Reddit mentions: The best graphic novel anthologies

The DC Showcase collections are a good source of cheap reprints of suitable silver age comics such as Batman and Superman, and also - as per the Goosebumps connections - some of their 60s/70s supernatural titles like House of Mystery, Ghosts and The Witching Hour. Here's the Ghosts volume, which is 512 pages for $12 - great value. I wouldn't imagine any of the Showcase volumes would be inappropriate (I'm in the UK, but I'm thinking grade 3 is around 9 years old?). Marvel have their cheap paperback equivalents, and I'm sure classic Spider-Man would be a hit.

I also think you can't go wrong with Carl Barks' Donald Duck strips, and Fantagraphics have just launched the first in a new series of reprints of those, starting with the excellent Lost in the Andes - if you don't have access to that your local library might have some Barks stuff in a Duck Tales collection or the like. These stories are wonderfully told and genuinely funny.

Returning to the supernatural angle, at around age 9 I was fascinated by a Little Archie digest I picked up. Little Archie stories usually revolve around spooky plots and - in the 70s, at least - they were imaginative and well done. Older Archie stories in general I think are a good bet, but Little Archie brings the mind-bending horror (I still reread a great story about a mad artist trapping people in his paintings for decades).

You might also consider the recent collection of Dick Briefer's Frankenstein or Bob Powell's Terror. These are all collected editions - I'm afraid I don't have much info on current releases that might be suitable - but may be worth checking your library for.

And finally here are my top (and lavish) selections for young readers - Golden Collection of Krazy Kool Klassic Kids' Komics and The TOON Treasury of Classic Children's Comics - both are excellent collections of classic strips.

And really finally, as the last link just reminded me of it, check out Little Lit - Art Spiegelman's collection with modern creators doing new comics aimed at kids, with quality results. That's a link to a compilation of the best, but there are themed single editions.

some of the big influences to these guys are Chester Brown's Yummy Fur, Art Spiegleman's Raw magazine, Love and Rockets.
I think Chris Ware was first published in Raw magazine. It's also the place that Spiegleman's Pulitzer Prize Special Awarded Maus (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maus) was first published. Love and Rockets was very influential to Adrien Tomine. Chester Brown was a very well respected comic creator in the 80's.
An anthology of graphic fiction (http://www.amazon.com/Anthology-Graphic-Fiction-Cartoons-Stories/dp/0300111703) is a great place to see many great alternative creators.

Hmmm. I'm not familiar with the comics you mentioned to be honest, and I didn't look through all of the contributors, but it seemed like this book was framed more as a collection of current comics rather than older stuff -- in the video they talk about looking at this as a sort of "follow-up" to last year's publication "No Straight Lines" which had work from the past four decades (though I'm not sure if that collection included the ones you mentioned either, I haven't gotten through it yet). Really, I think it's just that there's SO MUCH good stuff out there. I was a bit bummed not to see a few of my favorites, especially some younger queer comics artists like Erika Moen and Melanie Gillman. Hopefully we will see more anthologies like this and further coverage!

Just went back to check. I was incorrect on a few things bookwise. Winsor McCay was American, not French, and it wasn't a graphic novel but actually a weekly full-page newspaper cartoon.

Looks like this is your best bet if you want to see it all, or else [this](
https://www.amazon.com/Little-Slumberland-1906-1907-Comic-Anthology/dp/1449576974/ref=sr_1_4?ie=UTF8&qid=1486416948&sr=8-4&keywords=little+nemo) is a considerably cheaper but less comprehensive collection.

Otherwise just search for comic collections by Winsor McCay and find one that suits.

Movie-wise, this is the drug-fueled plot-loose movie based on the newspaper cartoon.

Hope that helps!

The biggest problem you have is that "graphic novel" isn't a genre, but a type of media. Imagine that someone came up to you and said "I want to start watching movies. Where should I start?" Your first question would probably be, "That depends, what kind of stories do you like?"

So, I would start by figuring this out. Go to your local library and grab:

• whatever looks interesting
  
• whatever looks weird
  
• some anthologies and
  
• some books of recommendations
  
  Some good anthologies are:
  
  
• Best American Comics (any year)
  
• An Anthology of Graphic Fiction, Cartoons and True Stories
  
• McSweeney's Issue 13
  
  Some recommendations for books of recommendations are:
  
  
• 500 Essential Graphic Novels
  
• 1001 Comics You Must Read Before You Die
  
  Once you have read a few graphic novels, you will start to see the same names coming up, and know what you enjoy and what you hate, and you'll have a better idea of what to start looking at next.
  
  Have fun!

This would be really cool!

https://www.amazon.de/1001-Comics-Must-Read-Before/dp/0789327317

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Nobody has put together such a nice resource like the one you link, but you can just start diving into the books that are out there. Anthologies are good. Here’s a great one that I bought for full price when it came out and now it’s available used for DIRT CHEAP: https://smile.amazon.com/dp/1932416080

This one too is amazing and dirt cheap: https://smile.amazon.com/gp/offer-listing/0300111703/ref=tmm_hrd_used_olp_sr?ie=UTF8&condition=used&qid=&sr=

Try Nobrow 10: https://copaceticcomics.com/comics/nobrow-10

And the NOW series by Fantagraphics.

You should definitely read The Comics Journal, http://tcj.com – and if possible, any of the physical TCJ back issues.

The biggest publishers of art comics are Fantagraphics and Drawn and Quarterly. There is also Nobrow, Koyama, 2D Cloud, and many others. Look at their various web sites

See if you have an altcomix based book store in your town, which is more likely if you in one of North America’s bookish northern cities. Seattle has the Fantagraphics store, Pittsburgh has the mighty Copacetic Comics, Brooklyn has (edit: Desert Island), Chicago has Quimby’s, Montreal has Drawn and Quarterly...

For what you're talking about specifically, you might try looking at the Best American Comics anthologies. Here is the 2017 edition, for example. I'm sure there are great periodicals dedicated only to that, but I don't know—some are probably mentioned in the anthologies. As for short fiction in general (not illustrated), a few literary magazines that are popular these days that are a little varied in flavor include:

Online:

• Paper Darts
  
• Hobart
  
• Diagram
  
• Pank
  
  Print:
  
• Noon
  
• Tin House
  
• A Public Space
  
• McSweeney's Quarterly Concern
  
• Ploughshares
  
  A lot of different work appears in these sorts of mags, and they're not quite what you're talking about, but if you want to just see a bit more of what contemporary literary short fiction is out there, I suppose these are good places to start.

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I'mll recommend you get the 1st Mad comic book! It's free 50's humor :) A real classic and one of my favorites

*oh ya! I ain't birthed no babies! and Happy Birfday :D

Kind of Bloop: An 8-Bit Tribute to Miles Davis

Kickstarter
Place you can buy it

Off Your Rocker

Kickstarter
Place you can buy it

Designing Obama (originally a book but the book's almost sold out but they still have it as an ipad app)

Kickstarter

the book
[the ipad app] (http://itunes.apple.com/app/designing-obama/id385022145?mt=8)

Diamond Trust of London

Kickstarter
place to buy it

Womanthology (an all female comic)

Kickstarter
[Amazon Hardcover] (http://www.amazon.com/Womanthology-Heroic-Ann-Nocenti/dp/1613771479)

Also I know one guy who made a blog and another who made an online magazine through kickstarter. Both are free on the web.

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Maybe one of the American Splendor books? Our Cancer Year, about Pekar's struggle with lymphoma, was pretty good, but the anthology provides a good overview of the series, and the small struggles in everyday life. She might be able to spin something from Pekar's ill-tempered, cynical, and yet wholly intriguing narration style, how, "ordinary life is pretty complex stuff".

She sounds like an awesome teacher, and maybe towards the end of the year she can get the kids involved with a class zine or comic, writing, illustrating, editing, and all that.

Saw this on Amazon; it's illustrated versions of classic Western stories by some great authors. I have the Edgar Allan Poe book by the same people and it's pretty cool.

Have you tried publishing some of it in pieces?

A section in something like this could lead to something like this.

It's long so it's going to be a while looking over. But in the meantime kudos for even fucking finishing. That's a battle, and you won.

I am surprised no one has mentioned American Splendor here. Harvey Pekar's stories of normal life in Cleveland should be the gold standard of "great realistic graphic novels that deal with normal things."

Start here!

I'm sorry I missed this!

It's a remarkable strip, and very well-liked by many in the world of First World War studies. I assume you're looking at this recent Titan Books reprint that's been made widely available (but do correct me if I'm wrong!). It's a great starting point for the series as a whole, which currently runs to some ten hardcover volumes; this one collects most of volumes 1 through 4.

The series is very "realistic" in its depictions of how appalling conditions in the trenches and how chaotic such combat could be, and it is very much focused on the experience of the regular fighting man rather than the wider geopolitical ramifications of everything. It's one of the very few comic strips I've ever heard of to have been given an official research budget, in any event, so I hope that gives you some impression of how seriously Mills and Colquhoun took their business. Still, it's very much a part of the long-established "mud, blood, and futility" school of First World War works, so take that for whatever it may mean to your father.

In short, I would very happily recommend it, and also very happily own it. Another such work that might be very much looking into is Jacques Tardi's It Was the War of the Trenches and Goddamn This War!, both of which are amazing and both of which have recently been republished (and translated into English) in a handsome two-volume hardcover.

I do not really recommend Joe Sacco's The Great War, but it's still an impressive work for all its flaws.

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I haven't read it, but Graphic Witness: Four Wordless Graphic Novels looks interesting and is supposedly good. I might pick up a copy.

This reminded me of The Graphic Cannon. It's basically a text book of fairy tales, letters, folklore and even bible scripture, all drawn into comics. Very interesting and great for those who are just getting into comics.

http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/1609803760

A Chapo Guide to Revolution and Anarchy Comics: The Complete Edition are good places to start. I've also seen people recommend The ABCs of Socialism, but I haven't read it so I can only say I've seen others say it's good.

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https://www.amazon.com/Chapo-Guide-Revolution-Manifesto-Against/dp/1501187287

https://www.amazon.com/Anarchy-Comics-Collection-Jay-Kinney/dp/1604865318/

I love this book: Cartooning by Ivan Brunetti.

He's obviously talking about cartooning as opposed to serious illustration, but this book teaches visual storytelling better than any other course I've seen. (The book is his complete 15-week course.)

This book by Ivan Brunetti is a terrific cartooning book. It’s based on a course curriculum so it’s filled with exercises that stretch that part of your brain.

I picked this up cheap recently and it's really cool. It's an anthology of extracts from famous literary pieces throughout history. Some of it is done especially for the book and some is taken from already existing graphic adaptations.

You can start with a little levity.

Anarchy Comics: The Complete Collection edited by Jay Kinney covers much of anarchist history in comic book form.

Or you can have them read Orwell on Anarchism and see if it gets them curious.