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Comics comics comics. Webcomics, minicomics, graphic novels, comic strips, monthly titles, indy, mainstream-- You name it, this is the thread for comics.

I'm making this thread in response to a recent increase in comic-related conversation. Part of that is because Our Very Own Xathan has officially gone pro, but some of it just seems to be a trend. We've had a thread about favorite superheroes recently, as well as single issue reviews, and earlier this month, I had been to a convention. I know we have quite a few comic fans around here, so why not have an official thread for discussing them?

You want to steer that browser to www.gunnerkrigg.com

Quote from: Luminous CrayonYou want to steer that browser to www.gunnerkrigg.com

Will do, once I can get it away from www.theherobiz.com

Edit-- I've actually got about a couple dozen tabs open with sites from fliers and promos from the con. A few of them are webcomics, a few are artists, and a few are various vendors and publishers and such. If anyone is interested, I'll share what I have.

Oh boy here we go...

Dark Places
Dresden Codak
ErfWorld
Fanboys
Fey Winds
Girl Genius
Guilded Age
Gunnerkrigg Court
Manly Guys Doing Manly Things
Order of the Stick
Outsider
Penny Arcade
Question Duck
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
The Dreadful
Unsounded
XKCD
Yet Another Fantasy Gamer Comic

You have my full support for this thread! So whose going to kick off the discussion? If no one else is, i've got a few suggestions, but this is Sdragons thread so I'll let her make the calls.
Also, Manly Guys Doing Manly Things= awesome!

Penny Arcade
PVP
XKCD
Extralife
Sheldon
Drive
Cyanide and Happiness
Order of the Stick
Darths and Droids
Chainsaw Suit
F-Cords
Starslip
Evil Inc.
Erfworld (though I haven't read it since it left GitP (saving it for a rainy day)).
Lone Zaku Comics (made by my IRL Friend, though he's been way too busy to update it this month)

Here's a list of some of my favorite comics.
Calvin and Hobbes (greatest cartoon in the history of the universe)
Flight Anthologies (They're one of those things if i explained it, it would sound dumb, but go read them, cause they will blow your mind)
Zot!
Astro Boy

Webcomics i've read:
Megatokyo
Lackadaisy
another shout out to Manly Guys
And if you're an absolute TV cartoon junkie, than Powerpuff Girls Doujinshi is a good read (no relation to Powerpuff girls Z... This thread needs a throw-up smiley  :angry:).

Quote from: Newb MSTieYou have my full support for this thread! So whose going to kick off the discussion? If no one else is, i've got a few suggestions, but this is Sdragons thread so I'll let him make the calls.
Also, Manly Guys Doing Manly Things= awesome!

Bold, mine :p

Feel free to start any comic-related discussion you want in here. That's why I made the thread.

Zot is one book I'd love to get the chance to read. I love McCloud's Understanding/Reinventing/Making Comics books, so I'm interested in seeing what he did before that.

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Quote from: Newb MSTieYou have my full support for this thread! So whose going to kick off the discussion? If no one else is, i've got a few suggestions, but this is Sdragons thread so I'll let him make the calls.
Also, Manly Guys Doing Manly Things= awesome!

Bold, mine :p

Feel free to start any comic-related discussion you want in here. That's why I made the thread.

Zot is one book I'd love to get the chance to read. I love McCloud's Understanding/Reinventing/Making Comics books, so I'm interested in seeing what he did before that.

Sorry about that, i was just going off your status thingie. Anyways, i'm glad you brought up Scott McCloud again. I was wondering what you guys thought about his Making Comics and his propositions for the four tribes of artists. Anybody who hasn't read Making Comics you can read more about this  here.

I'll add to the list...
Hark! A Vagrant - Great comic by history buff Kate Beaton.
Kinokofry - A strange and quirky collection of comics by Rebecca Clements.
Roommate Comics - Funny series made by John Kleckner about his annoying college roommate.
Dresden Codak - An amazingly artistic comic done by Aaron Diaz (Nom de plume: Dresden Codak).
Manly Guys Doing Manly Things - A seriously awesome comic about overly machismo characters from video games. Done by Kelly Turnbull.
Subnormality
Octopus Pie - By Meredith Gran.
Bolton Blue - By Australian surfer Pat Grant.
 Vattu (and other comics, like Rice Boy) - By Evan Dahm. Really creative stuff in here. Rice Boy is absolutely bizarre, but Vattu is great!

I realize some of these were mentioned already, but they probably bear repeating anyways. ;)

This is why manly guys doing manly things is awesome btw

You know, I had just been thinking about starting a Green Lantern thread...

Wow is Manly Guys Doing Manly Things great. It's a lot like The Hero Business, only with video game characters instead of superheroes.

Ninja D: Might as well use this thread, huh? :p

Newb: I think the four tribes are really closer to two dichotomies. The two lines in the chart are more significant than the four corners. The corners, I think, are just exemplary of the extremes of the dichotomies.

Gaiman being considered a Classicist, I think, is a good example of this.  Classicists, ideally, are writers and artists with styles of such grandiose beauty, reminiscent of the romantics and the Renaissance. Sure, Gaiman clearly has this quality in his writing, but he frequently employs a more Iconoclast sense of humanity, as well. In Sandman, mortals are frequently exposed, stripped to their bare truth before gods, fairies, and the Endless. Of course, he is friends with Iconoclast Alan Moore.

The other thing that I find amusing is that Frank Cho is given as an example of classicists. This is a guy, mind you, that went into nursing school because the male/female ratio was 1:9, and said "the secret of good art is boobs and butts." Romantic, indeed...

@Nomadic
Mr. Fish FTW!

@Sdragon
Yeah, and plus i can't really tell where i belong either. I seem to encompass ideals from all corners of the board. Another good way to put it is Realist, Caricuturist,Emotionalist, and Plotist.

So here's a good question. Which kinds of comics do you like better? ones that employ caricuture, or ones that are fairly realistic? I've always prefered caricuturized comics over gritty realistic comics. What about you guys?

Reading Gunnerkrigg Court. This is really, really good stuff. I can't help, however, to compare it to Harry Potter. It might be the British schooling system, it might be the magic, or it might even be the protagonist being exposed to a world considerably more grandiose than they expected.

In any case, this is good stuff.