Perp's Top 10 Graphic Novels!

[jfb37]

spiegelman's a genius. i highly recommend checking out the video of him on youtube giving a lecture at (i think) the billy ireland cartoon museum on chester gould (dick tracy).

 

[Brian G Turner]

Perp, did you ever catch any of Grant Morrison's work for DC Vertigo? Not least Doom Patrol...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doom_Patrol#Grant_Morrison.27s_Doom_Patrol

 

[Perpetual Man]

The easy answer here is 'No.'

With a lot more polite and qualified - I first became aware of Grant Morrison back in the pages of 2000AD, but I just did not like his work. People were really starting to rave about it and I just did not get it. (Probably me not him). So when he made the leap to the US and started writing for DC/Vertigo I was sort of interested but not interested at the same time. I read the first issue of The Invisibles, and one of his Doom Patrol, but it did nothing for me and let it go.

I followed his run on the X-Men when he shifted to Marvel, more for the characters than him, and found the story to be overblown and although epic in scope, was just not The X-Men that I knew and loved. It was like another group of characters using familiar names.

That being said I cannot help but acknowledge that I am in a minority and Morrison is a recognised and much loved writer, so it's just one of those cases where every now and then there comes a writer that an individual just cannot get to grips with, and I guess this is the case with me and him.

To all accounts his run on Doom Patrol is considered a classic and probably well worth a look.

 

[Brian G Turner]

I know what you mean - I did enjoy Morrison's Zenith in 2000AD, but more for Steve Yowell's moody artwork. Morrison's run on Animal Man was interesting for the experimentation, but not gripping.

His Doom Patrol was sheer strangeness, and interesting if nothing else for that - bizarre aliens and concepts, but an over-arcing story that generally manages to hold its internal surrealism together. It's something I would recommend taking a look at - but would concede that most of your top list easily beats it.