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Five For Friday #2: Non-Comics Readers
posted November 5, 2004
Name Five Comics You've Found Non-Comics Readers Feel Are Easy to Read
The Frank Book by Jim Woodring,
Maus by Art Spiegelman
Persepolis by Marjane Strapali
The Big Book of Hell by Matt Groening
Why I Hate Saturn by Kyle Baker
Other Lists and Responses
Sean Collins
Blankets by Craig Thompson
Diary of a Teenage Girl by Phoebe Gloeckner
The Last Lonely Saturday by Jordan Crane
Clumsy by Jeffrey Brown
Arkham Asylum by Grant Morrison & Dave McKean
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Kyle Vanderneut
This is what has worked for me:
1)
Stray Bullets
2)
Strangers In Paradise
3)
Preacher
4)
Maus
5)
Starman
Stray Bullets were always good because each issue, regardless of its connection to previous issues, was always self-contained. The nice thing about the last three on that list is that they're all finite and available from the start, which makes non-comics fans much more likely to read them.
Honorable mention to
Ultimate Spider-Man, which was the only thing any girl I've ever dated has taken any interest in.
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