WHERE’S SANDMAN????

I would add “Stitches” by David Small to this list. Dark and heartbreaking, but he is definitely a master of the genre, telling a great story with very few words.

If you have yet to read “Blankets” by Craig Thompson, you are remiss. His deft juxtaposition of his fundamentalist Christian upbringing and his coming-of-age first love makes for a poignant and bittersweet tale who’s inventive imagery haunts you long after you have finished the book.

These aren’t disturbingly brilliant, they’re disturbing and brilliant. You shouldn’t be disturbed by brilliance!!

And the new Habibi by Craig Thompson, which is the exact definition of disturbingly brilliant?

I was surprised that David B.’s Epileptic isn’t included. I’ve read almost all of the titles on the list, but Epileptic (for me) takes the disturbingly brilliant cake.

I wish that just once someone would make such a list and include the brilliant Rick Veitch’s Brat Pack. Just once! I can’t tell if these exclusions are because no one has read it or because I’m the only one who thinks it’s brilliant, both of which depress the hell out of me.

What about American Psycho, by Bret Easton Ellis? Thought it was highly entertaining and its undeniably graphic. I could barely get through some of the the graphic imagery without losing my stomach, but still couldn’t put the book down.

Nothing wrong with this list. I would add Jonathan Hickman’s “Nightly News”.

Stray Toasters * Bill Sienkiewicz. The story is mindbending and nobody illustrates like he does.

I second “Stitches,” and would add Phoebe Gleockner’s “The diary of a teenage girl”

Black Hole FTW

Horror Hospital Unplugged by Dennis Cooper and Keith Mayerson. Off the charts.

A good list. A few I’d add:
Preacher by Garth Ennnis
Three Fingers by Rich Koslowski
David Boring by Daniel Clowes
Torso by Brian Micheal Benis

“Like a Velvet Glove Cast in Iron” I think would be better for this than “Ghost World” in my opinion. That shit cray.

Palestine!

We will all have to wait till Harper Collins releases this baby 5/12, but check the 60 pg. sample of The Art of War graphic novel.

http://www.theartofwargraphicnovel.com/

search theartofwargraphicnoveldotcom

for the folks who said Sandman & Preacher… those are technically not Graphic Novels. They’re serials, even though they have a beginning/middle/end. But how about:

We3 by Grant Morrison!
The Killing Joke by Alan Moore!
Brat Pack by Rick Veitch!

I’m not sure how about 6/10 of these are particularly disturbing… Brilliant, sure, but disturbing? dunno. And if we’re just going with “graphic novels that elicit an emotional response for their surprising humanity,” Also add maybe the best GN of them all, Jeff Lemire’s ESSEX COUNTY.

barron storey’s marat sade journal is certainly to be included in this list.and its disturbing honesty combined with the fantastic art probably makes it the best of this bunch.its been an underground classic for years.
http://www.barronstorey.blogspot.com

how about ed the happy clown?

I “third” Stitches by David Small. It is haunting.

Once again: WHERE’S SANDMAN?

This list is amateurial, superficial and incomplete. Those who compiled it clearly don’t know anything besides the most obvious works (Maus and Watchmen) from the Eighties and Nineties (that could be called the Platinum Age of comics.

nice to see ken dahl getting some love… if anyone hasn’t read “Welcom to the DahlHouse,” you are missing out (even if it is not technically a novel).

also, i can’t believe flavorpill didn’t mention jeffrey brown’s work: “Clumsy,” “Funny Misshapen Body,” etc.

I would put Alack sinner, by Sampayo and Munoz; Barefoot gem , which inspired Art Spigelman work;Perramus, by Alberto Breccia;Le putain de guerre, by Jaques Tardi; anything by Liberatori and Tamborini; most of the work of Massimo Matioli;Like a velvet glove cast in iron,by Daniel Clowes,etc…The list would be endless and surely would not contemplate many so acquainted bestsellers of the USA and U.K…

Argentine,Brasil,Belgium,Spain,Portugal,Italy would kick ass on your list, most of the names so called great are nothing but a tiny speck of the enormous amount work thats been done in Europe and latin america, transgressing in art and story gender…The true heros would be small print, self-made works who scream autenticity.Not the mainstream complaient crap that some editors dictate that theres a public to sell it.Anyways,no doubt Fantagraphics has done a great job, bringing to general public good genuine artists of some other parts of the world.Cheers to Fantagraphics.

The Filth by Grant Morrison is disturbingly brilliant.

The Pantheon publicist at Random House was working overtime on this story.

WHERE’S SANDMAN ?????

you forgot everything written by brian wood.

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