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imaginaryboy

15:20 / 21.06.01

what comics would you recommend to somebody who was interested in non-superhero comics & was a fan of borges, james joyce, william s. burroughs, umberto eco, & jeanette winterson? i'm thinking, in particular, of non-american comics.

sleazenation

15:40 / 21.06.01

L'origin by Marc antoine mathieu
A very fine metafictive comic with a very literal hole in it.

Lee

15:59 / 21.06.01

Mazzuchelli's adaptation of Paul Auster's City of Glass. Sorry it's American, but they're not all bad.

I think From Hell could fit the bill.

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Time, Please!
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16:11 / 21.06.01

From Hell would be my first choice as well. Alan Moore and Eddie Campbell turning the story of Jack the Ripper into a study of violence, magic, the 19th and 20th centuries, patriachal oppression and lots of other things. I'm not a big fan of the idea that comics should be striving to be literature, but I think From Hell is definitely literature, by any definition.

Quickbeam

04:13 / 22.06.01

Lone Wolf and Cub by Koike and Kojima.
Heavy Liquid by Paul Pope.

Read them. They are masterful.

the Fool

08:16 / 22.06.01

Metabarons or the Incal from Humanoid publishing. French science-fiction at its most extreme... epic in all sense of the word. Action, drama, tragedy, comedy and that's all in the first three pages.

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Lee

12:11 / 26.06.01

Hitting myself around the head for not mentioning Love and Rockets. My personal choices would be Death of Speedy, Blood of Palomar and Poison River

Mercury

22:19 / 26.06.01

Still think Berlin by Jasson Lutes is fantastic

Sam Lowry

02:21 / 27.06.01

A must read: Jimmy Corrigan, the Smartest Kid on Earth by Chris Ware (Pantheon books) It's a work that really pushes the boundaries of the medium... It's about a defining moment in the relationship of an alienated guy and his long stranged father, among other things (it's got Superman in it -well, sort of

- but it has really nothing to do whatsoever with superheroes...)

And the book design is just fucking gorgeous...

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klint

23:52 / 30.06.01

In addition to Acme Novelty Library I'd say to look into Eightball.

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