Drawn and Quarterly, too.
And just when I was wondering what to ask for for my birthday.
Ones I've got my eye on (as recommendations, not because I'm trawling for birthday presents):
Wilson -- Another critically-acclaimed book from Dan Clowes.
Masterpiece Comics -- Classic lit with superheroes. I read Dostoevsky Comics a few years back; it was Crime and Punishment with the cast of Batman. As good as it sounds, and now there's a whole book of them.
Nancy -- Until this past Free Comic Book Day, all I'd ever seen of Nancy were the dull-as-dishwater three-panel gag strips that they've been running in the papers far past their expiration date. Imagine my surprise to find out that the original strips were frickin' amazing -- and SURREAL.
Get a Life -- I read a few of these strips in an FCBD offering too, some years back. Good stuff.
Louis Riel -- Chester Brown's one of those legendary, transcendent figures in comics but I haven't read much of his work, just a few stray issues of Yummy Fur. By all accounts, this is a good place to start, but if anyone has any better suggestions let me know.
And I'd like to hear other people's recommendations too. D&Q does some truly wonderful stuff and I wish I knew more about it than, say, who had what color ring in Blackest Night or which artists Alan Moore is refusing to speak to.
