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for me its all about jimmy corrigan, smartest boy in the world. its an amazingly beautiful book written by chris ware.
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sandman is the all round worst comic ever made. EVER! even worse than anything i've ever seen from Image comics
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Now that I think about it, the worst comic I've read is definitely witchblade. It was about tits.
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oh, "jimmy corrigan, the smartest kid on earth" is wonderful, i really loved that book... i bought "quimby the mouse" recently, i believe it's a compilation of chris ware's early drawings when he was a student... jimmy corrigan also shows up sometimes...
but i don't know much about graphic novels... i read "david boring" and loved it too... and i really like also marjane satrapi's books... the persepolis series was really nice... |
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These are indeed wonderful. The graphic adaptation of City Of Glass (original novel by P. Auster) is splendid as well. As is Blackhole by Charles Burns: beautiful ode to sexual exploration; and that woman with her tail, and when it snaps off… gives me the chills.
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i have that city of glass adaptation and it was pretty good but i love the book more, perhaps because i read it first that way...
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I'm not all too fond of the Persepolis visual exploration, but I came to enjoy the storyline nonetheless. I hear what you're saying about CoG; read the book first too. And nothing beats an original P. Auster situation, but I thought the adaptation was in itself very succesful. Superb visual associating one frame to another; thought it was very close to the way of Auster's writing. And I loved the Auster cameo in the adaptation, i.e.
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One time when I was at the county fair, this guy, who I assume was from some sort of cult, gave me a book done in the style of a graphic novel. Except it was all about how I was going to go to hell if I didn't join his church. I was six.
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ha ha yes i remember when he goes to paul auster the writer. it was a pretty good adaptation for sure. and you're right the pictures in persepolis get a bit tiring (though there is much to be made of that uniformity/monotony in that context)-- but the story-- i had never read much about the iranian revolution until then. so this is my only source in a way...
luxy: that's an atrocious story, but i'm glad you didn't suffer any permanent damage. |
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I remember one page showed the main character of the book burning in hell. The text said, "JOE IS IN HELL!!!" He also looked to be around six years old.
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When I worked at one of the local libraries last year, I saw few of these fundamentalist christian propaganda booklets/comics. They were blatantly judgemental and therefore hilarious, but also sickening.
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They are so interesting though, as long as you are in the right mind to not be affected by them.
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i thought persepolis was a great book, and coincidentally, when i was in the library today i got out her new book "embroideries" which i look forward to reading
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Has anyone read 'Hey Wait' by Jason? I read it out of the blue at our local libray a few years ago when I was a bum. After reading I had to sit down cos. It was as if God said "oi dickhead, what the hell are you gonna do with your life?"
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just finished reading Black Hole. What a trip!
I also like Clowes a lot. Ghost World's a classic. But the Caricature things are fun, too. |
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does anyone here know craig thompson? i thought 'blankets' was rather amazing
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today i bought '20th centuary Eightball' by Daniel Clowes and 'RoadStrips' by a ton of different artists, it looks great!
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i forgot to say, you are one of my favorite new people around here, well informed & insighful; thanks for the good reading. (& that picture in pictures of hot girls was hot too, subtle, very good). repped. Quote:
oh that's good to know; i've been looking for the 2nd volume of persepolis actually so i might score both actually... |
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