Revolutionary Comic Books/Graphic Novels

52 replies

Jan 5 2006

Joined: 29 Dec 05

Anybody know of any interesting comics? Ive been reading V for Vendetta lately and now im obsessed with political comics. Mr. T

Jan 5 2006

quint

Joined: 20 Dec 05

there is a short comicbook/manifesto in PDF on www.prole.info available in english and swedish. check it out.

Jan 5 2006

Joined: 12 Aug 04

Supaskyka wrote:

Anybody know of any interesting comics?

There's a decent one about palestine, on my shelf, by Joe Sacco, i think the title might be Palestine.

There's plenty of zines out there, try looking for Simon Gain, for anarcho punk style. Anti-state tortoise, Rocks!

Jan 5 2006

rkn

Joined: 17 Jul 06

Not nessecarily "revolutionary", but damn interesting:

Anything by Joe Sacco - amazon link. Esp. his Palestine stuff, but all his other stuff is amazing as well (mostly on Bosnia).

And the two 'Perseopolis' comics by Marjane Satrapi are fascinating (about a girl growing up and experiencing Iranian Revolution etc.): amazon link

Oh and obviously Art Spigelman's 'Maus' - amazon link

I'd be interested in people's recomendations as well!

Jan 5 2006

Lazy Riser

Joined: 6 May 05

"V for Vendetta" is wicked. I thought "Watchmen" had lots of politcal overtones, if you liked V, you'll love Watchmen.

I also found the Halo Jones stuff quite politically interesting (especially given my cornucopia technology fetish, ha ha used the word). Anything involving faster than light travel ususally requires a communist (open market ultra-left communist, that is) economy somewhere.

Don't get me started on the Vulcans, whoops to late. It's no coincidence that the Ferengi were the last planet to achieve warp capability and also the only Capitalist civilsation that have ever done so. Unlike other societies they bribed unscrupulous traders (using half their planet or something) to contravene the Prime Directive and give them warp technology even though they didn’t meet the criteria required (world government, peace, egalitariansm, prosperity).

Love

Jan 5 2006

jimmer

Joined: 30 Apr 06

rkn wrote:

And the two 'Perseopolis' comics by Marjane Satrapi are fascinating (about a girl growing up and experiencing Iranian Revolution etc.): amazon link

Have you got them? They sound well interesting!

Jan 5 2006

Lazy Riser

Joined: 6 May 05

I'm going to love this thread, I feel it in my bones.

Judge Dredd, "America". Some of Pat Mill's ABC Warriors on Mars is pretty good too.

"Nemesis the Warlock" for all you Chaos Magick Pagan types.

Love

Jan 5 2006

MalFunction

Joined: 31 Oct 03

Jack Daniel's "Breaking Free" pub by Attack International

(TinTin as you don't normally see him.)

on-line version here:

http://tintinrevolution.free.fr/

Jan 5 2006

martinh

Joined: 8 Mar 06

Lazy Riser wrote:

Hi
"V for Vendetta" is wicked. I thought "Watchmen" had lots of politcal overtones, if you liked V, you'll love Watchmen.

I also found the Halo Jones stuff quite politically interesting (especially given my cornucopia technology fetish, ha ha used the word). Anything involving faster than light travel ususally requires a communist (open market ultra-left communist, that is) economy somewhere.

LR

Hi LR,

I concur. On the comics that is. Halo Jones was ace. Politically interesting stuff touched on there leads onto Ken Macleod's SF - you a fan?

As for political stuff, my other half's brother had a compendium of the Boondocks, which I read over New Year. Really good and really funny. Ageing grandpa moves with his 2 African-American grandsons to a white suburb of Chicago. The elder grandson is a revolutionary black leftist, the younger wants to be a "gangsta". Hilarious.

And for everyday political stuff with a sort of punk rock take on the world, you can do no worse than Love and Rockets, from the same era as LR is writing about.

Regards

Martin

Jan 5 2006

revol68

Joined: 23 Feb 04

MalFunction wrote:

Jack Daniel's "Breaking Free" pub by Attack International
(TinTin as you don't normally see him.)

on-line version here:

http://tintinrevolution.free.fr/

oh god that comic is so woeful

Jan 5 2006

#10

Lazy Riser

Joined: 6 May 05

HI rkn

Thanks for reminding me that you can get all these things from Amazon, I can heartedly recommend that you consider the following….

Watchmen

Halo Jones

Judge Dredd - America

And one more, 2000 AD’s homage to CW…

Judge Dredd – Total War

Quote:

Anti-Justice department terrorists Total War have been a thorn in the sides of the Judges for many years, but when they threaten to nuke the city unless the Judges stand down, a race against time begins for Dredd: he must find the bombers before it's too late.

Love

Jan 5 2006

#11

rkn

Joined: 17 Jul 06

revol68 wrote:

oh god that comic is so woeful

Aw c'mon its hilarious!

Lazy Riser wrote:

Thanks for reminding me that you can get all these things from Amazon,

You can indeed, thx for the nice links!

Jimmer wrote:

Have you got them? They sound well interesting!

I do have them, but i just looked in my room and cant find them... maybe i lent them to zobag or they are in my other abode or something! When and if i find them i will let u know...

Jan 5 2006

#12

zobag

Joined: 19 Sep 03

Yeah my mum's got the Persepolis books at the moment, I'll grab then next time I see her.

Jan 5 2006

#13

Steven.

Joined: 27 Jun 06

Lazy Riser wrote:

HI rkn
Thanks for reminding me that you can get all these things from Amazon, I can heartedly recommend that you consider the following….

LR

If you do get stuff from amazon, remember to buy it going there first from our link here! http://libcom.org/library

Jan 5 2006

#14

rkn

Joined: 17 Jul 06

John roll eyes Look at LR's links again tongue

Jan 6 2006

#15

Supaskyka

Joined: 29 Dec 05

Lazy Riser wrote:

Hi
"V for Vendetta" is wicked. I thought "Watchmen" had lots of politcal overtones, if you liked V, you'll love Watchmen.

I also found the Halo Jones stuff quite politically interesting (especially given my cornucopia technology fetish, ha ha used the word). Anything involving faster than light travel ususally requires a communist (open market ultra-left communist, that is) economy somewhere.

Don't get me started on the Vulcans, whoops to late. It's no coincidence that the Ferengi were the last planet to achieve warp capability and also the only Capitalist civilsation that have ever done so. Unlike other societies they bribed unscrupulous traders (using half their planet or something) to contravene the Prime Directive and give them warp technology even though they didn’t meet the criteria required (world government, peace, egalitariansm, prosperity).

Love

LR

Hell yes V for Vendetta was badass. I downloaded the whole collection on bittorrent. Hollywood is making a movie off of it, but it seems like they might butcher it. http://vforvendetta.warnerbros.com

Ill be trying to get my hands on Watchmen now grin

Jan 6 2006

#16

rebel_lion

Joined: 29 Sep 03

"V for Vendetta" is fucking 8) but i'm certain that Hollywood (if the film ever comes out) will utterly destroy it, just like every other adaptation they've tried to do of any of the great Alan Moore's work...

Moore's "Swamp Thing" (published by DC/Vertigo, who i think also did the trade paperback edition of "V") is also pretty fucking cool if you like intelligent, satirical horror/esoterica stuff with environmentalist undertones, and riffs on "standard" horror concepts like vampires, werewolves, zombies etc used to comment on stuff like gender relations, nuclear power and the US's slave history, while all building into a great big gnostic/Order vs Chaos cosmology type thing...

Grant Morrison is the other big Vertigo author worth checking out, tho he takes the trippy/postmodern stuff a bit further, and obviously did a lot of acid... actually, i'm pretty sure they both did... "The Invisibles" (which i've only read the first volume of) is probably his most famous work, which covers some very anarchist themes, again woven into a sort of gnostic/higher-consciousness/conspiracy-theory-of-history narrative... King Mob rocks 8) He has also done some ecology/animal-rights themed stuff ("We3", "Animal Man") and some just plain insane stuff ("The Filth", "Doom Patrol")...

Alan Grant also put a character into the Batman comics called "Anarky", who was basically a kid genius anarchist superhero... slightly cheesy and embarrassing, but actually one of my first encounters with the concept of anarchism, so poss worth mentioning... also that story arc introduced me to Darkseid and the New Gods and that whole mythos created by Jack "King" Kirby, which is worth checking out for anyone who likes Star Wars, Greek mythology and mad 60s hippy shit (or who likes a really, really badass, evil supervillain/Lord of Order/total antithesis of life and freedom type character... Darkseid Is )...

probably plenty of other stuff i can't think of riht now, but will think of later... i'd like to discover more anarchically aligned indie comics tho...

Jan 6 2006

#17

knightrose

Joined: 8 Nov 03

V for Vendetta was originally published in Warrior. If you can find copies, get them. It's also worth reading for Marvelman, which was an update on the 50s Marvelman comic, itself a British adaptation of the cancelled US Captain Mazrvel. There was loads of other good stuff in it - it's where Moore and co really got started.

Jan 6 2006

#18

knightrose

Joined: 8 Nov 03

Check out this link for more on Warrior - http://www.internationalhero.co.uk/w/warriorcomic.htm

Jan 6 2006

#19

Lazy Riser

Joined: 6 May 05

I love your posts knightrose. Would you do another of your "when I was in Solidarity" threads please?

Warm regards

Jan 6 2006

#20

knightrose

Joined: 8 Nov 03

Sorry LR, I think I exhausted that one. Posts like that need wet Saturday afternoons with nothing else to do .... Fortunately they don't occur that often.

Jan 7 2006

#21

georgestapleton

Joined: 4 Aug 05

Best book on communism ever and it's a comic!!! eek eek

http://www.authentichistory.com/images/1960s/treasure_chest/cover_01.html

Jan 7 2006

#22

Supaskyka

Joined: 29 Dec 05

georgestapleton wrote:

Best book on communism ever and it's a comic!!!
http://www.authentichistory.com/images/1960s/treasure_chest/cover_01.html

oh god.

Jan 7 2006

#23

rkn

Joined: 17 Jul 06

Oh i just remembered - when i was a a kid my dad gave me the Communist Manifesto in comic book form which was published in the 70s in Mexico... was fucking cool

Jan 7 2006

#24

Lazy Riser

Joined: 6 May 05

Quote:

http://www.authentichistory.com/images/1960s/treasure_chest/cover_01.html

Fantastic! I felt myself being converted to Stalinism by this, especially by the "welding wife". Interesting how “Godlessness” was presented as the major threat.

Loved Hegel and the Lederhosen too.

Anyway, lots of love etc.