted: Tue Jul 18, 2006 5:08 pm Post subject:

cool cheers dav, Ill give it a try when I see it
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kevin!gilmartin · Posted: Sat Jul 29, 2006 11:17 pm Post subject:

I bought Watchmen today. I've been recommended to read it for a couple years I think, but never got around to it.

I'm really enjoying it.

I haven't read comic books in a long time, but have actually been getting into them recently due in part to Jeff's comics and also a sudden rediscovery of my enjoyment of the Transformers comics from the 80s. I have most of the series, but they're all scattered around my house. I've got most of the collection reassembled now and I'm trying to re-read the entire series.

I'm finding that the early issues kind of sucked. But I know it picks up by the 80s. The series didn't really come into its own until after the movie came out.

Also, I read a couple comics on Fantagraphics last year while I worked at a library and they were pretty cool. http://fantagraphics.com The catalogue on that site seems expensive, but maybe I can get 'em from the library.
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Kesho · Joined: 01 Sep 2006 Posts: 1

Nekojiru was quite popular , i think,
in the early- mid 1990s (in jp).
I used to read it when I was in school.
characters look cute, but quite cruel..