I've read all of Frank Miller's Dark Knight Returns, V for Vendetta, and John Ostrander's The Kent's. Loved them! I'm looking for more graphic novels that are as deep, socially relevant, and thought provoking. Ones that tackle controversial topics. Any suggestions?
2006-12-23 03:21:23 · 7 answers · asked by Tiberius 2 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Books & Authors
graphic novels, a.k.a. comic books
2006-12-23 07:03:39 · update #1
I'm also a big fan of the Sandman. The Watchmen is also very nice (It's about a bunch of retired Superheroes who get killed one after the other and about the reasons they fell from grace).
If you like more realist stuff (though I don't know if they counts as graphic novels), Art Spiegelmann's Mouse (about the holocaust) is still quite unsurpassed.. Joe Sacco's books (about Palestine and former Yugoslavia) and Marianne Satrapi's Persepolis (about the revolution in Iran) are not only very interesting, they're also very funny!
2006-12-23 03:54:53 · answer #1 · answered by maldoror 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I have read only one graphic novel (book club member chose it) and despite my misgivings I liked it .
The Fisher King by Kikuo Johnson
Loren Foster is an overachieving son of a workaholic father. Loren starts to use meth just a few weeks before graduation. Although he doesn't go wild the adults around him start to notice a change and he does get arrested for a theft related to his drug use. Not especially controversial, really a coming of age, father/son relationship story.
2006-12-23 11:37:28 · answer #2 · answered by digitsis 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I haven't read it yet, but I can't wait to start Pride of Baghdad by Brian K Vaughan & Niko Henrichon. I heard an interview with them on NPR, and it sounds fascinating: a pride of lions escapes from the Baghdad Zoo during an American bombing raid at the start of the war in 2003, and they roam the country having to fend for themselves.
it sounds very thought-provoking and socially relevant - raising questions about the war, and about the nature of freedom and liberty.
2006-12-23 13:53:54 · answer #3 · answered by tundra 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Neil Gaiman's The Sandman is an excellent series. It deals with a lot of different issues, including sex, eternity, family, the architecture of the underworld, God, the Devil, the dreaming life of cats, the sweetness of Death and eternal life. A little something for everyone. It's not political at all, but it's got pretty much everything else covered. :)
2006-12-23 11:27:43 · answer #4 · answered by Vix 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Maus by Art Spiegelman is a 2 volume set dealing with the concentration camps of WWII.
2006-12-23 15:01:20 · answer #5 · answered by wendy_da_goodlil_witch 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Death Note
This is about a high school student who decides to rid the world of evil. He does with the help of a supernatural notebook he found that kills anyone whose name is written in it.
2006-12-23 22:24:41 · answer #6 · answered by aya 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Anything by D.H. Lawrence, like Women in Love, etc....
2006-12-23 11:28:47 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋