die
the weak and the divine
monstress

 

Harold Hedd was fun to read. Rand Holmes was quite an artist..




https://www.patrickrosenkranz.info/rand-holmes

 

The Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers...

 

Dan Dare, cause I never heard of it in America, until I listened to the Queen Bio audio book, seems the lead guitarist, a part time astronomer and luthier, enjoyed the comics, his name eludes me at the moment,,, something like Brian July or Bruce May or something. Anyhow he began a musical combo because he and another fellow both enjoyed Dan Dare in their youth.



and thats why we have Bohemian Stairway to Radishes or whatever it is they wrote.

 

I have never been into any form of comic book or graphic novel with one important exception and that was the American version of Heavy Metal magazine back in the 70s so clearly that's it for me
I have nothing but respect for the importance of both comic books and graphic novels in society, I was just never drawn to them.
Actually, as a kid I was also very into Mad magazine, does that count?

 

Adam Strange, had 2 lives, one on earth as joe scientist, and another as Hero of the Planet whenever he was hit by a Zeta Beam.

 

Then you should check out Moebius's work, he did several long form comix, both as a solo artist and in partnership with Jodorowsky (the incal and its spin offs)






https://retrofuturista.com/the-incal-review/

 

Yeah! The Moebius/Jodorowsky stuff has actually been on my radar for ages, I just keep forgetting about it!

 

If you consider manga a comic then Oyasumi Punpun (Goodnight Punpun). Just be aware, it's one of those that are best when you go in blind.



Otherwise, probably Lucifer. I don't know any other story that got so gargantuan in scale yet still managed not to become ridiculous.

 

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Don't know how many people here know about this, but... Alan Ford!

 

I loved reading these, when I was a kid/teenager.
It was so funny and had all kinds of little funny details.

Can't believe it's over 30 years ago...

 

Werner - Eiskalt! | Filmclips & Trailer

Rötger "Brösel" Feldmann was born in Travemünde in 1950. He completed his apprenticeship as a lithographer—hard to believe. Afterward, he treated himself to a six-year hiatus, unemployed and having fun. During this creative phase, he increasingly devoted himself to drawing comics. After his first publications in the satirical magazine Pardon, he quickly became a freelance illustrator and asked the employment office to refrain from his monthly handouts. At the end of the 1970s, he invented Werner! Werner volumes have been published irregularly since 1981.

A highlight was the 1984 book EISKALT! (Cold as Ice!), from which the Werner race evolved, which found its way into reality in 1988 at Hartenholm Airfield—250,000 fans celebrated a crazy party of gasoline, beer, and rubber! Nine years after the first book, Werner thunders down the country roads for the first time in the cinema: WERNER – BEINHART! was the first of five films that have now achieved record attendance. Following Bröseline Verlag's successful launch with the 13th Werner volume, WAT NU!? (2018), Brösel gets his revenge on Holgi that same year after 30 years of humiliation. At Hartenholm Airfield, he beats him once and for all in his Red Porsche Killer!

 

Big fan of anything 2000AD and most graphic novels but Slaine the Horned God, with Simon Bisley's artwork really opened my eyes to a graphic novel.

 

I was hedging including Maus until you mentioned 2000AD. When I somehow got my hands on one of them as a young teenager it helped me to begin thinking about the world critically and widened my focus beyond my outstretched hands. Until then all of my relatives on my mother's side of the family that were murdered by the Nazis in Poland and Austria were fuzzy images and disembodied voices almost too translucent to see and faint to hear. Maus helped me to reveal them. Perhaps it is the only literature to have won a Pulitzer Prize to have been banned as I'm fairly certain it is as of today in Germany.

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My Mum got me a copy of the first edition of 2000AD in 77, I remember it being light years ahead of anything else at the time, I would have been 12/13 at the time and my awareness of the world was likewise was blooming. It remained compulsive reading for me for many years.

Edit, never read Maus, perhaps should put on the list, I sold enough of them though, when I worked in a book shop 28 years ago and met Iain Banks who was also into music technology.

 

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DoroHedoro - the manga and the animation..



The graphics appear quite disturbing and depressing,but the story is actually funny and strange and intriguing
and the animation is quite clever as well.

 

Sure are some weird comics nowadays & super expensive...

My #1 fav is Silver Surfer when that very short series came out comics were still 20 cents but went up right after to 25 cents which was a big deal back then-




Second is Savage Sub-mariner-







Third is HULK!




All three are misanthropes thank god!!!

 

I'd definitely recommend checking out Saga by Brian K. Vaughan and Fiona Staples. It's got a really unique mix of storytelling and artwork, and the characters are just so well-developed.