Most popular black and white comic? That isn’t manga

[mathew101281]

Is Sin city? Or am I missing something?

[CliffHanger2]

TMNT original series.

[K7P5V]

Batman: Black & White

[ed2962]

Probably Mad Magazine. After that probably Creepy. Then Cracked.

[Zelena]

Depending where… In France, I think it’s Corto Maltese.

[Riv86672]

Love & Rockets, , Strangers in Paradise, The Walking Dead all have a claim.

Walking Dead has spawned a handful of TV series, some books I think, and supposedly some future movies so in terms of making money it’s def. up there.

[Chubistian]

The most popular I can think of:
Mafalda
Tintin (it was originally black and white)
Persepolis
Maus
The Walking Dead
TMNT
Corto Maltese
Sin City
The Crow

As a character, I think Mafalda and Tintin are the most popular by far
TMNT and The Walking Dead are probably the most popular franchises

[Jim Kelly]

Haven't some of these comics mentioned been printed in colour or plus one colour? By plus one, I meaning something like this--

This was either printed with two colours (besides the black, those would be yellow and cyan) or one pantone colour, if it was a special print run.

I don't know about popular, but for my money FROM HELL was one of the best books in black and white that I ever got. It was in a phonebook, printed on cheap paper (I think it later got a pricey paper stock, but the beauty of my copy was that it was cheap, proving that comics don't need to be fancy to be great).

[Chubistian]

Haven't some of these comics mentioned been printed in colour or plus one colour? By plus one, I meaning something like this--



This was either printed with two colours (besides the black, those would be yellow and cyan) or one pantone colour, if it was a special print run.

I don't know about popular, but for my money FROM HELL was one of the best books in black and white that I ever got. It was in a phonebook, printed on cheap paper (I think it later got a pricey paper stock, but the beauty of my copy was that it was cheap, proving that comics don't need to be fancy to be great).

I will read Chuck Austen’s run in X-Men as punishment for forgetting From Hell

[Joker]

Well, The Walking Dead is the sales metric. So it's the easy winner.

Hard to say when you add in books that are very popular in Not America, and have been around much longer than TWD, too.

[Mister Mets]

Well, The Walking Dead is the sales metric. So it's the easy winner.

Hard to say when you add in books that are very popular in Not America, and have been around much longer than TWD, too.

Walking Dead is likely the biggest recent hit.

Bone might be on the same level, if you take into account all the collected edition sales.

The all-time most popular are probably the biggest comic strips, which were black & white for the weekday editions for decades.

[Joker]

Calvin, Peanuts, yeah. No doubt, but being daily strips, I didn't count them.

Good call on Bone. I didn't think of that one.

[Kirby101]

Not as big, but still very popular, Xenozoic Tales (aka Cadillac and Dinosaurs)

[OopsIdiditagain]

It's either Maus or Persepolis, at least for the most well known

[Grapeweasel]

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