Here we go with another list.

Den ... Richard Corben
Rip in Time ... Bruce Jones & Richard Corben
City of Others ... Steve Niles & Bernie Wrightson
Captain Sternn ... Bernie Wrightson
Sin City ... Frank Miller
Frank Miller's Robocop ... Frank Miller & Juan Jose Ryp
300 ... Frank Miller
The Dark Knight Returns ... Frank Miller & Klaus Janson
Hard Boiled ... Frank Miller & Geof Darrow
Watchmen ... Alan Moore & Dave Gibbons
Punisher MAX ... Garth Ennis & Various artists
303 ... Garth Ennis & Jacen Burrows
Fury ... Garth Ennis & Darrick Robertso
Strange Kiss / Stranger Kisses / Strange Killings / Gravel ... Warren Ellis & Mike Wolfer (& various artists on some issues of Gravel)
Wolfskin ... Warren Ellis & Mike Wolfer & Juan Jose Ryp & Gianluca Pagliarani
BlackGas ... Warren Ellis & Max Fiumara
Red ... Warren Ellis & Cully Hammer
Jesus Christ: In the Name of the Gun ... Eric Peterson & Ethan Nicolle
Terror INC. ... David Lapham & Patrick Zircher
Conan The Cimmerian (Darkhorse version) ... Kurt Busiek & Tim Truman & various + Cary Nord & various
Faust ... David Quinn & Tim Vigil
777 the wrath ... David Quinn & Tim Vigil
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (Original series from Mirage. Not the Archie comic based on the old cartoon) ... Kevin Eastman & Peter Laird & Various artists
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Bodycount ... Kevin Eastman & Simon Bisley
Melting pot ... Kevin Eastman & Eric Talbot & Simon Bisley
Full Cirkle ... Simon Reed & Simon Bisley
Road to Perdition ... Max Allan Collins & Richard Piers Rayner
Walking Dead ... Robert Kirkman & various artists


And remember. HnK is manly. DBZ is not. Same loose rules apply for this list.
Also If its one of those gigantic series with many writers and artists. Then mention the particular run or mini-series you're talking about.

Richard corben.

Awesome! I'm really not going to have many suggestions for this section. As always, I'll try to include download links to everything I post.

Sin City ... Frank Miller (7 Volumes, Completed)
Fantastic pulp storytelling... one of the few things Frank Miller has written that stands the test of time. Any comic which features a cop ripping out a pedophile's genitalia is manly win in my book.

Bernie Wrightson

Punisher MAX ... Garth Ennis' principal run (60 issues, and one-shots)

Don't make the mistake of thinking this is yet another American superhero comic book. No supervillians, no superheroes. Low-level crime drama. This is a true masterpiece on par with the Golgo 13 manga, except far shorter. Like the Golgo 13 manga, the drawing quality fluctuates, but the story quality rarely does.

Says wikipedia:
Whereas the traditional Punisher stories remained within the United States and involved antagonists and settings of conventional domestic crime, stories of the MAX Punisher often focus on current events, ranging from corporate fraud to sexual slavery, and The War on Terror. Many characters are past or current intelligence and military operatives from governmental agencies like the CIA, KGB, Secret Intelligence Service, SAS, militaries and militias from the Balkans and Middle East, also including the IRA, all with agendas rooted in past conflicts like the Cold War or the Yugoslav wars.

And now I'm officially out of suggestions that immediately jump to mind.

Ah, Garth Ennis. Gotta ad 303 by him. Also adding some other stuff as I remember them.

These topics are so good that I've pinned them...nuff said!

Jacen Burrows

Many thanks

Man, have I been living under a rock! I've always thought Western comics were all along the lines of Superman, Batman, Spider-man, X-men and the like... I never heard of anything this badass. Hey, this topic is rebuilding my regard for Western comics that Superman At World's End destroyed...

Also, lol at the second picture of ZT's second post. That's probably one of the most grotesquely hilarious things I've seen.

Mike Wolfer

Glad to have helped. Thats why I make these threads

Its sad how alot of people think all western comics are superman and spiderman. Its just like how alot of people think all manga is pokemon and naruto.

Oh, here's an enjoyable independent comic that I read a couple of weeks ago. The creators have released it for free online, with a collected volume to come out in the future.

Jesus Christ: In the Name of the Gun ... Peterson & Nicolle (1 volume, completed)
Since God is lazy and disinterested in the human race, Jesus and Ernest Hemingway take it upon themselves to travel back in time to assassinate Hitler. What sounds like a silly premise primarily intended to offend is actually a very well drawn and executed action piece.

Well... Hitler is a bit of an overused villain... at least it can't be as bad as Superman At World's End.

"Adolf Hitler!.... Two of you!"

Oh gosh, that comic was terrible. I couldn't even finish it.

Download link...PLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLEEEEEEEASE!

You asked for it.... don't go blaming me if your head explodes

http://rapidshare.com/files/1224240/Elsewo...Earth_s_End.cbr

HAHAHAHA...Hell yes, I can't wait to read this when I get home! Skippedy-do-da!

Robert Crumb

I wont put any titles of this guy in the list unless someone else wants me to. Its sexistic and often gratuitus enough to be called porn. That being said he is a great artist and writer. His comics often discuss philosophy and problems he sees in society. Hes also done many autobiographical works.
Also plenty of hippie shit.

Juan Jose Ryp

His art is detailed as shit and he almost exclusively does art for avatar. A company that you might have noticed that I love from my other posts.

Ah yes, Juan Jose Ryp is quite a talent! I started reading Black Summer solely because his artwork was mesmerizing, but the story eventually lost me. I've also read "Robocop". Wolfskin looks pretty cool.

Frank Millers Robocop was one of the first comics I read on my computer.

Some of this looks quite interesting. Wow. Thanks, ZombieToaster. Anyways, I've only ever read a few comic books, each one because of its movie tie-in, and only one which hasn't been mentioned;

Frank Miller- 300

It doesn't have the whole bullshit Spartan queen side-story, and does a slightly more effective job of story-telling than the film.

Besides of every Punisher comics (especialy Ennis+Dillon), I Recomend:
Terror INC. David Lapham and Patrick Zircher
Conan The Cimmerian Kurt Busiek+Tim Truman+various and Cary Nord+various
Red Warren Ellis and Cully Hammer
The Dark Knight Returns Frank Miller and Klaus Janson
Hard Boiled Frank Miller and Geof Darrow
Fury Garth Ennis and Darrick Robertson

Please write who made each of those and ill ad em (I can see the names on afew covers but not on all of them)

edit: Im talking writer and artist. Fuck colorists

Sorry 'bout that.

Tim Vigil

Another artist who has done stuff so extreme that they would have ended up in hentai if america was japan. A true Indie hero







The master in action
First vid starts with him sketching. You can hardly see anything but thats just for the first 35 secs.



edit: fucked up the youtube links. Fixed now.

Well done, ToguroBruto! I really need to read that Nick Fury limited series.

After seeing that awesome cover, I just had to read it. And it's good. A neat bit of violence. That being said...it lacked something.

I enjoyed it, but it just didn't feel as exciting, brutal, and action-packed as something like Ichi the Killer or Grappler Baki. And frankly, the conclusion was a disappointment.



Edit

Oh, and ToguroBruto...thanks an awful lot for providing the download links. Really appreciate that, since I don't know of any centralized place to download Occidental comics.

*cough* Komics-live.com *cough*

Bleh, new user registration is presently disabled.

Lol at that.

Simon Bisley

Vincent Locke

Most wellknown for illustration Deadworld and A history of violence. Aswell as a bunch of covers for the band Cannibal Corpse.

So how'd you like it, LoH?

...I AM A MAN!

In the words of Janice from friends; OH...MY...GOD!!! HAHAHAHAH! I really had to push myself to read this to the end, but man, what a terrible story! Did a 5 year old's write it or something? And those dreadful one-liners: CURSE YOUR GUNS! I SAID "WHOA"! Really, really, really bad! There is one good thing about it though; I really can't wait to pass this on to an unsuspecting friend as a comic masterpiece just to see their face

Another good suggestion that I forgot, even though it's in my (small) personal collection. I'll add download links, after I've downloaded it

Road to Perdition ... Max Allan Collins and Richard Piers Rayner (1 volume, completed)
The awesome b&w comic that the movie was based on. If you don't like reading, I highly recommend you check out the movie, because it's great, too. The writer acknowledges that he was heavily influenced by "Lone Wolf and Cub," except this takes place in America during the prohibition era. The art is unique and expressive. I think it's quite a shame how much the movie overshadowed the original comic.

I like the use of big vertical panels. Are there lots of that in the book?

Actually, almost entirely. Seems to go by a 2x2 panel structure. Never noticed that, but this comic is pretty unique in that respect.

Download link here: http://www.megaupload.com/?d=XH69A20R

Also added to above post.

Mmmmm McDonalds.

yeah, crossed is pretty fucked up, I mean it's garth ennis so..

Walking Dead - Robert Kirkman (ongoing)
This is a rather violent b&w comic book about a zombie apocalypse, but what really makes it stand out is the terrific story. To give you an idea of it's quality, this independent comic has been running for more than 60 issues, with no signs of slowing down. I just started reading it today and haven't been able to stop.

I read the first 29 issues when that was all that was out at the time. Its the kind of story you'd see if Romero's zombie movies were instead made as TV series or something.

Ive been meaning to pick it back up for a while.

Cool, I got as far as issue 28 yesterday.

Ironic that you mention it being a tv sort of story, AMC bought the rights to adapt it into a television series a few weeks ago!

Hmm, I hope thats a channel like HBO that wont cencor the violence.

i just heard about it too. amc is a basic cable channel, so theres no way they will get away with a large amount of gore, even late at night. The story of Walking dead was always what made the comic good, not the gore, so it should work. but still...

Walking dead was what got me back into comics, as I read it every month from issue like 5 until issue 20 something. I havn't read it in years though, so... I doubt I have time to pick it back up to be honest.

You could always just download it

Bruce Jones is one of my favourite comicbook writer of short stories. He is also a quite good artist, but its in his stories he shine the brightest.
He has done mostly sci-fi fantasy and horror.

Art not by Jones.

Tim and Joe Vigil is at it again. Now releasing their new mini called Sinbuck. A spinoff of their old Gunfighters in Hell comic. The layouts in the few pages Ive seen seem a lot less crazy than they were in the old series. But that could be seen as a good thing If you hate anything confusing