Oh man Joe Sacco changed my life, I picked up Palestine years ago and it changed the way I look at the Israel/ Palestine issue forever.
Safe Area Gorazde and The Fixer. amazing books. I’ve read them so many times. My copy of Palestine is so beaten up from lending it to people in order to indoctrinate them to the cause.
He’s an amazing artist and Writer.
Jar of Fools sounds good, I’ll track it down.
I haven’t gotten around to March yet, looks good though.
Same with Berlin, and Carnet De Voyage. They are on my list.
Best books I’ve read recently are:
Patience, by Daniel Clowes. Easily his best (and angriest weirdly)
Killing And Dying by Adrian Tomine. (short stories)
Fante Bukowski V1 V2 V3, Noah Van Sciver (funny, well crafted, well written)
Pyongyang, by Guy Delisle, memoir about his time in North Korea. Light but good.
Flayed Corpse, josh Simmons, collection of horror comics, really inventive, nihilistic(but in an interesting way, great stories. Horror isn’t my thing usually, but this is a good one, a few of the stories have really stuck with me
Disquiet, Noah Van Sciver.
My favorite cartoonist at the moment though is a guy called Sammy Harkham.
His stuff isn’t the easiest to find, and there isn’t that much of it. But if you can get your hands on all the issues of his comic “Crickets”, or his collection of work called “Everything Together”
it’s worth it. Beautiful artist. His work looks loose but there is never a line out of place. And structurally he is really something.
He Also edits an Anthology called Kramer’s Ergot, which is easily the best comic anthology out there. Vol 10 just came out, and everything from 7 up is awesome.
It’s a really carefully curated anthology, some of it really isn’t my thing, some of it is pretty challenging in terms of form, but It’s all high quality.
Pssst, if you have an iPad, I could ‘Lend’ you some of this stuff, I tend to try before I buy. So I have a fair bit that’s digital. Let me know.