I am getting into graphic novels lately, discovered than more than watch a tv serie in the night I do love to read an hour and fall asleep.
I am very ignorant in the world of graphic novels and I see it is a big world, I see that is insane also the amount of releases of the same opera, different versions, formats and similar.
Until now I read:
Watchmen
Sin City
V for Vendetta
From Hell
Batman - Dark Knight
As I said this is all very mainstream stuff and I am at the very beginning, I started to get interested as I like the movies from some of them so I wondered how the comic will be, I do have a tiny (very tiny) bit of experience with mangas, zero with comics which always fascinated me very much but always got “scared” and sent away by the amount of stories and comics around and also the mix of characters and worlds I find it a bit overwhelming, graphic novel seems like a more tight way to enjoy it, it is a story that start and finish in one book.
I do like mostly those dark story, hard boiled, probably I will enjoy some dystopian syfy and similar stuff, will be curious to get taught by someone that has passion from it
Jeff Lemire’s “Essex” is a mammoth graphic novel and probably my favorite gn. No superhero-type stuff just a family story that takes place over many years and is amazing and even heartbreaking at times. Lemire’s “Underwater Welder” is also amazing and poignant.
Thanks so much for the warm welcome in this world and for the reccomendations that I am writing down.
I know many of those titles cause movies (for example Akira, Ghost in the Shell and other stuff), the walking dead interested me a lot but I see there are one million volumes in a comic shop so I was like “ok no” the collections will be amazing (sadly the serie went a bit boring after a while but I know is only the serie).
What I am looking for is literally stories that stays in a book or maximum 2 or 3 books, something that I can start and finish (this is why I never bought manga, story is basically never finished, one million editions, become so confusing, I wanted to do Evangelion for example but I had to drop the idea).
Japanese ones are ok as well, I read one called “the man without talent” which seemed amazing and trying to get it from Italy (I tried to read Watchmen in english but I do still need to read things in my native language to make it easier for my brain).
Have to say that I am getting more fascinated by the american ones, I read around that Sandman has a great story and then the other ones I read already like Sin City, loved the movie, loved even more the book!
Amazing I have a look at it on the bay as I am very curious about the graphic novel, seems so much better than the serie.
Obviously you can use this post to share each other, I am a noob so I feel kind of a bit lost and obviously following the most “famous” stuff just to find myself in this world.
I already noticed that buy those books is as much dangerous as buy new yoyos
Akira is six volumes and Nausicaa is available in a two volume set. And those are both classics that essentially validated the genre. Sure, they originally came in singe twenty or thirty page issues, but their graphic novel formats are collections.
Jeff Lemire’s “Sweet Tooth” is incredible. I have the 5-6 books collecting all the comics. Most of Jeff’s work is very quirky and touches on emotional levels. The stuff I love most by him contains no superheroes or intergalactic villains or whatever.
And since someone mentioned TMNT, if you get a chance you should check out this short series they ran back in '90 and '91. A much darker, grittier side of the turtles, and great storytelling.
