Saturday 31 December 2022

Suggestions please.

 I left a comment on a recent post regarding how I would like to get better acquainted with current comics/graphic novels but am not sure where to begin at all. Any suggestions for a good read in terms of artwork and storyline would be great. Thanks in anticipation.

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  1. "Ragnarok" by Walt Simonson might be in your wheelhouse.
    The first few volumes of "Lumberjanes" are hilarious.
    'Goddamn this War' by Jacques Tardi is abt WWI.

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    1. Will check them out Spencer, thanks!
      Alan Tradgardland

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  2. There are three that continue the storyline of Tom Clancy's 'The Division' console game: NY Survival Guide, Extreme Malis and Broken Dawn. I am not a console player but I found these novels absolutely fascinating reads.

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    1. Intriguing, l will have a look at these…
      Alan Tradgardland

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  3. My local city / town library has lots of graphic novels including a link to borrow some online during COVID / ongoing. The city/ town also has a comic shop which takes part in National Free Comic Day (September).
    A couple I can recommend - Glass Town by Isabel Greenberg (Hardback Bronte juvenilia)
    Maus book 1 and 2 about growing up with family stories of the Holocaust is quite powerful - read this about 30 years ago.

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    1. I know Maus , it is excellent. My eldest has Glass Town, somewhere, l need to check out the library an£ local comic shop indeed!
      Alan Tradgardland

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  4. It really depends on what you are interested in. If you want to browse a few different comics I would suggest a trip to Deadhead comics opposite the Pear Tree in Edinburgh. Unbelievably still ran by Gaff after all these years.

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  5. Have you considered online comics? Lots of them about. Look at https://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20021104 - if you don't like that one, scroll down and look at some of the other options! Also https://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0001.html Actually, there are too many around to list!

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  6. Online comics , that’s a plan. I used , some time ago, read/ follow an online comic set in the world of Runequest.. It was most enjoyable. I can’t seem to find it now…
    Alan Tradgardland

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  7. There is a one volume collection of Charleys war available. A beautifully written and illustrated story. Which I can never read without a feeling of anger and sadness.
    Mike in Shetland

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