FFF Results Post #508—Lifetime Subscriptions

On Friday, CR readers were asked to "Name Three Living Creators From Whom You'd Desire A Lifetime Subscription To All Their Work Yet To Come; One Publisher, Same; Explain One Of Your Choices." This is how they responded.

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Andrew Mansell

1. Roger Langridge
2. Chris Ware (so much non-comics work I miss out on)
3. Carol Tyler
4. Euro Comics (IDW)
5. I have trusted the choices of Dean Mullaney and the LoAC staff for the past decade. Their taste in material and dedication to their readers will continue to make Euro Comics the company to beat in the coming years

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Des Devlin

1. Simon Hanselmann
2. Inio Asano
3. Elijah Brubaker
4. Fantagraphics
5. I'm buying a lottery ticket on Brubaker, whose "The Story of Jezebel" book was a sustained marvel of comedy pacing and timing and tone. I have a rough inkling what Chris Ware's next project might feel like, but it seems like Brubaker could go anywhere.

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Tom Spurgeon

1. Joe Daly
2. Katie Skelly
3. Yeon-Sik Hong
4. Fantagraphics
5. I could list about two dozen cartoonists where I'd like to see all future work. Of these three top-of-the-pops selections, Joe Daly leapt into my head for that combination of making work that seems right up my alley and aimed right at my sense of humor but also spooky and weird and inaccessible. I also tried to choose cartoonists each of whom is under 40 because I'm a greedy nerd that wants a lot of stuff.

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Pete Baudoin

1. Ed Brubaker
2. Gipi
3. Jonathan Hickman
Ed Bru and Hickman are always good. I recommend them relentlessly to customers who i think are ready to move outside traditional superhero type comics. (Both have done good superhero stuff but i feel really excel outside the superhero genre.). Gipi; man i wish more Americans could enjoy the nuance of his stories and his gorgeous artwork. I had an e-mail conversation with a woman who was involved in importing and translating his work a few years ago. Sadly he does not sell well here. We both lamented this and joked about trying to read French or Italian versions of his work and struggling.

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Jamie Coville

1. Peter Bagge
2. Svetlana Chmakova
3. Joe Sacco
4. Drawn & Quarterly
5. While I love Joe Sacco's non-fiction work and hope to see more of it, Bumf was one of the funniest things I've read in a long time. If that's what he does when he's not doing serious work, then I'm on board for whatever else he does.

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Sean Kleefeld

1. Jim Ottaviani
2. Stuart Immonen
3. Naoki Urasawa
4. Oni Press
5. I realize Stuart Immonen has recently "retired" from comics, but I would still love to see anything he works on in the future. He's got a great deal of artistic talent, of course, but I've always really enjoyed that he always let his art be in service to the story he was telling. How he draws a superhero story is different than how he draws a quiet, personal story which was different again from how he draws something more comical. He always seems like he's willing to experiment with his art and try new things, for which I had a great deal of respect. How could I not want to see more of that?

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Michael Grabowski

1. Gabrielle Bell
2. Kevin Huizenga
3. Evan Dorkin
4. Copra Press
5. Number 4 may be a cheat since it's pretty much just Michel Fiffe, but where I can take or leave his contributions for other creators' characters for other publishers, his pure uncut vision is super-appealing to me and, at least so far, reliably re-readable, which is increasingly important to me when considering purchases.

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Patrick O Watson

1. Stan Sakai
2. David Mazzucchelli
3. Naoki Urasawa
4. Image Comics
5. For over 30 years, I've always wanted to read what David Mazzucchelli would be working on next.

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Terry Eisele

* Noah Van Sciver
* Jeff Lemire
* Summer Pierre
* Blank Slate Books
* Summer Pierre, because I think she has the best autobio comics going right now.

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Michael Dooley

1. Kate Beaton
2. Emil Ferris
3. Natalia Hernandez
4. Fantagraphics
5. Okay, so I'm a history professor who's devoted to connecting the concepts and contexts of comics, animation, and design of the past to our contemporary culture. And Kate Beaton is a cartoonist who relates everything else from the past to what's happening today. Her strips are full of charm, intelligence, wit, and humanism, and are rendered with graceful, expressive linework. So, yeah: I'll commit to that for a lifetime.

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Marty Yohn

1. Craig Thompson
2. Faith Erin Hicks
3. Dan Abnett
4. :01 First Second
5. I typically look at the artists, but Dan Abnett has just nailed Aquaman. His writing is pure myth making while giving us a nice allegory for the current political climate in our country. Can't wait to see what he does in the future.

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Buzz Dixon

1. Dave Sim
2. Gisele Lagace
3. Dana Simpson
4. TwoMorrows
5. The breadth and depth of TwoMorrows publications is astonishing, covering virtually every aspect of comics culture from both a fan and professional perspective. Add to that their ever widening selection of other pop culture publications, and if I could have only one lifelong subscription, theirs would be the one I want. Other publishers may do better individual titles, but TwoMorrows has more that are in my wheelhouse than any other publisher.

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Mark Brodersen

1. Paul Pope
2. Stan Sakai
3. Dan Clowes
4. Fantagraphics
5. Easy -- Fantagraphics has an incredible selection of the best graphic lit that never disappoints from classics to cutting edge newer talents

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from a suggestion by Iestyn Pettigrew; thanks, Iestyn

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