Graphic novels

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Uzumaki is great and definitely an essential manga if you're getting into the medium for the first time. "Goodbye Eri" and "Look Back" by Tatuski Fujimoto (the latter of which was adapted into a really good movie recently) are also excellent.
 
I recall the film series Underworld had some comics. I haven't read them to know if they're any good though.
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A Japanese comic called Kingdom is a fictional retelling of some wars in Chinese history during the Zhou dynasty. It's got over 70 volumes and it's still ongoing...
 
Ughubughughughughughghlug dijo:
Are the Japs so interested in the Thirty Years War because they see it as European Sengoku Jidai?

The Empire is divided
There is religious turbulence (Protestant/Catholic, traditional/Ikko-Ikki/Jesuit) in the land
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But Jan Zizka was a Hussite and the czech crusades were around 100 years before the 30 years war.
 
A few more that I enjoyed and recommend:

This one reminds me of Maus in theme and art (except with actual humans), I think the title is "The Art of Flying" about the artist's dad from childhood to old age in Spain, surviving through the Civil War and other hardships as an illiterate country boy.

Borgia and The Terrible Pope by Milo Manara and Alejandro Jodorowsky. Excellent looks into the times of Popes Alexander VI and Julius II, with quite a few liberties from the truth to make them more compelling. Just remember those two artists are so edgy, they make Garth Ennis and Warren Ellis seem like Disney.

Speaking of Disney, The Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck is a certified classic.

Say what you will about Neil Gaiman, but Sandman is a legit literary masterpiece in comic book form.
 
a graphic novel is basically just a collection of single issue comics no more differentiated from a volume or a compendium, only differing in length. you could call a volume of the walking dead a graphic novel by this definition, though some would disagree. being said, definitely a lot of interesting stuff when it comes to foreign markets that arent the us. france and spain have a decent bunch of them, like blacksad and the tintin, though those are just the ones people somewhat know about. obviously more interesting ones exist outside them. also the very obvious amount of high quality stuff from japan, with more good works than i can count with both hands. probably some interesting stuff coming from latin america and other countries, but i know less of their markets
 
Yuuichirou Kumada dijo:
Speaking of Disney, The Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck is a certified classic.
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those special ones are all of good quality, but they dont come close to the greatness we have in europe when it comes to the ducks. we have a monthly book in a thicc manga form factor and some of those duck stories are much better than the special ones you anglos get
 
The only graphic novel I've ever read was Bone and part of RASL by Jeff Smith. I first encountered it because the first part was serialized in Disney Adventures magazines and I became enraptured by the art, humour, and story. Bone starts out 5/5 but I feel it gets unecessarily "epic" and convoluted by the end. It's worth checking out
 
Daytripper is about life & death and it's really sweet. Alan Moore's the Courtyard is also pretty cool, and the main character is incredibly based. You probably won't like Moore's other Lovecraft comics so you should probably avoid them.
 
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