User:Curly Turkey/Comics

I like comics. I tend to favour North American alternative comics, but I read quite a wide variety of comics. About the only kinds of comics I have an insurmountable mental block over are superhero comics and Vertigo-style comics.

Despite the fact that I live in Japan, I didn't move here for the comics, although there are plenty of Japanese comics that I like—for example, Yoshiharu Tsuge and Osamu Tezuka. When speaking in English, I use the phrase Japanese comics rather than manga. I find the mentality that manga and comics are different to be particularly obnoxious. Their differences are superficial. So are the people who think the differences are important. Especially superficial and obnoxious are those who insist on using the term mangaka to refer to the cartoonists who create Japanese comics—and then go out of their way to make a completely redundant Wikipedia page out of it.

I've decided recently to put a significant portion of my effort into improving Canadian comics-related articles. I'm hoping to bring more attention to them, so In the "Articles I've created" navbox below, I've added a to each of the Canadian articles.

Amongst my favourite comic book cartoonists are Chester Brown, Dave Sim (no, I'm not embarrassed to admit it), Gilberto Hernandez and Jim Woodring. I despise Frank Miller's garbage from the very bottom of my soul.

As for comic strips, I love Harold Gray's Little Orphan Annie (but I hate IDW's pixelated reprints), Elzie Segar's Thimble Theatre, Frank King's Gasoline Alley, Billy DeBeck's Barney Google and numerous others, mainly from the 1920s and 1930s.

You can probably tell from my list of favourites that I enjoy reading The Comics Journal.

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Fantagraphics

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Drawn and Quarterly

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Jim Woodring

Chester Brown

Underground comix

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David Mazzucchelli

Chris Ware

Daniel Clowes

Art Spiegelman

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Comic book publishers in North America navbox

Disney comics navbox

Bryan Lee O'Malley navbox

Seth (cartoonist) navbox

Canadian comics

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Cerebus novels



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Best one-line summary of Cerebus I've seen so far
Although it says nothing to anyone who hasn't read at least a significant amount of the series:

""Cerebus" is a maximalist, culture-wide autobiography of an artist trying to tell the story of reality."

Bullshit about comics
In 2011, people still can't distinguish genre and medium: "Love and Rockets is] a blend of comic books, science fiction..." blah blah blah BS BS BS. in

Chester Brown & Henry James
[http://www.tcj.com/required-by-law/ —Buried at the bottom of this promotional blog post is the news that Chester Brown has apparently rewritten all of the text and dialogue in The Playboy for a new paperback edition. He’s sort of becoming the Henry James of sex comics.]