8 Graphic Novels You Might Not Know (and Should) »
Posted by: charbarred 5 months, 2 weeks agoEveryone knows about the handful of really BIG graphic novels. However, like every other field of endeavor the crÃ;¨me de la crÃ;¨me of graphic novels are merely the uppermost visible layer of a number of equally worthy efforts.
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gamahuche5 months, 2 weeks ago
Its an excellent article, ind - and kudos to you for an excellent post!
The only one of these authors that I am familiar with is Spiegelman and his Maus books are brilliant.
The underground comix of the 60's and 70's were also highly significant artifacts - Robert Crumb remains a cult figure and has serious gallery shows..
I had a good friend who "went out with" Spain Rodriguez in SF who later moved to the South of France. A few years later RC moved there too [there was also a movie about him which finished with loading a huge truck with EVERYTHING for this move]. One day when I was visiting down there he called up and was supposed to come over but in the end was a no-show. A BIG disappointment!
Some other books which I really like are by Peter Sis - some of them were edited by Jacqui Kennedy. More in a minute!
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ind065 months, 2 weeks ago
I have a very thick "Best Of" book for the Freak Brothers. Too funny! I recall standing in the mom and pop grocery where it was on the rack with the Batman and Superman comics (!) and just giggling like a mad fiend. Even though it was a regular comic, and not a soft cover "graphic novel" (those didn't exist yet), and even though it was a whopping $2.50 (astronomical for a comic in 1981) I bought it on the spot. Weren't they from Zap Comics? I remember getting to see an issue of Zap every now and then. THERE would be an older comic worth collecting and re-releasing in a bound format!
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gamahuche5 months, 2 weeks ago
Yes, Zap sounds right! I dug all the FFB's - often you'd run into the characters on those days - sometimes using the very names. I remember a "Freewheelin' Franklin" very well - he picked me up on the Navaho reservation when I was hitch-hiking in 1973 and it was the last ride I was going to get that day. He was returning from a run to Michigan and was dog-tired but I persuaded him that if we could just make a little sunset run up Monument Valley I'd gladly take a ride with him to Tucson! 3 years later I discovered that I was living on the same beach as his brother Scott, in Oaxaca, an ethereal young hippy who always sat high on a rock tooting his flute to persuade the sun to rise.. The evenings were spent chaperoning some celestial French maidens and protecting them from the somewhat over-enthusiastic Mexican fishermen who tried plying us with a variety of concoctions to distract us from our valiant mission.
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ind065 months, 2 weeks ago
My dad's personal favorite was Prince Valiant! Mine was always Swmp thing, those original Len Wein, Bernie wrightson issues were so lurid! And Wrightson's art was the first I ever saw that really broke away from comic book "standard" and was definitely its own thing.
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gamahuche5 months, 2 weeks ago
I know we took this thread a bit more down memory lane than we "should" have done but..
Can't resist putting one more iron in the fire - in terms of the combination of prose and pics of the wild kind "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas" takes one heck of a lot of beating.
Hunter S. Thompson definitely met his match in Ralph Steadman and when the going got weird the weird definitely got going..
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LivelyAlexis1 month, 2 weeks ago
Now that's a great recommendation. Yes, some of us need those 101 type of books to get our foot in the door, so to speak. =)
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gamahuche5 months, 2 weeks ago
I remember when Penguin published "Lady Chatterley's Lover" in 1960 and it sold out a printing of 200,000 copies on the first day.
This was after quite a sensational trial - and 32 years after its first publication in Italy. It was also published in France the following year.
At my boarding school the legality meant nothing!
It was still banned and confiscated if discovered and the owner got beaten.
They didn't find mine and I believe that I still have it somewhere..
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cyberandy1 month, 1 week ago
Graphic novels are great. (btw how come you have like 5 of the same posts?) http://tonerall.com
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