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Sin City
There was an older (probably self-published) comic called Sin City , from 1986 or '87. Dystopian premise, much simpler drawing style. I saw a review of it in a fanzine and that’s the extent of my knowledge about it – I wish I’d bought it then, but (IIRC) it was published in the UK and I couldn’t figure out (then) how I’d ever get the money over there and a copy in return.
I remember that same fanzine (if not in the same issue) had a review of The Tick , a then-new comic book.
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I don’t think this artist was cited ( but I have not read the whole thread):
Carlos Giménez (born 16 March 1941) is a Spanish comics artist.
Giménez was born in Madrid. His father, a welder, died shortly after his birth, and subsequently Giménez lived for years in an orphanage.
Aged 17, he showed his drawings to Manuel López Blanco, who hired him as assistant for his works for Ibergraf agency. After 1962, he shared a studio with Esteban Maroto and Adolfo Usero, executing war stories for Editorial Maga and the series Buck Jones. After a period working for the Seleccione...
Atomic Robo is the perpetually forgotten and underrated comic by the same writer that gave us the webcomic 8-bit theater. I will forever unhesitatingly recommend it.
I suggest Private Eye because it was kind of a prescient look at what happened if everyone’s data everywhere was leaked by writer Brian K Vaughan. It’s also a cool pay-what-you-want digital publishing model at Panel Syndicate and I love people trying new things.
I love Isola because I love everything Karl Kerschl draws and it has a very Mononoke vibe to it.
Rat Queens is a sort of punk-rock cynical take on D&D with a heart of gold.
Courtney Crumrin is an awesome series by Ted Naifeh that takes a character like Wednesday Adams and puts her in middle school, gives her powers, and makes her face the consequences of her sometimes vindictive actions. Things don’t always get wrapped up in a neat bow and it’s what I love most about the series.
Gunnerkrigg Court is what happens if you mix cyberpunk and harry potter, with a dash of primitive mythology.
Atomic Robo is an American comic book series created by 8-Bit Theater writer Brian Clevinger and artist Scott Wegener, depicting the adventures of the eponymous character, a self-aware robot built by a fictional version of Nikola Tesla. The series is split into several mini-series, each depicting a different era and adventure in Atomic Robo's long life-span.
The series began as a six-issue limited series published by Red 5 Comics starting in October 2007. It was nominated in the "Best Limited Se...
The Private Eye is a science fiction mystery digital comic written by Brian K. Vaughan, drawn by Marcos Martín and colored by Muntsa Vicente. The first issue was published by Panel Syndicate in March 2013. In 2015, the series won an Eisner Award for Best Digital/Webcomic and the Harvey Award for Best Online Comics Work.
The series is set in 2076, a time after "the cloud has burst", revealing everyone's secrets. As a result, there is no more Internet, and people are excessively guarded about thei...
Isola is an American ongoing comic series created by writer Brenden Fletcher and writer/artist Karl Kerschl, published by Image Comics.
Isola was first announced at the 2016 Image Expo. Writer Brendan Fletcher explained he and writer/artist Karl Kerschl had been working towards the comic since elementary school. The story follows two women, Queen Olwyn, and Rook, her captain of the guard, on a journey to the island of Isola in hopes of reversing a curse that transformed the queen into a tiger. K...
Rat Queens is an American comic fantasy comic book series written by Kurtis J. Wiebe and published by Image Comics since September 2013. The artwork has been drawn by Roc Upchurch, Stjepan Šejić and Tess Fowler. The series was put on hiatus in April 2016 and returned in March 2017 with the new artist Owen Gieni.
Recounting the exploits of a party of four rowdy, foul-mouthed adventurers, the series has received critical praise, was nominated for the 2014 Eisner Award for Best New Series and won t...
Courtney Crumrin is an independent comic book series written and illustrated by Ted Naifeh and released through Oni Press.
The series is not ongoing and consisted of 12 comics compiled into three books entitled Courtney Crumrin and the Night Things, Courtney Crumrin and the Coven of Mystics, and Courtney Crumrin in the Twilight Kingdom. Two shorter books entitled Courtney Crumrin and the Fire-Thief's Tale and Courtney Crumrin & the Prince of Nowhere followed, then compiled into a fourth volume ...
Gunnerkrigg Court is a science-fantasy webcomic created by Tom Siddell and launched in April 2005. It is updated online three days a week, and the first volume of the comic was published in print format by Archaia Studios Press and Titan Books (in the United Kingdom and Ireland). The comic has been critically acclaimed and has won numerous Web Cartoonists' Choice Awards, as well as receiving positive reviews for its artwork and storytelling.
The comic tells the story of Antimony Carver, a you...
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ChuckV
July 22, 2018, 7:07am
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Alas, the second one’s a hoax.
What about that time they were In the Navy?
Or Joker’s obsession with boners?
Edit: Joker was queer before Deadpool was just a gleam in Spidey’s eyes.
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ChuckV
July 22, 2018, 10:37am
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Yeah, only the Marvel example is fake.
DC, hmmmmmmmm…
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bergen
July 23, 2018, 10:03am
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Lots of good suggestiona here, here are my additions:
Lucifer Samael Morningstar is a fictional character appearing primarily as a supporting character in the comic book series The Sandman and as the title character of a spin-off, both published under the Vertigo imprint of DC Comics.
Though various depictions of Lucifer—the Biblical fallen angel and Devil of Christianity—have been presented by DC Comics in their run, this interpretation by Neil Gaiman debuted in The Sandman in 1989.
Later, the character acquired an ongoing Lucifer spin-off series...
Sweet Tooth is an American comic book limited series written and drawn by Canadian Jeff Lemire and published by DC Comics' Vertigo imprint. Dubbed by some as "Mad Max meets Bambi", it takes place in a mostly rural post-apocalyptic setting where some creatures are human/animal hybrids.
Gus, a young boy with deer features, lives a quiet life deep in the woods with his father. He learns many things, from medical care to religious prophecy. Though he loves his religious father, he yearns to escape a...
Akira (Japanese: アキラ Hepburn: Akira), often stylized as AKIRA, is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Katsuhiro Otomo. Initially serialized in the pages of Young Magazine from 1982 until 1990, the work was collected into six volumes by its publisher Kodansha. The work was published in the United States by Marvel Comics under their Epic Comics imprint, becoming one of the first manga works to be translated in its entirety into English. Otomo's art is considered outstanding, an Set i...
The Sandman is a comic book series written by Neil Gaiman and published by DC Comics. Its artists include Sam Kieth, Mike Dringenberg, Jill Thompson, Shawn McManus, Marc Hempel, and Michael Zulli, with lettering by Todd Klein and covers by Dave McKean. Beginning with issue No. 47, it was placed under the Vertigo imprint. It tells the story of Dream of the Endless, who rules over the world of dreams. The original series ran for 75 issues from January 1989 to March 1996.
The main character of T...
Mouse Guard is an American bi-monthly comic book series written and illustrated by David Petersen and published by Archaia Studios Press. Differently from American standard comics size (6½" × 10"), it is published in a square (8" × 8") format.
Series one and two of the series have been collected in a single volume each, titled, respectively Mouse Guard: Fall 1152 (ISBN 1-932386-57-2), and Mouse Guard: Winter 1152 (ISBN 1-932386-74-2). In June 2013, Mouse Guard: The Black Axe (ISBN 1-936393-06-9)...
Sorry if some of these are already mentioned, only had time to scim over earlier posts.
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Oh, Mafalda is great! I was intendig to post a link for this comic book and Quino here. Thanks for sharing!
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Space Brothers (Japanese: 宇宙兄弟, Hepburn: Uchū Kyōdai) is a Japanese manga series by Chūya Koyama which has been serialized in Kodansha's Weekly Morning since December 2007. It has been nominated twice for the Manga Taishō, in 2009 and 2010. An anime adaptation by A-1 Pictures aired in Japan from April 1, 2012 to March 22, 2014. It was adapted into a live action film that premièred on May 5, 2012. An anime film premièred on August 9, 2014, titled Space Brothers #0 (Uchū Kyōdai #0 in J In the summ...
Yokohama Kaidashi Kikō (Japanese: ヨコハマ買い出し紀行) is a science fiction manga written and illustrated by Hitoshi Ashinano. The title can be translated Yokohama Shopping Log or Record of a Yokohama Shopping Trip. One tankōbon volume, the publisher's former English language website, and the second original video animation (OVA) series have the subtitle Quiet Country Cafe in English. The series is often referred to in wāpuro rōmaji as Yokohama Kaidashi Kikou, or simply abbreviated as YKK by fans The ma...
YKK is too good to be translated.
Bit of nationalism:
http://finnishcomics.info/artists/
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My last contribution to this post. These are the comics from my own library:
Doing Time - Kazuichi Hanawa, a japanese cartoonist and gun enthusiast, was sent to prison for possession of ammunition and unauthorized weapons. In this story, he shows the day after day behind the bars. Compared with the situation in other countries, it was not so bad, except for the boredom and lost of identity. The story is interesting and ended up turning movie in 2010 with actors of flesh and blood.
https://www.graphicnovelreporter.com/reviews/doing-time
Directed by Yôichi Sai. With Tsutomu Yamazaki, Teruyuki Kagawa, Tomorô Taguchi, Yutaka Matsushige. A man serving a sentence in a minimum-security prison. Life in the jail is rigid and organized, eventually leading all of the cell-mates to abandon...
Chinese Born American - Fantasy and reality crashes when a Chinese American boy struggles to find his own personality
Jerusalem - Guy Delisle, a canadian cartoonist married to a Medecins sans Frontiers worker, is always travelling, following and supportings his wife. this time he made a comic book about his stay in Jerusalem.
Jerusalem: Chronicles from the Holy City, originally published in French as Chroniques de Jérusalem, is a 2011 graphic novel written and illustrated by Guy Delisle. Jerusalem is a travelogue and memoir in which Delisle recounts his trip to Jerusalem, parts of Palestine and the West Bank, as well as within Israel, with his two young children and his long-term partner, Nadège, who went there to do administrative work for Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF).
The book recounts Delisle's year-long trip to...
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Unfortunately these comics are all in Portuguese, but they are quite interesting, the problem is the language barrier.
Laerte Coutinho (born 10 June 1951), known mainly as simply Laerte, is a Brazilian cartoonist and screenwriter, known for creating comic strips such as Piratas do Tietê (Pirates of the Tietê River).
She was part of the Brazilian underground comics scene of the 1980s. Together with Angeli and Glauco (and later Adão Iturrusgarai) she drew the collaborative comic strip Los Três Amigos [pt]. She has done work for publications such as Balão, O Pasquim, and Chiclete com Banana magazines, and draws ...
Lourenço Mutarelli (born April 18, 1964) is a Brazilian comic book artist, writer and actor who became well regarded in the Brazilian underground comics scene in the late 1980s and 1990s.
In addition to comic books, Mutarelli has also created plays, books, and all the illustration and animated sequences of the 2004 motion picture Nina, which was based on the novel Crime and Punishment by Dostoyevsky.
Drained, released in 2006, is a movie adaptation of Mutarelli's first literary work, O Cheiro d...
Arnaldo Angeli Filho, more commonly known as Angeli, born August 31, 1956 in São Paulo, Brazil, is one of the most well-known Brazilian cartoonists.
Angeli already had strips published in Germany, France, Italy, Spain, Argentina, and Portugal, where a compilation of its work was launched by Devir publishing company in 2000. An animated feature film based on his work, Wood & Stock: Sexo, Orégano e Rock'n'Roll, directed by Otto Guerra, was released in 2006.
He started at the age of 14 at magazine...
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