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Originally Posted by Marc Johnson
I don't know if you read comics but if not you may want to give anything Vertigo a try. Then there's Bone, Strangers in Paradise, The Walking Dead.
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I read comic books, including Japanese Manga (that more than traditional comic books), but mostly I go for regular literature. Comics books and manga are more time killers for me rather than regular heavy reading.
Now one form of comic book I really do love is graphic novels. The kind I like best though are the ones that take a normal print novel and convert it into a comic book/graphic novel form. Because it allows me to see more of how someone else might perceive something I've read either the same as me, or differently. For example, when they did the graphic novels for the Left Behind series, all of the characters they drew were spot on to what I imagined them to be, save for a couple of them. The ones that were different were far enough off to kinda throw me.
The ones that were REALLY far off from how I had pictured them was when they did the graphic novels for the kids series. The four kids who were the center of the series were drawn in a way that apparently were correct in the author's eyes, but looked 180 from what I imagined them.
Now as for why that's important, I consider it to be a good study in doing characters and scene descriptions. Because if you're not getting the reader to see almost exactly the same thing you're seeing when you're writing, then you're doing something wrong. So it's a good way to improve yourself.