recommended reading

the grphc novel / comics edition

or things that ive read that if you dont read or havent already read i will take deep sighs and make dissappointed gestures in your general direction.

while i realize comic readers are a seemingly small minority,
and that most people are put off by the whole
overly testosterone infested comic fanboy stigma
the books presented here
are precisely that
books.
terribly subversive
often offensive
shockingly beautiful
deeply profound
infinitely surreal
books.
some of them science fiction
some of them horror
some of them plain old fiction
ALL of them brilliant literature with illustrations

kingdom come
writer: mark waid
illustrator: alex ross

30 days of night
writer: steve niles
illustrator: ben templesmith

darkdays
writer: steve niles
illustrator: ben templesmith

30 days of night: return to barrow
writer: steve niles
illustrator: ben templesmith

channelZero
writer: brian wood
illustrator: brian wood

Love fights -2 volumes
writer: andi watson
illustrator: andi watson

it’s a bird…
writer: steven t. seagle
illustrator: teddy kristiansen

transmetropolitan -11volumes
writer: warren ellis
illustrator: various

100 bullets -8 volumes
writer: brian azzarello
illustrator: eduardo risso, dave johnson

the walking dead -3 volumes
writer: robert kirkman
illustrator: tony moore

the goon -3 volumes
writer: eric powell
illustrator: eric powell

Ojo
writer: sam kieth
illustrator: sam kieth

the maxx -5 volumes
writer: sam kieth / william messner-loebs
illustrator: sam kieth

flight -2 volumes
writer: various
illustrator: various

lenore -2 volumes
writer: roman dirge
illustrator: roman dirge

by the way
this list gets updated
periodically.

• 2005-04-19

  green lantern

  mmmm tasty selections

• 2006-01-13

  a.v.h.

  These might’ve been too obvious for you:
  
  Jimmy Corrigan/Ware (didn’t like it at first, but the more I look at it the more it grows on me)
  
  Ice Haven/Clowes
  
  Adrian Tomine’s stuff tends to have universal appeal
  
  Watchmen & V for Vendetta/Moore (the movie looks like it could be good)
  
  Goodbye Chunky Rice / Thompson – this is one of my favorite works in any medium.
  
  When I first saw this stuff it hit me in the same way aphex twin did when I heard his music for the first time.

• 2006-01-13

  a.v.h.

  whoops that last sentence is broken.

• 2006-06-27

  Xaphar

  Suggestion:
  Garth Ennis’s Preacher series.