April 21, 2005

{ Graphically Delicious }

Like a Velvet Glove Cast in Iron - Daniel Clowes
Swamp Thing Vols. 1-6 - Alan Moore and various artists
Nocturnals - Dan Brereton
The Complete Madman Comics Vols. 1-10 - Mike Allred
Doom Patrol "Crawling From the Wreckage" and "The Painting That Ate Paris" - Grant Morrison and various artists
Jimmy Corrigan: The Smartest Kid on Earth - Chris Ware
Hard Boiled - Frank Miller and Geoff Darrow
Princess Mermaid - Junko Mizuno
The Inhumans - Paul Jenkins and Jae Lee
X-Force Vol.1 & 2 and X-Statix Vols. 1-4 - Peter Milligan and Mike Allred
Kingdom Come - Mark Waid and Alex Ross
Powers Vols. 1-8 - Brian Michael Bendis and Mike Avon Oeming

I know I'm leaving off some classics- (Watchmen, Preacher, Sin City, etc.) but those titles get plenty of play as it is.

By Adam in Twelves | Comments:

Comments

Good choices!
One I have always held in high regard was the Meltdown series (Wolvie and Havok) - John J. Muth and Kent Williams. Not sure how much "play" that one gets...
Oh, also Elektra Assasin - Bill Sienkiewicz
http://www.wordsandpictures.org/elektra/elektra_gallery_1.html
Let's play "Spot the child of the 80's"!

Posted by: numlok at April 22, 2005 5:32 AM

Yeah!

Meltdown was one of the first graphic novels I ever picked up. It had a visual style that was in direct contrast to everything else out on the racks, very painterly and somewhat abstracted. I still vividly remember some of those images, and it's been almost 15 years since I've seen it.

Sienkiwicz always impressed me as well, though there's almost something too rich about his work- every panel feels like a separate piece of art and I have a hard time following the flow of things because I get stuck gaping at the work.

Posted by: Adam at April 22, 2005 5:04 PM

Speaking of Darrow, I'm also a fan of his oversized Big Guy, 2 issue series. It was pretty dang cool, though the saturday morning cartoon kinda botched it. Funny, but I just read Hard Boiled again, last week. Indeed, good stuff.

I'm also a big fan of Hellboy, but Mignola is not so obscure anymore. Wasn't that long ago, you'd say "Hellboy" and everyone would go, "Whoboy?".

Posted by: Duke at June 2, 2005 2:38 PM