heres my list - top 2 were obvious to me - lots of depth, great characters, humour, and interesting reflections on life

1. Hicksville - Dylan Horrocks
2. Wimbledon Green - Seth
3. American Elf - James Kochalka
4. Fair Weather - Joe Matt
5. Persepolis - Marjane Satrapi
6. Diary of a mosquito abatement man - John Porcellino
7. Banana Sunday - Nibot/Coover
8. Fox Bunny Funny - Andy Hartzell
9. The ride home - Joey Weiser
10. Jimmy Corrigan - Chris Ware


Some of those like Fox Bunny Funny - the art is impressive. Others like Persepolis and Mosquito abatement man - just tell a story with lots of feeling. Anyway, i love all of the above, and wonder if you guys are familiar with any of them.

No Maus?

I give you credit. I haven't heard of some of these and am definitely interested in peeping them.

Maus is one of the supposed classics that i still havent read, so i cant rate it yet

i don't think i could pick 10, probably couldn't even pick 3.

i'll throw in brian k. vaughn's pride of baghdad tho.

Do it. It's some of the best printed material of all time, transcending all genres.

heres mine

1. Watchmen
2. Like a Velvet Glove Cast in Iron
3. Ghostworld
4. Sin City- The Long Goodbye
5. David Boring

Thats all that I can think of right now

Certainly would make my top 10. I think my number 1 would be Epilepsy by David B.

yes i have David B.'s Epilepsy as well - the art is fantastic, but the story hasnt interested me much.

1. The Great Outdoor Fight

Not a one.

Mine look something like this today:

Neil Gaiman, Sandman: Season of Mists -- first graphic novel I read since adolescence, got me back into it. Honorable mention goes to Death: Time of Your Life
Frank Miller, A Dame to Kill For -- if only because it makes for a nice complement to the movie, and was the most interesting to me, having come to Miller from the movie.
Dave McKean, Cages -- epic, just epic.
Steve Niles & Ben Templesmith, 30 Days of Night -- the artwork was so eye-openingly different -- childlike-ly crude and perfectly formed at the same time, like that twilight between the drunk and the hangover when you feel both -- that I almost missed the story. And the story is a classic -- one for the ages. Nothing new, but told afresh in a cold environment.
Masamune Shirow, Ghost in the Shell -- so much more than the movie, down to the Sergio Aragones-like small drawings, relegated to lesser importance, and thereby adding to the story rather than subtracting to it. Yes, this is where I get my tiny text, it's a manga thing.
Katsuhiro Otomo, Akira -- this one is a little more faithful to the movie, but it's so much more fleshed out than most manga, that it deserves a mention in any best-of list.
Koushun Takami and Masayuki Taguchi, Battle Royale -- devastating satire of high-school life and its inherent flaws meets Running Man. Probably my single-favorite manga mini-series. And unlike other manga series, it's a complete story arc, so you don't feel like it's open-ended once you finish. I'm going to eventually have to get the ultimate editions of this.
Grant Morrison and Frank Quitely, WE3 -- Incredible Journey meets mecha-animals and lots of bloodshed. Tearjerkingly beautiful story.

I'll have to go home and look at my shelf to see if there are any more that I'm leaving out -- I'm sure there are.

this is a great thread


I'll add that "Black Hole" book/graphic novel that came out a few years ago

I just bought this on the way home tonight. Expecting good things...

I saw its in Softback now, which brought it down a little in price. Next time I get a Borders coupon I might finally pull the trigger on this. Also, isn't David Fincher making this into a film?

*edit*

My idea of the ten best and my personal favorite ten would be entirely different. I didn't care too much for Maus, Jimmy Corrigan, or Watchmen but they definitely belong on a best-of list.


My favorite ten would be something like:

1. Human Diastrophism by Gilbert Hernandez
2. Blankets by Craig Thompson
3. Paul Gets A Summer Job by Michel Rabagliati
4. Bone: One Volume Edition by Jeff Smith
5. A Contract With God by Will Eisner
6. It's A Good Life, If You Don't Weaken by Seth
7. Marvels by Kurt Busiek
8. Summer Blonde by Adrian Tomine
9. Ghost World by Daniel Clowes
10. Box Office Poison by Alex Robinson

aside from Sandman (which belong to my wife) i haven't read any of these.

I won't try to rank these, but some of my favorites are:

Like a Velvet Glove Cast in Iron
Blankets
Epileptic
Jimmy Corrigan
Watchmen
We3
Summer Blonde
Black Hole
David Boring
Dark Knight Returns

All of which have already been mentioned.

i cant say enough about my two favorites. Great great stories - they deserve more acclaim

Have you read anything else by Seth?

Because I love 'It's A Good Life, If You Don't Weaken' but I hated 'Clyde Fans'.

yes i have 'its a good life..' and i also love it. Good art, and fun following his search for Kalo

I dont have 'clyde fans', i didnt realize he had released anything else

I forgot to put blankets and Black hole on my list, but thoose are two of my other favorite books

Off the top of my head, only including things collected (or originally published) in a single volume:

V for Vendetta
Enigma
Persepolis
Crecy
The Watchmen
Pride of Baghdad
We3

I'm actually just about to start Blankets.

any tackle hard sci-fi themes? always looking for material in different mediums to incorporate

Not sure what this means. Maybe look into some Warren Ellis stuff (Global Frequency, Transmetropolitan, etc.)?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hard_science_fiction

but I will just look into each of the titles you guys have listed.....when I have time or when I dont have time but dont want to work