what comics should I be reading?

[ursula]

My more ambitious weekend plans were derailed by a stronger-than-anticipated reaction to the updated Moderna vaccine (nothing major, I just wasn't anticipating anything more than a sore arm), so instead of cooking a complicated layered thing with polenta and eggplant, I ordered sushi and read the final volume of The Wicked + the Divine on the back deck, watching a combination of sunset and stormclouds illuminate the neighbor's fluffy pine.

This means I am out of comic! And--rare and fortunate in the present day--I have a really good local comic store on my walk home from work. What should I read next?

Some parameters:

• I'm finding I really like reading a longer arc one collected volume at a time.
  
• I haven't historically been a comics reader, so you can suggest obvious things.
  
• I'm not really into superheroes, and don't intend to start.
  

Comments

[fred_mouse]

Paper Girls - I think this is in five or six volumes, there might be an omnibus, finished story.

Ubby's Underdogs - no idea whether this will be available outside Australia. Three volumes, finished story. Set in Broome, Western Australia, when it was a pearling town, the Underdogs is a very mixed 'gang' of teenagers. Author is Indigenous.

Persepolis - lots of people love this, I struggle with the art work. Graphic memoir, Iranian revolution. Another difficult read is Maus which is the story of the author's parents surviving Jewish death camps in WWII Germany.

Stars In Their Eyes - another 'might only be in Australia' - this is a coming of age story with a teenager being taken to their first fan convention by their rather fannish parent. I think this is the only book by the author.

Check, Please! - also available as a webcomic. ?College? ice hockey team, mostly from the perspective of their one out queer character, who used to be a figure skater. Complete story collected in two volumes.

Fables - many collected volumes. The author has just put them all in the public domain, so you might be able to find electronic copies.

[catsidhe]

Fables - many collected volumes. The author has just put them all in the public domain, so you might be able to find electronic copies.

The author says he has, but he doesn't own the rights to the already published works, only to the characters, so it only allows new derivative works... only there's an argument that he doesn't have the right to allow that either, so DC may come after you anyway for your Fables fanfic.

[fred_mouse]

Ah! Thank you. I hadn't realised that was what was going on. I saw a reblog of a screencap of probably twitter, and have apparently taken the wrong info from it.