Yuck, I don't recommend you get get the Invisibles. It starts off well and deteriorates into total pretentious shit. I'm still angry about how that turned out.
Anyway, that's about as far away from Persepolis as you can get. If you'd like to continue with the originally-printed-in-French memoir style book, David B.'s Epileptic is quite good.
I haven't been buying that many comics lately, but I'm probably going to go pick up a manga called Planetes today, which was recommended to me as being one of the best hard SF manga published recently. Sounded intriguing.
I know you've read and enjoyed Understanding Comics, which is always the first book I suggest to people who are looking to buy a comic. The second -- and similarly powerful to me, but in a very different way -- is Dylan Horrocks' Hicksville. It's a fiction, but one which seeks to map out the world of comics. Funny and moving and weird.
Other suggestions of the top of my head: Howard Cruse's fictionalized memoir of coming out amidst Civil Rights struggles, Stuck Rubber Baby; John Porcellino's wonderful and sparse memoir of depression, Husker Du, and being a Midwestern teenager in the '80s, Perfect Example, was just reprinted; Jason Lutes' Berlin: City of Stones came out a few years ago, collecting the first chunk of his ongoing series about Berlin and its fall into National Socialism.
Dunno if you've already read any of these, but they were all notable to me!
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Date: 2005-10-14 01:09 pm (UTC)Anyway, that's about as far away from Persepolis as you can get. If you'd like to continue with the originally-printed-in-French memoir style book, David B.'s Epileptic is quite good.
I haven't been buying that many comics lately, but I'm probably going to go pick up a manga called Planetes today, which was recommended to me as being one of the best hard SF manga published recently. Sounded intriguing.
I know you've read and enjoyed Understanding Comics, which is always the first book I suggest to people who are looking to buy a comic. The second -- and similarly powerful to me, but in a very different way -- is Dylan Horrocks' Hicksville. It's a fiction, but one which seeks to map out the world of comics. Funny and moving and weird.
Other suggestions of the top of my head: Howard Cruse's fictionalized memoir of coming out amidst Civil Rights struggles, Stuck Rubber Baby; John Porcellino's wonderful and sparse memoir of depression, Husker Du, and being a Midwestern teenager in the '80s, Perfect Example, was just reprinted; Jason Lutes' Berlin: City of Stones came out a few years ago, collecting the first chunk of his ongoing series about Berlin and its fall into National Socialism.
Dunno if you've already read any of these, but they were all notable to me!