Please use this thread to post lesser known comics you think people should know about, and perhaps some info about it. And possibly share links.
Madwoman is about a philosophy teacher's metaphysical trippy journey to conquer his ego. Gets real weird, gets sexual, gets philosophical, lots of fun. Written by the same guy who made The Holy Mountain and The Incal.
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Finder is in my Top #10, maybe Top #5. It's Written and drawn by one woman and is fairly successfully for an indie comic. Set in a post-apocalyptic world where people live in ancient dome cities that they don't understand or out in the dangerous wilderness. The story takes the viewpoint of several of it's characters but it's central character is a half-aboriginal tracker with mysterious resiliency named Jaeger who is as charismatic as he is enigmatic.
No story is alike, and benefit from working with the complex relationships of some truly third dimensional characts. The stories have some really poignant things to say.
Fatale is supernatural noir written by a guy who writes alot of terrific crime drama. You probably have read something else by him.
It's terrific. The art is beautiful. The heroine is intense. Demonic activity involved.
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On the subject of noir, Blacksad is a top tier one. Written by Spanish writers, for a French audience, set in 1950s America and tackling much of that time period's tough realities. John Blacksad is a WWII veteran and now PI who has problems with authority figures and even more with women.
Planetary is Warren Ellis at his best.
A group of three superhumans tries to find out the secret history of the world. They discover alot of obstacles in their way.
The series takes alot of alternative takes on classic capeshit figures as well. Great reading.
Artesia is another one of my personal favorites. About the journeys of a powerful Captain ascension to power who hails from a land of Warrior-Queens. Great writing, Political Intrigue, A Focus on Medieval Camp Life, Lots of Sex, and Huge beautiful battles.
bad cases of sameface
Another one in the noir category (noticing a theme with my tastes here)
Parker is the comic book adaption of a series of novels by Richard Stark and adopted by Darwyn Cooke who has one of the most aesthetically pleasing understated art styles out there. In this story however the protagonist is the criminal committing all kinds of jobs. The job planning scenes are fantastic.
And the last from for me, and possibly the last one if this thread goes nowhere, is Weird Love.
Reprinting of old 50's comic's to remind us where our cultural views used to be. I had never before considered how communists or clowns might get in the way of love.
Too bad Mark Smylie never concluded it.
I thought this series was fun, that's a good reason to read it
In her moment of power too, disappointing.
As good as any. There's no definite expiration date on life, so read fun things while you can.
I thought this series was fun too
this is better than it has any right to be
Has a similar style and pacing to Samurai Jack, good sense of atmosphere with solid action.
Read red soul and the real villain got off completely Scott fucking free and Blacksad will never get a happy ending
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Yeah, but I still recommend you buy it.
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You should read Son of the Gun by him. Criminal runs away with his mom, whores her out and fucks her. Then wanders into the desert and becomes Jesus, fucker of mothers
Of course. Thanks.
Here's another Madwoman cover I love.
Ow, this one hurt me emotionally to read.
why jews are hateful towards christians?
kill yourself faggot. you are the ultimate pleb
Man.
Damnation is truly around every corner.
Heres a Planetary cover.
Jodor isn't plebian mate.
Jordo is a hack for film school lemmings who think his lazy, heavy-handed symbolism has any depth to it. He's just some aging hippie Jew who had his mind fried on LSD.
Literally the best version of the Wizard of OZ
The best supernatural western I can think of
At first seemed a rather standard detective noir story, but it quickly evolves past it and Muñoz does a fantastic job on the art.
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repping the OG nigga
Only loyal adaptation really
>tfw they don't use the movie as their main reference point
>tfw they adapt the original Broadway productions and stage plays
Oh fuck off. Holy Mountain shows what you can do with symbolism to the max. He isn't telling a story for you, he is forcing you to interpret a story. If you don't see the deeper levels in bis stuff then you are the brainlet.
hate comics
>he is forcing you to interpret a story
mhm
heartwarming, sad, comfy tale about an aging hero going on a mission to save a planet.
great, mobeius-like art throughout.
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reid flemming worlds toughest milk man
>deeper symbolism
>DUDE! WHAT IF YOU WENT TO CHURCH...ON DRUGS.
>brainlets on Sup Forums
There are many ways of storytelling communication. Some, like many comics, make the reader fill in the story the trick is using symbols and such to force the reader to create the narative.
Fucking learn a little about storytelling before you bitch
All these people pushing their pretentious bullshit is getting old hat.
Half Century War is probably my favorite Godzilla story ever told and works as both a celebration of the franchise and a good hook for people not familiar with the big G. I really hope the upcoming King of Monsters flick takes some notes from it.
I've literally never seen anyone on Sup Forums ever talk about Building Stories.
Damn shame, too, since it is a real neat exploration of the medium.
Not to mention that is drawn by friggin Moebious, which itself is a reason alone to read it.
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Kaos Moon. Got a really strong Bonelli (Mystere / Julia / Dylan Dog) vibe, though the art is leagues better. Zakkow is prime waifu material.
It's in my Amazon wish list. Just watching for a really good sale price. Lloks amazing
Got it around 30 bucks for my girlfriend last Christmas. Was the one gift I was most iffy about, but she ended up really loving it. It can be a bit overwhelming at first and if you pick some of the stories, it's easy to have a slow start, but once you're halfway in, it is really hard to put down.
All in all, it's a testament to the capabilities of the medium and the worth of print comics. Anyone who's a serious comics collector should probably own it or, at least, have experienced reading it.
>force the reader to create the narative.
>I'm too lay to use symbolism to convey any deeper meaning, so I'll just throw shit around and see what sticks, then use the veil of subjctivity to justify it.
Yeah, great storytelling that is.
I kind of enjoyed it, but it shows the fundamental flaw that most 'experimental' art has - it's awesome in theory, meh in practice.
This book Rust is fucking crazy. Guy gets the Toxic Avenger shtick but his face looks like hamburger, his body regenrates, and he has acid for blood. Me straight mercs a bunch of various dudes and hobo rides trains with a comatose girl. Her parents got brutally slaughtered by the coproration that accidently fucked him up, and he feels for fucking up the kid, so he goes on a cross county trip with a traumatized child. To untraumatize her, they try using some psychic to fight a Freddy Krueger inside the kid's head before psychics, hit men, and psychopaths sent by the corporation show up to kick the shit out of him. Then he befriends a porn star before a plague kills millions. The series got renumbered, and the generic 80s art of the first 13 issues is replaced by a Bill Sienkiewicz clone
(Vince Locke)for 6 issues. The series ended unfinished (spoiler) with him wanderinng the Earth trying to find meaning. It felt like Vertigo light.
It never got a proper reprint and they did a shitty reboot where he's basically Magneto meets Concrete, but it felt like a shitty cape book.
God bless this imprint, I hope it keeps going for a long time because they're doing a great job now that they've finally gotten their corto schedule somewhat on point.
Love Moebius and Jodorowksy, their work on the Incal series is awesome.
you've convinced me
El Eternaut, Mort Cinder, and the work of Alberto Breccia.
More people should fucking talk about alberto breccia.
>More people should fucking talk about alberto breccia.
Mort Cinder is one my favorite comicd, and i love Alberto Breccia work, but of it isn't translated to english so is understandable not many people talk about it.
july 2018 my friend
fantagraphics is doing it
In a lot of cases that is true. In Holy Mountain not at all. All the symbols have a meaning and should be there.
I figured there'd be more traction given the work he and Enrique did with various Lovecraft properties, but what can ya do eh?
I'm still waiting on an accessible english version of perramus. It hurts.
Is there a link?
>It's true
Based Fanta, no if someone could translate Perramus.
Only for spanish version a far as i know.
We live in a good time for translations in my opinion.
Fanta, NBM, Dark Horse if they don't go bankrupt within the next 2 years and IDW's eurocomics who recently updated their website and solicited a load of stuff.
And it's not like they're half assed either all of them have a passionate team behind them.
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This.
Why can't we have more threads like this and not porn generals all the time?
Resident Alien for maximum comf
Goran Parlov is a treasure.
I'm sorry dude but Jodo is a hack and I say that as someone who adores non-linear and non-narrative films.
His visuals are lazy shock schlock and his "messages" are meaningless references to esoterica. He makes good comics, but his films are pseud garbage.
I have no idea if this obscure or not but I've only seen it posted here once.
It's Satania
Because Sup Forums is trash.
the manhattan projects is great, made by hickman.
That scientist was an idiot for not at least leaving around emergency samples of the oxygen destroyer.
I tried the same with animation and indie animation videos but it didn't take off. People just like watching the same things and threads over and over again for some reason.
It's sad that one of the biggest comics successes in the 90's (next to Eightball and Acme Novelty Library) is considered "lesser known" on Sup Forums. Fucking geek board.
Fucking love Reid Fleming. One of the funniest comics ever. Hugely underrated.
A man chooses to become a vagabond after having an epiphany - his Blast. A great tale.
The Flaming Carrot.
I mean look at him. He's great.
All the comics by Kim Deitch. Not "lesser known" in the world of alternative/undergroud/adult-oriented comics since the guy is a legend and a godfather of comix together with Shelton, Crumb, Rodriguez and the others. But I don't think I ever seen him discussed on here.
He is a great storyteller walking the fine line between genius and insane. His work is not only metaphysical, it's meta-meta-metaphysical. Stories going into other stories going into reality showing us the artist working on said story going into another story etc. It's hard to explain. I haven't seen anything like it. He's been building up his own fictionary universe since the 60's so there's lots to discover.
Also, people on here seem to know his dad, the animator Gene Deitch better though.
I remember getting it a few years ago 80% off from Amazon UK, though shipping raised the price a bit but I still got it ~60% off.
Still haven't gotten around to it but I have read most of Acme Novelty Library.
This series clearly demonstrates that the US comic market is borked as fuck, because this would be a guaranteed longseller in the Euro market.
Another underrated one.
It's fucked, but what is able to make it wouldn't fly in Euroland. Our underground comics scene and indie market shouldn't even exist, but manage to low-key thrive.
Paul Chadwick's Concrete because it talks about the human condition while being super-human.
>waifu
Who needs that shit when we got Lilith?
They don't get enough love around here but the Marvel Oz adaptations are fantastic. The art is gorgeous, they are funny and just full of charm.
If you enjoyed Guillermo Del Taco's devil's backbone and want to see real life horror and suffering depicted in a somewhat cartoonish fashion this is the comic for you.
I'm on the fence of ever recommending this, most of the times everything hinges on the end and an abandoned series like that just feels
WRONG.
I've read some parts of this. It's good.
I love American Vampire too
Kill or Be Killed
Such a good comic.
I'm gonna recommend another comic I really enjoyed. Space Ghost. A darker take on the old hero. Made me fall in love with the character.
Damn this looks crazy.
I've been on Sup Forums since before MLP happened. The board never quite recovered after the containment board got put up. I quit coming here but I wanted to try to talk about comics yesterday lol.
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Concrete is often heart breaking, has a great way of inspiring empathy for the character. The relationships are so well done.
Come the fuck on. Planetary is great but it isn’t a lesser known comic
Chris Ware's stuff is often storytimed here but not Building Stories since the format i so akward for scanning and should be experienced in a physical form.
For this board?
Lol all they read here is capeshit and some image.
Nothing in this thread really counts as "lesser known".
nothing posted is pretentious and half century war is huge on Sup Forums so good job going 0-2
Echo by Terry Moore. Most people know his Strangers in Paradise and Rachel Rising but I think Echo doesn't get enough love
I thought this was a decent take on the "globetrotting adventure" kind of storytelling. The main character isn't your typical pulp/comic hero who throws himself headfirst into situations. Instead he kinda gets roped into things and becomes a vehicle for others' stories. Decent art too, Tim Sale was heavily inspired by it.
>Y:the last man
>all the other guys die, and this pretentious asshole treks across the world boring the shit out of me, I recommend because maybe it's a bit more realistic than what I thought and wanted, a few bullshit girlpower undertones, but overall it's an interesting read
>Uber
>Alternate reality WW2 with supersoldiers and gore out the ass, out of the two I love this one more, really speaks to my war-boner
I can't stress this enough: Yorick is really, really annoying