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Post by thewordiebirdie on Feb 24, 2013 16:27:51 GMT -5
If you're here, we know you love Cat and MSCSI. That's just a given ;D
What I want to know is, who else do you love? If you could lend me a comic, what would it be?
I'll start us off, I would lend you Hey, Wait by Jason (he's too cool to have surname), or Dear God, Please Find Me A Husband by Simone Lia. I can describe both of them as beautifully understated and incredibly touching. The simplicity and cartoonishness of the art belies the emotional depth of the narrative in each piece. They are both cracking examples of what I love about the comic as a medium; how it looks and how it reads can be two completely different things....
So, your turn: what should we read?
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Post by Beth on Feb 24, 2013 17:03:54 GMT -5
I've gotten really into FreakAngels lately. It's kind of the story of the kids in The Midwich Cuckoos when they're older, but it's got a very post-apocalypse feel to it which is one of my fiction kinks. I also have a soft spot for Dogwitch by Dan Schaeffer. It was one of the first comics I read and I modelled my going out clothes on Violet for a while. *g* |
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Rhi
Cat People
every story tells a picture, don't it
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Post by Rhi on Feb 24, 2013 18:12:41 GMT -5
I think I've heard about Please God, I must try and track it down! Ah yes, FreakAngels! I read it through in entirety about two years ago and should really get back into it. (Along with, uh, all the other webcomics I say that about.) So I'm not here all night, I'll just heartily recommend Dicebox to all and sundry. The art is beautiful, but the story and the worldbuilding are just as stunning in their depth and complexity, if not more so. |
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Post by Beth on Feb 24, 2013 18:24:28 GMT -5
I'll check that one out, Rhi. Thanks! Talking of webcomics, I read Questionable Content on a daily basis too. |
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every story tells a picture, don't it
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Post by Rhi on Feb 24, 2013 19:25:44 GMT -5
Another one I'd meant to go back to recently--I went to Smith, so the injokes for the area are fantastic.
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Post by Seb on Feb 24, 2013 20:01:16 GMT -5
I think Bryan Lee O'Malley's Lost at Sea is definitely worth a read. It captures a good sense of teenaged angst and confusion along with some peculiarity and a focus on cats. In terms of webcomics, I was recommended www.multiplexcomic.com/ by a cinema employee while I was in a comic shop, and although I'm a bit behind with it now, there are years of great movie related material in there. |
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Post by Suze on Feb 25, 2013 11:47:20 GMT -5
Lost at Sea is one of my favourites as well. It did a great job of conveying the feeling of being kind of emotionally lost, but with a positive finish.
'Water Baby' by Ross Campbell is another good one. Like Lost at Sea its focus is inter-character relationships, though a life-changing event for the protagonist acts as the catalyst for the story.
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Twinkle Twinkle Little Bat, How I Wonder What You're At
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Post by sophie_ali on Feb 25, 2013 16:42:12 GMT -5
I'm reading 'Nights at the Circus' by Angela Carter at the moment, which is really good but kind of surreal (I think the genre is magical realism or something like that). I got into Carter during A-Level English Lit.
As for comics, Fables is my one of my favorites, though I'm really behind as comics are scare where I live!
Now I have so new stuff to check out thanks to this thread (and add it t my ever growing list of stuff to read!)
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Post by Beth on Feb 25, 2013 17:10:02 GMT -5
I love Fables. I'm so far behind though!
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Rhi
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every story tells a picture, don't it
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Post by Rhi on Feb 25, 2013 19:02:15 GMT -5
I read Angela Carter's fairy tale/folklore collections she did for Virago back in the 80s/90s recently, Sophie, and I really like her style even though she was predominantly editing.
Has anyone else here read any of Sam Kieth's non-Big Two work? Not without problematic stuff, but god, The Maxx.
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Post by thewordiebirdie on Feb 26, 2013 3:37:38 GMT -5
I have Angela Carter's fairytales sat on my desk at work - nothing better on a stressful day to read something so familiar and alien to the everyday. I love fairytales and folklore, been reading everything I can about Trickster myths at the moment, after reading Trickster Makes This World, which I would recommend to everyone who has eyes
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Post by JasonC on Feb 26, 2013 4:11:32 GMT -5
I'm currently reading Walking The Amazon by Ed Stafford. After that, my queue consists of The Wine of Angels by Phil Rickman, The Cold Commands by Richard Morgan and The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas.
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Twinkle Twinkle Little Bat, How I Wonder What You're At
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Post by sophie_ali on Feb 26, 2013 16:09:32 GMT -5
Ooh! Ive been meaning to get around to reading the Count of Monte Cristo, is it any good?
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Post by beccatoria on Feb 26, 2013 18:12:23 GMT -5
I've always meant to read The Maxx! I've only ever seen the MTV animation (which was pretty amazing, to be fair!)
I'm also reading NK Jemisin's Inheritance Trilogy, and, comics-wise, just found a stack of books I bought at the local Comics Expo last year that I forgot about and am trying to finish them before the weekend, when it's the Comics Expo again! *facepalm* Anyway, it's a translation of a French series called Les Druides, about, err, Druids! The art is completely gorgeous.
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Rhi
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Post by Rhi on Feb 26, 2013 18:29:15 GMT -5
Becca, I've been looking for the last of the Inheritance Trilogy as I've read and really liked the first two. Blasted library system. I have the first of Jemisin's new series to read at present, among other things!
With regards to The Maxx, there actually isn't much of a difference between the animation and the first three volumes of comics with regards to plot, save that there's more detail and character complexity, worth seeking out the TPBs if you get a chance! I got into it via the animation and then became a huge Kieth dork (see: Zero Girl).
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