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trocheeJohanna Draper Carlson writes one of the best blogs about comics I've found. (The RSS feed [updated: RSS feed] is more current than the front page.)
Last Tuesday she critiqued the Publishers Weekly Best Comics of 2005. Thanksgiving Day she listed her picks, which sound good -- and (squee here!) I have only read Avigon, Hopeless Savages, and (of course) Finder. Some of these I'll have to pick up.
Perhaps I'll wait til after the holidays...
Last Tuesday she critiqued the Publishers Weekly Best Comics of 2005. Thanksgiving Day she listed her picks, which sound good -- and (squee here!) I have only read Avigon, Hopeless Savages, and (of course) Finder. Some of these I'll have to pick up.
Perhaps I'll wait til after the holidays...
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Date: 2005-11-30 02:05 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-11-30 02:12 am (UTC)Actually, Dave Sim kinda scares me; he seems to be a fairly serious misogynist.
His early stuff, as I understand it, is basically a Conan the Barbarian parody, but his later stuff gets better -- when it's not insane.
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Date: 2005-11-30 02:25 am (UTC)Well then....any comics you recommend for before bed reading? Maybe a little on the lighter side...?
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Date: 2005-12-01 02:46 am (UTC)I think Castle Waiting is really fun. It's a fairy tale, sort of -- a young woman escapes a frightening bad marriage, and runs to live at the Castle. It seems to surprise no one that the castle is populated by fairy-tale creatures, including a stork butler whose sense of humor runs to the very dry. (I like it much).
On the more science-fictiony end of things, there's Finder, which the author describes as "aboriginal SF", and is possibly my favorite comic put together in the last ten years. Also I have the collected versions of Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind, which is a sort of aboriginal SF as well, only Japanese.
If fantasy and SF isn't so much your thing, you might like the Hopeless Savages, a family story about punk rockers, that's sweet without being sappy. Kane is pretty spectacular police procedural, but isn't exactly "lighter", though some parts are funny.
I am not in front of my collection, so that's cheating off JDC's. Oooh -- I bet
I can loan you any of those.
On the less-light side, there's quite a bit beyond Kane mentioned above, but I might mention Love and Rockets and Strangers in Paradise as non-fantasy extended novels. Very very good, especially L&R. And of course, there are modern classics like Sandman. Tell me more about what you like, and I'll try to help you out.
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Date: 2005-11-30 07:36 am (UTC)Dave is a freak. I do not like him. At all. I wish I'd never read anything the man wrote beyond his comics.
However, I was halfway into Cerebus and stuck to the story, which was very fantasy-oriented by then and had little to do with the gender issues it explored later. I stopped reading though, and I have a stack of the singles to get through to complete the story.
The phone books are back in Columbus, but I could get my hands on them if Mr. K really wanted to read them. Lemme know.
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