The first one that came to mind was Elfquest.
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The first one that came to mind was Elfquest.
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For me it would:
1) [i]Dreadstar[/i] #1-40 plus Prequel stories in [i]Epic Illustrated[/i] #1-9, and #15, [i]The Price[/i] GN (later reprinted as [i]Dreadstar Annual[/i] #1), and [i]Marvel Graphic Novel #3: Dreadstar[/i]
2) [i]'Breed Trilogy[/i] vol. 1 #1-6, vol. 2 #1-6, vol. 3 #1-7
3) [i]Gilgamesh II[/i] #1-4
4) [i]Wyrd, the Reluctant Warrior[/i] #1-6
5) [i]Cosmic Guard/Kosmos Kid[/i] #1-6 and graphic novel
And pretty much anything else by Jim Starlin.
The funniest comic ever made.
Cruel & Unusual Punishment #2
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Judge Dredd, especially John Wagner written stuff. From 1977 and he still writes some to this day. The best. It's got a bit of everything. Just brilliant pulp storytelling.
Savage Dragon and Invincible are other favs. And TMNT and manga. I also dig the classic European stuff mentioned, a lot of cool stuff for my to-read list too.
Most of my favourites have been mentioned already. I'll add Jon Sable: Freelance
bone vs cerebus.
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[QUOTE=marshal88;5531965]bone vs cerebus.
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That was such an awesome moment. Has the next issue of that series come out yet? It's been so long.
Oof! Great question.
I'm going to go with The Rocketeer with TMNT a very close 2nd.
I don't read a lot of indie books (slowly intend on trying to correct that), so I'd say:
Sin City
The Boys
Klaus
[QUOTE=Swamp Thing 2099;5323996]Nobody's said Stray Bullets? NOBODY?[/QUOTE]
I say Stray Bullets! Also Rick Veitch Brat Pack, Maximortal, and the One.
[QUOTE=MRP;5313791]Are we limiting it to American comics?
Limiting it to books I have read, these would be my top 50 in no particular order
Bone by Jeff Smith
At the Mountains of Madness Vol. 1 and 2 by Gou Tanabe
Strangers in Paradise by Terry Moore
Love and Rockets by Los Brothers Hernandez
Elfquest by Wendy and Richard Pini
The Incal by Jodorosky & Moebius
Lone Wolf and Cub by Kazuo Koike and Goseki Kojima
Maus by art spiegleman
A Contract with God trilogy by Will Eisner
Fax from Sarjevo by Joe Kubert
Safe Area Gorazde by Joe Sacco
Berlin by Jason Lutes
Den by Richard Corben
The Rocketeer by Dave Stevens
Castle Waiting by Linda Medley
Age of Bronze by Eric Shanower
Finder by Carla Speed McNeil
Usagi Yojimbo by Stan Sakai
Hellboy/BPRD by Mignola and friends
Concrete by Paul Chadwick
A Distant Soil by Colleen Doran
Blacksad by Juan Díaz Canales and Juanjo Guarnido
Corto Maltese by Hugo Pratt
Criminal by Brubaker & Phillips
The First Kingdom by Jack Katz
Essex County by Jeff Lemire
Understanding Comics/Reinventing Comics/Making Comics by Scott McCloud
The Adventures of Luther Arkwright by Bryan Talbot
Mouse Guard by David Pedersen
The Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck by Don Rosa
Infinite Kung Fu by Kagan McLeod
Dignifying Science by Jim Ottaviani & friends
Hicksville by Dylan Horrocks
Strangehaven by Gary Spencer Millidge
RASL by Jeff Smith
Sculptor by Scott McCloud
Palestine by Joe Sacco
Metabarons by Jodorowsky & friends
Astro City by Kurt Busiek, Brent Anderson & Alex Ross
March Books One-Three by John Lewis & friends
My Favorite Thing is Monsters by Emil Ferris
Descender by Jeff Lemire & Dustin Ngyuen
Sin City by Frank Miller
Moby Dick adapted by Bill Sienkewicz (Classics Illustrated #4)
Journey by William Messner-Loebs
Blueberry by Moebius and Charlier
Tintin by Herge
Yossel by Joe Kubert
Last Day in Viet Nam by Will Eisner
Octavia Butler's Kindred adapted by John Jennings & firends
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I never liked the term indie comics. It's way too broad. I understand it getting used to describe third party publishers in Ameirica like Dark Horse or Image, but Manga and Euorpean comics shouldn't fall under that category because books like Lone Wolf & Cub and the Incal are those respective industries' mainstream.
That makes sense, I was thinking, if you have a million dollar industry making movies about your stuff, you are an industry.
Did anyone mention Mike Allred’s Madman? There is a new collection from Darkhorse and it’s so good from issue one.
I like the term third party publisher. One comic I read on Eclipse that blew my mind way back when, Miracle Man. I know it’s by Alan Moore but for about ten years it fell like an underground book. Speaking of which, what about Zapp! Comics and all those artists. Would EC comics count?
Hip Hop Family Tree by Ed Piskor
[QUOTE=Timothy Hunter;5617208]I never liked the term indie comics. It's way too broad. I understand it getting used to describe third party publishers in Ameirica like Dark Horse or Image, but Manga and Euorpean comics shouldn't fall under that category because books like Lone Wolf & Cub and the Incal are those respective industries' mainstream.[/QUOTE]
If we are talking strictly publishing and not other media exploitation of the properties, neither DC nor Marvel are mainstream for comic publishing anymore. They may be the most popular in the niche direct market, but their product does not have any where near enough mass market penetration or visibility to be considered mainstream. Mainstream comic publishers in the 21st century are publishers like Scholastic and the graphic novel imprints from the big book publishers that put out product like the Telgameier books and Dog Boy that are available in the mass market and sell to readers everywhere in the US not just in the limited places that have direct market retail outlets.
However, when using Indy to refer to comics in the US, it usually has nothing to do with mainstream or non-mainstream it is simply a shortcut for saying any publisher that is not Marvel or DC, even when some of those publishers outsold Marvel and DC by a wide margin for long stretches of the period from '38-present (Dell in particular for most of the 40s-early70s outpaced both National/DC and Timely/Atlas/Marvel in sales).
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*ahem*
Love And Rockets.