FFF Results Post #396—Bigger Than Life

On Friday, CR readers were asked to "Name Five Oversized Comics That You Like." This is how they responded.



John Vest

1. The Collected Harold Hedd #1
2. Charles Burns' Hard-Boiled Defective Stories
3. Barry Windsor-Smith Conan Red Nails Original Art Archives
4. Sacred And Profane
5. Marvel Treasury Special: Captain America's Bicentennial Battles

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Rob Salkowitz

1. Read Yourself Raw
2. Barry Windsor-Smith Storyteller
3. The Tabloid Spirit
4. Superman vs Muhammad Ali
5. The Someday Funnies

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Charles Brownstein

1) Mother's Heart, Henriette Valium
2) Buzz Buzz, Paul Pope, Jay Stephens, Moebius, various
3) Destroy!, Scott McCloud
4) Binky Brown Meets The Holy Virgin Mary, McSweeney's original art edition, Justin Green
5) Jimbo's Inferno, Gary Panter

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Oliver Ristau

1. The Bible, DC Limited Collector's Edition C 36
2. Hansel et Gretel illustré par Lorenzo Mattotti
3. Wednesday Comics
4. Sunday Funnies
5. Comics section in McSweeney's # 33, The San Francisco Panorama

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Art Baxter

1. Harvey Kurtzman's Jungle Book -- 1988 Kitchen Sink Press Edition
2. Peanuts Jubilee: My Life and Art with Charlie Brown and Others by Charles M. Schulz
3. Marvel Treasury Special: 2001: A Space Odyssey
4. Buzzbomb by Kaz
5. Schizo - Issue 4 by Ivan Brunetti

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Alvin Buenaventura

1. Schizo #4 by Ivan Brunetti
2. Eightball #23 by Daniel Clowes
3. Acme Novelty Library (Big Book of Jokes II) #15
4. RAW no.4 edited by Spiegelman and Mouly
5. Jack Survives (RAW edition) by Jerry Moriarty
6. Kin-der-Kids by Lyonel Feininger

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Patrick Watson

1. Enormous by Daniel and Cheggour
2. Rubber Blanket #3 by Mazzucchelli
3. DESTROY by Scott McCloud
4. Wednesday Comics
5. The Rocketeer Treasury Edition

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Philippe Leblanc

* The Goddess of War, by Lauren Weinstein
* Masterpiece Comics, by R. Sykorak
* Quimby the Mouse, by Chris Wares
* Les Ignorants, by Etienne Davodeau
* Jimbo in Paradise, by Gary Panter

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Kenneth Graves

1) Destroy!!
2) Tomorrow Girl (Dresden Codak)
3) Legion of Super Heroes Collector’s Edition (C-55)
4) Whiz Comics #2 (1970’s treasury-sized reprint)
5) Wednesday Comics

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James Moore

1. Multiforce
2. Masterplasty
3. THB
4. Ganges
5. Hip-Hop Family Tree

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Matt Emery

1. 2001: A Space Odyssey treasury edition -- Sure this'll be on a few lists, this is how I want to experience Kirby, large pages on newsprint!
2. Gary Panter Jimbo's Inferno -- Give me big Panter
3. Wally Wood Artist Edition -- If I ever have children, we'll gather around this like a family bible.
4. Dan Dare Pilot of The Future Terra Nova Trilogy -- Hardcover Hawk Books edition, I treasure all 12 volumes of the almost complete run of the original Dan Dare, but this one with Frank Bellamy reproduced at publication size is a particular favourite.
5. Masterplasy -- James Harvey -- I don't know anything about this, found the last copy at my LCS yesterday and thought damn that looks beautiful. All comics should be in this format.

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Tyler Crook

1. 2001: A Space odyssey Marvel Treasury Special
2. Acme Novelty Library #7
3. Acme Novelty Library -- The big red hardcover whose number is only known by a secret cabal at Pantheon books.
4. Tarzan of the Apes Artist edition
5. Daredevil Born Again Artist edition

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Andrew Mansell

1. Society is Nix
2. Hawk of the Seas (Kitchen Sink version)
3. Nemo Annual #1 Screwball Comics
4. Eightball # 23 "Death-Ray"
5. 2001: A Space Odyssey Marvel Treasury

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James Kochalka

1. Superman Vs. The Flash
2. Destroy!! by Scott McCloud
3. Superman Vs. Muhammad Ali
4. St. Owl's Bay by Simon Hanselmann
5. Narrative Corpse

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Steve Replogle

1. Superman: Peace on Earth
2. John Kricfalusi's Spumco Comic Book (by Marvel)
3. Soujourn (Kubert, Veitch, Severin, Aragones...)
4. Wednesday Comics (the newspaper-ish, pre-collected version)
5. Scott McLoud's Destroy!!

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Douglas Wolk

1. Destroy!!
2. Kramers Ergot 7
3. Little Nemo: So Many Splendid Sundays
4. Superman Vs. Muhammad Ali
5. Wednesday Comics

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Greg McElhatton

1. RASL preview
2. Big Guy and Rusty the Boy Robot
3. Wednesday Comics
4. the current Prince Valiant reprint series from Fantagraphics
5. Sundays with Walt and Skeezix

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David Robertson

* Eightball #23 -- Daniel Clowes
* Trashed -- Derf
* 2001: a Space Odyssey -- Jack Kirby
* Comic Book -- John Kricfalusi
* Acme Novelty Library #7 -- Chris Ware

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Mike Pfefferkorn

1. Alice in Sunderland: An Entertainment (Bryan Talbot)
2. Superboy and the Legion of Super-Heroes (All New Collectors Edition C55, DC)
3. Popeye Vol. 1: I Yam What I Yam (Fantagraphics)
4. Tarzan of the Apes (Burne Hogarth)
5. The Complete EC Library: Weird Fantasy (Russ Cochran)

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Danny Ceballos

1. Lynda Barry's Naked Ladies Naked Ladies Naked Ladies
2. Sundays with Walt & Skeezix
3. Jerry Moriarty's Complete Jack Survives
4. Frank Santoro's Blast Furnace Funnies
5. Kramers Ergot 7

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RJ Casey

1.) The Pterodactyl Hunters in the Gilded City by Brendan Leach
2.) Schizo #4 by Ivan Brunetti
3.) B+F by Gregory Benton
4.) Fantagraphics' Popeye Collections by E.C. Segar
5.) DC Wednesday Comics

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Jones

1. The Celestial Bibendum
2. The Smithsonian Collection of Newspaper Comics
3. Schizo #4
4. Acme Novelty Library #15
5. Acme Novelty Library #2 (this whole list could have been just Ware, really)

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John Platt

1. Marvel Treasury Special: Captain America's Bicentennial Battles by Jack Kirby
2. THB Giant Parade by Paul Pope
3. Marvel Treasury Edition # 13: Giant Superhero Holiday Grab-Bag by various
4. The Monsters Color-the-Creature Coloring Book by Bernie Wrightson
5. The Spirit Coloring Book by Will Eisner

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Scott Dunbier

1) Superman vs. Muhammad Ali Treasury
2) Marvel Treasury Edition #4
3) Wham-O Giant Comics
4) Destroy
5) Untamed Love Collection

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Michael Grabowski

1. "god...," the folded newspaper tabloid section of Building Stories
2. Tom Gauld's Noah's Ark comic in Kramer's Ergot 7
3. Locas one-volume hardcover
4. any issue of Barry Windsor-Smith Storyteller
5. The unfolded dust cover of McSweeney's 13

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Michael Dooley

1. The Narrative Corpse: A Chain-Story by 69 Artists!
2. Polly and Her Pals, Complete Sunday Comics: 1913 - 1927
3. Society is Nix: Gleeful Anarchy of the Dawn of the American Comic Strip 1895 - 1915
4. Mad: Artist's Edition HC
5. The Acme Novelty Library: Great Big Book of Jokes Issue Number VII

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topic by John Vest; thanks, John

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