Do you read comics?

[Trafalgar]

I used to read the Victor.

Unfortunately the comic is no more. It has ceased to to be. Expired and gone to meet it's maker. It's stiff. Bereft of life. It rests in peace. It's pushing up daises. It's shuffled off the mortal coin, run down the curtain and joined the bleedin' choir invisibile. THIS IS AN EX COMIC!!

I hope they replace it.

Deja vous?

 

[Left]

Not really since Calvin and Hobbes and The Far Side stopped.

 

[QuoVadisNation]

I read webcomics.. but I do not think web comics count. The closest thing to comics that I read are the Sunday Funnies.

 

[Catharsis]

ALL manga? I think you'll find, if you explore, that not all manga is Dragonball Z and Sailor Moon. There's some very intelligent and sophisticated material out there, as well, though it's often difficult to find because there's not much of an English-language market for it.

I don't like the drawing style. It's a remnant I've never been able to shake off.

 

[Erik Mesoy]

I read lots of comics! I posted a list of webcomics I read here a while back - maybe I'll find it - at the top were a bunch like El Goonish Shive, Schlock Mercenary, Queen of Wands, Gunnerkrigg Court, Questionable Content.

In print, I've read Calvin&Hobbes, a great deal of old Donald Duck print, various Sandman where available at the library, the first ten or so books of Ranma 1/2, the awesome Madam&Eve from South Africa, some Dilbert, and a bunch of miscellaneous old things lying around in various places.

 

[On Yer Flour]

I don't like the drawing style. It's a remnant I've never been able to shake off.

Not all manga has the same drawing style. There are a number of drawing styles that don't look terribly "manga-ish," but most of them are in books that never get translated into English.

 

[On Yer Flour]

I read webcomics.. but I do not think web comics count. The closest thing to comics that I read are the Sunday Funnies.

Why do webcomics not count? They're sequential art like any other, just published in a different medium.

 

[QuoVadisNation]

I'm sure there are a bunch of purists who would believe that to be the case. But specifically, I didn't include webcomics as a form of comic because you didn't mention webcomics in your introductory post! But, if you say they count, then I guess I do read comics.

 

[Integral]

Brought to you by the power of Google:

Spoiler :

First Tier
El Goonish Shive - wonderful stuff, written by an author running on what is called Liquid Genius, a highly controlled substance. Relationships, some magic, some sci-fi, lots of good writing, gender jokes, and an incredible degree of maturity both in the comic and the community. Very good. Promotes openmindedness.

Questionable Content - the art starts out strange and improves dramatically. There are a great many obscure references and lots of witty remarks. Geared towards a slightly older audience than EGS.

Irregular Webcomic - Puns. Lots of them. Bad puns. Many plotlines. Random tidbits of learning. Definitely something for everything. Cameos by the author in a way that doesn't mock the fourth wall.

Miracle of Science - mad science, futuristic setting, blogging authors, large amounts of cool. Sort of like seeing Matrix for the first time.

DMFA - Furries, lots of good jokes, a very continuous storyline.


Second Tier
Order of the Stick - D&D parody, but has become more general now.
Dominic Deegan - about a seer having to solve everybody's problems.
Schlock Mercenary - the name says most of it
General Protection Fault - whoof, the current storyline is long. Good comic.
Two Lumps - The lives two cats, with lots of dry humor.
Disassemblance - religious/social commentary and humor.
Vexxarr - stumbled across it recently, liked it. The adventures of some poor alien schmuck.
Bruno the Bandit - something of an inverse Asterix, only longer.
Casey and Andy - satire, insult, some mad science, no respect for continuity.
Freefall - very old, very good.

Third Tier - they're not really worse, I just can't be bothered to give more descriptions.
Queen of Wands
Rob and Elliot
Venus Envy
The Mansion of E
Gunnerkrigg Court
MISFILE
The Tao of Geek
8-Bit Theatre
Seraphic Blue
Zortic
The Joy of Tech
The Wotch
Sins
Inverloch
The Noob
No Rest for the Wicked
Abby's Agency
Ghastly's Ghastly Comic
TwoKinds
Exterminatus Now
Chugworth Academy
The Realm of Kaerwyn
Shadowfolk
Strange Candy
Comedity
Zebra Girl
Combustible Orange
Sparkling Generation Valkyrie Yuuki
Catena
Reuben Dante: Time Vagrant
Anime Arcadia
Alien Dice
Everything You Know is RIGHT!
Peter is the Wolf
Kagerou: An Electric Manga

Full thread is here.

I also read webcomics, though not as many as my Norwegian friend. My main five are:
Questionable Content (my first webcomic )
Lucid TV (A morbid, comic version of Scrubs)
El Goonish Shive (Just plain sick freakish comic)
xkcd (A webcomic of romance, sarcasm, math, and language.)
Piled Higher and Deeper (An awesome webcomic about grad school.)
...I check each of those daily. Not that they update daily, but I still check them that often.

The second tier includes about ten comics or so that I check once per week:
A Softer World
Achewood
Abstract Gender
The Wotch
Bunny
A Lesson Is Learned (on hiatus)
1/0 (finished; good archive)
Reality Machine
Basic Instructions
...among others.


-Integral

 

[Tee Kay]

I read lots of comics, especially manga. (doesn't mean I don't read books or is a geek or obsessed with comics, of course)

 

[Babbler]

Webcomics, because they are free (sort of). PvP, Penny Arcade, Starslip Crisis, xckd, etc.

 

[Godwynn]

I used to be a big fan of The Flash and Green Lantern.

 

[Ramius75]

Japanese Manga only, thou in a brief period of my life i do own and read comics like, Batman, Alf, What the, etc etc

 

[On Yer Flour]

Webcomics, because they are free (sort of). PvP, Penny Arcade, Starslip Crisis, xckd, etc.

xkcd has got to be one of the greatest stick figure comics of all time. The top spot is reserved for Matt Feazell's Cynicalman, though.

 

[RedRalph]

Viz, and I buy R. Crumb graphic novels (not in the strict sense of the term) every so often

 

[JZ_UK]

Manga only (well... a smidge of manhwa too)... Western comics just don't cut it...

Oh and a bundle of web comics... http://www.sinfest.net , http://www.threepanelsoul.com , http://www.machall.com , http://www.vgcats.com , http://www.duelinganalogs.com , http://www.wastedtalent.ca , http://crap.jinwicked.com/ , and theres more so much more... tis the devil's own play thing this interwebz... idle hands

Coincidently... does any one know the name of the one with the girl who does porn to make money to live think she has red hair, her best friend is a cat boy (blue-grey) who is faced with such moral dilemmas as "Is it wrong to watch porn with breakfast?" the villeiness-come-anti-heroine was a lesbian girl with one robotic arm (light brown hair)? I think it ended quite awhile ago... I just can't bring the name to mind... and believe it or not... its nowhere near as dirty as it sounds

 

[Phlegmak]

As someone working to start a career in comics, I'm curious to know whether my new cohorts here on CFC read comics! If so, what sort of comics do you read? Mainstream or underground manga? European bande dessinee albums? Superhero comics? Underground or indie comix, or graphic novels? What're your favorite titles? Are you hooked into the idea of comics as art and literature, or do you just like them for a light bit of fun? Do you collect?

I'm interested to see what response I get to this.

I read comics.

I read Knights of the Dinner table, primarily.

And then I read a small number of graphic novels. No superhero stuff. And sometimes I read Groo.

 

[IglooDame]

I have a couple hundred X-Men comics in a box somewhere from my late teens-early 20s, and a couple dozen Doonesbury books, and some Bloom County as well.

Nowadays I get daily doses of Dilbert, User Friendly, Evil Inc, El Goonish Shive, The Wotch, Dreamland Chronicles, SailorSun, Cheer!, Questionable Content, Abstract Gender, and Dimension Hopping on the web. I should hunt down Doonesbury, too.

 

[Swedishguy]

Western comics just don't cut it...

Way to shrug off 1/2 of the world!

 

[JZ_UK]

Way to shrug off 1/2 of the world!

Not half of the world... the whole world minus Japan and South Korea