World Comic Recomendations

In episode 51 of the podcast I chatted with Brad Brooks, cartoonist, comic scholar and & co-author of ‘The Essential Guide to World Comics’. It was a pretty wide ranging conversation covering Harvey Kurtzman, what makes comics so special and the pros and cons of digital drawing. I also asked Brad for some World comic recommendations and as well as the ones mentioned on the podcast he sent through a list of some other favourites:

Argentina

The Eternaut

by Hector German Oesterheld and Francisco Solano Lopez

(Fantagraphics)

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Mort Cinder

by Hector German Oesterheld and Alberto Breccia

(Fantagraphics)

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France

The Arab of the Future

by Riad Sattouf (Two Roads)

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France/Belgium

Imbattable (Invincible in English)
by Pascal Jousselin
(Dupuis/Europe Comics)

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The Golden Age

by Roxanne Moreil and Cyril Pedrosa
(Dupuis/Europe Comics)

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France/Iraq

Poppies from Iraq

by Brigitte Findakly and Lewis Trondheim

(Drawn and Quarterly)

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Malaysia/Singapore

The Art of Charlie Chan Hock Chye

by Sonny Liew

(Pantheon)

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Norway

Dunce
by Jens K. Styve (self-published)

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Spain

Twists of Fate

by Paco Roca
(Fantagraphics)

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US/Switzerland

Ceÿx Seys Ceix

by Kristen Haas Curtis

(self-published)

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Some other publishers to mention are:

Stripburger ( http://www.stripburger.org) in Slovenia

Kuš ( http://www.komikss.lv/) in Latvia

Strapazin ( https://strapazin.ch/) in Switzerland

as all of these publish comics from all over the world, many of them translated into English.

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And I’m going to sneak one in as well…

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Brazil

Two Brothers

by Fábio Moon and Gabriel Bá

(Dark Horse Horse Books)

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A huge thanks to Brad for sending these in.

Follow Brad on:

Instagram @ninthart 

and Twitter @ninthart

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Cheers,

This Man This Pete!