irritatingarchery asked: As someone who really loves when people experiment with the medium (Mike Allred's Madman being my favorite example recently) What are some of your favorite books from the past couple years that took advantage of the idea that you really can do just about anything with the comics form?
Hmm… I really liked that Ganges I read. That guy can draw his butt off. Asterios Polyp was pretty good. We3 has some of my favorite storytelling in comics.
You know, this isn’t quite what you mean, but I think Vagabond may be my favorite example of doing anything. The art’s great, excellent even, but what really stunned me about that series, more than everything else that stunned me about that series, was that Inoue got a 500-some page fight scene into the series and it doesn’t drag at all. It’s positively absurd—I bought the Vizbig volumes of Vagabond, 3 in 1 jobs, and the fight’s all in one volume. You start off with a fight and then some drama for the first 50-100 pages, and then Musashi walks down off a mountain and into a war and we’re off. The pacing, storytelling, art, all of that worked in concert so that Inoue could pull that off. That’s just crazy to me. I love it.
Sorry I couldn’t answer your question more directly, but I think this still sorta counts. I love Krazy Kat for its inventiveness, and it’s pushing 100 years old. I love Jack Kirby’s ’70s output for that same reason, and I love a lot of modern comics that same way. People keep finding new things to do, and I think that’s what I love, rather than any specific new thing.
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