local // brian wood & ryan kelly

[kellyifky]

i'd like to start reflecting on the books that i read in a blog-like fashion, and seeing as it's also the beginning of the year, it'll make for a nice collection of books-that-i-read-in-2010, as well. so, first!

Local // by Brian Wood & Ryan Kelly

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[pocketed]

It is unfortunate that the tendency to underestimate graphic novels is all too common. Therefore, good comic books that will seriously BLOW YOUR MIND:

• Safe Area Goražde - Joe Sacco (about the war/genocide in eastern Bosnia.)


• Black Hole - Charles Burns (easily my most favorite, takes place in the 1970's, revolves around a STD that mutates victims in their adolescence.)


• Superman: Red Son - Mark Millar (answers the age old question: "What if Superman was a communist?")


• Sandman - Neil Gaiman (omg I cannot even express how amazing this effing comic series it is, it breaks all the rules and is awesome in every way a comic book can be.)


• Eightball + Ghost World - Daniel Clowes (he's sassy and his stories are unique to the point of WTFery.)

[kellyifky]

oooooo thank you very much for this list! i will use it wisely :D