Comments on: Crowdsourcing: GRAPHIC NOVELS! Edition

By: Eleanor

Eleanor — Fri, 25 Jun 2010 10:14:54 +0000

I might be too late, but this is great:

By: Penny

Penny — Thu, 24 Jun 2010 04:23:00 +0000

Hereville by Barry Deutsch isn’t out yet, but it sounds like it might fit one of your areas of interest:
http://www.hereville.com/what-is-hereville/

By: konkonsn

konkonsn — Tue, 08 Jun 2010 04:31:51 +0000

There’s With the Light: Raising an Autistic Child by Keiko Tobe.
Also, Death: The Time of Your Life by Neil Gaiman is specifically about a lesbian couple, though it’s better to read the Sandman series first to get more context.

Are you willing to read some pop manga? Otomen by Aya Kanno doesn’t handle gay males well and still relies on a gender binary, but it’s heartwarming because often the feminine or masculine characters will say, “Screw being more of a traditional boy or girl; I love you for who you are!”

By: ninjanurse

ninjanurse — Sun, 06 Jun 2010 21:05:01 +0000

Here is a link to more on how Aline Kominsky’s vulgar comix may save lives–
http://kmareka.com/2009/04/05/comics-for-cambodia/

By: ninjanurse

ninjanurse — Sun, 06 Jun 2010 20:58:12 +0000

I’m a big fan of Harvey Pekar’s ‘American Splendor’. Also Aline Kominsky’s ‘Nose Job’. You can tell I’m from the older generation.

By: old lady

old lady — Sun, 06 Jun 2010 20:00:54 +0000

Check typos! PERSEPOLIS is WONDERFUL is what it should say,of course. And MAUS won a Pulitzer but don’t hold that against it.

By: old lady

old lady — Sun, 06 Jun 2010 19:59:06 +0000

PERSEPOLIS is quite wobderful but so is FUN HOME by Alison Bechdel. And what about MAUS? Not to be missed.

By: notemily

notemily — Fri, 04 Jun 2010 19:01:24 +0000

Some titles: Persepolis, Inside Out: Portrait of an Eating Disorder, Stuck in the Middle: 17 Comics from an Unpleasant Age, The High School Comic Chronicles of Ariel Schrag (series), Blankets.

By: Michelle

Michelle — Fri, 04 Jun 2010 17:48:13 +0000

Bayou is on Zuda comics, and it’s really good – the protagonist is a young black girl in the south, in I think the early 1900s. (I’m reading the books as they come out and we only have volume #1 right now, which I last read around Christmas, so I’m a bit fuzzy). I know you said non fiction, but I thought I’d throw that out there!

Making Comics by Scott McCloud is AWESOME. Highly recommend it. I’ve heard good stuff about How to Make Webcomics but have not read it myself.

By: Dorian

Dorian — Fri, 04 Jun 2010 17:31:33 +0000

I recently read Skim, by Mariko and Jillian Tamaki. I was quite impressed, and I suspet it fits into several of these categories! It is fictional, but it deals with awkward adolescence, sexuality, and race.