I would include the original run of Love and Rockets
I would include the original run of Love and Rockets
Not enough is really said about diversity in comics, and not enough to promote it. Of course, when they had comics on the Newsstand, they were capable of selling a vast array of comics from girlie books, to mysteries, to horror and Super Heros. That has largelyt dired up, but I think you will find a large number of my top 20 as being not from the Superhero genre, and Plantary and American Flagg! have a multifacited identity with regard to genre.
I've been thinking about this. There's way too much material to select if every comic strip and international comic is valid.
There are going to be biases towards books read at a particular time (IE- If I had read Simonson's Thor when I was younger, I might like it as much as I do Ultimate Spider-Man)
But I'll try mine. In this case, I'm defining a run as having at least ten issues and more than one story (to exclude maxi-series like Watchmen.)
In no real order...
Peanuts
Calvin & Hobbes
Lone Wolf & Cub
Carl Barks Duck Stories
Love & Rockets
Claremont/ Byrne Uncanny X-Men
Lee/ Ditko Amazing Spider-Man
Lee/ Kirby Fantastic Four
Stern/ Romita Jr/ co. Amazing Spider-Man
Grant Morrison's New X-Men
Grant Morrison's Batman
Millar/ Hitch's Ultimates/ Ultimates 2
Frank Miller's Daredevil
Neil Gaiman's Sandman
Moore/ Totlebon/ etc. Swamp Thing
Ennis/ Dillon Preacher
Astro City
Bendis/ Bagley Ultimate Spider-Man
Fables
Ex Machina
It's very likely that I'll change this at some point.
Sincerely,
Thomas Mets
Everyone is entitled to an opinion and his opinion is that all great comics come from Japan, or so I understand it.
I agree that one's historical perspective is always influenced by the generation of the author (in this case it was me and I was born in 1963). You try to be broader and over the years I've read quite a bit of patinum age material and comic strips. I am suprised it took so long for the Peanuts to show up in the thread.
FWIW, I am not a fan. Gasoline Alley by King was much more artistic and well thought out, at least in my opinion.
Looking at Fable, I can't tell you how many times I purchased that book and couldn't read it. I don't connect with it at all, and it is not for a lack of trying.
I was trying to read the Dark Chrystal comic that is currently released and it is similarly difficult for me to connect with.
I think that one of the criteria I have for placing a book in the top 20 is that the book needs to have a transgenerational apeal to it, an imortality of some kind.
Ruben