<p>Its been a while since we had an entertainment thread so I will start.
What are some of your favorite comics?
Along with well known strips like Foxtrot & Dilbert, I also like Dykes to Watch out for, Sinfest & Userfriendly.</p>
<p>I have even branched out into reading * graphic novels<a href=“no%20they%20aren’t%20comic%20books!%20%20%20lol”>/i</a></p>
<p>Comics: I’ve been liking Boondocks and Get Fuzzy, too.</p>
<p>Graphic Novels: I loved Persepolis. Art Spiegelman’s two Maus books are similar in many ways. Ghost World is pretty good. I love the art in Frank Miller’s stuff. My son reads a lot of manga and swears by Akira, but I’ve never had the patience to slog though enough of it’s six volumes to get any traction. My all-time favorite graphic novel, though, is one that you’ll have to look hard for: The Adventures of Phoebe Zeit-Geist, by Michael O’Donohue (yes, THAT Michael O’Donohue, several years before he or anyone else had ever heard of Saturday Night Live) and Frank Springer. It was published (by Grove Press) in 1968 or so, and it’s hilarious, though dated (poncey gay men and 300-lb bull dykes were OK subjects of humor) and more than slightly boy-oriented (the voluptuous heroine is stripped naked on page 2 and never really clothed thereafter). The humor is an over-the-top, more intellectual version of Mad Magazine – really, Harvard Lampoon-y; the art is a perfect mixture of comic-book cheese and pop-art self-awareness.</p>
<p>thanks for the suggestions. I really liked Persepolis, we read it as part of our book group book, ( also if all of Seattle read the same book- sponsored by the library- I don’t think I would have read it other wise)</p>
<p>I was never a big comic reader even as a kid, but my prescription just doesn’t seem to be able to get my eyes to focus anymore, and reading books are tiring. ( no I haven’t started getting the large type books- I supposed I will have to- that certainly would make sense)</p>
<p>Persepolis 2 was even better, she tells her story of when she was a bit older away at school. Really fun to read, and very interesting.
I did used to love Mad magazine- do they still print that?
My mother made me stop reading it when I was a kid, because the fold-in/out was a womans ( bikinied) torso</p>
<p>I have been working with kids who are way below grade level in reading, and graphic novels might be a way to help get them up to speed without making them feel they are reading “baby” books.
Many are English as a second language learners, so books about different cultures would be pretty relevant too.</p>
<p>Iread that Y- the last man is going to be a movie, it certainly has the level of violence that some movies seem to have . I don’t usually see movies made from comic books although I have seen a couple Batman & Superman movies ( not the latest one yet though)</p>
<p>Some of the “graphic novel” movies (as opposed to comic-book movies) are really interesting: Sin City (I thought that was excellent, in large part because the filming really had a graphic-novel aesthetic), Ghost World, Road To Perdition, American Splendor. Then there are Japanese anime. I am no more a fan of Akira the movie than I am of Akira the manga (except that it’s over a LOT sooner), but I really love the Hayao Miyazaki Studio Ghibli movies, especially Princess Mononoke, Spirited Away, Porco Rosso, Whisper Of The Heart, and Grave Of The Fireflies (the last two not really Miyazake films per se). Beautiful artwork, and thoughtful writing (apparently the average moviegoer in Japan has an IQ 30 points higher than here).</p>
<p>superheroes
Superman…an American icon. Who besides Luthor doesn’t like him?
Batman…a provocative look into the depths of the underworld
Green Lantern…those early 1970s issues; the war, the civil rights movement, drugs.
V for Vendetta
The Sub-Mariner…I always wanted to be a mutant and I love the ocean LOL</p>
<p>Comic strips
Shoe…God rest your soul Jeff MacNeely
Herman…for every American male loafer
Loose Parts…Breathed inspired
Close to Home…Breathed inspired</p>
<p>We love Zits here, too. It is my son. And his shoes. And his ipod. </p>
<p>And Pearls Before Swine is awesome. Zits and Pearls are the two most often shown strips at our breakfast table. Let me see if I can find a link to our all time favorite Pearls strip.</p>
<p>I have been following Judge Parker since I was 10, so I can’t give that one up. It has its ups and downs.</p>
<p>Can we vote on our least favorite comic strip? Mary Worth. Awful.</p>
<p>Haven’t read any graphic novels, but D and I loved the movie version of Persepolis.</p>
<p>okay, to find the best Pearls strip ever, google
“a real nugget from pearls” mattias</p>
<p>A came back from a couple weeks of travel to find Zippy gone from the Washington Post, and comics pages shrunk from three pages to two. Can keep up with the link posted in #9.
Other favs:
Dilbert
Donesb</p>
<p>Our local “major metropolitan newspaper” (no, not the Daily Planet) also condensed the number of its pages by merging the comics into the lifestyle section. No wonder only diehards read newspapers nowadays.</p>
Awful.</p>