Re: Variations on a theme

On 2008-03-17 19:52:16 -0700, "Joel Olson" <joel_olson@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> said:

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> "Kurt Busiek" <kurt@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
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>> On 2008-03-17 15:36:26 -0700, Konrad Gaertner <kgaertner@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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said:
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>>> Joel Olson wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> Are there more "graphic novels" like Girl Genius?
>>> 
>>> For print comics, there's Jeff Smith's _Bone_ series and Neil Gaiman's
>>> _Sandman_ series.
>> 
>> Those are graphic novels, but are they really "like Girl Genius"?  It
>> depends on whether Joel wants just "good fantasy comics" or
specifically
>> more gaslamp fantasy, or what, I guess.
>> 
>> Girl Genius is still continuing, of course -- so there'll be more in
the
>> series.
> 
> Just recently got all caught up. Would never have found it if not for
the
> posts here.
> 
> Could be a good format for more serious work.
> E.g. mix it with Numb3rs and illustrate some of those methods.

The graphic novel format's had a lot of more serious work, too -- 
movies like A HISTORY OF VIOLENCE and ROAD TO PERDITION were based on 
comics.

If you want a serious fantasy epic in graphic novel form, the SANDMAN 
books that Konrad mentioned would be a good one to try.  FABLES, too, 
might appeal to someone who enjoyed GIRL GENIUS, though it's a 
different kind of thing.

HELLBOY and its spinoff series, B.P.R.D., might be good choices, too.  
There are quite a few volumes ofthose.

kdb