Since nobody has mentioned them yet, and they need to be mentioned:
PS: Oh, and everything by Brubaker and Phillips
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Akame Ga Kill Zero manga is super awesome! I wish that they would make an anime series on it like they did for Akame Ga Kill.
Weirdly it seems like the swedish comic book artist Joakim Pirinen hardly been translated. Can just find one book in english anyway. He is a total genius.
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Comics being so different in Asia, Europe, Usa…
It is hard for some authors and publishers to internationalize.
It’s really sad.
Look at the history of Mafalda’s migration and its very small penetration in certain markets, even if here it is surely ideological barriers that have given this situation.
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And Akira!?! Great taste.
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Thanks!
Akira is one of the most important things I’ve ever read.
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Same here. It changed the course of my life seeing the anime on bootleg. Then reading the manga during a dark time in my life helped me immensely.
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Y’all I cleaned up at Christmas!
And for my birthday last month my wife got me something pretty special:
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Yes. But since Fantagraphics picked up a bunch of swedish cartoonists and some of them sold pretty well in the Us like Romanova I think it would come natural with a Pirinen retrospective soon. I just think Pirinen is next level of everything. The rawest psychedelic experience in comics I know. Maybe Fantagraphics asked him but hes not interested. Maybe I dont understand that it wont translate that good also. Might be too swedish.
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I’m really into music related graphic novels/comics.
The one I’m reading now:
And then also the two Drexciya books:
Up next:
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Stray Toasters still gets me going. I love Bill Sienkiewicz’s work.
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I just read I’m Still Alive and it was excellent.
I was about 10 years old when my dad, a classic Mac “desktop publishing” enthusiast, bought this. Upon seeing the violence on the first or second page, he promptly stowed it away, but I found it shortly afterward and proceeded to collect the rest of the series, as well as some of the Mac games the artist Mike Saenz worked on, such as Lunar Rescue and Spaceship Warlock. I wonder what he’s been up to since?
New Bill Watterson alert! He co-created a short graphic novel that was just announced and will be out October this year
In a fable for grown-ups by cartoonist Bill Watterson, a long-ago kingdom is afflicted with unexplainable calamities. Hoping to end the torment, the king dispatches his knights to discover the source of the mysterious events. Years later, a single battered knight returns.
For the book’s illustrations, Watterson and caricaturist John Kascht worked together for several years in unusually close collaboration. Both artists abandoned their past ways of working, inventing images together that neither could anticipate—a mysterious process in its own right.
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the ford mustang car chase scene in OVA 3 is an incredibly well directed sequence.
I’ve been wanting to see bean bandit but it was only available to the kickstarter donators I guess.
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I haven’t read My Heroes Have Always Been Junkies yet, but I absolutely adore Brubaker and Phillips as a team!
Berserk is super awesome! My Elden Ring battle mage character looks like Griffith from the series.