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Blankets
Craig Thompson
Top Shelf Productions, 2003
Beutifully Illustrated Novel With Characters You Relate To
+ Nice Coming of Age Story
+ I really enjoyed this!
+ Get your emo kleenex out.
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Buddha: Volume 6: Ananda (Buddha)
Osamu Tezuka
Vertical, 2007
Great Series.
Essential and classy book. 4* only because it's so hard to find a hardcover copy. Otherwise, it's perfection.
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Pyongyang: A Journey in North Korea
Guy Delisle
Drawn and Quarterly, 2005
Guy Delisle is the man
+ A rare and well crafted glimpse into a secret world
+ Good but not genius
+ interesting book
+ A Cartoonist Infiltrates the Axis of Evil
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The Complete Maus: A Survivor's Tale
Art Spiegelman
Pantheon, 1996
Masterpiece!
+ Important Educational Information with Range, Good Creativity and Comic-Style Art
+ A stunning testament to survival, forgiveness, and the human spirit
+ Maus
+ Maus I and II
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Buddha, Volume 1: Kapilavastu (Buddha)
Osamu Tezuka
Vertical, 2005
Profoundly Moving
+ Touching and fun series
+ Correction on page count
+ Great Book!
+ Herman Hesse Manga
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Kafka
David Zane Mairowitz, Robert Crumb
Fantagraphics Books, 2007
Crumb meets Kafka...meets Crumb
+ Another great collaboration
+ A fascinating window into Kafka's brilliantly troubled mind.
Kafka was a complex man whose genius is inseparable from his huge neuroses. So is Robert Crumb. Put the two together, as this book does, and the upshot is a book in which the distinction between author Crumb and subject Kafka tends to dissolve. The book is just as much about the one as the ...
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Persepolis 2: The Story of a Return
Marjane Satrapi
Pantheon, 2005
BEST EVER
+ Good Insight to a World I Do Not Know
+ Great follow up to Persepolis
This is the only book that I have manged to read the entire of it in one day!
It is a comic book, supper easy read and very educational in terms of knowing different culture.
I like Persepolis 2 better than 1.
U may wanna watch the movie, as well. It won and nominated for many awards in 2007.
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The Push Man and Other Stories
Yoshihiro Tatsumi
Drawn and Quarterly, 2005
Bloody'ell!
+ Mind blowing short stories
+ awesome
+ "I myself am a very normal person"
+ A Must Buy Book
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Barefoot Gen, Vol. 1: A Cartoon Story of Hiroshima
Keiji Nakazawa, Art Spiegelman
Last Gasp, 2004
WE MUST READ THIS BOOK AS WE WONDER WHY OUR WAR DOES NOT ESTABLISH PEACE
+ Basic, but powerful
+ As a Japanese reader...
+ Easy way to get a sense of a historical event.
+ Powerful, though stilted at times
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Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood
Marjane Satrapi
Pantheon, 2004
Awesome Experience
+ Fresh perspective
+ A good read--a lot to think about
+ Childhood amidst the madmen
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Devadatta (Buddha, Vol. 3)
Osamu Tezuka
Vertical, 2005
Take-off
This 3rd book of the series got me hooked. The first two volumes are more like an introduction, and in this book the story finally takes off. The story continues in the same pace as the first two volumes, which makes it a pleasant read.
The story of Siddharta continues as he teams up with Dhepa ...
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Strangers In Paradise: I Dream of You (Strangers in Paradise)
Terry Moore
Abstract Studio, 1996
THIS is what I'm in comics for
+ Learn more about Francine, Katchoo, and David.
+ A must for all Serious Comic Fans
+ A breath of fresh air -- absolutely THE BEST!
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Buddha, Vol. 2: The Four Encounters
Osamu Tezuka
Vertical, 2005
Very very enjoyable
More of the story of young Sidhartha struggling with his posh prince place in a strongly caste system, and his fear of death and suffering. An 'enlightened' Sidartha fights against the caste system, which is paramount to treason, and slowly learns his true place in all things.
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Diary of a Mosquito Abatement Man
John Porcellino
La Mano, 2005
Seriously impressive work
+ Poetry in the form of comics
+ Great book
Some of the finest and most considered autobiographical comics in an absurdly glutted field. Keep your eye on John Porcellino.
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Abandon the Old in Tokyo
Yoshihiro Tatsumi
Drawn and Quarterly, 2006
A darker grittier sadder view of modern Japan - the one without giant robots, sexy cyborgs, ninjas, or magical creatures
+ Haunted Tokyo
+ A quality tough to define
+ LOVE IT
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