Comics and Graphic Novels!

[Elentari]

Comics, animé and and graphic novels fans :) gather here and lets share our tips and tricks :P

[Elentari]

Some of my favourite authors and ones that u might like to take a look at, if you like Comics . Please note that the following authors might have some adult content...so those are adult oreinted comics :P Have fun!!

- Frank Miller
- Enki Billal
- Moebius aka Jean Giraud
- Jodorowsky
- Neil Gaiman
- Johnen Vasquez
- Dave Gibbons
- Katsuhiro Otomo

....I will post some more names along. Please share urs :)

[Rodrigo]

Ricardo Amigo "Mancha" melhor desenhista de bd em portugal
melhor que o Louro a minha segunda escolhA
camones nao conheco.....

[i live under your bed]

i used to skip classes to go and read Moebius, Enki Billal, Manara, etc... good times...

[Elentari]

Johnen Vasquez : He rocks!! If you like the type of adult comics where the main characters have just the right ammount of gory appeal, where litle children are haunted by nightamer mosnters and homicidal maniacs...u gonna love JTHM :::

Check this site if u wish to know more about johnen:

[Manuel]

Elentari.. My sweetest pearl...
I love comics...
Here are some of my favourite authors:
Alan Moore
V for Vendetta
From Hell
Lost Girls
Big Numbers
Miracleman
Watchmen (episódios 4 e 6 )
Promethea
Neil Gaiman:
The Sandman Saga (all of them but particularly Brief Lives)
Stardust
Coraline
The day I swapped My dad
Signal to noise
Mr Punch
Violent Cases
Dave Mckean
Cages
Enki Bilal
A trilogia Nikopol
A sua mais recente tetralogia
Mattotti
"Fires "
Charles Burns
" Skin Deep"
" Black Hole "
Jason luttes
" Berlin"
Seth
" Palooka Ville "
Dame Darcy
" Meat Cake "
Frank Miller
" Sin City "
" That Yellow Bastard "
" Hell and back "
Daredevil (Scripted and drawn by him)
and lots of more, I'll let you know

[X6]

Tottaly recommend this one. The name of the comic is Johnny the Homicidal Maniac (JTHM).
Multi levels of interpretation, if you are in the mood, or just plain old fun following this disturbed young man's life. Read also (related to this character) "Fillerbunnie", "Squee" and "I Feel Sick"

[John Doe]

the tip was cool :) tomorrow i google it. lolol

[Manuel]

Neon deixa-t de tretas e não faças google... Dá-lhe e mais nada..

[hell76lx]

todos os autores e titulos mencionados em cima sao excelentes,mas deixo aqui outros titulos tambem mt interessantes nocturnals-dan brereton #violent messiahs-joshua dysart# the gift-raven gregory# pride of baghdad-brian k. vaughan #freak show-bruce jones #palestine/gorazde-joe sacco #scarlet traces-ian edginton #i am legion-fabien nury(nao confundir c i am legend) e tenho mt mais titulos aqui em casa,e so uma questao de ter tempo de os passar p aqui conseguem arranjar tudo isto na mongorhead comics na rua da alegria,falem c o tiago!!!

[X6]

Batman: Arkham Asylum

To the dragon, Saint George was a monster.

Keeping hold of that old observation about perspective might help one navigate the hallucinatory maze that is the heart of Batman: Arkham Asylum, Grant Morrison's harrowing work of power and insight. The narrative plunges us into a nightmarish asylum for the criminally insane that has literally been taken over by the inmates. Morrison makes unique use of the time-tested suggestion that they might be more sane than the rest of us.

The criminals who are holding the asylum staff hostage demand that Batman come in alone. Morrison sets the tone for his -- and our -- descent into darkness with a passage from Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll:

"But I don't want to go among mad people," Alice remarked.

"Oh, you can't help it," said the Cat: "We're all mad here. I'm mad, you're mad."

"How do you know I'm mad?" said Alice.

"You must be," said the Cat, "or you wouldn't have come here."

Batman darkens the tone. This is not the swashbuckling figure familiar from comic books and movies. Ordinarily, Batman cloaks himself in shadow to scare the bad guys. In this story, it seems more like Batman is lost in the dark, or maybe even hiding from something he sees in himself. It is unsettling.

Morrison's Batman confides to Commissioner Gordon: "Sometimes I ... question the rationality of my actions. And I'm afraid that when I walk through those asylum gates, when I walk into Arkham and the doors close behind me, it'll be just like coming home."

That homecoming puts Batman on a compelling quest. He encounters The Riddler, Penguin and many other of his nemeses who are deadlier than they were in comic books long ago. Central to the story is Two-Face, a former district attorney made unbalanced by acid that scarred the good looks on one side of his face. Two-Face's lapses in and out of seeming rationality are dictated by the flip of a scarred silver dollar he carries with him. Where The Joker can be counted on to be vicious, Two-Face's reliance on chance makes him sometimes homicidal and other times merciful, depending on which side of the coin lands up.

Ultimately, Batman puts his fate into the hands of one of the villains he has imprisoned. It reflects the intricacies of a dizzying story that Batman's decision could be rational, or suicidal, or both. In real life we know that the mammoth media conglomerate that owns Batman will never allow him to be killed. But a strength of Morrison's storytelling is that it makes it seem at least possible that Batman might be tortured or worse.

An intertwined story unfolds in flashbacks. The asylum's founder, Dr. Arkham, witnesses unspeakable violence and is traumatized by it. There is a suggestion, familiar from countless works of horror fiction, that the horrible events have stamped a kind of psychic imprint on the asylum and left it haunted. The apparent truth is far more discomforting.

The illustrations in some graphic novels make everything explicit, depriving our imaginations of the freedom to conjure our own images. This diminishes their power in the way that Jaws is less scary when we see the shark.

Dave McKean's art in Batman: Arkham Asylum does no such thing. There is stunning variety in McKean's images and powerful subtlety as well. His dark, complex illustrations merely suggest, planting hints that engage our imaginations. They magnify the impact of Morrison's enthralling story.

That story is not for everyone. The book's full title is Batman: Arkham Asylum, A Serious House on Serious Earth and this is serious reading. Although not explicitly violent, it presents