Transmetropolitan

 

thanks i know ghostworld... d&q has lots of titles which of them in your opinion are worth of reading?

 

Anders Nilsen is my favourite author on Drawn and quarterly, he's got a series called Big Questions, very cool stuff. I'd suggest checking out the collected volumes, that compilie a bunch of great stuff. check out Sandman, by Neil Gaiman, it was a montly dc/vertigo title in the late 80's and early 90's. although it was a dc title, don't think super heroes. It's the only comic to date to ever win the World Fantasy award for one of it's issues. and it was even studied in my cartoons and comics class at university alongside other great books like Maus.

 

I don't think he has anything against them, he just said not to recommend them. I think he is either looking for original graphic novels (anything not collected/compile before being published I think?) or stuff with a more mature edge (hence no stereotypical superheroes or stereotypical manga.)

[If the latter is the case: Manga is debatable though since some of the more serious stuff with great storytelling I've seen come from manga (Urasawa Naoki's Monster and 20th Century Boys, Shamo, Homonculus among other things.)
Same with superhero stuff (mmm I need me some Absolute Watchmen) which is also debatable.]

 

I'd have to agree with the original topic, a lot of manga is "trashy". Let me be a little more clear here. By trashy I just mean of no serious recognisable literary value (comparable to pulp/pop fiction). That said, and in spite of the fact that I recognise it to be trashy, I love manga!! Just something about the various art styles and themes/plots that you won't find in western comics...

I will not suggest any of the "stereotypical manga" I refer to above, but as absolutely outstanding works of art/storytelling in their own right (that are also classed as "manga", though more correctly "gegika"):

Oldboy
Buddha (Osamu Tezuka)
Ode to Kirihito (Osamu Tezuka)
The Push Man and Other Stories
Eden (Hiroki Endo)

And in the non-mangaesque category I would suggest:

V for Vendetta
Sin City
Why Are You Doing This? (or anything by this same author, forget his name sorry)
Jimmy Corrigan: The Smartest Kid on Earth
Bone (more for kids but still enjoyable)

I'll add more when I get home and can double check my book shelf!

 

well its not racism but i found it extremely childlish. i like "serious" mangas like adolf by osamu tezuka, barefoot gen etc.. gekiga actually...

 

Transmetropolitan is outstanding, definitely recommended.
I read a graphic novel called Epilepsy a while ago, but can't remember the author's name - it's pretty much an autobiography about him growing up with an epileptic brother, emotional stuff.

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Not exactly. There are some titles like Cromartie High School, Genshiken and Jojo's Bizarre Adventure that are being translated and published where kids won't like them.

 

You just mentioned my favorite! THIS was my Christmas present to myself