Graphic Novels

[Sybarite]

Has anyone read Alan Moore's Lost Girls?

[Funhouse]

Anybody heard of Stranger's in Paradise? Was just recommended to me via Shelfari.

I read the first collected volume. It was all right, but not so good that I've been bothered to read any more...

[Funhouse]

Has anyone read Alan Moore's Lost Girls?

Yes. It's certainly, ah, interesting. It's out and out porn with an intriguing setting and use of established literary characters.

[Mirabell]

this sounds great. love the picture
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/13/bo...html?ref=books

[Sybarite]

Yes. It's certainly, ah, interesting. It's out and out porn with an intriguing setting and use of established literary characters.

I haven't read it yet – put off rather by the price.

Do you think it was written just to arouse or does it have something else to say beyond that (not that there's anything wrong with the former)? Does the pornographic nature of it actually do something? Is this the first serious attempt to actually produce a 'mainstream' erotic pornographic graphic novel?

Mirabell – that picture really is delightful. Thanks for the link.

[fausto]

Re Lost Girls, I was put off by the drawings, which I don't find good at all actually.

[Sybarite]

Re Lost Girls, I was put off by the drawings, which I don't find good at all actually.

From what I've seen – which isn't much – I'd have to agree.

One of the things I find strange about reading a Moore graphic novel is that the artists change all the time, so it always looks very different. It sometimes feels as though you're not actually reading a work by the same author – although obviously that has advantages in terms of how different styles suit different works. The styles of V for Vendetta is markedly different to that of Watchmen – but they wouldn't be interchangeable, I suspect.

[Sybarite]

Oops, double post.

[Heteronym]

Alan Moore only writes, although he has a basic understanding of drawing and page layout, which allows him to work closely with his artists. This allows him to work with a different team in each new project.

Gibbons' clean, geometrical pencils in Watchmen would be out of place in From Hell, which benefited from Campbell's sketchy pencils. Moore knows how to choose the right penciller for each book.

[Mirabell]

In Dash Shaw?s engrossing 720-page graphic novel, ?Bottomless Belly Button,? three generations of the Loony family spend a week together at their beach house coping with the announcement of the divorce, after 40 years of marriage, of the clan?s grandparents, Maggie and David.

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/01/bo...ks&oref=slogin

[Heteronym]

I've been trying to read more comics this year. First I bought Winsor McCay's complete Little Nemo in Slumberland; it's a massive, oversized 400-page volume that will take me the rest of the year to finish.

Next I got Alan Moore's Top Ten vol.2: as a superhero fan, I love this series. Its about a city where everyone has superpowers, from children to pets; vampires run the underground crime; there are robot (or, as they prefer, Ferro-Americans) ghettos. People from other dimensions and planets stop by for vacations. And then there are the super-powered cops that keep the order, known as Top Ten. It's hilarious.

Now I've just finished Kim Deitch's Alias the Cat, a mind-bending tour de force. This comic is so weird, so complex, it defies any explanation. But it's good and beautifully drawn.

[Mirabell]

I've been trying to read more comics this year. First I bought Winsor McCay's complete Little Nemo in Slumberland; it's a massive, oversized 400-page volume that will take me the rest of the year to finish.

I fail to find a one-volume edition. ISBN, perhaps?

[liehtzu]

Comic books?

[Mirabell]

I fail to find a one-volume edition. ISBN, perhaps?

Don't bother. It's the Taschen edition, isn't it?

[Heteronym]

Don't bother. It's the Taschen edition, isn't it?

I'm afraid so, currently out of print. In fact that's why I didn't think twice when I saw one in a bookstore.

[Mirabell]

I'm afraid so, currently out of print. In fact that's why I didn't think twice when I saw one in a bookstore.

Lucky they are based right here and have a multi-storey shop here where they have copies of almost everything for sale. called today and will pick up my copy of little nemo tomorrow.

[saliotthomas]

That might interest Heteronym



A collaboration between Pratt and Antonio Tabucchi,now will it be available in Portugese?

[Aiculik]

Aaaaah, Corto! The first literature character in which I'd fallen in love!

[saliotthomas]

I think we forgot to mention Milo Manara,the best ever for drawing incredibly sexy women,the Master.




Make's one bite his lips....

[Funhouse]

Just been reading some Enki Bilal (The Nikopol Trilogy and The Beast Trilogy) and he's a great discovery. A terrific artist, and his science fiction scenarios are really intriguing. Here's a sample of his art: