Favorite Graphic Novels

[Andanzas]

Neil Gaiman's The Sandman

Marjane Satrapi's Persepolis (awesome movie, too)

Art Spiegelman's Maus

Persepolis is the story of a girl who grows up in Iran. Maus narrates the relationship between the author and his father, a Nazi concentration camp survivor. Both stories are powerful and moving and shine at portraying their main characters.

There are a lot of things to like and dislike about The Sandman, a story that sometimes seems to become as endless as his protagonist. But nothing impressed me more than Death... What a wonderful character.

[bilalamjad3]

th dark night my favorite novel.

[anabelee]

Neil Gaiman's Sandman was my first too. For a time I left graphic novels, and then discovered Sin city. I recognize I like them very much.

[Penforhire]

What was amazing, to me, about the Sin City movie was how individual frames were so well captured from the books. The effort required to film around that goal just staggers me.

[Logseman]

Maus is simply groundbreaking. I bought it because I had the notion that antropomorphic animals and WWII could make a good mixture, but I didn't even know what it was about. When I read it I finished stunned, it's absolutely fantastic, how Spiegelman manages to squeeze out his own past, his own life and the one of his father, spoof his prior work, describe with detail but without being weary the life in the concentration camps, warm the coldest of hearts with the story of his parents' love... it's just pure bliss. It has its Pulitzer very well deserved.

Another story which is harder to find but still very interesting is the whole set of Paracuellos, by the Spanish author Carlos Giménez. It depicts the lives of different orphaned or abandoned children in a post-Spanish civil war orphanage which resembles more a concentration camp. It is heart-wrenching and crude, but it still shows that the children haven't lost hope and the will to live and have fun in spite of all the cruelty displayed to them. If you happen to find it, it's very recommendable.

[kainne]

My favorites are Sandman , Preacher, & Cerebus by Dave Sims (phone book size graphics novels, the series ran for 300 issues.)

[badgoodDeb]

Ok, now that you've convinced me I ought to look at MAUS, is it available in electronic form anywhere? (preferably legally!)

[kad032000]

Originally Posted by bbusybookworm

Warren Ellis's "Preacher" while not Pg is a lot of fun, and somthing i've enjoyed rereading quiet a few times. Rereading the whole run in TBP after one of my exams was quiet a strange experience.

Edit: As pointed out Preacher is Gareth Ennis not Warren Ellis D'oh!

"Fun" is a great way describe Preacher. Nothing brilliant (in my humble opinion) but definitely an enjoyable ride.

[kad032000]

Originally Posted by SpiderMatt

I love Sandman, but I haven't finished it yet. Same with Y the Last Man. I started reading that a few years back, got all caught up to the current issue, and then just failed to pick it up month after month. Now I think I'd have to read it all over again because I've forgotten so much of what happened. Still, Brian K. Vaughan is a great writer.

I really enjoyed Y: The Last Man, although I thought the beginning of the series was far superior to the end.

[Solitaire1]

Originally Posted by kad032000

I really enjoyed Y: The Last Man, although I thought the beginning of the series was far superior to the end.

I agree. For me, it tended to drift a bit towards the later part of the series.

[anabelee]

Originally Posted by Logseman

Another story which is harder to find but still very interesting is the whole set of Paracuellos, by the Spanish author Carlos Giménez. It depicts the lives of different orphaned or abandoned children in a post-Spanish civil war orphanage which resembles more a concentration camp. It is heart-wrenching and crude, but it still shows that the children haven't lost hope and the will to live and have fun in spite of all the cruelty displayed to them. If you happen to find it, it's very recommendable.

If you like Carlos Giménez, you have more graphic novels in www.vagos.es, the spain forum. Spanish, almost of them.

[Matches Malone]

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[Logseman]

Originally Posted by anabelee

If you like Carlos Giménez, you have more graphic novels in www.vagos.es, the spain forum. Spanish, almost of them.

Thanks for the pointing out. I used vagos for other sources, but if they carry comics, I'll give them a try ^^

Another Spanish-language recommendation I'd do is the Argentinian "El Eternauta". I don't know if it has been released in English, but it is a superb Sci-Fi tale.

[Nate the great]

Buffy season 8
Angel season 6
the 3 books between Firefly and Serenity

[nikkie]

Originally Posted by Nate the great

Buffy season 8
Angel season 6
the 3 books between Firefly and Serenity

!!!!?!!!

I had no idea. But I'm waiting to start collecting graphic novels until they are made into ebooks and sold on color ebook readers. Like a mirasol or pixel qi device. Shouldn't have to wait more than a year or two, I hope.