Interesting List from
The Comics Reporter
1000 Things to Like About Comics
posted March 23, 2005
1. "A Glass of Water," Grant Morrison, Dave McKean
2. "And the Trumpets They Played," Al Columbia
3. "Auld Lang Syne," by Eddie Campbell
4. "Bring Me The Head Of Boba Fett," Evan Dorkin
5. "Caricature," Daniel Clowes
6. "Fearless Flint" in Famous Funnies
7. "For the Love of Carmen," Gilbert Hernandez
8. "For The Man Who Has Everything," Alan Moore, Dave Gibbons
9. "Goofy Fleeing Napalm," Tom Toles
10. "Gynecology," Daniel Clowes
11. "Heliogobalus," Neil Gaiman
12. "Here," Richard McGuire
13. "Hold Me," Neil Gaiman and Dave McKean
14. "Hunter and Painter," Tom Gauld
15. "I Think I Was an Alcoholic Waiting to Happen," John Callahan
16. "I Was Killing When Killing Wasn't Cool," Al Columbia
17. "Jack London," Jessica Abel
18. "Lincoln Weeping" cartoon by Bill Mauldin
19. "Magic Kingdom," Carol Swain
20. "Man O' Metal" in Heroic
21. "Master Race," Bernard Krigstein and Al Feldstein
22. "Minnie's 3rd Love" (1994), Phoebe Gloeckner
23. "No Erect Penises," Jeff Johnson
24. "Pictopia," Alan Moore and Don Simpson
25. "Red Flowers" by Yoshiharu Tsuge
26. "Rules to Live By," Jason Lutes
27. "Sam," John Porcellino
28. "Short Story," The Langridge Brothers
29. "Sidetrack City," Kaz
30. "Speak For Yourself and Not For Reality!"
31. "Tear It Up, Terry Downe," Jaime Hernandez
32. "That's Life," Robert Crumb
33. "The Big 'IF,'" Harvey Kurtzman
34. "The Bowing Machine" by Mark Beyer and Alan Moore
35. "The Boy Who Breathed on the Glass at The British Museum," H.M. Bateman
36. "The Crush," Alison Bechdel
37. "The Girl Who Tempted Me," Joe Simon and Jack Kirby
38. "The Hannah Story," Carol Tyler
39. "The Last Flower," James Thurber
40. "The Little Man with the Eyes," Crockett Johnson
41. "The Little Man," Chester Brown
42. "The Most Important Thing," Graham Chaffee
43. "The Most Obvious Question" by Lynda Barry
44. "The Oak Sorrow," Blanquet
45. "The Pyjama Girl," Eddie Campbell
46. "Two Storms," by Glenn Dakin
47. "View of the World From 9th Avenue," Saul Steinberg
48. "Whatever Happened to the Man of Tomorrow?" Alan Moore, Curt Swan, George Perez
49. "Where Has It Gone, the Beautiful Music of Our Grandparents?" by Robert Crumb
50. "White Nightmare," Moebius
51. "Witch," by Andi Watson
52. (a suivre)
53. 100, Matsumoto Taiyo
54. 2000 AD
55. 2001, Jack Kirby
56. 24/7/365, You Can Read Something New About Comics
57. 24-Hour Comics
58. 28th Street, Kevin Huizenga
59. 42 Stories, Adrian Tomine
60. 5 is the Perfect Number, Igort
61. A Child's Story, Phoebe Gloeckner
62. A Contract with God, Will Eisner
63. A Harlot's Progress, William Hogarth
64. A Life Force, Will Eisner
65. A Major Cartoonist Sitting in Artist's Alley
66. A Sailor's Story, Sam Glanzman
67. Abe: Wrong for the Right Reasons, Glenn Dakin
68. Abie the Agent, Harry Hershfield
69. Aces High
70. Action Comics, Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster
71. Adele Blanc-Sec, Jacques Tardi
72. After the Snooter, Eddie Campbell
73. Agony in the Kindergarten, William Steig
74. Agony, Mark Beyer
75. Agrippine, Claire Bretecher
76. Air Pirates
77. Akira, Katushiro Otomo
78. Al Wiseman's Dennis the Menace Comics
79. Albert et Les Autres, Guy Delisle
80. Albuquerque Ben, Richard P. Butler
81. All In Line, Saul Steinberg
82. Alley Oop, V.T. Hamlin
83. Amazing Spider-Man #1-38 Steve Ditko and Stan Lee
84. Amazing Spider-Man #39-122, Various
85. American Flagg!, Howard Chaykin
86. American Splendor, Harvey Pekar
87. Ames Soeur, Jean-Jacques Sempe
88. Amphigorey Volumes, Edward Gorey
89. Anarchy Comics
90. And on the Eighth Day, Abner Dean
91. Andy Capp: Drunk, Wife-Beating Adulterer
92. Angouleme
93. Angry Youth Comics, Johnny Ryan
94. Animal Man, Grant Morrison et al
95. Any Similarities... Drew and Josh Friedman
96. Arcade
97. Arcade, World's Least Cost-Efficient Assassin
98. Art Moderne, Joost Swarte
99. Artichoke, Megan Kelso
100. Arzach, Moebius
101. As I See, Boris Artzybasheff
102. Asterix, Rene Goscinny and Albert Udozo
103. Astronauts in Trouble, Larry Young et al
104. Atlas, Dylan Horrocks
105. Attuma
106. Au Coeur Du Monde, Fabio
107. B. Krigstein, Greg Sadowski
108. B.E.M., Matti Hegelberg
109. Bacchus, Eddie Campbell
110. Bad Boys, JR Williams
111. Barkis, Crockett Johnson
112. Barnaby, Crockett Johnson
113. Barney Google (and Snuffy Smith) Billy DeBeck
114. Batman, Bob Kane's Various Hired Hands
115. Batman: Year One, Frank Miller and David Mazzcchelli
116. Be a Man, Jeffrey Brown
117. Beetle Bailey, Mort Walker
118. Behind Moroccan Walls, Boris Artzybasheff
119. Beppo the Super-Monkey
120. Berlin, Jason Lutes
121. Bern and Edwina, Pat Moriarity
122. Betsy and Me, Jack Cole
123. Betty and Veronica, Dan DeCarlo
124. Biff, Chris Garrett and Mick Kidd
125. Big Numbers, Alan Moore, Bill Sienkiewicz
126. Big Questions, Anders Nilsen
127. Bill & Ted's Excellent Comic, Evan Dorkin
128. Billie Holiday, Jose Munoz and Carlos Sampayo
129. Binky Brown Meets the Holy Virgin Mary, Justin Green
130. Biologic Show, Al Columbia
131. Bizarro World, Hanging in Space, a Cube
132. Blab!
133. Black Aquaman
134. Black Diamond Western
135. Black Hole, Charles Burns
136. Black Magic
137. Black Panther, Jack Kirby
138. Black Terror, Mort Meskin, Jerry Robinson
139. Blazing Combat, Archie Goodwin et al
140. Blondie, Chic Young
141. Blood and Thunder, in Its Heyday
142. Blue Spring, Taiyo Matsumoto
143. Blueberry, Jean Giraud
144. Bob Fingerman at the End of San Diego Cons
145. Bone, Jeff Smith
146. Boob McNutt, Rube Goldberg
147. Boom Boom, David Lasky
148. Bootsie, Ollie Harrington
149. Botchan No Jidai, Natsuo Sekikawa, Jiro Taniguchi
150. Bottle Fatigue, Virgil Partch
151. Boulevard of Broken Dreams, Kim Deitch
152. Box, Brian Sendelbach
153. Boy Comics, Charles Biro and Norman Maurer
154. Boy Loves Girl
155. Boys' Ranch, Jack Kirby and Joe Simon
156. Bravo for Adventure, Alex Toth
157. Breakdowns, Art Spiegelman
158. Breakfast After Noon, Andi Watson
159. Bringing up Father, George McManus
160. Brouillard Au Pont De Tolbiac, Jacques Tardi
161. Brute and Glob
162. Brynocki
163. Bud Plant Ads on the Backs of Magazines
164. Buddha, Osamu Tezuka
165. Bull Dawson
166. Buscavidas, Alberto Breccia
167. Buying Back Issues From Ads in Comic Books
168. Buying Back Issues On-Line
169. Buz Sawyer, Roy Crane
170. Cable Drinking Coffee for an Entire Page
171. Cadbury
172. Cages, Dave McKean
173. Calvin and Hobbes, Bill Watterson
174. Cap Stubbs and Tippie, Edwina Dumm
175. Capitaine Ecarlate, David B., Emmanuel Guibert
176. Captain America, Jack Kirby and Joe Simon
177. Captain America's Bicentennial Battles, Jack Kirby
178. Captain Easy, Roy Crane
179. Captain Marvel, Otto Binder and C.C. Beck
180. Caricatures in New York Review of Books by David Levine
181. Cartoon Advertisements by Jack Davis
182. Cartoon History of the Universe, Larry Gonick
183. Cartoonist Christmas Cards
184. Cartoons by Art Young
185. Cartoons by Boardman Robinson
186. Cartoons by Charles Barsotti
187. Cartoons by Chon Day
188. Cartoons by Daniel R. Fitzpatrick
189. Cartoons by David Low
190. Cartoons by Dick Locher
191. Cartoons by E. Sims Campbell
192. Cartoons by Edward Koren
193. Cartoons by Gahan Wilson
194. Cartoons by Gardner Rea
195. Cartoons by Garrett Price
196. Cartoons by George Price
197. Cartoons by Herblock
198. Cartoons by J.N. Darling ("Ding")
199. Cartoons by Jack Cole
200. Cartoons by Jack Ziegler
201. Cartoons by James Gillray
202. Cartoons by Jeff MacNelly
203. Cartoons by John Held, Jr.
204. Cartoons by John T. McCutcheon
205. Cartoons by Mort Drucker
206. Cartoons by Oliver Harrington
207. Cartoons by Otto Sogolow
208. Cartoons by Pat Oliphant
209. Cartoons by Paul Conrad
210. Cartoons by Perry Barlow
211. Cartoons by Robert Minor
212. Cartoons by Rollin Kirby
213. Cartoons by Tad Dorgan
214. Cartoons by Tom Toles
215. Cartoons by Virgil Partch (Vip)
216. Cartoons by Wayno
217. Cartoons in Pulse
218. Casanova's Last Stand, Hunt Emerson
219. Caspar Milquetoast, H.T. Webster
220. Cassette Bird
221. Cat, B. Kliban
222. Catch as Catch Can, Greg Cook
223. Cats Don't Exist, Jose I. Solorzano (Jis)
224. Cave Drawings for the Future, Abner Dean
225. Cave~In, Brian Ralph
226. Cecilia Crocodile's Really Really Good Day, Greg Cook
227. Cereal Killings, James Sturm
228. Cerebus: "Palnu Trilogy"
229. Cerebus: Church & State, Dave Sim and Gerhard
230. Cerebus: High Society, Dave Sim
231. Cerebus: Jaka's Story, Dave Sim and Gerhard
232. C'Est La Guerre des Tranchees, Jacques Tardi
233. Chacha Chaudhary, Pran
234. Challengers of the Unknown, Jack Kirby
235. Charles Atlas Ad
236. Chatting with Batton Lash
237. Checkered Demon, S.Clay Wilson
238. Cheech Wizard, Vaughn Bode
239. Childhood, Helena Bocharakova
240. Cirkus New Orleans, Josh Simmons
241. City of Glass, Paul Karasik and David Mazzucchelli.
242. Climbing Out, Brian Ralph
243. Cola Madnes, Gary Panter
244. Collier's, David Collier
245. Come As You Are, Abner Dean
246. Comic Art Magazine
247. Comics Couples
248. Comics Created by Mentally Ill People
249. Commanche Moon, Jack Jackson
250. Con Reports
251. Conte Demoniaque, Aristophane
252. Coober Skeber
253. Corporate Comic Books
254. Corto Maltese, Hugo Pratt
255. Count Screwloose of Tooloose, Milt Gross
256. Covers by Chris Ware
257. Covers by Fred Guardineer
258. Covers By Gil Kane
259. Cowboy Henk, Kama en Seele
260. Crack ****e
261. Crash: The Quarterly Comic Book Review
262. Crime and Punishment #60, Alex Toth
263. Crime Does Not Pay, Charles Biro
264. Crime Patrol
265. Crime SuspenStories
266. Crisis on Infinite Earths, Marv Wolfman and George Perez
267. Cromartie High School
268. Crum Bums, Brian Ralph
269. Crumb Sketchbooks, R. Crumb
270. Curse of the Molemen, Charles Burns
271. Cynical Man, Matt Feazell
272. Cynicism, Paul Ollswang
273. Daddy Cool, Alfredo Alcala
274. Daddy Warbucks
275. Daddy's Girl, Debbie Dreschler
276. Dal Tokyo, Gary Panter
277. Dancin Nekkid With the Angels, Howard Cruse
278. Dans Les Villages: La Jole, Max Cabanes
279. Daredevil, Frank Miller
280. Daredevil: Born Again, Frank Miller and David Mazzucchelli
281. Das Werk, Frans Masereel
282. David Chelsea in Love, David Chelsea
283. David Levine caricatures David Levine
284. Dead End, Thomas Ott
285. Deep City, Jose Solano Lopez and Carlos Sampayo
286. Den, Richard Corben
287. Dennis the Menace, Hank Ketcham
288. Der Unschuldige Passagier, Martin Tom Dieck
289. Despair, R. Crumb
290. Desperate Desmond, Harry Hershfield
291. Destiny, Otto Nuckel
292. Diablotus, Lewis Trondheim
293. Dick Tracy, Chester Gould
294. Dickie Dare, Milton Caniff
295. Die Hure H, Anke Feuchtenberger
296. Die Stadt, Frans Masereel
297. Dirty Boulevard, Tony Fitzpatrick
298. Dirty Duck, Bobby London
299. Dirty Plotte, Julie Doucet
300. Discovering Someone's Old Comics
301. Doctor Morgue, Hector Oesterheld, Alberto Breccia
302. Don Martin cartoons in MAD
303. Don Martin's Sound Effects
304. Donald Duck, Charles Barks
305. Donjon, Lewis Trondheim et al
306. Doofer, Paul Ollswang
307. Doofus, Rick Altergott
308. Doom Patrol, Grant Morrison, et al
309. Doonesbury Garry Trudeau
310. Doot Doot Garden, Craig Thompson
311. Doug Wright's Family, Doug Wright
312. Down and Out Dawg, James Sturm
313. Down With Skool, Ronald Searle
314. Dr. Fate, Howard Sherman
315. Dr. Slump
316. Dr. Strange, Stan Lee and Steve Ditko
317. Dracula, Alberto Breccia
318. Dragonball
319. Drawing Cartoons in Class
320. Drawn and Quarterly
321. Dwarf Attack, Greg Stump
322. Dyaa, Yvan Alagbe
323. Dykes to Watch Out For Alison Bechdel
324. Eagle
325. East Texas, Michael Dougan
326. Ed the Happy Clown, Chester Brown
327. El Borbah, Charles Burns
328. El prolongado sueno del Sr. T., Max
329. Engines, Aunties & Others, Rowland Emett
330. Ernie Pook's Comeek, Lynda Barry
331. Escapo, Paul Pope
332. Ethel and Ernest, Raymond Briggs
333. Evan Dorkin Winning An Award
334. Exit, Thomas Ott
335. Extra!
336. Eye of Mongombo, Doug Gray
337. Eyebeam, Sam Hurt
338. Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers, Gilbert Shelton
339. Fans Visiting Jack Kirby
340. Fantastic Four #44-63, Stan Lee, Jack Kirby
341. Fanzines of the '60s and '70s
342. Far Twittering, Rowland Emett
343. Father and Son Artist Combos
344. Feiffer, Jules Feiffer
345. Felix the Cat, Otto Messmer
346. Filthy!, Ted Jouflas
347. Fireball, Brian Ralph
348. Flame Out Funnies, Willy Murphy
349. Flaming Carrot, Bob Burden
350. Flash Gordon, Alex Raymond
351. Fleep, Jason Shiga
352. Flex Mentallo, Grant Morrison and Frank Quitely
353. Flood! Eric Drooker
354. Flying Saucer Attack
355. Foodboy, Carol Swain
356. FOOM Magazine
357. For Better or For Worse Lynn Johnston
358. Forty Drawings, Ronald Searle
359. Four Color
360. Fox and Crow, Jim Davis
361. Foxhole
362. Frank Frazetta's Covers for Warren Publishing
363. Frank Robbins' Crazy Women
364. Frank, Jim Woodring
365. Frankenstein, Dick Briefer
366. Frank's Real Paw, Jim Woodring
367. Freaks, Jose Solano Lopez and Jim Woodring
368. Fred the Clown, Roger Langridge
369. Freedom Fries, Steve Brodner
370. Freud for Beginners, Richard Appignanesi and Oscar Zarate
371. Fritz the Cat, Robert Crumb
372. From Hell, Alan Moore and Eddie Campbell
373. Frontline Combat
374. Funny Stuff
375. Funnybook Roulette, R. Fiore
376. Fuochi, Lorenzo Mattotti
377. Fuzz and Pluck, Ted Stearn
378. Gaining Insight Into Someone's Works by Reading About Them
379. Galopinot, Lewis Trondheim and Matt Konture
380. Garo
381. Gary Groth's Interviews
382. Gasoline Alley, Dick Moores
383. Gasoline Alley, Frank King
384. Gemma Bovery, Posie Simmonds
385. Genius Jones
386. Get Your War On, David Rees
387. Ghost World, Daniel Clowes
388. Gil Kane saying "My Boy"
389. Gil Thorp, Jack Berrill
390. God's Bosom, Jack Jackson
391. God's Man, Lynd Ward
392. Golden Lad, Mort Meskin
393. Gon, Masashi Tanaka
394. Good-bye and Other Stories, Yoshihiro Tatsumi
395. Goodbye, Chunky Rice, Craig Thompson
396. Goodman Beaver, Harvey Kurtzman and Bill Elder
397. Gordo, Gus Arriola
398. Graffiti Kitchen, Eddie Campbell
399. Grateful Kids Receiving Comics
400. Greetings from Hellville, Thomas Ott
401. Grendel, Matt Wagner
402. Grickle, Graham Annable
403. Griffith Observatory, Bill Griffith
404. Groo the Wanderer, Sergio Aragones
405. Gunfighter
406. Hadashi No Gen, Keiji Nakazawa
407. Hairbreadth Harry, CW Kahles
408. Harlem as Seen by Hirschfeld, Al Hirschfeld
409. Harry Osborn's Hair
410. Hart Fisher's Interview With Rob Liefeld
411. Hate, Peter Bagge
412. He Done Her Wrong, Milt Gross
413. Headline
414. Heartbreak Comics, David Boswell
415. Heavy Metal (late 1970s)
416. Hellboy, Mike Mignola
417. Herbie
418. Hercules Amongst the North Amercans, Mark Marek
419. Heroic Comics
420. Hey Look!, Harvey Kurtzman
421. Hicksville, Dylan Horrocks
422. Hikaru No Go, Hotta Yumi and Obata Takeshi
423. Hollywoodland, Kim Deitch
424. Home Rails Preferred, Rowland Emett
425. Homegrown Funnies, R. Crumb
426. Homeless Hector
427. Horace, Ben Jones
428. Hot Stuff
429. How to Be An Artist, Eddie Campbell
430. Howard the Duck, Steve Gerber
431. Hugo Tate, Nick Abadzis
432. Humbug
433. Hundert Ansichten der Speicherstadt, Martin tom Dieck
434. Hundreds of Feet Below Daylight, James Sturm
435. Hurrah for St. Trinian's, Ronald Searle
436. Hutch Owen's Working Hard, Tom Hart
437. I Am Blind And My Dog Is Dead, S. Gross
438. I Can't Tell You Anything, Souther Salazar
439. I Can't Tell You Anything, Michael Dougan
440. I Never Liked You, Chester Brown
441. Ibis the Invicible, Otto Binder
442. ICAF
443. Ici Meme, Jacques Tardi
444. If, Steve Bell
445. Imbroglio, Lewis Trondheim,
446. Impact
447. Incredible Science-Fiction
448. Insect Fear
449. Iron Wak Jan!, Shinji Saijyo
450. Ironclad, Dan Zettwoch
451. Isaac the Pirate, Christophe Blain
452. It Lives!, Ted May
453. It's a Good Life If You Don't Weaken, Seth
454. It's a Long Way to Heaven, Abner Dean
455. Jape, Sean Bieri
456. Jar of Fools, Jason Lutes
457. Jazz Funnies, Hunt Emerson
458. Jeremiads Aimed at Saving Comics
459. Jerry Mack, Howard Cruse
460. Jessica Farm, Josh Simmons
461. Jew of New York, Ben Katchor
462. Jim Ottaviani's Science Comics
463. Jimbo, Gary Panter
464. Jimmy Corrigan: The Smartest Kid on Earth (2000) Chris Ware
465. Jingle Jangle Tales, George Carlson
466. Jiniku, Kazuichi Hanawa
467. Joe Chiappetta Jumping Over a Campfire
468. Joe Palooka, Ham Fisher
469. Joe's Bar, Jose Munoz, Carlos Sampayo
470. John Romita's Art During a Brief Run on Captain America
471. Journal, Fabrice Neaud
472. Journey, William Messner-Loebs
473. Jughead
474. Jukebox
475. Jules Feiffer Interview, Gary Groth
476. Julius Knipl, Real Estate Photographer (1996) Ben Katchor
477. Junkie Sidekicks
478. Justice Traps the Guilty
479. Kaktus Valley, Gary Panter
480. Kamandi, Jack Kirby
481. Kampung Boy, Lat
482. Kamui-Den, Sanpei Shirato
483. Kane, Paul Grist
484. Katzenjammer Kids, Rudolph Dirks
485. Kaze no tani no Nausicaa, Hayao Miyazaki
486. Ken Smith's Interview with Pat Boyette
487. Kid Eternity, Sheldon Moldoff and Otto Binder
488. King Aroo, Jack Kent
489. King of Persia, Walt Holcombe
490. King, Ho Che Anderson
491. King-Cat Comics and Stories, John Porcellino
492. Kings in Disguise, Jim Vance
493. Knishkibibble the Monkey Boy
494. Kramer's Ergot
495. Krazy Kat, George Herriman
496. Kultur und Technik, Joost Swarte
497. L'homme qui marche, Jiro Tanigushi
498. La bascule a Charlot, Jacques Tardi
499. La Lectre des Ruies, David B.
500. La Lettre Americaine, Blutch