The COMICS LIST

First off the semantics of this is frustrating, TPB v Graphic Novel v. Comic Book Comic Strips v The Funnies v Cartoons v Manga v Comics v Seqential Art...ok ok...in portest I will try to stay in the rules of graphic noves...this leves out a hell of a lot of great comics made over the past 100 plus years....bat anyway...actually I don't get the rules so whatever...ZAK started it...

Jim Woodring (Best comic ever been and ever will be made)

• The Frank Book

Chris Ware (All around top of the game today...above statement aside)

• Acme Novelty Library

Chris Claremont, Alen Davis, Mark Silvestri, Dave Mazzucchelli, Bill Sienkiewicz, Frank Miller and friends (The Men who made mine Marvel)

• Uncanny X-Men


• Excalibur


• Captain Britain


• Wolverine


• Kitty Pride and Wolverine


• Electra Assassin


• Batman: The Dark Knight


• Dare Devil


• Sin City: Family Values


• The Dark Knight


• Batman: Year One

Los Hernandez Bro. (No one is closer to my aesthetic tastes...)

Love and Rockets

Penny Century

Dan Clowes (The one who gives Ware a run for his money)

• Daniel Boring


• Ice Heaven


• Ghost World

George Herriman (The one who made the best of comics first)

• Krazy Katz

Alen Moore (Still the best writer in the business)

• Watchman


• Promethea


• Tom Strong


• From Hell

Adrian Tomine (The one I am jealous of and feel the strongest bond to through his work)

• Optic Nerve

Gruenwald and Ryan (Pure simple strip down grounded superhero stories)

• D.P.7

Hergé (The international genius)

• Tin Tin

Bill Watterson (The best a strip has ever been)

• Calvin and Hobbs

Joe Matt (From out of no ware a wonderful book)

• Fair Weather

Wendy and Richard Pini (I thought I was part wolf and part elf for a time)

• Elf Quest

Sparky Shultz with Seth (Seth has reframed his genius so I can see what everyone else sees...pure comics)

• The Complete Penutes

Jack Kirby (My favorite of the King of comics)

• Kamandi: The Last Boy on Earth

Harvey Kurtzman and friends (These were the real stars of comics in the 50's and 60's)

• Humbug

Jeff Loeb and Tim Sale (They are like the wonder twins...but amazingly good)

• Batman: Long Halloween

Jessica Abel (A good cartoonist, but even a better teacher...this book is a wonderful lesson)

• La Perdida

Warren Ellis and Bryan Hitch (Visually stunning with a hint of guts)

• The Authority

Ann Nocenti and Art Adems (One of my favorite characters ever at his conception)

• Longshot

jason (Poetry...typically without words...thank goodness he is prolific)

• Tell Me Something


• Why Are You Doing This?


• The Left Bank Gang

Katsuhiro Otomo ( I am ashamed to say this is the best of what Japan has to offer in my opinion based on ignorance...even though I admire the Japanese comic industry so much)

• Akira

Darwyn Cooke's (This is how DC hero's should be...plain and simple...I want to read his stint on the Spirit...)

• The New Frontier