Let’s dork out about comics! Lexi & Ben share their essential comic reads from monthlies, graphic novels, comic strips, and webcomics: Lynda Barry, Osamu Tezuka, Hergé, Trudy Cooper, Gary Larson, Bill Waterson, Randall Munroe, Scott McCloud, Matthew Inman, Junji Ito, Meredith Gran and just, like, so, so many more!
 

FURTHER DORKSCUSSION:

Here are the comics we recommended:

• Louis Riel by Chester Brown (Lexi & Ben)
• Judge Dredd from 2000 AD (Jon)
• Astro Boy by Osamu Tezuka (Ben)
• Tintin by Hergé
• Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson (Lexi & Ben)
• xkcd by Randall Munroe (Jon)
• Understanding Comics by Scott McCloud (Ben)
• Making Comics by Scott McCloud(Ben)
• Gyo by Junji Ito (Fiona)
• Uzumaki by Junji Ito (Fiona)
• Krazy Kat by George Harriman (Who's That Pokemon)
• Syllabus: Notes From an Accidental Professor by Lynda Barry (Lexi)
• The Death of Superman from DC Comics by Dan Jurgens and Brett Breeding (Jon)
• Scott Pilgrim by Bryan Lee O'Malley (Ben)
• Tales from the Crypt from EC Comics (Fiona)
• Sharaz-de: Tales from the Arabian Nights by Sergio Toppi (Lexi)
• The Oatmeal by Matthew Inman (Lexi & Jon)
• Y: The Last Man by Pia Guerra and Brian K. Vaughan (Ben)
• Oglaf by Trudy Cooper and Doug Bayne (Fiona & Ben)
• Tank Girl by Alan Martin and Jamie Hewlett (Lexi)
• The Far Side by Gary Larson (Jon & Lexi)
• Saga by Fiona Staples and Brian K. Vaughan (Ben, obviously)
• Love and Rockets created by Mario, Gilbert, and Jaime Hernandez (Fiona)
• Johhny the Homicidal Maniac by Jhonen Vasquez (Lexi)
• Monstress by Sana Takeda and Marjorie Liu (Lexi)
• From Hell by Alan Moore and Eddie Campbell (Lexi)
• Stardust by Neil Gaiman and illustrated by Charles Vess.
• The Sandman series created by Neil Gaiman, Sam Kieth and Mike Dringenberg (Lexi)
• It's a Good Life, If You Don't Weaken by Seth (Lexi)
• Smile by Raina Telgemeier (Ben)
• Octopus Pie by Meredith Gran (Ben)
• Bobbins/Scary Go Round/Bad Machinery by John Allison (Ben)
• Killing and Dying by Adrian Tomine (Ben)

Holy shit! That was a lot of comics!

BONUS CONTENT:

• Hoodoos
• Ignatz
• The Secret Life of Canada
• Jess' comics offering: Cathy by Cathy Guisewite and Jamie Loftus' AackCast

SOCIALS:

Here's where you can find us!

• Lexi's website and twitter and instagram
• Ben's website and instagram and where to buy his book: Amazon.ca / Comixology / Ind!go / Renegade Arts
• Dork Matter's website(WIP) and twitter and instagram and reddit

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