So I think this topic probably belongs here - I don’t read superhero comics but I’ve gone via the childhood comics popular in my country (Donald Duck, Moomin, Tintin, Asterix, Lucky Luke…) to being a huge fan of graphic novels in my adulthood; particularly Neil Gaiman’s work, Alan Moore, Mike Carey and a random sampling of other works. So I obviously enjoyed and own The Sandman series and Lucifer series and the illustrated edition of Stardust (a copy I had signed by the man himself, no less, when we co-designed a product for Lush. Yes, really :rolleyes:).
I would like to recommend a series called Unwritten by Mike Carey and Bill Willingham. It’s a story about the nature of stories. It has a great plot, beautiful artwork and cool ideas. It’s sort of fantasy, but not high fantasy; a story about the son of a famous writer who gets tangled in a very bizarre indentity crisis mystery and has to use various techniques his dad taught him to navigate himself through stories (literally) to uncover the truth.
For fans of pure illustrative-orgy, I can’t recommend the Flight series enough; satisfyingly thick tomes of gorgeous illustrations by a variety of artists; slightly surreal storylines (some more surreal than others)… these books you’ll want to own and look through again and again if you are a fan of illustration.
Another series that particularly appeals to me is Fables - I discovered them in my local library (but typically, they don’t have more than a couple of them there so I’ve ended up buying books in the series to keep). It’s a sort of “corrupt-a-fairytale” -concept with mature themes. An absolutely brilliant series.
I hope to find new things to enjoy if people add their own recommendations here - which graphic novels have caught your attention and why?
