Over at design website Core77, Dave Seliger lists what he thinks are the Seven Graphic Novels Every Designer Should Know:
When you’re at the next design firm holiday party and your co-workers are rambling on about the “complex psychological profiles” of the characters in Watchmen, you can speak up about the hottest graphic novel you just read (as recommended by the Core77 clogger team).
The choices are interesting – Akira, 100% by Paul Pope and the original two-color run of Casanova are all in there – but, of course, what sticks out for me are the books that didn’t make the list: No King City? No Parker? Of course, this kind of list exists for people to ask “But what about [Book X]?”, but it does make me wonder what books I’d put on this kind of list, and why (I mean, there has to be some Kirby on there, right? And something from Brendan McCarthy…). Hmm… What graphic novels/comics do you think deserve to be on any designers’ must-see list?
November 29th, 2011 at 4:03 pm
Three words: “Nightly.” Freaking. “News.” That book has the best design sense of any other book… and I adore everything on that list, but Hickman lays out a book better than anyone today.
November 29th, 2011 at 6:10 pm
Orc Stain is absolutely breathtaking!
November 30th, 2011 at 10:23 pm
It was hard to narrow down the list to only a handful, trust me! I covered King City in an earlier post (http://www.core77.com/blog/architecture/the_metropolis_in_comics_part_2_day_19487.asp), and although Parker is an absolutely beautiful book, I’m not sure it’s quintessential specifically for all designers.
I did completely forget Hickman though…woops…