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Good English Comic Books/Graphic Novels? | ||
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| vonPeterhof Tetraglot Senior Member Russian FederationRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 4771 days ago 715 posts - 1527 votes  Speaks: Russian*, EnglishC2, Japanese, German Studies: Kazakh, Korean, Norwegian, Turkish | Message 9 of 17 06 July 2013 at 9:43am | IP Logged |
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If you'd like to get into the Superhero comics of Marvel, DC and the like, this guy has put together a list of recommendations on where to start from.
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| daegga Tetraglot Senior Member Austria lang-8.com/553301 Joined 4520 days ago 1076 posts - 1792 votes Speaks: German*, EnglishC2, Swedish, Norwegian Studies: Danish, French, Finnish, Icelandic | Message 10 of 17 06 July 2013 at 6:10pm | IP Logged |
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A Game of Thrones looks interesting (the real book was amazing)
edit: "comics" should be "(comics)", the forum changes it automatically in the link above http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Game_of_Thrones_(comics) Edited by daegga on 06 July 2013 at 6:11pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Serpent Octoglot Senior Member Russian Federation serpent-849.livejour Joined 6596 days ago 9753 posts - 15779 votes 4 sounds Speaks: Russian*, English, FinnishC1, Latin, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese Studies: Danish, Romanian, Polish, Belarusian, Ukrainian, Croatian, Slovenian, Catalan, Czech, Galician, Dutch, Swedish | Message 11 of 17 06 July 2013 at 8:28pm | IP Logged |
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let's see if the link works like this...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Game_of_Thrones_(comics) Edited by Serpent on 06 July 2013 at 8:49pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Melya68 Diglot Senior Member France Joined 4290 days ago 109 posts - 126 votes Speaks: French*, English | Message 12 of 17 07 July 2013 at 1:28pm | IP Logged |
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Again, thank you very much for the suggestions. I'll probably start reading Peanuts first, because it looks funny and cute.
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| vermillon Triglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 4677 days ago 602 posts - 1042 votes Speaks: French*, EnglishC2, Mandarin Studies: Japanese, German | Message 13 of 17 07 July 2013 at 6:37pm | IP Logged |
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I'd say:
-Blankets (Craig Thomson) -Habibi (Craig Thomson) -Persepolis (Marjane Satrapi. Availabe in English). And then watch the movie. -Guy Delisle's "Pyongyang", "Shenzhen", and possibly (if you like his style) his ones about Burma and Jerusalem (but it gets a bit repetitive). 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| yele Newbie United States Joined 4169 days ago 24 posts - 27 votes Studies: Mandarin | Message 14 of 17 08 July 2013 at 3:11am | IP Logged |
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I vote Chew! It's a fun comic with great characters and art. I especially love the detail put in the background. Edited by yele on 08 July 2013 at 3:12am 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| ScottScheule Diglot Senior Member United States scheule.blogspot.com Joined 5227 days ago 645 posts - 1176 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish Studies: Latin, Hungarian, Biblical Hebrew, Old English, Russian, Swedish, German, Italian, French | Message 15 of 17 08 July 2013 at 8:55pm | IP Logged |
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Without a doubt, the greatest graphic novel writer in English is Alan Moore. His works are mature, and probably more difficult as the writing goes (but of course a difficult graphic novel still isn't terribly difficult). "From Hell" has already been mentioned--that's probably his finest work.
Other great works of his are Watchmen The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen (Vols. 1 & 2) Miracleman Swamp Thing The Killing Joke V for Vendetta The Preacher series by Garth Ennis is also a lot of fun. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| VanamoVenlo Diglot Groupie Australia Joined 4341 days ago 42 posts - 58 votes Speaks: English*, Japanese Studies: Finnish | Message 16 of 17 09 July 2013 at 6:51am | IP Logged |
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Sandman as well as Coraline by Neil Gaiman are classics with complex themes. Just make sure you end up with the graphic novel version and not the novella if that's what you're after.
The Diary of a Wimpy Kid series is definitely worth looking at, particularly if you're after something light, easy and silly/hilarious with an abundance of colloquial speech-style language. There's also a variety of US TV shows, films, cartoons/animations, and books that have their own comics including Twilight, My Little Pony, Buffy and CSI. 1 person has voted this message useful |
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