My 100, Such As It Is...

It started with Fred Hembeck, and there Alan David Doane did a stunning 100, now with annotations.  The rest of the blogoverse responded impressively, with Fred's list o' links here.  You'll have to scroll down to Feb. 15th's post.  i was going to sit this one out, but reading other people's lists was so addictive i wound up honing my own.  Yes, some of the same names and titles crop up on everybody's list...but just about everybody has something rare, or that i'd never think of.  For comic bloggers, this is old news.  But if you have any casual interest in comics, or wonder what we SEE in this stuff, i hope you'll check out some of these lists. 

100 Things i Love About Comics

1.    Action figures
2.    Alan Moore
3.    Art Adams
4.    Beta Ray Bill
5.    Bill Messner-Loeb’s Journey
6.    Bill Sienciewicz
7.    Bizarros
8.    Bob Burden’s Flaming Carrot
9.    Brian Bolland
10.  Cat Yronwode
11.  Cerebus
12.  Chester Brown’s Yummy Fur
13.  Comic book conventions
14.  Comic Book Legal Defense Fund
15.  The Comics Blogosphere
16.  Curt Swan
17.  Dan Clowes
18.  Dave McKean
19.  David Boswell’s Reid Fleming
20.  The death of Gwen Stacy
21.  Doctor Strange (He’s my man,so bug off)
22.  Donna Barr
23.  Dori Seda
24.  EC Comics - all of them, especially Mad and Psychoanalysis!
25.  Englehart/Rogers/Austin Detective Comics
26.  Essential Marvel Books
27.  Fantagraphics
28.  Fightin’, squabblin’, rockin’ 1960’s Kirby Fantastic Four
29.  Fortress of Solitude
30.  Fred Hembeck
31.  Galactus
32.  Gary Panter
33.  Gene Colan
34.  Gil Kane
35.  The Green Brain
36.  Harlan Ellison
37.  Harley and Ivy
38.  Harvey Pekar’s American Splendor
39.  Howard Chaykin
40.  Howard the Duck
41.  J.H. Williams III
42.  Jack Kirby
43.  Jim Aparo Batman covers
44.  Jim Starlin on Warlock
45.  Jim Steranko
46.  Jimbo in Purgatory
47.  Joss Whedon
48.  Justin Green’s Binky Brown vs. the Holy Virgin Mary
49.  Krypto and the entire Legion of Super Pets
50.  Laurie Anderson’s Baloney Moccasins
51.  Liberatore
52.  Lockjaw
53.  Lone Wolf and Cub
54.  Love and Rockets
55.  Magic-wielding dames; Clea, Scarlet Witch. Scorpio Rose, Zatanna
56.  Magnus, Robot Fighter
57.  Marie Severin
58.  Mark Beyer’s Amy and Jordan
59.  Master of Kung Fu
60.  Matter Eater Lad
61.  The Michael Kaluta comic book cover in Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai
  - in fact, ALL Mike Kaluta covers
62.  Melinda Gebbie
63.  Michael Moorcock
64.  Mike Mignola
65.  Millie the Model, mid-60’s romance and fashion period
66. Mr. Monster
67.  Moebius
68.  The Negative Zone
69.  Neil Gaiman
70.  Osamu Tezuka
71.  P. Craig Russell
72.  Paul Smith
73.  Peter Milligan
74.  Phoebe Gloeckner
75.  Rick Geary
76.  Robert Crumb, especially Mr. Natural
77.  Robot Men of the Lost Planet
78.  Romance comics
79.  Roy Thomas and Barry Windsor-Smith’s Conan
80.  Sanctum Santorum
81.  Sandman and the Endless
82.  Scary Godmother
83.  Silver Surfer
84.  Stan Lee
85.  Steve Bissette
86.  Steve Ditko
87.  Steve Englehart and Frank Brunner’s run on Dr. Strange
88.  Steve Rude, particularly Badger
89.  Super Skrull
90.  “The Three Wives of Superman” LL #51, and all the romance ‘Imaginary Stories’
91.  Tomb of Dracula
92.  Tony Millionaire
93.  Trots and Bonnie
94.  Vampirella
95.  Vaughan Bode
96.  Vertigo
97.  Wally Wood
98.  Watchmen
99.  Will Eisner
100. Zot!

i'm already thinking about stuff i left out!

Comments

[FrancineR]

You ALPHABETIZED it, too! Dang.